The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Development category for the Birmingham 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 24 21 35
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +14
Contract jobs citing CSS 23 35 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.752% 5.469% 2.132%
As % of the Application Development category 22.55% 22.73% 7.432%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 9
Average daily rate £275 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £217 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £300 £317
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £299 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.41% -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £26.14
% change year-on-year
+55.55% -13.92%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
102 154 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.07% 24.06% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 101 85
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £27.75 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -30.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
CSS
West Midlands

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 53 (79.10%) HTML
1 53 (79.10%) JavaScript
2 34 (50.75%) .NET
3 28 (41.79%) ASP.NET
4 26 (38.81%) C#
5 24 (35.82%) jQuery
6 19 (28.36%) HTML5
7 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
8 15 (22.39%) SQL
8 15 (22.39%) CSS3
9 12 (17.91%) XML
10 11 (16.42%) Ajax
11 9 (13.43%) Web Development
11 9 (13.43%) WCF
12 8 (11.94%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (10.45%) MVC
13 7 (10.45%) Objective-C
13 7 (10.45%) Visual Studio
13 7 (10.45%) Java
13 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
13 7 (10.45%) XHTML
14 6 (8.955%) Web Services
14 6 (8.955%) PHP
14 6 (8.955%) VB.NET
14 6 (8.955%) Photoshop
14 6 (8.955%) Games
15 5 (7.463%) .NET Framework
15 5 (7.463%) ASP
15 5 (7.463%) Web Accessibility
15 5 (7.463%) Semantic HTML

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 53 (79.10%) HTML
2 34 (50.75%) .NET
3 28 (41.79%) ASP.NET
4 24 (35.82%) jQuery
5 19 (28.36%) HTML5
6 15 (22.39%) CSS3
7 12 (17.91%) XML
8 11 (16.42%) Ajax
9 9 (13.43%) WCF
10 7 (10.45%) XHTML
11 6 (8.955%) Web Services
12 5 (7.463%) ASP
12 5 (7.463%) .NET Framework
12 5 (7.463%) Semantic HTML
13 4 (5.970%) Flash
14 3 (4.478%) XSLT
15 2 (2.985%) DHTML
15 2 (2.985%) ADO.NET
15 2 (2.985%) Razor View Engine
15 2 (2.985%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.970%) CMS
2 3 (4.478%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.478%) Drupal
2 3 (4.478%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.478%) WordPress
3 2 (2.985%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (2.985%) IIS
4 1 (1.493%) SharePoint Foundation
4 1 (1.493%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.493%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.493%) Magento
4 1 (1.493%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.493%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.493%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.493%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (8.955%) Photoshop
2 4 (5.970%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.985%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.985%) InfoPath
3 2 (2.985%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.985%) Internet
2 1 (1.493%) H.323
2 1 (1.493%) HTTP
2 1 (1.493%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.970%) MySQL
2 4 (5.970%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.493%) DTS
3 1 (1.493%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.493%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.478%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (4.478%) PhoneGap
3 2 (2.985%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.493%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 1 (1.493%) NUnit
4 1 (1.493%) CruiseControl
4 1 (1.493%) Subversion
4 1 (1.493%) Maven
4 1 (1.493%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.493%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (8.955%) Games
2 4 (5.970%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.985%) Finance
3 2 (2.985%) Back Office
4 1 (1.493%) Advertising
4 1 (1.493%) Retail
4 1 (1.493%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (88.06%) Developer
2 22 (32.84%) Web Developer
3 16 (23.88%) Front-End Developer
4 13 (19.40%) .NET Developer
5 10 (14.93%) Front-End Web Developer
6 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (8.955%) Programmer
7 6 (8.955%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (5.970%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (5.970%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.970%) Flash ActionScript Developer
8 4 (5.970%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.970%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.970%) Architect
8 4 (5.970%) Flash Developer
8 4 (5.970%) ActionScript Developer
9 3 (4.478%) .NET Web Developer
9 3 (4.478%) PHP Developer
9 3 (4.478%) Umbraco Developer
10 2 (2.985%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.970%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.478%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.478%) Graphic Design
2 3 (4.478%) iPhone
2 3 (4.478%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.493%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.493%) Open Source
3 1 (1.493%) iPad
3 1 (1.493%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.493%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.493%) W3C
3 1 (1.493%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.970%) Android
2 2 (2.985%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.985%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.43%) Web Development
2 8 (11.94%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (10.45%) MVC
4 5 (7.463%) Web Accessibility
5 4 (5.970%) OOP
5 4 (5.970%) OO
6 3 (4.478%) TOGAF
6 3 (4.478%) Release Management
6 3 (4.478%) Unit Testing
7 2 (2.985%) Web Application Development
7 2 (2.985%) Workflow
7 2 (2.985%) PRINCE
7 2 (2.985%) E-Commerce
7 2 (2.985%) PRINCE2
8 1 (1.493%) UML
8 1 (1.493%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (1.493%) OOD
8 1 (1.493%) SOA
8 1 (1.493%) RUP
8 1 (1.493%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) JavaScript
2 26 (38.81%) C#
3 15 (22.39%) SQL
4 7 (10.45%) Java
4 7 (10.45%) Objective-C
5 6 (8.955%) VB.NET
5 6 (8.955%) PHP
6 4 (5.970%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.970%) ActionScript
6 4 (5.970%) ActionScript 3.0
7 3 (4.478%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.493%) VBScript
8 1 (1.493%) VB
8 1 (1.493%) VB6
8 1 (1.493%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (2.985%) Degree
2 1 (1.493%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.493%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.493%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.478%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.970%) Oracle
3 2 (2.985%) Adobe
3 2 (2.985%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.493%) Cordys
4 1 (1.493%) Sencha
4 1 (1.493%) Syclo
4 1 (1.493%) Appcelerator
4 1 (1.493%) Facebook
4 1 (1.493%) Sybase
4 1 (1.493%) SAP
4 1 (1.493%) IBM
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