Bristol CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	28
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	49	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	23.90 %	23.08 %
Daily rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£238
Average daily rate	£265	£256
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.80	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£23.60	£21.80
% change on same period last year	+8.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.40	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.01	£26.28
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Application Development Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	205	156
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.175 %
Daily rates quoted	57	45
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£292
Average daily rate	£299	£301
% change on same period last year	-0.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.72	£32.20
Average hourly rate	£34.68	£34.89
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.65	£37.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
CSS South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the Bristol region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Bristol region over the past 3 months.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the Bristol region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Bristol region over the past 3 months.

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS.

1 56 (72.73 %) HTML 2 51 (66.23 %) XHTML 3 39 (50.65 %) .NET 4 37 (48.05 %) JavaScript 5 28 (36.36 %) C# 6 24 (31.17 %) ASP.NET 7 23 (29.87 %) XML 8 19 (24.68 %) Web 2.0 9 17 (22.08 %) PHP 10 16 (20.78 %) AJAX 11 14 (18.18 %) Lotus Domino 11 14 (18.18 %) SEO 11 14 (18.18 %) Lotus 12 13 (16.88 %) W3C 12 13 (16.88 %) SQL

12 13 (16.88 %) MySQL 12 13 (16.88 %) SQL Server 13 12 (15.58 %) Flash 14 11 (14.29 %) ActionScript 15 9 (11.69 %) Photoshop 16 8 (10.39 %) Microsoft 17 7 (9.091 %) VB.NET 18 6 (7.792 %) XSL 18 6 (7.792 %) SharePoint 18 6 (7.792 %) CMS 19 5 (6.494 %) WPF 19 5 (6.494 %) XAML 19 5 (6.494 %) Visual Studio 19 5 (6.494 %) DHTML 19 5 (6.494 %) IIS

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 56 (72.73 %) HTML 2 51 (66.23 %) XHTML 3 39 (50.65 %) .NET 4 24 (31.17 %) ASP.NET 5 23 (29.87 %) XML 6 16 (20.78 %) AJAX 7 6 (7.792 %) XSL 8 5 (6.494 %) WPF 9 3 (3.896 %) WAP 9 3 (3.896 %) XSLT 9 3 (3.896 %) DOM 9 3 (3.896 %) ASP 9 3 (3.896 %) LAMP 10 2 (2.597 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 2 (2.597 %) CakePHP 11 1 (1.299 %) Drupal 11 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (1.299 %) CGI 11 1 (1.299 %) Ruby on Rails 11 1 (1.299 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 14 (18.18 %) Lotus Domino 2 6 (7.792 %) SharePoint 2 6 (7.792 %) CMS 3 5 (6.494 %) IIS 4 4 (5.195 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (3.896 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 3 (3.896 %) Documentum 6 1 (1.299 %) Apache 6 1 (1.299 %) Community Server
Applications 1 9 (11.69 %) Photoshop 2 3 (3.896 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.597 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (1.299 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.195 %) Intranet 1 4 (5.195 %) Internet 2 1 (1.299 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (16.88 %) MySQL 1 13 (16.88 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 7 2 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 12 (15.58 %) Flash 2 5 (6.494 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.299 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.299 %) Subversion
General 1 3 (3.896 %) Law 1 3 (3.896 %) Retail 1 3 (3.896 %) Multimedia 1 3 (3.896 %) Music 2 2 (2.597 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.299 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (1.299 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.299 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.299 %) Legal 3 1 (1.299 %) 3D Graphics 3 1 (1.299 %) Back Office 3 1 (1.299 %) Education	Job Titles 1 67 (87.01 %) Developer 2 33 (42.86 %) Web Developer 3 9 (11.69 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (10.39 %) C# Developer 4 8 (10.39 %) PHP Developer 5 6 (7.792 %) .NET Web Developer 5 6 (7.792 %) HTML Developer 5 6 (7.792 %) C# Web Developer 6 5 (6.494 %) Interactive Designer 6 5 (6.494 %) Senior Developer 6 5 (6.494 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (3.896 %) Flash Developer 8 2 (2.597 %) Junior Developer 8 2 (2.597 %) Junior 8 2 (2.597 %) Senior Web Developer 8 2 (2.597 %) Junior Web Developer 8 2 (2.597 %) MySQL Developer 8 2 (2.597 %) JavaScript Developer 9 1 (1.299 %) Junior ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (1.299 %) GUI Developer
Miscellaneous 1 19 (24.68 %) Web 2.0 2 13 (16.88 %) W3C 3 1 (1.299 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.299 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 3 (3.896 %) Windows 2 2 (2.597 %) Linux 3 1 (1.299 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (18.18 %) SEO 2 3 (3.896 %) Workflow 2 3 (3.896 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (3.896 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (3.896 %) Web Development 3 2 (2.597 %) OO 3 2 (2.597 %) Content Management 3 2 (2.597 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.299 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (1.299 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (1.299 %) UML 4 1 (1.299 %) OOP 4 1 (1.299 %) Direct Marketing	Programming Languages 1 37 (48.05 %) JavaScript 2 28 (36.36 %) C# 3 17 (22.08 %) PHP 4 13 (16.88 %) SQL 5 11 (14.29 %) ActionScript 6 7 (9.091 %) VB.NET 7 5 (6.494 %) XAML 7 5 (6.494 %) DHTML 8 3 (3.896 %) XPath 8 3 (3.896 %) PHP5 9 2 (2.597 %) PHP4 9 2 (2.597 %) Java 10 1 (1.299 %) C++ 10 1 (1.299 %) VB 10 1 (1.299 %) Perl 10 1 (1.299 %) VB6 10 1 (1.299 %) Ruby 10 1 (1.299 %) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.195 %) WAI	System Software 1 3 (3.896 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.299 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 14 (18.18 %) Lotus 2 8 (10.39 %) Microsoft 3 3 (3.896 %) Meridio 3 3 (3.896 %) Skelta 4 2 (2.597 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.299 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.299 %) Nokia 5 1 (1.299 %) Oracle