The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 19 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 109 142 187
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 118 106 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.474% 1.060% 0.557%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.587% 1.152% 0.601%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 35
Average daily rate £278 £275 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% -6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £323 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.52 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.30% +0.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.66%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7436 9200 9812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.86% 92.04% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3762 4120 4265
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 683 849
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Front-End Developer
England

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Front-End Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Front-End Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 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
Berkshire +25 62 £260 -8.77% 2
Hampshire +12 24 £286 +17.43% 7
East Sussex -1 8 £250 +25.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £260 - 1
Oxfordshire -9 6 £325 +44.44% 5
Surrey +18 4 £300 -14.28% 4
Middlesex +7 4 £450 -
West Sussex +13 2 - - 1
Kent -1 1 £350 +55.55% 4
Sussex - - - -
Front-End Developer
England

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 149 (89.22%) CSS
2 138 (82.63%) JavaScript
3 114 (68.26%) HTML
3 114 (68.26%) jQuery
4 102 (61.08%) HTML5
5 84 (50.30%) CSS3
6 38 (22.75%) XHTML
7 37 (22.16%) Photoshop
8 35 (20.96%) XML
9 28 (16.77%) Ajax
10 26 (15.57%) XSLT
11 25 (14.97%) Java
12 24 (14.37%) PHP
13 23 (13.77%) Web Development
14 20 (11.98%) .NET
15 18 (10.78%) JSP
15 18 (10.78%) MVC
16 16 (9.581%) C#
17 15 (8.982%) ASP.NET
17 15 (8.982%) JSON
18 14 (8.383%) CMS
19 12 (7.186%) Finance
19 12 (7.186%) OO
19 12 (7.186%) Digital Media
20 10 (5.988%) Velocity
20 10 (5.988%) Dojo
21 9 (5.389%) Android
21 9 (5.389%) W3C
21 9 (5.389%) Adobe
21 9 (5.389%) KnockoutJS

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 149 (89.22%) CSS
2 114 (68.26%) HTML
2 114 (68.26%) jQuery
3 102 (61.08%) HTML5
4 84 (50.30%) CSS3
5 38 (22.75%) XHTML
6 35 (20.96%) XML
7 28 (16.77%) Ajax
8 26 (15.57%) XSLT
9 20 (11.98%) .NET
10 18 (10.78%) JSP
11 15 (8.982%) ASP.NET
11 15 (8.982%) JSON
12 10 (5.988%) Velocity
12 10 (5.988%) Dojo
13 9 (5.389%) KnockoutJS
13 9 (5.389%) Sass
14 8 (4.790%) Web Services
14 8 (4.790%) XSL
14 8 (4.790%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.383%) CMS
2 8 (4.790%) Drupal
3 4 (2.395%) Apache
4 3 (1.796%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.198%) TeamSite
5 2 (1.198%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.599%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.599%) WordPress
6 1 (0.599%) IIS
6 1 (0.599%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.599%) Kentico
6 1 (0.599%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 37 (22.16%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.994%) Fireworks
3 4 (2.395%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.796%) InDesign
4 3 (1.796%) MS Office
5 2 (1.198%) MS Excel
6 1 (0.599%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.796%) Internet
2 1 (0.599%) FTP
2 1 (0.599%) HTTP
2 1 (0.599%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.599%) SSL
2 1 (0.599%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.395%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.796%) MySQL
3 2 (1.198%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.599%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.599%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (3.593%) Jasmine
2 4 (2.395%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.395%) Subversion
2 4 (2.395%) Git (software)
3 3 (1.796%) JUnit
4 2 (1.198%) Selenium
5 1 (0.599%) Maven
5 1 (0.599%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.599%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.599%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.599%) Hudson
5 1 (0.599%) Axure RP
General
1 12 (7.186%) Finance
2 8 (4.790%) Marketing
3 7 (4.192%) Automotive
4 5 (2.994%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.395%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.395%) Retail
6 3 (1.796%) Banking
7 2 (1.198%) Games
7 2 (1.198%) Electronics
8 1 (0.599%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.599%) Publishing
8 1 (0.599%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.186%) Digital Media
2 9 (5.389%) W3C
3 4 (2.395%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.395%) Graphic Design
4 3 (1.796%) SaaS
4 3 (1.796%) iPad
5 2 (1.198%) NHS
5 2 (1.198%) Mobile Games
5 2 (1.198%) Animation
5 2 (1.198%) IPTV
5 2 (1.198%) Web 2.0
5 2 (1.198%) FMCG
5 2 (1.198%) iPhone
6 1 (0.599%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.389%) Android
2 7 (4.192%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.796%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (13.77%) Web Development
2 18 (10.78%) MVC
3 12 (7.186%) OO
4 7 (4.192%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (4.192%) MVVM
5 6 (3.593%) E-Commerce
5 6 (3.593%) Web Design
6 5 (2.994%) Content Management
6 5 (2.994%) Validation
7 4 (2.395%) BDD
7 4 (2.395%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (2.395%) Scrum
7 4 (2.395%) V-Model
8 3 (1.796%) Email Marketing
8 3 (1.796%) OOP
8 3 (1.796%) ERP
8 3 (1.796%) SEO
9 2 (1.198%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.198%) TDD
10 1 (0.599%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 138 (82.63%) JavaScript
2 25 (14.97%) Java
3 24 (14.37%) PHP
4 16 (9.581%) C#
5 7 (4.192%) SQL
6 2 (1.198%) Clojure
6 2 (1.198%) ActionScript
6 2 (1.198%) XPath
7 1 (0.599%) Lua
7 1 (0.599%) Ruby
7 1 (0.599%) VBScript
7 1 (0.599%) ActionScript 2.0
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.599%) QA
1 1 (0.599%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (5.389%) Adobe
2 3 (1.796%) Sencha
3 2 (1.198%) Interwoven
4 1 (0.599%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.599%) Twitter
Hampshire, South East
3 Month Contract - Front End Developer - Hampshire - £280/Day Due to continued large amounts of project work my market leading client has an immediate requirement for an experienced...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £260 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire
Essential Skills and Experience: - HTML - CSS - Strong JavaScript (JQuery, Ajax, plus other frameworks) - Experience of Hand Coding and Bug fixing with JavaScript The opportunity is for a Front...
Stott & May
Rate: £275 - £305 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire
strong experience of HTML5, CSS3, Javscript and JQUERY are a must, you will have experience with Javascript libraries, have the ability to convert PSD mockups into pixel perfect...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Austin Fraser Digital are currently looking for a Front End Developer to work with a software house based in Oxford.
Austin Fraser
Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
The chosen Developer will be the key development lead providing front end technology steers to the team and assisting and mentoring other developers.The ideal Candidate will be...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250.00 - £320 per day + Please quote
Posted: 24 May 2013
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