Hemel Hempstead CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Hemel Hempstead 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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Rank	11	20
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	27.78 %	31.82 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£350
Average daily rate	£394	£350
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£280
% change on same period last year	+6.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£28.57
% change on same period last year	-10.05 %
Application Development Hemel Hempstead
Matching contract IT job ads	18	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£372
Average daily rate	£293	£373
% change on same period last year	-21.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
CSS Herefordshire

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 Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET 2 2 (28.57 %) OSPF 2 2 (28.57 %) EIGRP 2 2 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (28.57 %) CCNP 2 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (28.57 %) Arabic Language 2 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 3 1 (14.29 %) MVC

3 1 (14.29 %) C# 3 1 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 3 1 (14.29 %) CRAMM 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco ASA 3 1 (14.29 %) PMP 3 1 (14.29 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) Middleware 3 1 (14.29 %) CCIP 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (14.29 %) N-Tier 3 1 (14.29 %) SOA 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET 2 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 3 1 (14.29 %) MVC 3 1 (14.29 %) Middleware 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) OSPF 1 2 (28.57 %) EIGRP 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 2 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (14.29 %) Cisco ASA	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 1 (14.29 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Solutions Consultant 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Designer 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Consultant 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Network Designer 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Arabic Language 2 1 (14.29 %) N-Tier	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Project Management 1 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing 2 1 (14.29 %) CRAMM 2 1 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (14.29 %) SOA 2 1 (14.29 %) Pay per click 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 2 1 (14.29 %) SEO 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) CCNP 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) PMP 2 1 (14.29 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) CCIP 2 1 (14.29 %) CCIE
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft