The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 Guildford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 18 7 8
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS 14 12 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 6.364% 10.62% 8.065%
As % of the Application Development category 18.18% 52.17% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
Average daily rate £310 £335 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.46% +26.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £288 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £400 £286
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.09% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.75
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.79%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
77 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 35.00% 20.35% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 15
Average daily rate £320 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £335 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 2
Average hourly rate £40.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Surrey

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 23 (82.14%) HTML
2 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
3 15 (53.57%) jQuery
4 11 (39.29%) HTML5
5 10 (35.71%) CSS3
6 9 (32.14%) Photoshop
7 7 (25.00%) PHP
7 7 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
7 7 (25.00%) Intranet
7 7 (25.00%) Internet
7 7 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (21.43%) CMS
8 6 (21.43%) MS PowerPoint
8 6 (21.43%) Mobile App
9 5 (17.86%) BDD
9 5 (17.86%) MVC
9 5 (17.86%) Java
9 5 (17.86%) .NET
10 4 (14.29%) MySQL
10 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET
11 3 (10.71%) TDD
11 3 (10.71%) Subversion
11 3 (10.71%) Web Design
11 3 (10.71%) C#
11 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
11 3 (10.71%) Adobe
11 3 (10.71%) XML
11 3 (10.71%) Windows
11 3 (10.71%) OOP
11 3 (10.71%) Scrum

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 23 (82.14%) HTML
2 15 (53.57%) jQuery
3 11 (39.29%) HTML5
4 10 (35.71%) CSS3
5 5 (17.86%) .NET
6 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.71%) XML
7 3 (10.71%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (7.143%) RESTful
8 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (7.143%) WCF
8 2 (7.143%) WPF
8 2 (7.143%) CodeIgniter
8 2 (7.143%) LINQ
8 2 (7.143%) Ajax
8 2 (7.143%) NHibernate
8 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
8 2 (7.143%) Java EE
8 2 (7.143%) REST
8 2 (7.143%) Caliburn.Micro
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) CMS
2 3 (10.71%) WordPress
3 2 (7.143%) Drupal
3 2 (7.143%) ESB
4 1 (3.571%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.571%) IIS
4 1 (3.571%) Apache
4 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.571%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (3.571%) Joomla!
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Photoshop
2 7 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (21.43%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Intranet
1 7 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (3.571%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (10.71%) Subversion
2 3 (10.71%) Git (software)
3 2 (7.143%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.143%) RSpec
3 2 (7.143%) ReSharper
3 2 (7.143%) Moq
3 2 (7.143%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.143%) MSI
4 1 (3.571%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (10.71%) Marketing
2 2 (7.143%) Publishing
3 1 (3.571%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Designer
3 6 (21.43%) Web Designer
4 5 (17.86%) PHP Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Web Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Digital Designer
7 2 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Architect
8 1 (3.571%) Junior
8 1 (3.571%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (3.571%) .NET Web Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Graphic Designer
8 1 (3.571%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.143%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (7.143%) Digital Media
2 2 (7.143%) Heroku
2 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.571%) W3C
3 1 (3.571%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) BDD
1 5 (17.86%) MVC
2 3 (10.71%) TDD
2 3 (10.71%) Web Design
2 3 (10.71%) OOP
2 3 (10.71%) Scrum
3 2 (7.143%) OO
3 2 (7.143%) Content Management
3 2 (7.143%) SEO
3 2 (7.143%) Workflow
4 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.571%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (3.571%) Web Application Development
4 1 (3.571%) Analytics
4 1 (3.571%) Web Analytics
4 1 (3.571%) Web Development
4 1 (3.571%) Web Marketing
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) PHP
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 2 (7.143%) SQL
6 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) WAI
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Adobe
2 1 (3.571%) FatWire
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle
2 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
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