The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 71 56 57
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 16 6 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.549% 0.946% 2.375%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.643% 0.976% 2.445%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 19
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
974 615 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.29% 97.00% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 838 547 703
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Front-End Developer
Oxfordshire

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Front-End Developer Salary Histogram

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 32 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 32 (100.00%) CSS
2 29 (90.63%) HTML
3 18 (56.25%) jQuery
4 16 (50.00%) HTML5
5 15 (46.88%) CSS3
6 13 (40.63%) Photoshop
7 12 (37.50%) Python
8 10 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (31.25%) WordPress
8 10 (31.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (31.25%) Mobile App
9 9 (28.13%) Web Development
10 8 (25.00%) Social Media
10 8 (25.00%) .NET
11 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
11 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
11 5 (15.63%) XHTML
11 5 (15.63%) Apple iOS
12 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
13 3 (9.375%) ActionScript
13 3 (9.375%) ASP
13 3 (9.375%) MySQL
13 3 (9.375%) PHP
13 3 (9.375%) VBScript
13 3 (9.375%) C#
13 3 (9.375%) Flash
13 3 (9.375%) Web Design
14 2 (6.250%) Ruby
14 2 (6.250%) Graphic Design

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 32 (100.00%) CSS
2 29 (90.63%) HTML
3 18 (56.25%) jQuery
4 16 (50.00%) HTML5
5 15 (46.88%) CSS3
6 8 (25.00%) .NET
7 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
7 5 (15.63%) XHTML
8 3 (9.375%) ASP
8 3 (9.375%) Flash
9 2 (6.250%) JSON
10 1 (3.125%) Sass
10 1 (3.125%) SCSS
10 1 (3.125%) AngularJS
10 1 (3.125%) Sinatra
10 1 (3.125%) Memcached
10 1 (3.125%) SciPy
10 1 (3.125%) NumPy
10 1 (3.125%) Django
10 1 (3.125%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Photoshop
2 10 (31.25%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) MySQL
2 1 (3.125%) Big Data
2 1 (3.125%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.250%) Selenium
2 2 (6.250%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.125%) Capybara
3 1 (3.125%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.125%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.125%) Music
1 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.125%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Mobile App
2 8 (25.00%) Social Media
3 2 (6.250%) Graphic Design
3 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.125%) SaaS
4 1 (3.125%) Social Network
4 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.125%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.125%) Windows Phone
2 1 (3.125%) Android
2 1 (3.125%) Windows
2 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (28.13%) Web Development
3 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 3 (9.375%) Web Design
5 2 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.125%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (3.125%) Web Application Development
6 1 (3.125%) Analytics
6 1 (3.125%) Automation Testing
6 1 (3.125%) Kanban
6 1 (3.125%) Refactoring
6 1 (3.125%) OO
6 1 (3.125%) Pair Programming
6 1 (3.125%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.125%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.125%) Regression Testing
6 1 (3.125%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (9.375%) ActionScript
3 3 (9.375%) PHP
3 3 (9.375%) VBScript
3 3 (9.375%) C#
4 2 (6.250%) Ruby
4 2 (6.250%) PHP5
5 1 (3.125%) CoffeeScript
5 1 (3.125%) Perl
5 1 (3.125%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA