Gloucestershire CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	41
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	8	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	9.302 %	12.64 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£175
Average daily rate	£315	£238
% change on same period last year	+32.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£283
% change on same period last year	+6.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+23.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.06	£27.54
% change on same period last year	-9.02 %
Application Development Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	86	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	22	15
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£345
Average daily rate	£283	£359
% change on same period last year	-21.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.14	£31.74
Average hourly rate	£40.05	£33.21
% change on same period last year	+20.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.95	£34.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
CSS South West

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.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS across the Gloucestershire region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

CSS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CSS within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Cheltenham	-	1	-	-

CSS South West

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (76.92 %) HTML 2 9 (69.23 %) XHTML 3 8 (61.54 %) JavaScript 3 8 (61.54 %) .NET 4 6 (46.15 %) SQL Server 4 6 (46.15 %) XML 4 6 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (38.46 %) PHP 5 5 (38.46 %) C# 6 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (30.77 %) DHTML 7 3 (23.08 %) SQL 7 3 (23.08 %) Unix 7 3 (23.08 %) Apache 7 3 (23.08 %) AJAX

7 3 (23.08 %) PHP5 7 3 (23.08 %) PHP4 7 3 (23.08 %) Finance 8 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 8 2 (15.38 %) Flash 8 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 8 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 8 2 (15.38 %) ASP 9 1 (7.692 %) MySQL 9 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 9 1 (7.692 %) Photoshop 9 1 (7.692 %) IIS 9 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 9 1 (7.692 %) SAP 9 1 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (76.92 %) HTML 2 9 (69.23 %) XHTML 3 8 (61.54 %) .NET 4 6 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (46.15 %) XML 5 3 (23.08 %) AJAX 6 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 6 2 (15.38 %) ASP 7 1 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (23.08 %) Apache 2 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint 2 1 (7.692 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (7.692 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) Photoshop 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) LDAP 1 1 (7.692 %) Intranet 1 1 (7.692 %) Internet 1 1 (7.692 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (46.15 %) SQL Server 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (7.692 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) Flash
General 1 3 (23.08 %) Finance 2 1 (7.692 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 12 (92.31 %) Developer 2 5 (38.46 %) PHP Developer 3 4 (30.77 %) Web Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Applications Support 4 1 (7.692 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Web Designer 4 1 (7.692 %) Flash Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) MySQL Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior PHP Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) ActionScript Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) EPoS 1 1 (7.692 %) W3C 1 1 (7.692 %) Management Information System 1 1 (7.692 %) E-Learning 1 1 (7.692 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 1 1 (7.692 %) SOA 1 1 (7.692 %) Web Design 1 1 (7.692 %) Business Development 1 1 (7.692 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (61.54 %) JavaScript 2 5 (38.46 %) PHP 2 5 (38.46 %) C# 3 4 (30.77 %) DHTML 4 3 (23.08 %) SQL 4 3 (23.08 %) PHP5 4 3 (23.08 %) PHP4 5 1 (7.692 %) PowerShell 5 1 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (7.692 %) VBScript 5 1 (7.692 %) VB 5 1 (7.692 %) ActionScript 5 1 (7.692 %) Java 5 1 (7.692 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) MCP 1 1 (7.692 %) MCAD 1 1 (7.692 %) MCSD 1 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) MCTS 1 1 (7.692 %) MCPD 1 1 (7.692 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.692 %) Adobe 2 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.692 %) SAP