The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Watford 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 Watford 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 15 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 1.389% 0.971% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.429% 0.971% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
70 103 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 97.22% 100.00% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 35
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £280 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £12.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+191.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
Hertfordshire

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Semantic HTML
2 8 (72.73%) Retail
2 8 (72.73%) JSTL
2 8 (72.73%) JSP
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
2 8 (72.73%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) XHTML
2 8 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 8 (72.73%) W3C
3 5 (45.45%) Games
4 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 3 (27.27%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) Build Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Underscore.js
5 2 (18.18%) OOP

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (72.73%) Semantic HTML
2 8 (72.73%) JSTL
2 8 (72.73%) JSP
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
2 8 (72.73%) XHTML
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) Underscore.js
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
1 8 (72.73%) Retail
2 5 (45.45%) Games
3 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 3 (27.27%) Build Automation
3 2 (18.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) Java