The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS 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 Dorset 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
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 16 28 34
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +6
Contract jobs citing CSS 16 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 7.373% 2.867% 2.857%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 11.94% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 1
Average daily rate £200 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -29.82%
All Application Development
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
48 67 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 22.12% 24.01% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 32
Average daily rate £300 £395 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.05% +8.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £363 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
Average hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -2.43%
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 Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset 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
Bournemouth +5 7 £318 -20.62%
Poole - 7 £200 -
CSS
South West

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 32 (96.97%) HTML
2 31 (93.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (48.48%) jQuery
4 14 (42.42%) .NET
4 14 (42.42%) MVC
5 12 (36.36%) MySQL
5 12 (36.36%) PHP
6 11 (33.33%) Web Development
7 10 (30.30%) CMS
8 9 (27.27%) Subversion
9 7 (21.21%) Alterian
9 7 (21.21%) C#
9 7 (21.21%) Linux
9 7 (21.21%) Shell Script
9 7 (21.21%) Kentico
10 6 (18.18%) Spring
10 6 (18.18%) Java
10 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
11 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
11 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (15.15%) Spring MVC
12 4 (12.12%) Social Media
12 4 (12.12%) Web Services
12 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
12 4 (12.12%) VB
12 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
12 4 (12.12%) TDD
12 4 (12.12%) OO
13 3 (9.091%) Web Design
13 3 (9.091%) Agile Software Development

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 32 (96.97%) HTML
2 16 (48.48%) jQuery
3 14 (42.42%) .NET
4 6 (18.18%) Spring
5 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
5 5 (15.15%) Spring MVC
6 4 (12.12%) Web Services
7 3 (9.091%) XML
7 3 (9.091%) CSS3
8 2 (6.061%) Google Maps API
8 2 (6.061%) REST
8 2 (6.061%) HTML5
8 2 (6.061%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.061%) Java EE
8 2 (6.061%) Spring Integration
8 2 (6.061%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (6.061%) SOAP
8 2 (6.061%) J2EE
8 2 (6.061%) Ajax
8 2 (6.061%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (30.30%) CMS
2 7 (21.21%) Kentico
3 1 (3.030%) Joomla!
3 1 (3.030%) Drupal
3 1 (3.030%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.061%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.061%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (6.061%) InDesign
3 1 (3.030%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) POP3
1 1 (3.030%) SMTP
1 1 (3.030%) HTTP
1 1 (3.030%) DNS
1 1 (3.030%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.030%) Intranet
1 1 (3.030%) Internet
1 1 (3.030%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) MySQL
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.030%) SQLite
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Subversion
2 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
3 3 (9.091%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (6.061%) Finance
1 2 (6.061%) Advertising
1 2 (6.061%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 32 (96.97%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Web Developer
2 9 (27.27%) PHP Developer
3 7 (21.21%) MySQL Developer
3 7 (21.21%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 2 (6.061%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Consultant
7 1 (3.030%) Junior
7 1 (3.030%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Junior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Social Media
2 3 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.061%) Kindle
3 2 (6.061%) Open Source
3 2 (6.061%) Digital Media
3 2 (6.061%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.030%) W3C
4 1 (3.030%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.030%) Streaming Media
4 1 (3.030%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) MVC
2 11 (33.33%) Web Development
3 4 (12.12%) TDD
3 4 (12.12%) OO
4 3 (9.091%) Web Design
4 3 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (9.091%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.061%) Scrum
6 1 (3.030%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.030%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.030%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (93.94%) JavaScript
2 12 (36.36%) PHP
3 7 (21.21%) C#
3 7 (21.21%) Shell Script
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (12.12%) VB
5 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.061%) Ruby
7 1 (3.030%) SQL
7 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.030%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (3.030%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.030%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Alterian
2 3 (9.091%) Oracle
2 3 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.091%) Twitter
3 2 (6.061%) Adobe
3 2 (6.061%) Google
4 1 (3.030%) Facebook
4 1 (3.030%) Zend
4 1 (3.030%) Sitecore
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