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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 194 251 300
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 279 204 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 1.261% 0.858% 0.549%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.330% 0.901% 0.582%
Number of salaries quoted 237 186 125
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,400 £25,000 £25,200
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20978 22652 21667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.79% 95.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17417 19544 18626
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £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
England

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East 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 South East 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
Surrey +51 74 £35,000 -22.22%
Berkshire -40 47 £35,000 -12.50%
Buckinghamshire +23 40 £31,500 -10.00%
Hampshire +7 30 £28,500 -16.17%
West Sussex +6 29 £32,000 +1.58%
East Sussex +5 19 £42,500 -5.55%
Oxfordshire -15 17 £32,500 +8.33%
Kent -4 13 £35,000 +45.83%
Middlesex +9 10 - -
Sussex - 2 £42,500 -
Front-End Developer
England

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 463 (88.19%) CSS
2 447 (85.14%) JavaScript
3 370 (70.48%) HTML
4 324 (61.71%) jQuery
5 257 (48.95%) HTML5
6 233 (44.38%) CSS3
7 171 (32.57%) XHTML
8 150 (28.57%) Photoshop
9 133 (25.33%) Web Development
10 119 (22.67%) PHP
11 112 (21.33%) Java
12 100 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
13 98 (18.67%) .NET
14 94 (17.90%) SEO
15 87 (16.57%) Ajax
16 81 (15.43%) E-Commerce
17 77 (14.67%) WordPress
18 73 (13.90%) Adobe Illustrator
19 71 (13.52%) OO
20 66 (12.57%) CMS
20 66 (12.57%) Adobe
21 64 (12.19%) W3C
22 59 (11.24%) ASP.NET
22 59 (11.24%) Marketing
23 56 (10.67%) C#
24 54 (10.29%) MVC
25 53 (10.10%) Oracle
26 51 (9.714%) JSP
27 50 (9.524%) MS Excel
27 50 (9.524%) Retail

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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
1 463 (88.19%) CSS
2 370 (70.48%) HTML
3 324 (61.71%) jQuery
4 257 (48.95%) HTML5
5 233 (44.38%) CSS3
6 171 (32.57%) XHTML
7 98 (18.67%) .NET
8 87 (16.57%) Ajax
9 59 (11.24%) ASP.NET
10 51 (9.714%) JSP
11 49 (9.333%) Backbone.js
12 46 (8.762%) XML
13 44 (8.381%) Node.js
14 36 (6.857%) Java EE
15 35 (6.667%) Web Services
16 32 (6.095%) .NET Framework
17 30 (5.714%) JSON
18 28 (5.333%) Semantic HTML
19 26 (4.952%) LAMP
20 25 (4.762%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 77 (14.67%) WordPress
2 66 (12.57%) CMS
3 33 (6.286%) Liferay
4 24 (4.571%) Drupal
5 14 (2.667%) Apache
6 13 (2.476%) Magento
7 11 (2.095%) SharePoint
8 10 (1.905%) Umbraco
9 9 (1.714%) ExpressionEngine
10 8 (1.524%) Joomla!
11 7 (1.333%) SilverStripe
11 7 (1.333%) ColdFusion
12 6 (1.143%) WebSphere Application Server
13 4 (0.762%) MS Project Server
14 3 (0.571%) MTS
15 2 (0.381%) IIS
15 2 (0.381%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.381%) SharePoint Server
15 2 (0.381%) EPiServer CMS
15 2 (0.381%) Moodle
Applications
1 150 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 73 (13.90%) Adobe Illustrator
3 50 (9.524%) MS Excel
4 40 (7.619%) Fireworks
5 13 (2.476%) InDesign
5 13 (2.476%) MS Office
6 11 (2.095%) Acrobat
7 7 (1.333%) ImageReady
8 4 (0.762%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.762%) MS Project
9 1 (0.190%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 5 (0.952%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.095%) Internet
2 8 (1.524%) Intranet
2 8 (1.524%) LDAP
3 4 (0.762%) DNS
4 3 (0.571%) HTTP
5 2 (0.381%) SSL
6 1 (0.190%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.000%) MySQL
2 11 (2.095%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.143%) DB2
4 4 (0.762%) MarkLogic
5 2 (0.381%) Big Data
5 2 (0.381%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.190%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.190%) Redis
6 1 (0.190%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.190%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.190%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (8.762%) Git (software)
2 32 (6.095%) Subversion
3 15 (2.857%) Dreamweaver
4 14 (2.667%) Visual Studio
5 13 (2.476%) PhoneGap
5 13 (2.476%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.905%) JUnit
6 10 (1.905%) QUnit
6 10 (1.905%) Jasmine
7 9 (1.714%) Mocha
8 8 (1.524%) Ant
9 5 (0.952%) Maven
10 3 (0.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 2 (0.381%) Selenium
11 2 (0.381%) JIRA
11 2 (0.381%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.381%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.381%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.190%) TortoiseSVN
12 1 (0.190%) Mercurial
General
1 59 (11.24%) Marketing
2 50 (9.524%) Retail
3 47 (8.952%) Finance
4 46 (8.762%) Banking
5 37 (7.048%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (2.095%) Advertising
7 8 (1.524%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.333%) Legal
9 5 (0.952%) Games
10 4 (0.762%) Electronics
11 3 (0.571%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.381%) Publishing
12 2 (0.381%) Automotive
13 1 (0.190%) Music
13 1 (0.190%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.190%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.19%) W3C
2 44 (8.381%) Social Media
3 43 (8.190%) Mobile App
4 20 (3.810%) Open Source
5 18 (3.429%) Graphic Design
5 18 (3.429%) Computer Science
6 9 (1.714%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.524%) Web 2.0
8 7 (1.333%) iPad
8 7 (1.333%) Animation
8 7 (1.333%) N-Tier
9 5 (0.952%) iPhone
10 4 (0.762%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.762%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.762%) Social Network
10 4 (0.762%) Online Banking
10 4 (0.762%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (0.762%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.762%) SaaS
11 3 (0.571%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.857%) Apple iOS
2 26 (4.952%) Linux
3 21 (4.000%) Android
4 14 (2.667%) Windows
5 10 (1.905%) UNIX
6 4 (0.762%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.762%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.190%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.190%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.190%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.190%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (25.33%) Web Development
2 100 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
3 94 (17.90%) SEO
4 81 (15.43%) E-Commerce
5 71 (13.52%) OO
6 54 (10.29%) MVC
7 36 (6.857%) Web Design
8 27 (5.143%) TDD
9 26 (4.952%) Analytics
10 25 (4.762%) Content Management
11 21 (4.000%) Software Engineering
11 21 (4.000%) OOP
12 20 (3.810%) Progressive Enhancement
13 18 (3.429%) OOD
14 17 (3.238%) Benchmarking
14 17 (3.238%) Unit Testing
14 17 (3.238%) BDD
15 16 (3.048%) Digital Marketing
16 15 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
17 14 (2.667%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 447 (85.14%) JavaScript
2 119 (22.67%) PHP
3 112 (21.33%) Java
4 56 (10.67%) C#
5 31 (5.905%) SQL
6 19 (3.619%) PHP5
7 18 (3.429%) Python
8 14 (2.667%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.286%) Perl
9 12 (2.286%) Ruby
10 10 (1.905%) XAML
11 9 (1.714%) Groovy
12 8 (1.524%) ActionScript
13 4 (0.762%) XQuery
13 4 (0.762%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.762%) C++
14 3 (0.571%) VBScript
15 2 (0.381%) Scala
16 1 (0.190%) Bash shell
16 1 (0.190%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 44 (8.381%) Degree
2 3 (0.571%) PhD
3 2 (0.381%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.190%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.143%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.190%) Plesk
1 1 (0.190%) Ganglia
1 1 (0.190%) Splunk
1 1 (0.190%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (12.57%) Adobe
2 53 (10.10%) Oracle
3 47 (8.952%) Microsoft
4 42 (8.000%) IBM
5 36 (6.857%) Business Objects
6 22 (4.190%) Google
7 21 (4.000%) Twitter
8 20 (3.810%) Facebook
9 14 (2.667%) Sencha
10 12 (2.286%) ATG
11 6 (1.143%) Zend
12 4 (0.762%) CODA
13 3 (0.571%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.571%) Open Text
13 3 (0.571%) RedDot
13 3 (0.571%) Salesforce.com
14 1 (0.190%) Percona
14 1 (0.190%) Sitecore
14 1 (0.190%) JBoss
14 1 (0.190%) Apple
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Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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