The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 24 May 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 Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 38 41 35
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.667% 0.275% 0.631%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.717% 0.299% 0.669%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £200 £175 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -38.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
- +79.48%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
279 335 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.00% 92.29% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 237 174
Average daily rate £413 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £15.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.90% -34.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.49 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £23.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
Wiltshire

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Intranet
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) W3C
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management Server
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management Server
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Intranet
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
1 1 (25.00%) Blog
1 1 (25.00%) Social Network
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
1 1 (25.00%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft