The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 16 17 28
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +11
Contract jobs citing CSS 171 218 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 7.734% 7.219% 5.221%
As % of the Application Development category 25.75% 26.27% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 120 74
Average daily rate £286 £300 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.58% +6.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £224 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £31.80 £18.22
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.90 £39.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+55.55% -13.46%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
664 830 847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 30.03% 27.48% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 431 394
Average daily rate £300 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 55 66
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £29.00 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
CSS
England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire -5 48 £325 +9.24% 51
Hertfordshire -4 45 £300 -7.69% 40
Essex +9 40 £225 +2.27% 12
Norfolk +3 16 £300 +39.53% 25
Suffolk +24 12 £300 -17.80% 17
Bedfordshire +11 11 £200 -11.11% 20
East Anglia - - - - 1
CSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 270 (75.21%) JavaScript
2 257 (71.59%) HTML
3 162 (45.13%) jQuery
4 116 (32.31%) PHP
4 116 (32.31%) .NET
5 106 (29.53%) HTML5
6 99 (27.58%) CSS3
7 96 (26.74%) C#
8 88 (24.51%) XHTML
9 85 (23.68%) XML
10 80 (22.28%) OO
11 79 (22.01%) Ajax
12 78 (21.73%) ASP.NET
13 63 (17.55%) Drupal
14 57 (15.88%) Java
14 57 (15.88%) SQL
15 55 (15.32%) TDD
16 53 (14.76%) Photoshop
17 52 (14.48%) MySQL
18 49 (13.65%) Web Services
19 48 (13.37%) SQL Server
19 48 (13.37%) MVC
19 48 (13.37%) JSON
20 47 (13.09%) Web Development
21 46 (12.81%) E-Commerce
22 40 (11.14%) JSP
23 39 (10.86%) Microsoft
24 38 (10.58%) Linux
25 36 (10.03%) Scrum
26 34 (9.471%) Agile Software Development

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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
1 257 (71.59%) HTML
2 162 (45.13%) jQuery
3 116 (32.31%) .NET
4 106 (29.53%) HTML5
5 99 (27.58%) CSS3
6 88 (24.51%) XHTML
7 85 (23.68%) XML
8 79 (22.01%) Ajax
9 78 (21.73%) ASP.NET
10 49 (13.65%) Web Services
11 48 (13.37%) JSON
12 40 (11.14%) JSP
13 31 (8.635%) WCF
14 26 (7.242%) J2EE
15 24 (6.685%) XSLT
16 17 (4.735%) REST
16 17 (4.735%) .NET Framework
17 16 (4.457%) SOAP
18 15 (4.178%) ASP.NET MVC
19 12 (3.343%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 63 (17.55%) Drupal
2 30 (8.357%) CMS
3 28 (7.799%) Apache
4 23 (6.407%) SharePoint
5 17 (4.735%) WordPress
6 8 (2.228%) IIS
7 7 (1.950%) concrete5
7 7 (1.950%) SharePoint 2010
8 6 (1.671%) Tomcat
9 5 (1.393%) nginx
10 3 (0.836%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.836%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.836%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.836%) TeamSite
10 3 (0.836%) Magento
10 3 (0.836%) LiveSite
10 3 (0.836%) Liferay
11 2 (0.557%) Kentico
11 2 (0.557%) Moodle
11 2 (0.557%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 53 (14.76%) Photoshop
2 13 (3.621%) Fireworks
3 9 (2.507%) Adobe Illustrator
3 9 (2.507%) MS Excel
4 6 (1.671%) GIMP
5 3 (0.836%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.557%) MS Office
7 1 (0.279%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.279%) XMetaL
7 1 (0.279%) InDesign
7 1 (0.279%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.279%) Google Apps
7 1 (0.279%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 5 (1.393%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.557%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.557%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.393%) Internet
2 4 (1.114%) Intranet
3 3 (0.836%) VLAN
3 3 (0.836%) HTTP
3 3 (0.836%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.557%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.557%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (0.557%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.557%) HSRP
4 2 (0.557%) FWSM
4 2 (0.557%) Extranet
4 2 (0.557%) CTI
4 2 (0.557%) RIP
4 2 (0.557%) SNMP
4 2 (0.557%) VRRP
4 2 (0.557%) NetScreen
4 2 (0.557%) OSPF
4 2 (0.557%) BGP
4 2 (0.557%) Wireless
4 2 (0.557%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.48%) MySQL
2 48 (13.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.950%) Redis
3 7 (1.950%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (1.393%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (1.393%) GIS
5 4 (1.114%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.836%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.836%) JasperReports
6 3 (0.836%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.836%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.836%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.557%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.279%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.279%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 21 (5.850%) Visual Studio
2 20 (5.571%) Git (software)
3 19 (5.292%) Team Foundation Server
3 19 (5.292%) Subversion
4 9 (2.507%) Ant
5 7 (1.950%) Axure RP
6 5 (1.393%) Maven
6 5 (1.393%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.114%) PhoneGap
7 4 (1.114%) JUnit
8 3 (0.836%) Xcode
8 3 (0.836%) Dreamweaver
8 3 (0.836%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 2 (0.557%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.557%) CruiseControl
10 1 (0.279%) NUnit
10 1 (0.279%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.279%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.279%) QUnit
10 1 (0.279%) Selenium
General
1 27 (7.521%) Retail
2 22 (6.128%) Publishing
3 19 (5.292%) Marketing
4 16 (4.457%) Finance
5 11 (3.064%) Games
6 10 (2.786%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.950%) Legal
7 7 (1.950%) Advertising
8 3 (0.836%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.557%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.557%) Automotive
9 2 (0.557%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.557%) Banking
9 2 (0.557%) Billing
10 1 (0.279%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 313 (87.19%) Developer
2 76 (21.17%) Front-End Developer
3 66 (18.38%) Web Developer
4 52 (14.48%) PHP Developer
5 48 (13.37%) .NET Developer
6 31 (8.635%) C# Developer
7 29 (8.078%) Drupal Developer
8 28 (7.799%) UI Developer
9 25 (6.964%) UI Programmer
10 24 (6.685%) C# .NET Developer
11 22 (6.128%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.292%) Designer
12 19 (5.292%) JavaScript Developer
13 18 (5.014%) PHP Drupal Developer
14 16 (4.457%) ASP.NET Developer
15 15 (4.178%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 12 (3.343%) Front-End Web Developer
16 12 (3.343%) Java Developer
17 9 (2.507%) Software Developer
18 7 (1.950%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.900%) W3C
2 12 (3.343%) Social Media
3 10 (2.786%) Open Source
4 9 (2.507%) Graphic Design
5 8 (2.228%) N-Tier
6 7 (1.950%) Digital Media
6 7 (1.950%) iPad
7 6 (1.671%) iPhone
8 5 (1.393%) Semantic Web
8 5 (1.393%) Human Factors
9 4 (1.114%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.836%) Blackberry
10 3 (0.836%) New Media
10 3 (0.836%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.836%) Video on Demand
11 2 (0.557%) Online Games
11 2 (0.557%) Wiki
11 2 (0.557%) Computer Science
11 2 (0.557%) VLE
11 2 (0.557%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.58%) Linux
2 20 (5.571%) Windows
3 16 (4.457%) UNIX
4 12 (3.343%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.786%) Android
6 3 (0.836%) Windows Phone
6 3 (0.836%) Windows Phone 8
7 1 (0.279%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.279%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.279%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.279%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.28%) OO
2 55 (15.32%) TDD
3 48 (13.37%) MVC
4 47 (13.09%) Web Development
5 46 (12.81%) E-Commerce
6 36 (10.03%) Scrum
7 34 (9.471%) Agile Software Development
7 34 (9.471%) Unit Testing
8 23 (6.407%) Content Management
8 23 (6.407%) Web Design
9 14 (3.900%) RUP
10 13 (3.621%) Code Coverage
10 13 (3.621%) OOP
11 11 (3.064%) UML
12 10 (2.786%) Responsive Web Design
12 10 (2.786%) SEO
13 9 (2.507%) Project Management
13 9 (2.507%) Waterfall
14 8 (2.228%) BDD
14 8 (2.228%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 270 (75.21%) JavaScript
2 116 (32.31%) PHP
3 96 (26.74%) C#
4 57 (15.88%) Java
4 57 (15.88%) SQL
5 12 (3.343%) PHP5
6 10 (2.786%) XPath
6 10 (2.786%) Ruby
7 9 (2.507%) FQL
8 7 (1.950%) VB.NET
8 7 (1.950%) PowerHouse
9 6 (1.671%) F#
9 6 (1.671%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.671%) VB
10 5 (1.393%) C++
11 4 (1.114%) Perl
12 3 (0.836%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.836%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.557%) XQuery
13 2 (0.557%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (3.064%) Degree
2 3 (0.836%) SC Cleared
2 3 (0.836%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (0.836%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.557%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.557%) CCNP
3 2 (0.557%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.279%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.557%) Varnish
2 1 (0.279%) ISA Server
2 1 (0.279%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 39 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.914%) Oracle
3 26 (7.242%) Adobe
4 13 (3.621%) Zend
5 11 (3.064%) Twitter
6 10 (2.786%) Facebook
7 9 (2.507%) Mercator
8 8 (2.228%) FatWire
9 7 (1.950%) Omniture
9 7 (1.950%) IBM
10 6 (1.671%) Google
11 5 (1.393%) Apple
12 4 (1.114%) ATG
13 3 (0.836%) Cisco
13 3 (0.836%) Sencha
14 2 (0.557%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.557%) Nokia
14 2 (0.557%) Lotus
14 2 (0.557%) Sage
14 2 (0.557%) CheckPoint
Bedford, South East
Front end developerOpus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking a Front end developer for an initial 2 month contract- You will be working for an establish outfit who work...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP280 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
This is an immediate role for a developer with strong HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery skills. We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate front end developer to...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200 - 250 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Witham, Essex
The ideal candidate will be a passionate front end web development with a track record of commercial experience- ideally with some exposure to ecommerce related projects Key skills...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Witham, South East
A new contract opportunity for a Front End Web Developer for one of our clients based in Essex.The successful candidate is required to work in a small...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hertford, South East
ASP-Net Developer - Hertfordshire3 month+ contractA leading digital agency is looking for a C# / ASP-Net Developer for a 3 month contract based in Hertfordshire-The ideal C#...
OPUS
Rate: GBP0 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hertfordshire
Greythorn
Rate: £250 - £320 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, South East
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £300 - £500 per hour
Posted: 28 May 2013
Suffolk
Reed Technology
Salary: £225 - £275 per day + negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Essex
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Rate: From £375 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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