The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gatwick region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Gatwick 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 11 19 24
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +5
Contract jobs citing CSS 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 3.125% 3.158% 3.333%
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% 30.00% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £290 £300 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +2.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Gatwick
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7 10 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 21.88% 10.53% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
Average daily rate £325 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £258 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £300 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
West Sussex

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gatwick 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 Gatwick region.

Gatwick CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Gatwick region.

Gatwick CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick 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 18 (100.00%) HTML
2 16 (88.89%) JavaScript
3 15 (83.33%) JSP
3 15 (83.33%) CMS
3 15 (83.33%) JSF
3 15 (83.33%) Ajax
3 15 (83.33%) FreeMarker
3 15 (83.33%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (5.556%) Matrix Management
4 1 (5.556%) EPiServer
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (5.556%) WordPress
4 1 (5.556%) Blog
4 1 (5.556%) LAMP
4 1 (5.556%) Content Management
4 1 (5.556%) Web Services
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.556%) Adobe
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) Finance
4 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.556%) PHP
4 1 (5.556%) MS Project

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick 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 18 (100.00%) HTML
2 15 (83.33%) JSP
2 15 (83.33%) JSF
2 15 (83.33%) Ajax
2 15 (83.33%) FreeMarker
3 1 (5.556%) Web Services
3 1 (5.556%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 15 (83.33%) CMS
1 15 (83.33%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Project
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 15 (83.33%) Web Developer
2 15 (83.33%) UI Developer
2 15 (83.33%) UI Programmer
3 14 (77.78%) CMS Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Designer
4 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Web Designer
4 1 (5.556%) Web Project Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.556%) ITIL
1 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
1 1 (5.556%) Project Management
1 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (5.556%) Content Management
1 1 (5.556%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Adobe
1 1 (5.556%) EPiServer