The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front-End Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 111 109 109
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 12 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.476% 0.038% 0.105%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.514% 0.040% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.66%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2333 2485 2659
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.47% 93.32% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1095 1159 1343
Average daily rate £355 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 101 93
Average hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% +13.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.85 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £32.50 £36.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
UK

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Front-End Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Front-End Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh - 5 £313 - 1
Glasgow - 4 £300 - 5
Aberdeen - - - -
Front-End Developer
UK

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Front-End Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title.

1 26 (92.86%) JavaScript
1 26 (92.86%) CSS
2 22 (78.57%) HTML5
3 21 (75.00%) jQuery
4 15 (53.57%) CSS3
5 11 (39.29%) HTML
6 10 (35.71%) Java
6 10 (35.71%) Ajax
7 6 (21.43%) XHTML
7 6 (21.43%) CMS
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
7 6 (21.43%) PHP
8 5 (17.86%) XML
8 5 (17.86%) Banking
8 5 (17.86%) Web Development
8 5 (17.86%) Degree
9 4 (14.29%) JSON
9 4 (14.29%) Content Management
9 4 (14.29%) Flash
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
10 3 (10.71%) REST
10 3 (10.71%) MVC
10 3 (10.71%) SOAP
10 3 (10.71%) OO
10 3 (10.71%) J2EE
10 3 (10.71%) YUI
10 3 (10.71%) Time Management
10 3 (10.71%) Ruby

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Front-End Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (92.86%) CSS
2 22 (78.57%) HTML5
3 21 (75.00%) jQuery
4 15 (53.57%) CSS3
5 11 (39.29%) HTML
6 10 (35.71%) Ajax
7 6 (21.43%) XHTML
8 5 (17.86%) XML
9 4 (14.29%) JSON
9 4 (14.29%) Flash
9 4 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
10 3 (10.71%) REST
10 3 (10.71%) YUI
10 3 (10.71%) SOAP
10 3 (10.71%) J2EE
11 2 (7.143%) ASP
11 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
11 2 (7.143%) .NET
11 2 (7.143%) DOM
11 2 (7.143%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) Drupal
2 1 (3.571%) TeamSite
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
1 1 (3.571%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
1 1 (3.571%) JIRA
1 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.571%) QUnit
1 1 (3.571%) FogBugz
General
1 5 (17.86%) Banking
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.143%) W3C
3 1 (3.571%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.571%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.571%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.571%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Android
1 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Scrum
2 5 (17.86%) Web Development
3 4 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.29%) Content Management
3 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (10.71%) Time Management
4 3 (10.71%) MVC
4 3 (10.71%) OO
5 2 (7.143%) TDD
5 2 (7.143%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.571%) Pair Programming
6 1 (3.571%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.571%) Kanban
6 1 (3.571%) Enterprise Content Management
6 1 (3.571%) BDD
6 1 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.571%) Web Application Development
6 1 (3.571%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) JavaScript
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) PHP
4 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 1 (3.571%) XPath
5 1 (3.571%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) WAI
2 1 (3.571%) Section 508
Vendors
1 1 (3.571%) Adobe
1 1 (3.571%) HP
1 1 (3.571%) Zend
1 1 (3.571%) Sencha
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