The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 22 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 Belfast 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 8 24 14
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -10
Contract jobs citing CSS 28 5 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 13.73% 3.049% 8.923%
As % of the Application Development category 28.00% 10.00% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 2
Average daily rate £325 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -21.87%
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 £20.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -29.82%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
100 50 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 49.02% 30.49% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 16 21
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
County Antrim

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast 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 Belfast region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 40 (95.24%) JavaScript
2 29 (69.05%) HTML
3 25 (59.52%) jQuery
4 24 (57.14%) C#
5 18 (42.86%) HTML5
6 15 (35.71%) CSS3
6 15 (35.71%) Dojo
7 14 (33.33%) .NET
8 13 (30.95%) Ajax
9 12 (28.57%) Java
9 12 (28.57%) OO
9 12 (28.57%) E-Commerce
10 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET
11 9 (21.43%) XML
11 9 (21.43%) Web Development
11 9 (21.43%) Degree
11 9 (21.43%) Web Design
12 7 (16.67%) Finance
12 7 (16.67%) TDD
12 7 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (16.67%) C++
12 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 7 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
13 6 (14.29%) SQL
14 5 (11.90%) JSON
14 5 (11.90%) Web Services
14 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
14 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
14 5 (11.90%) SharePoint 2010
15 4 (9.524%) PHP

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 29 (69.05%) HTML
2 25 (59.52%) jQuery
3 18 (42.86%) HTML5
4 15 (35.71%) CSS3
4 15 (35.71%) Dojo
5 14 (33.33%) .NET
6 13 (30.95%) Ajax
7 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET
8 9 (21.43%) XML
9 5 (11.90%) JSON
9 5 (11.90%) Web Services
10 3 (7.143%) JDBC
10 3 (7.143%) JSP
10 3 (7.143%) Servlets
10 3 (7.143%) DHTML
10 3 (7.143%) J2EE
10 3 (7.143%) JMS
11 2 (4.762%) XHTML
11 2 (4.762%) LINQ
12 1 (2.381%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.90%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.381%) CMS
3 1 (2.381%) Kentico
3 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.143%) HTTP
1 3 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.381%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) MySQL
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.381%) NUnit
1 1 (2.381%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.381%) MSTest
General
1 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (73.81%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 5 (11.90%) SharePoint Developer
5 4 (9.524%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.524%) Consultant
5 4 (9.524%) PHP Developer
5 4 (9.524%) SharePoint Consultant
6 3 (7.143%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.762%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (4.762%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (2.381%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.762%) STB
2 2 (4.762%) IPTV
3 1 (2.381%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) OO
1 12 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 9 (21.43%) Web Development
2 9 (21.43%) Web Design
3 7 (16.67%) TDD
3 7 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (7.143%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (4.762%) Integration Testing
5 2 (4.762%) Time Management
6 1 (2.381%) Automated Testing
6 1 (2.381%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.381%) System Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (95.24%) JavaScript
2 24 (57.14%) C#
3 12 (28.57%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) C++
5 6 (14.29%) SQL
6 4 (9.524%) PHP
7 2 (4.762%) Groovy
7 2 (4.762%) Python
7 2 (4.762%) Ruby
8 1 (2.381%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) WAI
1 1 (2.381%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
Belfast, County Antrim
C# - ASP.NET MVC3 - £350 per day - Belfast... The successful candidate will require extensive experience around the following technologies: -C# 3.5-4.0 -ASP.NET MVC3 -HTML,...
Stott & May
Rate: £350 per day + extensions
Posted: 16 May 2013