The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 22 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 Canary Wharf 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 27 44 57
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +13
Contract jobs citing CSS 25 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 6.219% 1.535% 0.200%
As % of the Application Development category 20.00% 4.724% 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 1
Average daily rate £600 £250 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -50.00%
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 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -29.82%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
125 127 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.48% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 80 131
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
London

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 31 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 27 (87.10%) CSS3
3 26 (83.87%) HTML5
3 26 (83.87%) jQuery
4 25 (80.65%) Ajax
5 24 (77.42%) E-Commerce
6 23 (74.19%) Agile Software Development
7 22 (70.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (70.97%) Web Development
7 22 (70.97%) RIA
8 15 (48.39%) Credit Risk
8 15 (48.39%) Finance
9 12 (38.71%) Banking
10 9 (29.03%) HTML
11 4 (12.90%) MVC
12 3 (9.677%) XML
12 3 (9.677%) XSLT
12 3 (9.677%) SQL
12 3 (9.677%) JSON
12 3 (9.677%) MVVM
12 3 (9.677%) REST
12 3 (9.677%) KnockoutJS
13 2 (6.452%) Mobile App
13 2 (6.452%) Apple iOS
13 2 (6.452%) XPath
13 2 (6.452%) Investment Banking
13 2 (6.452%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (6.452%) Oracle
13 2 (6.452%) Linux
13 2 (6.452%) Java

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 27 (87.10%) CSS3
2 26 (83.87%) HTML5
2 26 (83.87%) jQuery
3 25 (80.65%) Ajax
4 9 (29.03%) HTML
5 3 (9.677%) XML
5 3 (9.677%) XSLT
5 3 (9.677%) JSON
5 3 (9.677%) REST
5 3 (9.677%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (6.452%) XML Schema
7 1 (3.226%) DOM
7 1 (3.226%) JSP
7 1 (3.226%) Servlets
7 1 (3.226%) Spring
7 1 (3.226%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) CMS
1 1 (3.226%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.226%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Xcode
2 1 (3.226%) Ant
2 1 (3.226%) Maven
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (9.677%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (6.452%) iOS Developer
3 2 (6.452%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (6.452%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.226%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.226%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (3.226%) UI Developer
4 1 (3.226%) XML Developer
4 1 (3.226%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (70.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 22 (70.97%) RIA
2 15 (48.39%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.452%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.452%) Linux
2 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) E-Commerce
2 23 (74.19%) Agile Software Development
3 22 (70.97%) Web Development
4 4 (12.90%) MVC
5 3 (9.677%) MVVM
6 1 (3.226%) Scrum
6 1 (3.226%) TDD
6 1 (3.226%) B2B
6 1 (3.226%) B2C
6 1 (3.226%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.677%) SQL
3 2 (6.452%) XPath
3 2 (6.452%) Java
3 2 (6.452%) Objective-C
4 1 (3.226%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle
2 1 (3.226%) Sybase