Hampshire CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Hampshire 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough 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 Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	28
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	65	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.154 %
As % of the category below	12.45 %	17.99 %
Daily rates quoted	10	24
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£256
Average daily rate	£295	£286
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£281
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.94	£27.52
Average hourly rate	£29.97	£28.71
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£29.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.65	£28.31
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Application Development Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	522	845
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.696 %	0.855 %
Daily rates quoted	94	200
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£300
Average daily rate	£356	£318
% change on same period last year	+12.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	160
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.96	£34.09
Average hourly rate	£36.02	£36.03
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.08	£37.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
CSS South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Hampshire region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

CSS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Southampton	0	24	£200	-30.25 %
Basingstoke	+22	5	-	-
Portsmouth	-4	2	-	-

CSS South East

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 66 (60.00 %) HTML 2 60 (54.55 %) XHTML 3 59 (53.64 %) .NET 4 52 (47.27 %) JavaScript 5 46 (41.82 %) ASP.NET 6 42 (38.18 %) SQL Server 7 37 (33.64 %) XML 8 30 (27.27 %) C# 9 22 (20.00 %) SQL 9 22 (20.00 %) Visual Studio 10 18 (16.36 %) AJAX 10 18 (16.36 %) SQL Server 2005 11 17 (15.45 %) Web Development 11 17 (15.45 %) MySQL 11 17 (15.45 %) E-Commerce

12 16 (14.55 %) VB.NET 13 14 (12.73 %) CMS 13 14 (12.73 %) Flash 14 13 (11.82 %) ASP 14 13 (11.82 %) WebServices 14 13 (11.82 %) .NET Framework 15 12 (10.91 %) ColdFusion 16 11 (10.00 %) ActionScript 16 11 (10.00 %) Photoshop 16 11 (10.00 %) PHP 16 11 (10.00 %) Microsoft 16 11 (10.00 %) OO 16 11 (10.00 %) Ruby 16 11 (10.00 %) Content Management 17 10 (9.091 %) Ruby on Rails

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 66 (60.00 %) HTML 2 60 (54.55 %) XHTML 3 59 (53.64 %) .NET 4 46 (41.82 %) ASP.NET 5 37 (33.64 %) XML 6 18 (16.36 %) AJAX 7 13 (11.82 %) ASP 7 13 (11.82 %) .NET Framework 7 13 (11.82 %) WebServices 8 10 (9.091 %) Ruby on Rails 9 9 (8.182 %) Adobe Flex 10 6 (5.455 %) XSLT 11 5 (4.545 %) JSP 12 4 (3.636 %) J2EE 13 3 (2.727 %) XMPP 14 2 (1.818 %) Middleware 14 2 (1.818 %) LAMP 14 2 (1.818 %) BAPI 14 2 (1.818 %) ActiveX 14 2 (1.818 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 14 (12.73 %) CMS 2 12 (10.91 %) ColdFusion 3 7 (6.364 %) IIS 4 4 (3.636 %) BizTalk Server 5 3 (2.727 %) Apache 6 2 (1.818 %) Tomcat 6 2 (1.818 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.818 %) NetWeaver 7 1 (0.909 %) ColdFusion MX 7 1 (0.909 %) DotNetNuke
Applications 1 11 (10.00 %) Photoshop 2 9 (8.182 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.727 %) MS Visio 3 3 (2.727 %) FreeHand 3 3 (2.727 %) Fireworks 3 3 (2.727 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (1.818 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (1.818 %) Acrobat 4 2 (1.818 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.818 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (0.909 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.545 %) Intranet 1 5 (4.545 %) Internet 2 3 (2.727 %) FTP 2 3 (2.727 %) HTTP 2 3 (2.727 %) RTSP 3 1 (0.909 %) DVB	Database & Business Intelligence 1 42 (38.18 %) SQL Server 2 18 (16.36 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (15.45 %) MySQL 4 10 (9.091 %) GIS 5 6 (5.455 %) PostgreSQL 6 5 (4.545 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 4 (3.636 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (2.727 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (1.818 %) RDBMS 10 1 (0.909 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 22 (20.00 %) Visual Studio 2 14 (12.73 %) Flash 3 3 (2.727 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (0.909 %) Eclipse	General 1 10 (9.091 %) Marketing 2 8 (7.273 %) Finance 3 3 (2.727 %) Construction 3 3 (2.727 %) Publishing 3 3 (2.727 %) Games 3 3 (2.727 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (1.818 %) Billing 4 2 (1.818 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.818 %) Online Games 5 1 (0.909 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.909 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 85 (77.27 %) Developer 2 31 (28.18 %) .NET Developer 3 24 (21.82 %) Web Developer 4 15 (13.64 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 13 (11.82 %) C# Developer 6 11 (10.00 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 9 (8.182 %) Junior Developer 7 9 (8.182 %) Junior 8 8 (7.273 %) PHP Developer 9 7 (6.364 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 6 (5.455 %) Junior .NET Developer 10 6 (5.455 %) Senior Developer 11 5 (4.545 %) .NET Web Developer 12 4 (3.636 %) Consultant 12 4 (3.636 %) VB.NET Developer 12 4 (3.636 %) Web Designer 12 4 (3.636 %) MySQL Developer 13 3 (2.727 %) C# Web Developer 13 3 (2.727 %) Web Editor 13 3 (2.727 %) Flex Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.455 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (2.727 %) Social Network 2 3 (2.727 %) W3C 3 2 (1.818 %) STB 4 1 (0.909 %) iDTV 4 1 (0.909 %) DTV 4 1 (0.909 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.909 %) Blog
Operating Systems 1 5 (4.545 %) Windows 1 5 (4.545 %) Linux 2 3 (2.727 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (0.909 %) UNIX 3 1 (0.909 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (15.45 %) E-Commerce 1 17 (15.45 %) Web Development 2 11 (10.00 %) Content Management 2 11 (10.00 %) OO 3 5 (4.545 %) OOD 4 4 (3.636 %) OOP 5 3 (2.727 %) Validation 5 3 (2.727 %) CRM 6 2 (1.818 %) Digital Marketing 6 2 (1.818 %) Web Design 7 1 (0.909 %) Systems Analysis 7 1 (0.909 %) Project Planning 7 1 (0.909 %) UML 7 1 (0.909 %) SSADM 7 1 (0.909 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (0.909 %) B2B 7 1 (0.909 %) B2C 7 1 (0.909 %) CAD 7 1 (0.909 %) E-business
Programming Languages 1 52 (47.27 %) JavaScript 2 30 (27.27 %) C# 3 22 (20.00 %) SQL 4 16 (14.55 %) VB.NET 5 11 (10.00 %) ActionScript 5 11 (10.00 %) Ruby 5 11 (10.00 %) PHP 6 8 (7.273 %) VBScript 7 7 (6.364 %) Java 8 5 (4.545 %) Transact-SQL 9 4 (3.636 %) C 9 4 (3.636 %) C++ 9 4 (3.636 %) VB 9 4 (3.636 %) PHP5 10 2 (1.818 %) ABAP 10 2 (1.818 %) DHTML 10 2 (1.818 %) Perl 11 1 (0.909 %) Embedded C 11 1 (0.909 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 1 (0.909 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.909 %) WAI	Vendors 1 11 (10.00 %) Microsoft 2 9 (8.182 %) Adobe 3 4 (3.636 %) Tridion 3 4 (3.636 %) Business Objects 4 3 (2.727 %) MKS 5 2 (1.818 %) Google 5 2 (1.818 %) SAP 6 1 (0.909 %) Siebel 6 1 (0.909 %) IBM 6 1 (0.909 %) Mercator 6 1 (0.909 %) Oracle