The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 25 18 30
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +12
Contract jobs citing CSS 81 97 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.418% 6.938% 4.846%
As % of the Application Development category 24.70% 26.65% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 68 21
Average daily rate £280 £250 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £204 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £310 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -75.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -29.82%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
328 364 319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 25.99% 26.04% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 191 112
Average daily rate £310 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire -10 23 £290 -3.33%
Leicestershire -7 18 £290 +38.09%
Derbyshire +12 10 £250 -
Lincolnshire - 7 £350 -
Northamptonshire -13 2 - -
CSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 127 (90.07%) HTML
2 110 (78.01%) JavaScript
3 82 (58.16%) jQuery
4 60 (42.55%) .NET
5 55 (39.01%) ASP.NET
6 52 (36.88%) C#
7 49 (34.75%) HTML5
8 41 (29.08%) CSS3
9 40 (28.37%) MVC
10 34 (24.11%) Ajax
10 34 (24.11%) PHP
10 34 (24.11%) SQL
11 33 (23.40%) XML
12 32 (22.70%) SQL Server
13 31 (21.99%) MySQL
13 31 (21.99%) OO
14 30 (21.28%) E-Commerce
15 25 (17.73%) Web Services
16 22 (15.60%) XHTML
17 20 (14.18%) SQL Server 2008
18 19 (13.48%) Visual Studio
19 18 (12.77%) Graphic Design
20 17 (12.06%) Web Development
20 17 (12.06%) ASP.NET MVC
20 17 (12.06%) Adobe
21 16 (11.35%) Scrum
22 15 (10.64%) TDD
22 15 (10.64%) Content Management
22 15 (10.64%) ASP
22 15 (10.64%) Oracle

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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
1 127 (90.07%) HTML
2 82 (58.16%) jQuery
3 60 (42.55%) .NET
4 55 (39.01%) ASP.NET
5 49 (34.75%) HTML5
6 41 (29.08%) CSS3
7 34 (24.11%) Ajax
8 33 (23.40%) XML
9 25 (17.73%) Web Services
10 22 (15.60%) XHTML
11 17 (12.06%) ASP.NET MVC
12 15 (10.64%) ASP
12 15 (10.64%) .NET Framework
12 15 (10.64%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 13 (9.220%) WebSphere
14 12 (8.511%) CodeIgniter
15 11 (7.801%) J2EE
15 11 (7.801%) EJB
16 10 (7.092%) JDBC
16 10 (7.092%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 13 (9.220%) CMS
2 10 (7.092%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (6.383%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.965%) WordPress
4 7 (4.965%) Apache
5 6 (4.255%) Umbraco
5 6 (4.255%) Kentico
5 6 (4.255%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (2.837%) IIS
7 3 (2.128%) Magento
8 2 (1.418%) Apache Solr
8 2 (1.418%) DotNetNuke
9 1 (0.709%) Drupal
9 1 (0.709%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.709%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (4.255%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.418%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.709%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.709%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.255%) Internet
2 2 (1.418%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) SQL Server
2 31 (21.99%) MySQL
3 20 (14.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (7.092%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (7.092%) DB2
4 10 (7.092%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.837%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.418%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.709%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.709%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (13.48%) Visual Studio
2 12 (8.511%) Eclipse
2 12 (8.511%) PHPUnit
3 11 (7.801%) JUnit
4 10 (7.092%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 8 (5.674%) Git (software)
6 6 (4.255%) Subversion
6 6 (4.255%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.709%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.709%) JIRA
7 1 (0.709%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.709%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.709%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.709%) Dreamweaver
General
1 9 (6.383%) Investment Banking
1 9 (6.383%) Banking
2 4 (2.837%) Retail
3 3 (2.128%) Publishing
4 2 (1.418%) Finance
4 2 (1.418%) Marketing
5 1 (0.709%) Advertising
5 1 (0.709%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 133 (94.33%) Developer
2 29 (20.57%) Web Developer
2 29 (20.57%) .NET Developer
3 25 (17.73%) Front-End Developer
4 17 (12.06%) ASP.NET Developer
5 15 (10.64%) PHP Developer
6 11 (7.801%) C# Developer
6 11 (7.801%) WebSphere Developer
7 9 (6.383%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (6.383%) .NET Web Developer
8 7 (4.965%) SharePoint Developer
9 6 (4.255%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.255%) CSS Developer
10 5 (3.546%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (3.546%) HTML Developer
11 4 (2.837%) Programmer
11 4 (2.837%) Uniface Developer
12 3 (2.128%) JavaScript Developer
12 3 (2.128%) Mobile Developer
12 3 (2.128%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Graphic Design
2 2 (1.418%) W3C
3 1 (0.709%) Social Media
3 1 (0.709%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.709%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Android
2 14 (9.929%) Apple iOS
3 11 (7.801%) UNIX
4 10 (7.092%) Linux
5 9 (6.383%) Windows
6 1 (0.709%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.37%) MVC
2 31 (21.99%) OO
3 30 (21.28%) E-Commerce
4 17 (12.06%) Web Development
5 16 (11.35%) Scrum
6 15 (10.64%) TDD
6 15 (10.64%) Content Management
7 11 (7.801%) OOP
7 11 (7.801%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (7.092%) UML
8 10 (7.092%) RAD
8 10 (7.092%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (6.383%) Unit Testing
10 7 (4.965%) Web Application Development
10 7 (4.965%) SEO
11 6 (4.255%) OOD
11 6 (4.255%) E-business
11 6 (4.255%) Dependency Injection
12 5 (3.546%) Waterfall
12 5 (3.546%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 110 (78.01%) JavaScript
2 52 (36.88%) C#
3 34 (24.11%) PHP
3 34 (24.11%) SQL
4 11 (7.801%) Java
5 10 (7.092%) Perl
5 10 (7.092%) Bash shell
6 5 (3.546%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.837%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.837%) Uniface
8 2 (1.418%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.709%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (0.709%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (7.092%) Sun Certification
2 3 (2.128%) Degree
3 1 (0.709%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.128%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.709%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (12.06%) Adobe
2 15 (10.64%) Oracle
3 12 (8.511%) IBM
4 10 (7.092%) Sun
4 10 (7.092%) Zend
5 9 (6.383%) Twitter
6 4 (2.837%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.837%) Google
7 2 (1.418%) Facebook
8 1 (0.709%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.709%) Lotus
8 1 (0.709%) Apple
East Midlands
We are looking for someone with: EXTJS version 4. JavaScript. HTML. CSS. JSON. REST. Any exposure to the following is desirable: Sencha Architect 2. Java... Highcharts 2.3.
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 15 May 2013
East Midlands
We are looking for someone with: EXTJS version 4. JavaScript. HTML. CSS. JSON. REST. Any exposure to the following is desirable: Sencha Architect 2. Java... Highcharts 2.3.
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 17 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
The skills and experience needed to fulfill the role, you must: Essentials: - PHP - HTML5 -CSS3 -Sql Desirables: - Version control systems such as SVN is an advantage - An understanding...
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Rate: £180 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013