Cambridgeshire CSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	29
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	29	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	13.94 %	14.88 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£216
Average daily rate	£268	£235
% change on same period last year	+14.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£270
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.94
Average hourly rate	-	£19.22
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.98	£28.77
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Application Development Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.291 %	0.365 %
Daily rates quoted	51	62
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£280
Average daily rate	£317	£291
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.43	£28.60
Average hourly rate	£37.07	£29.96
% change on same period last year	+23.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.71	£31.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
CSS East of England

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT contract jobs citing CSS across the Cambridgeshire region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+3	18	£268	+18.58 %
Peterborough	+7	10	-	-

CSS East of England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 38 (55.07 %) JavaScript 2 31 (44.93 %) .NET 3 29 (42.03 %) ASP.NET 4 26 (37.68 %) SQL Server 5 25 (36.23 %) HTML 6 21 (30.43 %) C# 7 19 (27.54 %) ASP 7 19 (27.54 %) Agile Software Development 8 17 (24.64 %) XML 8 17 (24.64 %) XHTML 9 15 (21.74 %) OO 9 15 (21.74 %) VB 10 14 (20.29 %) SQL 10 14 (20.29 %) UML 10 14 (20.29 %) VB6

11 11 (15.94 %) Flash 11 11 (15.94 %) Photoshop 11 11 (15.94 %) AJAX 11 11 (15.94 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 9 (13.04 %) Graphic Design 12 9 (13.04 %) VB.NET 13 8 (11.59 %) Transact-SQL 13 8 (11.59 %) XSLT 13 8 (11.59 %) WebServices 13 8 (11.59 %) Adobe 13 8 (11.59 %) Animation 14 7 (10.14 %) Content Management 14 7 (10.14 %) PHP 15 6 (8.696 %) Java 15 6 (8.696 %) Adobe Illustrator

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (44.93 %) .NET 2 29 (42.03 %) ASP.NET 3 25 (36.23 %) HTML 4 19 (27.54 %) ASP 5 17 (24.64 %) XML 5 17 (24.64 %) XHTML 6 11 (15.94 %) AJAX 6 11 (15.94 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 8 (11.59 %) XSLT 7 8 (11.59 %) WebServices 8 4 (5.797 %) WinForms 8 4 (5.797 %) J2EE 8 4 (5.797 %) WCF 8 4 (5.797 %) WPF 9 3 (4.348 %) Symfony 10 2 (2.899 %) jQuery 10 2 (2.899 %) MooTools 10 2 (2.899 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (2.899 %) Struts 10 2 (2.899 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.696 %) CMS 2 4 (5.797 %) Apache 3 2 (2.899 %) Tomcat 3 2 (2.899 %) IIS 4 1 (1.449 %) Joomla! 4 1 (1.449 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.449 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (1.449 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.449 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 11 (15.94 %) Photoshop 2 6 (8.696 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (5.797 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.449 %) InDesign 4 1 (1.449 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.449 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.899 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (37.68 %) SQL Server 2 4 (5.797 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (5.797 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (4.348 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.449 %) DTS 4 1 (1.449 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 11 (15.94 %) Flash 2 5 (7.246 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (5.797 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.899 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.899 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (1.449 %) Firebug 5 1 (1.449 %) Ant 5 1 (1.449 %) Eclipse 5 1 (1.449 %) IntelliJ	General 1 9 (13.04 %) Graphic Design 2 8 (11.59 %) Animation 3 4 (5.797 %) Finance 4 3 (4.348 %) Education 4 3 (4.348 %) Banking 5 2 (2.899 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.449 %) Multimedia 6 1 (1.449 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 45 (65.22 %) Developer 2 19 (27.54 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (26.09 %) Web Designer 4 12 (17.39 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 12 (17.39 %) C# Developer 4 12 (17.39 %) Web Developer 5 10 (14.49 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (8.696 %) VB.NET Developer 7 4 (5.797 %) PHP Developer 7 4 (5.797 %) Lead Developer 8 3 (4.348 %) Java Developer 8 3 (4.348 %) Graphic Designer 8 3 (4.348 %) WinForms Developer 8 3 (4.348 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 3 (4.348 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 2 (2.899 %) C# Application Developer 9 2 (2.899 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 2 (2.899 %) C# Web Developer 9 2 (2.899 %) Web Applications Developer 9 2 (2.899 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.348 %) N-Tier 1 3 (4.348 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.899 %) Social Network 2 2 (2.899 %) SCORM 3 1 (1.449 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.449 %) Biology 3 1 (1.449 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 5 (7.246 %) Windows 1 5 (7.246 %) Linux 2 1 (1.449 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.449 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.449 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (27.54 %) Agile Software Development 2 15 (21.74 %) OO 3 14 (20.29 %) UML 4 7 (10.14 %) Content Management 5 5 (7.246 %) CRM 6 4 (5.797 %) Web Development 7 3 (4.348 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (4.348 %) Web Design 7 3 (4.348 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (4.348 %) OOD 7 3 (4.348 %) OOP 8 1 (1.449 %) TDD 8 1 (1.449 %) HOOD 8 1 (1.449 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.449 %) Use Case 8 1 (1.449 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (1.449 %) Bioinformatics 8 1 (1.449 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 38 (55.07 %) JavaScript 2 21 (30.43 %) C# 3 15 (21.74 %) VB 4 14 (20.29 %) SQL 4 14 (20.29 %) VB6 5 9 (13.04 %) VB.NET 6 8 (11.59 %) Transact-SQL 7 7 (10.14 %) PHP 8 6 (8.696 %) Java 9 4 (5.797 %) ActionScript 10 2 (2.899 %) Python 10 2 (2.899 %) C 10 2 (2.899 %) C++ 11 1 (1.449 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.449 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (1.449 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 5 (7.246 %) Degree
Vendors 1 8 (11.59 %) Adobe 2 2 (2.899 %) Zend 2 2 (2.899 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.449 %) Microsoft