The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS 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 of the Application Development category for the Bedfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 20 25 18
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing CSS 11 7 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 5.789% 2.574% 8.276%
As % of the Application Development category 27.50% 14.58% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 17
Average daily rate £200 £305 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.42% +56.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £248 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £312 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £190.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
40 48 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 21.05% 17.65% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 40
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
East of England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Bedfordshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton 0 9 £200 -35.48%
Bedford -2 2 £175 -
CSS
East of England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 14 (82.35%) HTML
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) PHP
3 6 (35.29%) CMS
3 6 (35.29%) CSS3
4 5 (29.41%) MySQL
5 4 (23.53%) .NET
5 4 (23.53%) Web Services
5 4 (23.53%) XHTML
5 4 (23.53%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) Drupal
6 3 (17.65%) WordPress
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) Content Management
6 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) Apache
6 3 (17.65%) C#
6 3 (17.65%) HTML5
6 3 (17.65%) concrete5
7 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
7 2 (11.76%) nginx
7 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 2 (11.76%) Varnish
7 2 (11.76%) Linux
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 2 (11.76%) W3C
7 2 (11.76%) Games

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 14 (82.35%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) CSS3
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
3 4 (23.53%) XHTML
4 3 (17.65%) HTML5
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) Ajax
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (11.76%) jQuery
6 1 (5.882%) JSTL
6 1 (5.882%) Dojo
6 1 (5.882%) LAMP
6 1 (5.882%) SOAP
6 1 (5.882%) XML
6 1 (5.882%) Mustache
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) CMS
2 3 (17.65%) Drupal
2 3 (17.65%) WordPress
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Apache
2 3 (17.65%) concrete5
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (11.76%) nginx
4 1 (5.882%) Immediacy CMS
4 1 (5.882%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (5.882%) IIS
4 1 (5.882%) Kentico
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.76%) Games
1 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) PHP Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Drupal Developer
3 3 (17.65%) PHP Web Developer
3 3 (17.65%) PHP Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Web Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) CSS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (5.882%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) HTML Developer
5 1 (5.882%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) W3C
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.76%) Online Games
2 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Web Development
2 3 (17.65%) TDD
2 3 (17.65%) Content Management
2 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
2 3 (17.65%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Time Management
4 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.882%) MVC
4 1 (5.882%) SEO
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) OOP
4 1 (5.882%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
1 8 (47.06%) PHP
2 3 (17.65%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
4 1 (5.882%) PHP5
4 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Varnish
Vendors
1 1 (5.882%) EPiServer
1 1 (5.882%) Sitecore