The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 21 6 21
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +15
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 61 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 4.559% 14.39% 5.078%
As % of the Application Development category 20.27% 38.13% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 5
Average daily rate £325 £263 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £201 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £303 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £28.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +21.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 160 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.49% 37.74% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 52
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £201 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Cambridgeshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 41 (75.93%) HTML
2 34 (62.96%) JavaScript
3 28 (51.85%) jQuery
4 26 (48.15%) PHP
5 20 (37.04%) MySQL
6 19 (35.19%) .NET
6 19 (35.19%) HTML5
7 18 (33.33%) CSS3
7 18 (33.33%) C#
8 16 (29.63%) ASP.NET
9 15 (27.78%) XML
9 15 (27.78%) MVC
10 13 (24.07%) Drupal
11 12 (22.22%) OO
11 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
12 11 (20.37%) Visual Studio
13 10 (18.52%) Java
13 10 (18.52%) TDD
13 10 (18.52%) CMS
14 9 (16.67%) Scrum
14 9 (16.67%) Ajax
14 9 (16.67%) Web Development
14 9 (16.67%) JSON
14 9 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (14.81%) PHP5
15 8 (14.81%) SQL
15 8 (14.81%) Oracle
16 7 (12.96%) SOAP
16 7 (12.96%) Web Services
16 7 (12.96%) WordPress

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 41 (75.93%) HTML
2 28 (51.85%) jQuery
3 19 (35.19%) .NET
3 19 (35.19%) HTML5
4 18 (33.33%) CSS3
5 16 (29.63%) ASP.NET
6 15 (27.78%) XML
7 9 (16.67%) Ajax
7 9 (16.67%) JSON
7 9 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (12.96%) SOAP
8 7 (12.96%) Web Services
8 7 (12.96%) WCF
9 6 (11.11%) Symfony
9 6 (11.11%) RESTful
10 5 (9.259%) Node.js
11 4 (7.407%) Java EE
11 4 (7.407%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (7.407%) Memcached
11 4 (7.407%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 13 (24.07%) Drupal
2 10 (18.52%) CMS
3 7 (12.96%) WordPress
4 6 (11.11%) Apache
5 5 (9.259%) SharePoint
6 4 (7.407%) concrete5
7 3 (5.556%) Magento
7 3 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (3.704%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.556%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.704%) GIMP
3 1 (1.852%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.407%) Intranet
2 3 (5.556%) Extranet
3 1 (1.852%) CTI
3 1 (1.852%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) MySQL
2 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.407%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.407%) Redis
4 1 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.852%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Visual Studio
2 6 (11.11%) Subversion
2 6 (11.11%) Git (software)
3 2 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.852%) PhoneGap
4 1 (1.852%) QUnit
General
1 3 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.852%) Finance
Job Titles
1 49 (90.74%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) PHP Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Front-End Developer
4 7 (12.96%) UI Programmer
4 7 (12.96%) UI Developer
5 6 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.259%) User Experience Developer
7 4 (7.407%) SharePoint Developer
7 4 (7.407%) PHP Web Developer
7 4 (7.407%) Designer
7 4 (7.407%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.556%) Applications Developer
8 3 (5.556%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.556%) Agile .NET Developer
8 3 (5.556%) UI Designer
9 2 (3.704%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (3.704%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (3.704%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.704%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.259%) Human Factors
2 4 (7.407%) Open Source
3 3 (5.556%) W3C
4 2 (3.704%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.852%) Social Media
5 1 (1.852%) iPad
5 1 (1.852%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (1.852%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.852%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) MVC
2 12 (22.22%) OO
3 10 (18.52%) TDD
4 9 (16.67%) Scrum
4 9 (16.67%) Web Development
5 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 4 (7.407%) OOP
6 4 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (7.407%) SEO
7 3 (5.556%) Workflow
8 2 (3.704%) Information Management
8 2 (3.704%) Compatibility Testing
8 2 (3.704%) Information Architecture
8 2 (3.704%) MVVM
8 2 (3.704%) E-Commerce
8 2 (3.704%) OOD
8 2 (3.704%) Web Design
8 2 (3.704%) Process Management
9 1 (1.852%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) JavaScript
2 26 (48.15%) PHP
3 18 (33.33%) C#
4 10 (18.52%) Java
5 8 (14.81%) PHP5
5 8 (14.81%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) F#
7 3 (5.556%) Ruby
8 2 (3.704%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.852%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (7.407%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) ISA Server
1 1 (1.852%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle
2 7 (12.96%) Zend
3 2 (3.704%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.852%) Telerik
4 1 (1.852%) VMware
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