The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Web Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Front-End Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Web Developer
Rank 285 289 292
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer 28 44 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.239% 0.332% 0.231%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.257% 0.356% 0.246%
Number of salaries quoted 27 41 35
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,400 £32,500 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £55,000 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -4.41%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10905 12358 14219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.89% 93.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9400 11235 12819
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Front-End Web Developer
London

Front-End Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Front-End Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front-End Web Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Front-End Web Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Front-End Web Developer Salary Trend

Front-End Web Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front-End Web Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Front-End Web Developer Salary Histogram

Front-End Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Front-End Web 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 IT job ads sampled with Front-End Web Developer in their job title.

1 61 (98.39%) CSS
2 57 (91.94%) JavaScript
3 55 (88.71%) HTML5
4 52 (83.87%) HTML
5 47 (75.81%) CSS3
6 39 (62.90%) jQuery
7 26 (41.94%) Ajax
8 24 (38.71%) Web Development
9 22 (35.48%) CMS
10 17 (27.42%) Photoshop
11 16 (25.81%) Open Source
12 15 (24.19%) Content Management
13 14 (22.58%) Git (software)
13 14 (22.58%) OO
13 14 (22.58%) E-Commerce
14 13 (20.97%) .NET
15 12 (19.35%) TDD
15 12 (19.35%) Mobile App
16 11 (17.74%) PHP
17 10 (16.13%) Android
17 10 (16.13%) iPhone
18 9 (14.52%) Agile Software Development
18 9 (14.52%) XML
18 9 (14.52%) Adobe
18 9 (14.52%) XHTML
18 9 (14.52%) BDD
18 9 (14.52%) iPad
19 8 (12.90%) Scrum
19 8 (12.90%) Ruby
19 8 (12.90%) Marketing

Front-End Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Front-End Web 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 IT job ads sampled with Front-End Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 61 (98.39%) CSS
2 55 (88.71%) HTML5
3 52 (83.87%) HTML
4 47 (75.81%) CSS3
5 39 (62.90%) jQuery
6 26 (41.94%) Ajax
7 13 (20.97%) .NET
8 9 (14.52%) XML
8 9 (14.52%) XHTML
9 6 (9.677%) DOM
10 5 (8.065%) Node.js
10 5 (8.065%) Ruby on Rails
11 4 (6.452%) WebSphere
11 4 (6.452%) ASP.NET
11 4 (6.452%) Sass
12 3 (4.839%) Underscore.js
12 3 (4.839%) WebSockets
12 3 (4.839%) XSLT
12 3 (4.839%) Flash
13 2 (3.226%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 22 (35.48%) CMS
2 6 (9.677%) Drupal
3 4 (6.452%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (4.839%) Confluence
4 3 (4.839%) WordPress
5 2 (3.226%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (3.226%) Joomla!
5 2 (3.226%) ColdFusion
5 2 (3.226%) TeamSite
5 2 (3.226%) Kentico
6 1 (1.613%) IIS
6 1 (1.613%) Apache
6 1 (1.613%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.226%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (3.226%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 3 (4.839%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.613%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.065%) Internet
2 2 (3.226%) HTTP
3 1 (1.613%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (3.226%) QlikView
2 2 (3.226%) MySQL
3 1 (1.613%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Git (software)
2 7 (11.29%) Subversion
3 6 (9.677%) JIRA
4 5 (8.065%) Ant
5 3 (4.839%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.839%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.226%) Maven
7 1 (1.613%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (1.613%) Selenium
General
1 8 (12.90%) Marketing
2 5 (8.065%) Games
3 3 (4.839%) Finance
3 3 (4.839%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.839%) Retail
4 2 (3.226%) Music
4 2 (3.226%) Publishing
5 1 (1.613%) Electronics
5 1 (1.613%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Open Source
2 12 (19.35%) Mobile App
3 10 (16.13%) iPhone
4 9 (14.52%) iPad
5 7 (11.29%) Social Network
6 6 (9.677%) W3C
6 6 (9.677%) Digital Media
7 4 (6.452%) Online Games
7 4 (6.452%) Graphic Design
8 3 (4.839%) Social Media
9 2 (3.226%) Computer Science
9 2 (3.226%) Heroku
9 2 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.613%) DTV
10 1 (1.613%) Data Integration
10 1 (1.613%) RIA
10 1 (1.613%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Android
2 3 (4.839%) UNIX
2 3 (4.839%) Linux
3 2 (3.226%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.613%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Web Development
2 15 (24.19%) Content Management
3 14 (22.58%) OO
3 14 (22.58%) E-Commerce
4 12 (19.35%) TDD
5 9 (14.52%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (14.52%) BDD
6 8 (12.90%) Scrum
7 6 (9.677%) SEO
8 3 (4.839%) Analytics
8 3 (4.839%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (3.226%) Online Marketing
9 2 (3.226%) Email Marketing
9 2 (3.226%) Kanban
9 2 (3.226%) Software Engineering
9 2 (3.226%) Web Design
9 2 (3.226%) MVC
9 2 (3.226%) RAD
9 2 (3.226%) Waterfall
9 2 (3.226%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 57 (91.94%) JavaScript
2 11 (17.74%) PHP
3 8 (12.90%) Ruby
4 6 (9.677%) C#
5 3 (4.839%) Java
6 2 (3.226%) SQL
7 1 (1.613%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.613%) C++
7 1 (1.613%) tcsh
7 1 (1.613%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (8.065%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.613%) WCAG
1 1 (1.613%) WAI
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Adobe
2 6 (9.677%) EPiServer
3 4 (6.452%) Sitecore
3 4 (6.452%) ATG
3 4 (6.452%) IBM
3 4 (6.452%) hybris
4 3 (4.839%) Google
5 2 (3.226%) Telerik
5 2 (3.226%) Sony
5 2 (3.226%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.613%) Sencha
6 1 (1.613%) Oracle
6 1 (1.613%) Sybase
6 1 (1.613%) SAP
City, London
A CSS, HTML, JavaScript Front End Web Developer is urgently needed for this forward thinking and innovative digital marketing agency based in Central London... The CSS, HTML, JavaScript...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Web Developer - Front End Developer - HTML5 CSS3 Javascript AJAX JQuery PHP MVC - £50k... Principal Duties and Responsibilities include; Taking Photoshop layered files and producing W3C compliant HTML5 / CSS3.....
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Life
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Mobile apps- making use of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in our mobile apps... - The ability to write well-structured, semantic HTML and an in-depth understanding of HTML...
Aston Carter
Salary: £36000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
A frontend web developer with exposure to ColdFusion is desirable but not essential.Main Skill sets for the frontend web developer;*Excellent HTML5 & CSS3*Good understanding of web...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £28000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Main Skill sets for the frontend web developer; *Excellent HTML5 & CSS3 *Good understanding of web standards and accessibility *Proven cross-browser development and testing experience *Strong JQuery & JavaScript...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £28000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
The Front End Web Developer will need to possess the following skills & experience: - A University degree, preferably educated in the field of Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems - A...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + 10% Bonus + excellent package
Posted: 20 May 2013