The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 23 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 Bradford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 14 26 20
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -6
Contract jobs citing CSS 10 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 6.329% 0.662% 4.167%
As % of the Application Development category 27.78% 6.250% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £160 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -20.00%
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 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 22.78% 10.60% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 12
Average daily rate £325 £160 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £174 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
West Yorkshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
3 6 (54.55%) C#
3 6 (54.55%) HTML
4 5 (45.45%) CMS
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (45.45%) jQuery
5 4 (36.36%) EPiServer
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (27.27%) XHTML
6 3 (27.27%) Publishing
6 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (27.27%) EPiServer CMS
6 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
7 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (18.18%) Document Management
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (18.18%) WCF
7 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (18.18%) MVC
7 2 (18.18%) PHP
7 2 (18.18%) Web Application Development
8 1 (9.091%) SQL
8 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
8 1 (9.091%) MySQL

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) XHTML
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) Symfony
6 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (9.091%) Django
6 1 (9.091%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (45.45%) CMS
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (27.27%) EPiServer CMS
4 1 (9.091%) Plone
4 1 (9.091%) Drupal
4 1 (9.091%) WordPress
4 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) C# Developer
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Development Manager
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Programmer
5 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior SharePoint Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Web Manager
5 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) NHS
1 1 (9.091%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
1 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) Document Management
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Web Application Development
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 1 (9.091%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
4 1 (9.091%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) EPiServer
2 1 (9.091%) Zend