The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 26 21 32
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +11
Contract jobs citing CSS 3 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.622% 5.286% 1.646%
As % of the Application Development category 13.04% 23.08% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 1
Average daily rate £238 £275 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
23 52 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 12.43% 22.91% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 20
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £390 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
South Wales

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) XML
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) CMS
4 3 (42.86%) Ajax
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) Apache
5 2 (28.57%) Flash
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) Perl
5 2 (28.57%) C#
5 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
5 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 2 (28.57%) HTML5
5 2 (28.57%) CSS3
5 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
5 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
6 1 (14.29%) Social Media
6 1 (14.29%) Kentico
6 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (14.29%) Web Design

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
3 3 (42.86%) Ajax
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Flash
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) JSON
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) WPF
5 1 (14.29%) JSP
5 1 (14.29%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) Kentico
3 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
2 1 (14.29%) Web 2.0
2 1 (14.29%) Graphic Design
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (14.29%) Web Design
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Web Development
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 1 (14.29%) XAML
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft