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The table below looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location
3 months to
4 Dec 2008
Same period last year
Rank2525
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching contract IT job ads65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.010 %0.005 %
As % of the category below11.11 %14.71 %
Daily rates quoted21
Average minimum daily rate£330£375
Average daily rate£346£388
% change on same period last year-10.70 %
Average maximum daily rate£362£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£268£265
% change on same period last year+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.34£28.06
% change on same period last year-16.80 %
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Chester
Matching contract IT job ads5434
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.088 %0.037 %
Daily rates quoted84
Average minimum daily rate£282£342
Average daily rate£293£353
% change on same period last year-16.99 %
Average maximum daily rate£304£363
UK excluding London average daily rate£322£334
% change on same period last year-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted40
Average minimum hourly rate£28.50-
Average hourly rate£31.80-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£35.10-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.63£31.53
% change on same period last year-9.18 %
CSS CheshireCSS
Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Chester CSS Demand Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS across the Chester region.

Chester CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Chester region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Chester CSS Daily Rate Histogram

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Chester region.

Chester CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

115 (100.00 %)HTML
115 (100.00 %)XML
212 (80.00 %)Java
311 (73.33 %)Swing
311 (73.33 %)JSP
311 (73.33 %)SOAP
311 (73.33 %)WSDL
311 (73.33 %)Hibernate
410 (66.67 %)JAX-RPC
410 (66.67 %)WebServices
410 (66.67 %)Spring
59 (60.00 %)C++
59 (60.00 %)Oracle
59 (60.00 %)Middleware
59 (60.00 %)Tuxedo
59 (60.00 %)Finance
65 (33.33 %)AJAX
65 (33.33 %)XPath
65 (33.33 %)JIRA
65 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
74 (26.67 %)Banking
82 (13.33 %)CMS
82 (13.33 %)E-Commerce
82 (13.33 %)PHP
82 (13.33 %)MySQL
82 (13.33 %)Flash
82 (13.33 %)Content Management
82 (13.33 %)Google
91 (6.667 %)International Banking
91 (6.667 %)Apache Axis

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
115 (100.00 %)HTML
115 (100.00 %)XML
211 (73.33 %)JSP
211 (73.33 %)SOAP
211 (73.33 %)Swing
211 (73.33 %)WSDL
211 (73.33 %)Hibernate
310 (66.67 %)Spring
310 (66.67 %)JAX-RPC
310 (66.67 %)WebServices
49 (60.00 %)Middleware
55 (33.33 %)AJAX
61 (6.667 %)Apache Axis
61 (6.667 %)XSL
61 (6.667 %)XSLT
61 (6.667 %)J2EE
61 (6.667 %)ASP
61 (6.667 %)EJB
61 (6.667 %)JDBC
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
19 (60.00 %)Tuxedo
22 (13.33 %)CMS
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (6.667 %)HTTP
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (13.33 %)MySQL
21 (6.667 %)SQL Server
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
15 (33.33 %)JIRA
22 (13.33 %)Flash
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
19 (60.00 %)Finance
24 (26.67 %)Banking
31 (6.667 %)International Banking
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
18 (53.33 %)Software Engineer
24 (26.67 %)Developer
24 (26.67 %)Java Developer
33 (20.00 %)Java Software Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Systems Analyst
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
22 (13.33 %)Content Management
22 (13.33 %)E-Commerce
31 (6.667 %)Web Design
31 (6.667 %)Integration Testing
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
112 (80.00 %)Java
29 (60.00 %)C++
35 (33.33 %)XPath
42 (13.33 %)PHP
51 (6.667 %)VB
51 (6.667 %)VB6
51 (6.667 %)JavaScript
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (6.667 %)Sun Certification
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
19 (60.00 %)Oracle
22 (13.33 %)Google
31 (6.667 %)Sun
31 (6.667 %)Perforce