The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 Devon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 5 12 9
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 30 18 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 17.24% 9.890% 16.20%
As % of the Application Development category 42.25% 31.03% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 9
Average daily rate £310 £331 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.41% -21.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £221 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £447 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.75
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.79%
All Application Development
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 58 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 40.80% 31.87% 47.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 30
Average daily rate £325 £308 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -18.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £450 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
South West

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 21 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
Exeter +7 23 £320 -23.62%
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
Torquay - 1 £300 -
CSS
South West

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 42 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (70.00%) HTML
3 32 (64.00%) .NET
3 32 (64.00%) XML
4 31 (62.00%) C#
5 24 (48.00%) Web Services
6 21 (42.00%) jQuery
7 20 (40.00%) XQuery
7 20 (40.00%) ASP.NET
8 19 (38.00%) XPath
9 15 (30.00%) VB.NET
10 14 (28.00%) XSLT
10 14 (28.00%) SOA
10 14 (28.00%) Ajax
10 14 (28.00%) Dojo
10 14 (28.00%) HTML5
11 13 (26.00%) CSS3
11 13 (26.00%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (26.00%) Oracle
12 12 (24.00%) OO
12 12 (24.00%) Git (software)
13 11 (22.00%) Web Development
13 11 (22.00%) J2EE
13 11 (22.00%) Java
13 11 (22.00%) Oracle Applications
14 10 (20.00%) GIS
15 9 (18.00%) ESRI
15 9 (18.00%) Servlets
15 9 (18.00%) XSD
16 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 35 (70.00%) HTML
2 32 (64.00%) .NET
2 32 (64.00%) XML
3 24 (48.00%) Web Services
4 21 (42.00%) jQuery
5 20 (40.00%) ASP.NET
6 14 (28.00%) XSLT
6 14 (28.00%) Ajax
6 14 (28.00%) Dojo
6 14 (28.00%) HTML5
7 13 (26.00%) CSS3
8 11 (22.00%) J2EE
9 9 (18.00%) Servlets
9 9 (18.00%) XSD
10 7 (14.00%) Hibernate
11 6 (12.00%) Silverlight
11 6 (12.00%) ArcObjects
11 6 (12.00%) Apache Flex
11 6 (12.00%) REST
12 5 (10.00%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) ArcSDE
1 6 (12.00%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.000%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.000%) GlassFish
3 1 (2.000%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.000%) Drupal
3 1 (2.000%) WordPress
3 1 (2.000%) CMS
3 1 (2.000%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Photoshop
2 7 (14.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (12.00%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Oracle Applications
2 6 (12.00%) Summit
3 1 (2.000%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) GIS
2 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.000%) MySQL
4 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git (software)
2 8 (16.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.000%) Subversion
4 2 (4.000%) JUnit
4 2 (4.000%) Selenium
4 2 (4.000%) jMock
4 2 (4.000%) Mockito
5 1 (2.000%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.000%) Maven
5 1 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
1 6 (12.00%) Publishing
2 5 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (2.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (84.00%) Developer
2 22 (44.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (18.00%) GIS Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Web Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Designer
5 6 (12.00%) Web Designer
6 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (6.000%) HTML Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Photoshop Designer
7 3 (6.000%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.000%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.000%) VB.NET Developer
8 2 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.000%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.000%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.000%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.000%) Social Network
2 1 (2.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Windows
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
1 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) SOA
2 13 (26.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (24.00%) OO
4 11 (22.00%) Web Development
5 6 (12.00%) User Experience Design
5 6 (12.00%) Information Management
5 6 (12.00%) Data Management
5 6 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (10.00%) B2B
6 5 (10.00%) B2C
6 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) Information Architecture
6 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (10.00%) Usability Testing
7 3 (6.000%) Unit Testing
7 3 (6.000%) MVC
7 3 (6.000%) Scrum
7 3 (6.000%) OOD
8 2 (4.000%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 31 (62.00%) C#
3 20 (40.00%) XQuery
4 19 (38.00%) XPath
5 15 (30.00%) VB.NET
6 11 (22.00%) Java
7 6 (12.00%) Python
7 6 (12.00%) SQL
8 2 (4.000%) PHP
8 2 (4.000%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.000%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) MCAD
1 8 (16.00%) MCSD
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) ISO 14001
1 6 (12.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Oracle
2 9 (18.00%) ESRI
3 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.000%) Google
5 1 (2.000%) Zend
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