CSS Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Cheshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 29 38 23
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -15
Contract jobs citing CSS 33 31 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.571% 3.813% 5.864%
As % of the Application Development category 20.25% 12.86% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 51
Average daily rate £328 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.37% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £350 £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 £16.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.45% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -27.27%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 163 241 258
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.58% 29.64% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 128 173
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
North West

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Chester -2 5 £375 +7.14%
Warrington -12 3 £231 -21.94%
Macclesfield - 3 £350 -
CSS
North West

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 82 (95.35%) JavaScript
2 47 (54.65%) HTML
3 46 (53.49%) .NET
4 43 (50.00%) C#
5 42 (48.84%) ASP.NET
6 39 (45.35%) jQuery
7 27 (31.40%) SQL
8 25 (29.07%) MVC
9 24 (27.91%) HTML5
10 21 (24.42%) Agile Software Development
10 21 (24.42%) SQL Server
11 20 (23.26%) CSS3
12 17 (19.77%) Web Services
13 16 (18.60%) XML
14 15 (17.44%) TDD
14 15 (17.44%) WCF
15 13 (15.12%) Web Development
15 13 (15.12%) SQL Server 2008
15 13 (15.12%) CMS
15 13 (15.12%) Windows
15 13 (15.12%) XHTML
16 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
16 12 (13.95%) IIS
16 12 (13.95%) Java
16 12 (13.95%) Ajax
16 12 (13.95%) .NET Framework
17 11 (12.79%) XPath
17 11 (12.79%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 11 (12.79%) XSLT
18 10 (11.63%) E-Commerce

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 47 (54.65%) HTML
2 46 (53.49%) .NET
3 42 (48.84%) ASP.NET
4 39 (45.35%) jQuery
5 24 (27.91%) HTML5
6 20 (23.26%) CSS3
7 17 (19.77%) Web Services
8 16 (18.60%) XML
9 15 (17.44%) WCF
10 13 (15.12%) XHTML
11 12 (13.95%) .NET Framework
11 12 (13.95%) Ajax
12 11 (12.79%) XSLT
12 11 (12.79%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 9 (10.47%) LINQ
14 7 (8.140%) JSON
14 7 (8.140%) Servlets
14 7 (8.140%) LINQ to SQL
14 7 (8.140%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (6.977%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 13 (15.12%) CMS
2 12 (13.95%) IIS
3 8 (9.302%) SharePoint
4 6 (6.977%) Umbraco
5 4 (4.651%) Apache
6 3 (3.488%) WordPress
7 1 (1.163%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.163%) Mule
7 1 (1.163%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.163%) ESB
7 1 (1.163%) Joomla!
Applications
1 5 (5.814%) MS Office
1 5 (5.814%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.488%) Fireworks
2 3 (3.488%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.326%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 5 (5.814%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.814%) Intranet
2 2 (2.326%) HTTP
3 1 (1.163%) DNS
3 1 (1.163%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.12%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (9.302%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (6.977%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.488%) SQLite
6 2 (2.326%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.163%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.163%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.163%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.163%) MySQL
7 1 (1.163%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Visual Studio
2 7 (8.140%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (5.814%) Visual Studio Team System
3 5 (5.814%) JUnit
4 3 (3.488%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.488%) Subversion
4 3 (3.488%) JIRA
5 1 (1.163%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.163%) Maven
5 1 (1.163%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.163%) Ant
5 1 (1.163%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.163%) Gradle
General
1 6 (6.977%) Finance
2 3 (3.488%) Games
2 3 (3.488%) Banking
3 2 (2.326%) Local Government
4 1 (1.163%) Marketing
4 1 (1.163%) Retail
4 1 (1.163%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (89.53%) Developer
2 35 (40.70%) .NET Developer
3 11 (12.79%) ASP.NET Developer
3 11 (12.79%) Web Developer
3 11 (12.79%) Front-End Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.302%) C# Developer
5 8 (9.302%) Senior .NET Developer
5 8 (9.302%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (8.140%) Applications Developer
7 6 (6.977%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.977%) .NET Applications Developer
8 5 (5.814%) CRM Developer
8 5 (5.814%) .NET Web Developer
8 5 (5.814%) Content Editor
8 5 (5.814%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Dynamics CRM Developer
9 4 (4.651%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Microsoft Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.814%) Digital Media
2 4 (4.651%) Web 2.0
3 1 (1.163%) Physics
3 1 (1.163%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.163%) RIA
3 1 (1.163%) iPad
3 1 (1.163%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.163%) NHS
3 1 (1.163%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.163%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.488%) Windows CE
2 3 (3.488%) Android
2 3 (3.488%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.163%) Linux
3 1 (1.163%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) MVC
2 21 (24.42%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (17.44%) TDD
4 13 (15.12%) Web Development
5 10 (11.63%) E-Commerce
6 6 (6.977%) Scrum
6 6 (6.977%) Web Application Development
7 5 (5.814%) CRM
8 4 (4.651%) Content Management
8 4 (4.651%) Waterfall
8 4 (4.651%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (3.488%) Integration Testing
9 3 (3.488%) Data Analysis
9 3 (3.488%) Software Engineering
9 3 (3.488%) OO
10 2 (2.326%) SEO
10 2 (2.326%) Web Analytics
10 2 (2.326%) Web Design
10 2 (2.326%) Pair Programming
10 2 (2.326%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (95.35%) JavaScript
2 43 (50.00%) C#
3 27 (31.40%) SQL
4 12 (13.95%) Java
5 11 (12.79%) XPath
6 9 (10.47%) VB.NET
7 6 (6.977%) PHP
8 4 (4.651%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.488%) C
9 3 (3.488%) C++
10 2 (2.326%) VBA
11 1 (1.163%) PHP5
11 1 (1.163%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.163%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (5.814%) MCAD
1 5 (5.814%) MCSD
1 5 (5.814%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (5.814%) MCTS
1 5 (5.814%) MCPD
2 3 (3.488%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.977%) EPiServer
3 5 (5.814%) Oracle
4 3 (3.488%) IBM
4 3 (3.488%) Perforce
5 1 (1.163%) SolidWorks
5 1 (1.163%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.163%) Adobe
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