The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Application Development category for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 18 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 8 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 5.031% 0.524% 2.646%
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% 9.091% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £375 £200 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.75
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.79%
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 11 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 20.13% 5.759% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 15
Average daily rate £325 £300 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £305 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £75.00 - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Scotland

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Aberdeen CSS Jobs Demand Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Aberdeen CSS Daily Rate Histogram

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing CSS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CSS.

1 19 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 17 (77.27%) HTML
3 15 (68.18%) SharePoint
3 15 (68.18%) SharePoint 2010
4 14 (63.64%) C#
5 13 (59.09%) XML
5 13 (59.09%) Intranet
5 13 (59.09%) Document Management
6 12 (54.55%) jQuery
6 12 (54.55%) .NET
6 12 (54.55%) Web Services
7 9 (40.91%) OOP
8 8 (36.36%) OO
8 8 (36.36%) Lotus Notes
8 8 (36.36%) XSLT
8 8 (36.36%) Lotus
8 8 (36.36%) CAML
9 7 (31.82%) Kindle
9 7 (31.82%) Finance
9 7 (31.82%) ISO 9001
10 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
10 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
10 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (18.18%) Degree
11 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
11 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
11 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (18.18%) Open Text
11 4 (18.18%) LiveLink

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing CSS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (77.27%) HTML
2 13 (59.09%) XML
3 12 (54.55%) jQuery
3 12 (54.55%) .NET
3 12 (54.55%) Web Services
4 8 (36.36%) XSLT
4 8 (36.36%) CAML
5 2 (9.091%) HTML5
5 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.545%) CSS3
6 1 (4.545%) Raphaël
6 1 (4.545%) WPF
6 1 (4.545%) Django
Application Platforms
1 15 (68.18%) SharePoint
1 15 (68.18%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (36.36%) Lotus Notes
3 4 (18.18%) LiveLink
3 4 (18.18%) IIS
3 4 (18.18%) Apache
3 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.545%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Intranet
2 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.545%) MySQL
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) QUnit
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 11 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 4 (18.18%) Support Team Leader
3 4 (18.18%) Systems Support
4 1 (4.545%) Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Tester
4 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Kindle
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
1 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Document Management
2 9 (40.91%) OOP
3 8 (36.36%) OO
4 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (18.18%) Content Management
5 3 (13.64%) Workflow
6 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.545%) Time Management
6 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 14 (63.64%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) PHP
4 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.545%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Lotus
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Open Text
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) Kofax