The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Bath 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 5 7 10
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing CSS 4 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 10.00% 14.89% 11.36%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 53.85% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
Average daily rate £260 £239 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.90% +6.11%
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 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Bath
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12 13 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 30.00% 27.66% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 13
Average daily rate £260 £230 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% +6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £350 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Somerset

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bath CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
1 11 (84.62%) HTML
2 8 (61.54%) PHP
3 5 (38.46%) WordPress
3 5 (38.46%) MySQL
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (23.08%) Zend
5 3 (23.08%) CodeIgniter
6 2 (15.38%) Ajax
6 2 (15.38%) Drupal
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
6 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
6 2 (15.38%) Symfony
6 2 (15.38%) HTML5
6 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
6 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 2 (15.38%) C#
6 2 (15.38%) .NET
6 2 (15.38%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) XML
6 2 (15.38%) Linux
6 2 (15.38%) Cocoa
6 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
6 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (7.692%) Xcode
7 1 (7.692%) CMS
7 1 (7.692%) Apache

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 11 (84.62%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) HTML5
3 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) Cocoa
3 2 (15.38%) Ajax
3 2 (15.38%) Symfony
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.692%) JSP
4 1 (7.692%) Servlets
4 1 (7.692%) CSS3
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.692%) Cocoa Touch
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.692%) iPhone SDK
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) WordPress
2 2 (15.38%) Drupal
3 1 (7.692%) Apache
3 1 (7.692%) CMS
3 1 (7.692%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) DB2
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) PHP Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Web Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Programmer
3 3 (23.08%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) iOS Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Mobile Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) iPhone
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
4 1 (7.692%) Java
4 1 (7.692%) SQL
4 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Zend
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Apple
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