The first table below looks at the demand for CSS3 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 CSS3 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CSS 3
Rank 57 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing CSS3 6 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.816% 0.370% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.659% 1.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £320 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
164 240 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.31% 29.63% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 130 171
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £315
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%
CSS3
North West

CSS3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CSS3 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire CSS3 Jobs Demand Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS3 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire CSS3 Daily Rate Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS3 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire CSS3 Daily Rate Histogram

CSS3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warrington -5 2 £163 -55.47%
Chester - 1 £375 -
CSS3
North West

CSS3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing CSS3 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 CSS3.

1 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (80.00%) HTML5
4 14 (70.00%) jQuery
5 9 (45.00%) Ajax
6 8 (40.00%) HTML
7 7 (35.00%) TDD
8 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (25.00%) XHTML
10 4 (20.00%) Web Services
11 3 (15.00%) DOM
11 3 (15.00%) XSLT
11 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
11 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
11 3 (15.00%) OO
11 3 (15.00%) Apache
11 3 (15.00%) WSDL
11 3 (15.00%) IBM
11 3 (15.00%) JAX-RPC
11 3 (15.00%) Java
11 3 (15.00%) J2EE
11 3 (15.00%) PHP
11 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
11 3 (15.00%) SQL
11 3 (15.00%) JSP
11 3 (15.00%) Servlets
11 3 (15.00%) SOAP
11 3 (15.00%) Oracle
11 3 (15.00%) JUnit
11 3 (15.00%) Photoshop

CSS3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing CSS3 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 CSS3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 16 (80.00%) HTML5
3 14 (70.00%) jQuery
4 9 (45.00%) Ajax
5 8 (40.00%) HTML
6 5 (25.00%) XHTML
7 4 (20.00%) Web Services
8 3 (15.00%) DOM
8 3 (15.00%) XSLT
8 3 (15.00%) WSDL
8 3 (15.00%) JAX-RPC
8 3 (15.00%) J2EE
8 3 (15.00%) JSP
8 3 (15.00%) Servlets
8 3 (15.00%) SOAP
8 3 (15.00%) Spring
8 3 (15.00%) JSF
8 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (15.00%) ICEfaces
8 3 (15.00%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) WordPress
3 1 (5.000%) CMS
3 1 (5.000%) ESB
3 1 (5.000%) Joomla!
3 1 (5.000%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (15.00%) Fireworks
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
1 1 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (15.00%) JUnit
1 3 (15.00%) Subversion
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.000%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Games
2 1 (5.000%) Local Government
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
2 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Web Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.000%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.000%) iPad Developer
5 1 (5.000%) User Experience Developer
5 1 (5.000%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.000%) NHS
2 1 (5.000%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (5.000%) iPad
2 1 (5.000%) Physics
2 1 (5.000%) RIA
2 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) TDD
2 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (15.00%) OO
3 3 (15.00%) MVC
3 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Graceful Degradation
4 2 (10.00%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Web Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) Web Design
4 2 (10.00%) SEO
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) OOP
5 1 (5.000%) Content Management
5 1 (5.000%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) XPath
3 1 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) PHP5
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) IBM
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Perforce
2 1 (5.000%) Adobe
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