The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Front-End Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Front-End Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Front-End Developer
Rank 690 753 809
Rank change year-on-year
+63 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 171 143 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.155% 0.121% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% 0.127% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 154 129 76
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,450 £37,900 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,750 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,750 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.76% +21.42%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104260 112424 121400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.39% 94.97% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86734 96496 103078
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Senior Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Front-End Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK.

Senior Front-End Developer Salary Trend

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Senior Front-End Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +47 167 £47,500 - 24
London +23 108 £50,000 +5.26% 17
South East +25 39 £45,000 -5.26% 4
City of London +14 24 £50,000 - 1
Surrey +25 19 £43,750 -12.50% 1
North West - 10 £35,000 - 2
Berkshire -17 9 £50,000 +17.64%
Thames Ditton - 8 £45,000 -
Merseyside - 8 £35,000 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £30,000 -
Liverpool - 7 £35,000 - 2
Kent - 5 £47,500 - 3
Nottingham - 5 £30,000 -
Guildford - 5 £42,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 5 £30,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 4 £27,500 -
East of England +15 3 £42,500 -2.85% 1
West Midlands - 3 £34,000 -
Bracknell - 3 £51,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 £40,000 -
Reading -4 2 £48,500 +14.11%
Cheshire - 2 £36,250 -
Derbyshire - 2 £42,500 -
Warwickshire - 2 £33,750 -
Leamington Spa - 2 £33,750 -
Croydon - 2 £46,000 - 1
Derby - 2 £42,500 -
Folkestone - 2 £52,500 -
Hertfordshire +7 1 £50,000 +17.64% 1
South West -2 1 £30,000 -1.63%

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Front-End Developer in their job title.

1 292 (93.29%) JavaScript
2 284 (90.73%) CSS
3 244 (77.96%) HTML5
4 227 (72.52%) jQuery
5 213 (68.05%) CSS3
6 163 (52.08%) HTML
7 88 (28.12%) PHP
8 78 (24.92%) Ajax
9 64 (20.45%) E-Commerce
10 62 (19.81%) JSON
11 59 (18.85%) Git (software)
11 59 (18.85%) OO
12 58 (18.53%) Java
13 56 (17.89%) .NET
14 53 (16.93%) MVC
14 53 (16.93%) Web Development
15 52 (16.61%) TDD
15 52 (16.61%) XML
16 47 (15.02%) XHTML
17 46 (14.70%) C#
17 46 (14.70%) Agile Software Development
18 45 (14.38%) Scrum
19 44 (14.06%) Subversion
20 38 (12.14%) ASP.NET
21 37 (11.82%) SEO
22 35 (11.18%) Sass
23 34 (10.86%) MySQL
24 33 (10.54%) Unit Testing
25 32 (10.22%) KnockoutJS
26 29 (9.265%) W3C

Senior Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Front-End Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 284 (90.73%) CSS
2 244 (77.96%) HTML5
3 227 (72.52%) jQuery
4 213 (68.05%) CSS3
5 163 (52.08%) HTML
6 78 (24.92%) Ajax
7 62 (19.81%) JSON
8 56 (17.89%) .NET
9 52 (16.61%) XML
10 47 (15.02%) XHTML
11 38 (12.14%) ASP.NET
12 35 (11.18%) Sass
13 32 (10.22%) KnockoutJS
14 28 (8.946%) Backbone.js
15 27 (8.626%) Node.js
16 23 (7.348%) Spring
17 22 (7.029%) Flash
18 18 (5.751%) Web Services
19 16 (5.112%) RESTful
19 16 (5.112%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 29 (9.265%) CMS
2 22 (7.029%) WordPress
3 21 (6.709%) Magento
4 10 (3.195%) Amazon AWS
5 7 (2.236%) Apache
5 7 (2.236%) Drupal
6 4 (1.278%) MS Project Server
6 4 (1.278%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.958%) Confluence
7 3 (0.958%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.319%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.319%) lighttpd
8 1 (0.319%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.319%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.319%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 27 (8.626%) Photoshop
2 15 (4.792%) Adobe Illustrator
3 11 (3.514%) MS Excel
4 7 (2.236%) Fireworks
5 4 (1.278%) MS Project
5 4 (1.278%) MS Office
5 4 (1.278%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.319%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.319%) WebTrends
1 1 (0.319%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.514%) HTTP
2 8 (2.556%) Internet
3 7 (2.236%) AMQP
4 4 (1.278%) SSL
5 2 (0.639%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.639%) LDAP
6 1 (0.319%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.86%) MySQL
2 7 (2.236%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.278%) DB2
4 3 (0.958%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.639%) SQLite
5 2 (0.639%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.319%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.319%) Big Data
6 1 (0.319%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.319%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 59 (18.85%) Git (software)
2 44 (14.06%) Subversion
3 15 (4.792%) Maven
4 12 (3.834%) Ant
5 11 (3.514%) Visual Studio
6 10 (3.195%) Eclipse
7 7 (2.236%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (1.917%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.917%) PhoneGap
9 5 (1.597%) Mercurial
10 4 (1.278%) QUnit
11 3 (0.958%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.958%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.958%) JUnit
11 3 (0.958%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.958%) JIRA
12 2 (0.639%) Aptana Studio
12 2 (0.639%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.639%) GitHub
13 1 (0.319%) Selenium
General
1 27 (8.626%) Finance
2 18 (5.751%) Games
3 17 (5.431%) Retail
4 13 (4.153%) Publishing
5 9 (2.875%) Marketing
6 8 (2.556%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.597%) Advertising
8 4 (1.278%) Multimedia
8 4 (1.278%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.958%) Law
10 2 (0.639%) Billing
10 2 (0.639%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.265%) W3C
2 21 (6.709%) Open Source
3 17 (5.431%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.834%) Digital Media
5 10 (3.195%) Computer Science
6 9 (2.875%) New Media
6 9 (2.875%) Streaming Media
7 8 (2.556%) iPad
8 6 (1.917%) RIA
8 6 (1.917%) Social Media
9 5 (1.597%) Inversion of Control
9 5 (1.597%) Visualisation
10 4 (1.278%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.278%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.278%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 4 (1.278%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.278%) iPhone
10 4 (1.278%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.278%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.278%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.668%) Android
2 22 (7.029%) Apple iOS
3 16 (5.112%) Linux
4 12 (3.834%) Windows
5 6 (1.917%) UNIX
6 4 (1.278%) Windows Phone
6 4 (1.278%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.278%) Windows Phone 7
6 4 (1.278%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (20.45%) E-Commerce
2 59 (18.85%) OO
3 53 (16.93%) MVC
3 53 (16.93%) Web Development
4 52 (16.61%) TDD
5 46 (14.70%) Agile Software Development
6 45 (14.38%) Scrum
7 37 (11.82%) SEO
8 33 (10.54%) Unit Testing
9 22 (7.029%) Progressive Enhancement
10 19 (6.070%) BDD
11 15 (4.792%) Web Application Development
12 14 (4.473%) OOP
13 12 (3.834%) Web Design
13 12 (3.834%) Project Management
14 11 (3.514%) SOA
15 10 (3.195%) Analytics
16 8 (2.556%) Continuous Integration
17 7 (2.236%) Responsive Web Design
17 7 (2.236%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 292 (93.29%) JavaScript
2 88 (28.12%) PHP
3 58 (18.53%) Java
4 46 (14.70%) C#
5 28 (8.946%) SQL
6 14 (4.473%) ActionScript
7 12 (3.834%) Ruby
8 9 (2.875%) ActionScript 3.0
9 6 (1.917%) C++
10 5 (1.597%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.278%) Korn
11 4 (1.278%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.278%) Python
11 4 (1.278%) Bash shell
12 3 (0.958%) Perl
12 3 (0.958%) Groovy
13 2 (0.639%) XAML
13 2 (0.639%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.639%) C
13 2 (0.639%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (3.834%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.597%) QA
1 5 (1.597%) WAI
2 4 (1.278%) WCAG
Vendors
1 20 (6.390%) Adobe
2 15 (4.792%) Google
2 15 (4.792%) Facebook
2 15 (4.792%) Twitter
3 12 (3.834%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.514%) Oracle
5 6 (1.917%) Zend
6 4 (1.278%) Infragistics
6 4 (1.278%) Sybase
7 2 (0.639%) ATG
8 1 (0.319%) hybris
8 1 (0.319%) Ektron
8 1 (0.319%) JBoss
8 1 (0.319%) IBM
8 1 (0.319%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.319%) Omniture
City, London
The successful candidate will be expected to: *Produce high quality, standards-based HTML, JavaScript and CSS (particularly HTML5 and CSS3) *Produce cross browser compatible code that gracefully degrades...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £45 - £50 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Croydon, Surrey
Senior Front End Developer - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 - £47,000 - Senior Front End Developer - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 - £47,000... Liaising with the Creative Team to develop pixel-perfect, W3C-...
Salt
Salary: £47000 per annum + Holidays
Posted: 17 June 2013
Ashford, Kent
It is essential that you have strong skills in JavaScript, an understanding of modern browser toolsets (Backbone, Ember, Knockout) HTML5, CSS3. My client works in a C#/.net...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 to 55,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Maidstone, South East
URGENT!!... Greywood Associates are now recruiting a Senior Front End Developer for a digital agency to work out of their Maidstone offices. This is a fantastic new position...
greywood
Salary: £32000 - £37000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
Essential Experience Experience with technologies such as CSS3, HTML 5, JavaScript (jQuery and OOJS) and some grasp of PHP... Strong grasp of Agile processes (TDD / BDD etc) Desirable...
Engage PSG
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
North West London
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Central London / West End
Gate Hampton Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + 30days holiday, 11% pension ++
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £62000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £62000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 1 June 2013
Stirling, Scotland
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 19 June 2013
Liverpool, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
Surrey
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Central London / West End
Flex Associates
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
bridgenoble
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Advantage XPO
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Ashford, Kent, South East
1st Choice Jobs
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
South East London
Capablue Ltd
Salary: Unspecified dependent on experience
Posted: 13 June 2013