Docklands, London CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	68
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	15	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	7.075 %	6.593 %
Daily rates quoted	11	14
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£269
Average daily rate	£306	£270
% change on same period last year	+13.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£285
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.97	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Application Development Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	212	364
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.386 %
Daily rates quoted	151	207
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£414
Average daily rate	£407	£443
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.20	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£27.40	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+11.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.60	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
CSS London

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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 31 (73.81 %) HTML 2 30 (71.43 %) SQL 3 28 (66.67 %) Java 4 27 (64.29 %) XML 5 26 (61.90 %) JavaScript 5 26 (61.90 %) Oracle 6 24 (57.14 %) J2EE 7 23 (54.76 %) JSP 8 22 (52.38 %) UML 9 21 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g 10 20 (47.62 %) XSL 11 19 (45.24 %) JDBC 11 19 (45.24 %) Struts 12 18 (42.86 %) EJB 12 18 (42.86 %) OO

13 17 (40.48 %) RUP 13 17 (40.48 %) WebServices 14 16 (38.10 %) Oracle 9i 14 16 (38.10 %) Macromedia 15 15 (35.71 %) IIS 16 13 (30.95 %) VB 16 13 (30.95 %) VBA 16 13 (30.95 %) PL/SQL 16 13 (30.95 %) HTTP 17 12 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 17 12 (28.57 %) Eclipse 17 12 (28.57 %) ODBC 17 12 (28.57 %) W3C 17 12 (28.57 %) Altova 18 11 (26.19 %) VB6

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 31 (73.81 %) HTML 2 27 (64.29 %) XML 3 24 (57.14 %) J2EE 4 23 (54.76 %) JSP 5 20 (47.62 %) XSL 6 19 (45.24 %) Struts 6 19 (45.24 %) JDBC 7 18 (42.86 %) EJB 8 17 (40.48 %) WebServices 9 12 (28.57 %) ODBC 10 10 (23.81 %) Swing 10 10 (23.81 %) CGI 10 10 (23.81 %) JSTL 11 9 (21.43 %) Hibernate 11 9 (21.43 %) .NET 12 7 (16.67 %) ASP 12 7 (16.67 %) CORBA 12 7 (16.67 %) SOAP 13 6 (14.29 %) Spring 13 6 (14.29 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 15 (35.71 %) IIS 2 11 (26.19 %) Apache 3 10 (23.81 %) Tomcat 3 10 (23.81 %) Oracle Application Server 4 5 (11.90 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 3 (7.143 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 2 (4.762 %) Documentum 7 1 (2.381 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 1 (2.381 %) ColdFusion 7 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint 7 1 (2.381 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (26.19 %) MS Project 2 3 (7.143 %) MS Office 3 2 (4.762 %) Photoshop 4 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel 4 1 (2.381 %) MS Visio 4 1 (2.381 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 13 (30.95 %) HTTP 2 12 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (23.81 %) LDAP 4 7 (16.67 %) Internet 4 7 (16.67 %) IIOP 5 2 (4.762 %) SSL 5 2 (4.762 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 16 (38.10 %) Oracle 9i 3 9 (21.43 %) TOAD 4 7 (16.67 %) MS Access 5 3 (7.143 %) SQL Server 5 3 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 12 (28.57 %) Eclipse 2 10 (23.81 %) JDeveloper 3 7 (16.67 %) PowerBuilder 4 6 (14.29 %) Rational Rose 5 5 (11.90 %) RequisitePro 6 3 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 6 3 (7.143 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (4.762 %) JUnit 7 2 (4.762 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (4.762 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (2.381 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (11.90 %) Finance 2 3 (7.143 %) Banking 3 1 (2.381 %) Front Office 3 1 (2.381 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 26 (61.90 %) Developer 2 11 (26.19 %) J2EE Developer 2 11 (26.19 %) Java Developer 3 10 (23.81 %) Project Manager 4 9 (21.43 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 6 (14.29 %) VB Developer 6 4 (9.524 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Oracle Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Technical Designer 7 3 (7.143 %) VB6 Developer 8 2 (4.762 %) PL/SQL Developer 8 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Project Manager 8 2 (4.762 %) Web Designer 8 2 (4.762 %) .NET Developer 8 2 (4.762 %) C# Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) Applications Support 9 1 (2.381 %) Configuration Manager 9 1 (2.381 %) Internet Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (28.57 %) W3C 2 1 (2.381 %) Streaming Video 2 1 (2.381 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (2.381 %) Cryptography 2 1 (2.381 %) Ergonomics 2 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 7 (16.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (52.38 %) UML 2 18 (42.86 %) OO 3 17 (40.48 %) RUP 4 10 (23.81 %) OOA/OOD 4 10 (23.81 %) OOD 5 9 (21.43 %) Unified Process 6 7 (16.67 %) Web Development 7 3 (7.143 %) Project Management 7 3 (7.143 %) Risk Analysis 8 2 (4.762 %) Wealth Management 8 2 (4.762 %) Data Modelling 8 2 (4.762 %) Migration 9 1 (2.381 %) Web Design 9 1 (2.381 %) Data Management 9 1 (2.381 %) Document Management 9 1 (2.381 %) SEO 9 1 (2.381 %) Validation 9 1 (2.381 %) Configuration Management 9 1 (2.381 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (2.381 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 30 (71.43 %) SQL 2 28 (66.67 %) Java 3 26 (61.90 %) JavaScript 4 13 (30.95 %) PL/SQL 4 13 (30.95 %) VB 4 13 (30.95 %) VBA 5 11 (26.19 %) VB6 6 10 (23.81 %) Perl 6 10 (23.81 %) C 6 10 (23.81 %) C++ 7 6 (14.29 %) C# 8 4 (9.524 %) DHTML 8 4 (9.524 %) VBScript 9 1 (2.381 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (2.381 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (21.43 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 26 (61.90 %) Oracle 2 16 (38.10 %) Macromedia 3 12 (28.57 %) Altova 4 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft 4 3 (7.143 %) Adobe 5 2 (4.762 %) IBM 5 2 (4.762 %) Reuters 6 1 (2.381 %) Sybase