The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 20 9 17
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +8
Contract jobs citing CSS 33 78 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 6.111% 11.35% 7.993%
As % of the Application Development category 25.98% 31.33% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 17
Average daily rate £325 £278 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.11% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £216 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £308 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
127 249 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.52% 36.24% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 124 82
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 £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
East of England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire CSS Hourly Rate Trend

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 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge -18 15 £335 +24.65%
Peterborough +12 9 £325 +3.17%
CSS
East of England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 67 (77.91%) HTML
2 56 (65.12%) JavaScript
3 43 (50.00%) PHP
3 43 (50.00%) jQuery
4 33 (38.37%) MySQL
5 31 (36.05%) C#
6 27 (31.40%) .NET
7 26 (30.23%) HTML5
8 23 (26.74%) XML
9 22 (25.58%) CSS3
10 21 (24.42%) OO
11 19 (22.09%) ASP.NET
12 17 (19.77%) MVC
13 16 (18.60%) Ajax
13 16 (18.60%) Drupal
14 15 (17.44%) JSON
14 15 (17.44%) CMS
14 15 (17.44%) SQL Server
14 15 (17.44%) Linux
15 14 (16.28%) Apache
15 14 (16.28%) SQL
16 13 (15.12%) Java
16 13 (15.12%) TDD
17 12 (13.95%) Symfony
17 12 (13.95%) Web Development
18 11 (12.79%) Zend
18 11 (12.79%) Oracle
18 11 (12.79%) Visual Studio
18 11 (12.79%) WordPress
19 10 (11.63%) Git (software)

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 67 (77.91%) HTML
2 43 (50.00%) jQuery
3 27 (31.40%) .NET
4 26 (30.23%) HTML5
5 23 (26.74%) XML
6 22 (25.58%) CSS3
7 19 (22.09%) ASP.NET
8 16 (18.60%) Ajax
9 15 (17.44%) JSON
10 12 (13.95%) Symfony
11 10 (11.63%) Web Services
11 10 (11.63%) WCF
12 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (8.140%) SOAP
13 7 (8.140%) Memcached
14 6 (6.977%) RESTful
15 5 (5.814%) LAMP
15 5 (5.814%) WPF
15 5 (5.814%) XSLT
15 5 (5.814%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 16 (18.60%) Drupal
2 15 (17.44%) CMS
3 14 (16.28%) Apache
4 11 (12.79%) WordPress
5 6 (6.977%) SharePoint
6 4 (4.651%) concrete5
6 4 (4.651%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (3.488%) Magento
7 3 (3.488%) nginx
8 2 (2.326%) IIS
9 1 (1.163%) Joomla!
9 1 (1.163%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (6.977%) Photoshop
2 5 (5.814%) GIMP
3 3 (3.488%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.163%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.814%) Intranet
2 4 (4.651%) Extranet
3 2 (2.326%) FWSM
3 2 (2.326%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.326%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (2.326%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (2.326%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.326%) HSRP
3 2 (2.326%) Internet
3 2 (2.326%) OSPF
3 2 (2.326%) BGP
3 2 (2.326%) VRRP
3 2 (2.326%) NetScreen
3 2 (2.326%) RIP
3 2 (2.326%) SNMP
3 2 (2.326%) VLAN
3 2 (2.326%) Firewall
3 2 (2.326%) Wireless
3 2 (2.326%) IPsec
4 1 (1.163%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (38.37%) MySQL
2 15 (17.44%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.140%) Redis
4 4 (4.651%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.326%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.163%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.163%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Visual Studio
2 10 (11.63%) Git (software)
3 9 (10.47%) Subversion
4 4 (4.651%) PhoneGap
5 3 (3.488%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 2 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.163%) QUnit
General
1 4 (4.651%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.488%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.326%) Banking
3 2 (2.326%) Investment Banking
3 2 (2.326%) Finance
4 1 (1.163%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 72 (83.72%) Developer
2 26 (30.23%) PHP Developer
3 11 (12.79%) Web Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Front-End Developer
5 9 (10.47%) UI Developer
5 9 (10.47%) UI Programmer
6 8 (9.302%) .NET Developer
7 6 (6.977%) C# Developer
8 5 (5.814%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.814%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (5.814%) User Experience Developer
8 5 (5.814%) Designer
9 4 (4.651%) UI Designer
9 4 (4.651%) Drupal Developer
9 4 (4.651%) PHP Drupal Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.651%) PHP Web Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.488%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.488%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.814%) Human Factors
2 4 (4.651%) Open Source
3 3 (3.488%) W3C
4 2 (2.326%) iPhone
4 2 (2.326%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.326%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.163%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.163%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.163%) Social Media
5 1 (1.163%) iPad
5 1 (1.163%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Linux
2 3 (3.488%) UNIX
3 2 (2.326%) Android
4 1 (1.163%) Windows
4 1 (1.163%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) OO
2 17 (19.77%) MVC
3 13 (15.12%) TDD
4 12 (13.95%) Web Development
5 9 (10.47%) Scrum
5 9 (10.47%) E-Commerce
5 9 (10.47%) Unit Testing
6 7 (8.140%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (5.814%) OOP
7 5 (5.814%) Compatibility Testing
8 4 (4.651%) SEO
8 4 (4.651%) Workflow
9 3 (3.488%) Process Management
9 3 (3.488%) Information Management
10 2 (2.326%) Network Management
10 2 (2.326%) Information Architecture
10 2 (2.326%) MVVM
10 2 (2.326%) OOD
10 2 (2.326%) Penetration Testing
10 2 (2.326%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 56 (65.12%) JavaScript
2 43 (50.00%) PHP
3 31 (36.05%) C#
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 13 (15.12%) Java
6 10 (11.63%) PHP5
7 8 (9.302%) Ruby
8 6 (6.977%) F#
9 2 (2.326%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.163%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (4.651%) Degree
2 2 (2.326%) CCNP
2 2 (2.326%) CCNA
2 2 (2.326%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.163%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) ISA Server
1 1 (1.163%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Zend
1 11 (12.79%) Oracle
2 5 (5.814%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.488%) Sencha
4 2 (2.326%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.326%) Cisco
4 2 (2.326%) Nokia
5 1 (1.163%) VMware
5 1 (1.163%) Telerik
5 1 (1.163%) Siebel
5 1 (1.163%) Adobe
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