East of England CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the East of England 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	49
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	253	115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.325 %	0.129 %
As % of the category below	18.51 %	11.40 %
Daily rates quoted	128	43
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£269
Average daily rate	£306	£295
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.60	£27.33
Average hourly rate	£29.13	£27.46
% change on same period last year	+6.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.67	£27.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.01	£26.28
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1367	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.754 %	1.134 %
Daily rates quoted	451	281
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£321
Average daily rate	£363	£347
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.15	£27.98
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£29.61
% change on same period last year	+15.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.22	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
CSS England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the East of England 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 East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Hertfordshire	+20	127	£323	+5.55 %
2	Cambridgeshire	+10	56	£277	+3.93 %
3	Essex	+14	42	£265	-41.12 %
4	Norfolk	+25	18	£275	+44.73 %
5	Suffolk	-2	5	£223	-21.47 %
6	Bedfordshire	+2	3	-	-
7	East Anglia	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS.

1 294 (66.97 %) HTML 2 248 (56.49 %) JavaScript 3 236 (53.76 %) XML 4 189 (43.05 %) XHTML 5 141 (32.12 %) AJAX 6 108 (24.60 %) SQL 7 107 (24.37 %) .NET 8 96 (21.87 %) DHTML 9 92 (20.96 %) XSLT 9 92 (20.96 %) Internet 10 86 (19.59 %) ASP.NET 11 79 (18.00 %) Java 12 77 (17.54 %) E-Commerce 13 73 (16.63 %) SQL Server 14 71 (16.17 %) W3C

15 59 (13.44 %) ASP 15 59 (13.44 %) JSP 16 56 (12.76 %) Web Development 17 55 (12.53 %) C# 18 52 (11.85 %) Photoshop 19 51 (11.62 %) OO 20 50 (11.39 %) XSL 21 46 (10.48 %) J2EE 22 45 (10.25 %) WebSphere 23 44 (10.02 %) iDTV 24 43 (9.795 %) Retail 25 42 (9.567 %) VB.NET 26 41 (9.339 %) Flash 26 41 (9.339 %) Web Design 27 38 (8.656 %) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 294 (66.97 %) HTML 2 236 (53.76 %) XML 3 189 (43.05 %) XHTML 4 141 (32.12 %) AJAX 5 107 (24.37 %) .NET 6 92 (20.96 %) XSLT 7 86 (19.59 %) ASP.NET 8 59 (13.44 %) ASP 8 59 (13.44 %) JSP 9 50 (11.39 %) XSL 10 46 (10.48 %) J2EE 11 45 (10.25 %) WebSphere 12 33 (7.517 %) Servlets 13 22 (5.011 %) DOM 13 22 (5.011 %) XML Schema 14 19 (4.328 %) WPF 15 17 (3.872 %) Spring 15 17 (3.872 %) Struts 16 16 (3.645 %) WebServices 16 16 (3.645 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 27 (6.150 %) IIS 2 16 (3.645 %) TeamSite 3 14 (3.189 %) Apache 4 12 (2.733 %) JBoss 5 11 (2.506 %) Tomcat 6 10 (2.278 %) WebLogic 6 10 (2.278 %) CMS 7 6 (1.367 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 6 (1.367 %) MQSeries 7 6 (1.367 %) ColdFusion 8 4 (0.911 %) DotNetNuke 9 2 (0.456 %) SharePoint 10 1 (0.228 %) Mambo 10 1 (0.228 %) BizTalk Server 10 1 (0.228 %) Oracle Application Server 10 1 (0.228 %) MindAlign 10 1 (0.228 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 52 (11.85 %) Photoshop 2 15 (3.417 %) Fireworks 3 11 (2.506 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 6 (1.367 %) MS Office 5 5 (1.139 %) MS Excel 6 4 (0.911 %) ImageReady 6 4 (0.911 %) FreeHand 7 3 (0.683 %) Acrobat 8 2 (0.456 %) RoboHelp 9 1 (0.228 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (0.228 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.228 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 92 (20.96 %) Internet 2 12 (2.733 %) Intranet 3 7 (1.595 %) Extranet 4 5 (1.139 %) SMTP 4 5 (1.139 %) FTP 5 4 (0.911 %) HTTP 5 4 (0.911 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (0.911 %) SSH 6 2 (0.456 %) Network Security 6 2 (0.456 %) DNS 6 2 (0.456 %) PBX 6 2 (0.456 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.228 %) SSL 7 1 (0.228 %) RIP 7 1 (0.228 %) Firewall 7 1 (0.228 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 73 (16.63 %) SQL Server 2 24 (5.467 %) SQL Server 2005 3 19 (4.328 %) MySQL 4 12 (2.733 %) MS Access 5 10 (2.278 %) DB2 6 7 (1.595 %) SQL Server 2000 7 5 (1.139 %) RDBMS 8 3 (0.683 %) DTS 9 2 (0.456 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (0.228 %) Oracle Reports 10 1 (0.228 %) TOAD 10 1 (0.228 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (0.228 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.228 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 1 (0.228 %) JasperReports 10 1 (0.228 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 41 (9.339 %) Flash 2 35 (7.973 %) Dreamweaver 3 24 (5.467 %) Visual Studio 4 10 (2.278 %) OpenDeploy 5 9 (2.050 %) Eclipse 6 6 (1.367 %) JUnit 7 5 (1.139 %) JDeveloper 7 5 (1.139 %) JBuilder 7 5 (1.139 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 2 (0.456 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 (0.456 %) NUnit 8 2 (0.456 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.228 %) FrontPage 9 1 (0.228 %) StarTeam 9 1 (0.228 %) Firebug	General 1 43 (9.795 %) Retail 2 32 (7.289 %) Finance 3 27 (6.150 %) Marketing 4 22 (5.011 %) Graphic Design 5 15 (3.417 %) Publishing 6 10 (2.278 %) Banking 7 8 (1.822 %) Insurance 8 7 (1.595 %) Multimedia 9 6 (1.367 %) Telecoms 10 5 (1.139 %) Health 11 4 (0.911 %) Education 11 4 (0.911 %) Games 12 3 (0.683 %) Automotive 12 3 (0.683 %) Animation 13 1 (0.228 %) Online Games 13 1 (0.228 %) Front Office 13 1 (0.228 %) Electric 13 1 (0.228 %) Government 13 1 (0.228 %) Legal 13 1 (0.228 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 356 (81.09 %) Developer 2 131 (29.84 %) Web Developer 3 44 (10.02 %) Java Developer 4 42 (9.567 %) .NET Developer 5 34 (7.745 %) Web Designer 6 25 (5.695 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 23 (5.239 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 19 (4.328 %) C# Developer 9 17 (3.872 %) VB.NET Developer 10 13 (2.961 %) J2EE Developer 11 12 (2.733 %) Team Leader 11 12 (2.733 %) .NET Web Developer 11 12 (2.733 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 11 (2.506 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 13 10 (2.278 %) PHP Developer 14 9 (2.050 %) WebSphere Developer 15 8 (1.822 %) HTML Developer 15 8 (1.822 %) Flash Developer 15 8 (1.822 %) ASP Developer 16 7 (1.595 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 71 (16.17 %) W3C 2 44 (10.02 %) iDTV 3 14 (3.189 %) Web 2.0 4 7 (1.595 %) N-Tier 5 5 (1.139 %) Handset 6 4 (0.911 %) Computer Science 7 2 (0.456 %) Bioinformatics 7 2 (0.456 %) Biology 8 1 (0.228 %) Mathematics 8 1 (0.228 %) Physics 8 1 (0.228 %) VAX 8 1 (0.228 %) Streaming Media 8 1 (0.228 %) BBC 8 1 (0.228 %) Copywriting 8 1 (0.228 %) Blog 8 1 (0.228 %) Podcast 8 1 (0.228 %) E-Learning 8 1 (0.228 %) SCORM 8 1 (0.228 %) STB 8 1 (0.228 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 14 (3.189 %) Windows 1 14 (3.189 %) Linux 2 13 (2.961 %) Unix 3 2 (0.456 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.228 %) HPUX 4 1 (0.228 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.228 %) Windows NT 4 1 (0.228 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.228 %) VMS 4 1 (0.228 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (17.54 %) E-Commerce 2 56 (12.76 %) Web Development 3 51 (11.62 %) OO 4 41 (9.339 %) Web Design 5 38 (8.656 %) Agile Software Development 6 31 (7.062 %) UML 7 26 (5.923 %) SEO 7 26 (5.923 %) Content Management 8 22 (5.011 %) OOD 9 17 (3.872 %) MVC 10 12 (2.733 %) CRM 11 11 (2.506 %) OOP 12 10 (2.278 %) RAD 12 10 (2.278 %) Internet Marketing 12 10 (2.278 %) Continuous Integration 13 9 (2.050 %) Unit Testing 14 7 (1.595 %) TDD 15 5 (1.139 %) Use Case 15 5 (1.139 %) OOA/OOD 16 4 (0.911 %) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages 1 248 (56.49 %) JavaScript 2 108 (24.60 %) SQL 3 96 (21.87 %) DHTML 4 79 (18.00 %) Java 5 55 (12.53 %) C# 6 42 (9.567 %) VB.NET 7 38 (8.656 %) PHP 8 32 (7.289 %) Transact-SQL 9 29 (6.606 %) ActionScript 10 18 (4.100 %) VB 11 17 (3.872 %) VBScript 12 12 (2.733 %) Perl 13 11 (2.506 %) VB6 14 5 (1.139 %) XPath 15 4 (0.911 %) PHP5 15 4 (0.911 %) Delphi 15 4 (0.911 %) ECMAScript 16 3 (0.683 %) C++ 17 2 (0.456 %) C 17 2 (0.456 %) Python	Qualifications 1 10 (2.278 %) Degree 2 7 (1.595 %) Sun Certification 3 3 (0.683 %) HND 4 2 (0.456 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.456 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 31 (7.062 %) WCAG 2 12 (2.733 %) WAI 3 2 (0.456 %) QA	Vendors 1 33 (7.517 %) Microsoft 2 23 (5.239 %) Oracle 3 20 (4.556 %) IBM 4 19 (4.328 %) Interwoven 5 15 (3.417 %) Adobe 6 10 (2.278 %) BEA 7 7 (1.595 %) Sun 8 6 (1.367 %) Macromedia 9 4 (0.911 %) Avaya 9 4 (0.911 %) Remedy 10 2 (0.456 %) Tridion 11 1 (0.228 %) CheckPoint 11 1 (0.228 %) BT 11 1 (0.228 %) Olivetti 11 1 (0.228 %) HP 11 1 (0.228 %) Cisco