The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 74 70 90
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 13 2 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.124% 0.279% 1.129%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.196% 0.306% 1.183%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 12
Average salary £35,000 £24,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.83% -12.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £19,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £28,800 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1087 654 1014
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.95% 91.21% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 930 583 931
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £48,650
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Front-End Developer
South East

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Front-End Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front-End Developer
Salary Trend

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

Kent Front-End Developer Salary Trend

Front-End Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kent Front-End Developer Salary Histogram

Front-End Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Developer within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chatham - 1 £30,000 -
Dartford - 1 £42,500 -
Folkestone - 1 £52,500 -
Rochester - 1 £30,000 -
Front-End Developer
South East

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title.

1 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (55.00%) CSS
2 11 (55.00%) HTML5
3 10 (50.00%) .NET
4 9 (45.00%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (40.00%) Banking
5 8 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 8 (40.00%) MVC
5 8 (40.00%) Finance
5 8 (40.00%) HTML
6 7 (35.00%) C#
6 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (30.00%) jQuery
7 6 (30.00%) System Testing
7 6 (30.00%) CSS3
7 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
7 6 (30.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) OO
7 6 (30.00%) Legal
7 6 (30.00%) Data Management
8 5 (25.00%) Web Development
8 5 (25.00%) Java
9 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
9 4 (20.00%) Marketing
10 3 (15.00%) WebSphere
10 3 (15.00%) Spring
10 3 (15.00%) Advertising
10 3 (15.00%) Games

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (55.00%) CSS
1 11 (55.00%) HTML5
2 10 (50.00%) .NET
3 8 (40.00%) HTML
4 6 (30.00%) jQuery
4 6 (30.00%) CSS3
5 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (15.00%) WebSphere
6 3 (15.00%) Spring
6 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.00%) WinForms
6 3 (15.00%) Swing
6 3 (15.00%) SOAP
6 3 (15.00%) Web Services
6 3 (15.00%) Apache Axis
6 3 (15.00%) WPF
6 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
6 3 (15.00%) REST
7 2 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache
1 3 (15.00%) MTS
2 1 (5.000%) Joomla!
2 1 (5.000%) CMS
2 1 (5.000%) Drupal
2 1 (5.000%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.000%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.000%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.000%) QUnit
2 1 (5.000%) Jasmine
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
1 8 (40.00%) Investment Banking
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Advertising
4 3 (15.00%) Games
5 1 (5.000%) Retail
5 1 (5.000%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (15.00%) Social Gaming
1 3 (15.00%) Social Media
2 2 (10.00%) Human Factors
3 1 (5.000%) Ergonomics
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (40.00%) MVC
3 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (30.00%) System Testing
4 6 (30.00%) OO
4 6 (30.00%) Data Management
5 5 (25.00%) Web Development
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
7 2 (10.00%) MVVM
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (5.000%) Web Design
8 1 (5.000%) Scrum
8 1 (5.000%) SEO
8 1 (5.000%) OOD
8 1 (5.000%) CAD
8 1 (5.000%) Usability Testing
8 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
8 1 (5.000%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (35.00%) C#
3 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.000%) Python
6 1 (5.000%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) PhD
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce.com
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Facebook
1 3 (15.00%) Twitter
2 1 (5.000%) Zend