Kent CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Kent 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	33	17
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	12.62 %	26.97 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£167	£263
Average daily rate	£182	£273
% change on same period last year	-33.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£198	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£281
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£41.15
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£47.88
% change on same period last year	-47.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.75	£54.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.65	£28.31
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	103	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	20	33
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£236
Average daily rate	£310	£245
% change on same period last year	+26.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.60	£41.50
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£48.40
% change on same period last year	-36.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.39	£55.29
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Kent 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 Kent region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Kent 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 Kent 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
Tunbridge Wells	-	4	-	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-
Greenhithe	-	1	-	-

CSS South East

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 26 (66.67 %) HTML 2 25 (64.10 %) XHTML 3 24 (61.54 %) JavaScript 4 18 (46.15 %) .NET 4 18 (46.15 %) XML 5 16 (41.03 %) MySQL 6 13 (33.33 %) SQL Server 7 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 7 12 (30.77 %) AJAX 8 10 (25.64 %) C# 8 10 (25.64 %) PHP 9 9 (23.08 %) OOP 9 9 (23.08 %) ASP 10 8 (20.51 %) Publishing 10 8 (20.51 %) SQL

11 7 (17.95 %) Perl 11 7 (17.95 %) Mason 12 6 (15.38 %) IIS 12 6 (15.38 %) Photoshop 12 6 (15.38 %) DHTML 13 5 (12.82 %) Apache 13 5 (12.82 %) Flash 13 5 (12.82 %) XSLT 13 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft 13 5 (12.82 %) Web Development 13 5 (12.82 %) CMS 14 4 (10.26 %) W3C 14 4 (10.26 %) UNIX 14 4 (10.26 %) OO 14 4 (10.26 %) Linux

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 26 (66.67 %) HTML 2 25 (64.10 %) XHTML 3 18 (46.15 %) .NET 3 18 (46.15 %) XML 4 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 4 12 (30.77 %) AJAX 5 9 (23.08 %) ASP 6 7 (17.95 %) Mason 7 5 (12.82 %) XSLT 8 3 (7.692 %) XSL 8 3 (7.692 %) ADSI 9 2 (5.128 %) jQuery 9 2 (5.128 %) ADO 10 1 (2.564 %) JSP 10 1 (2.564 %) WebServices 10 1 (2.564 %) MVC 10 1 (2.564 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (2.564 %) Dojo 10 1 (2.564 %) Silverlight 10 1 (2.564 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 6 (15.38 %) IIS 2 5 (12.82 %) Apache 2 5 (12.82 %) CMS 3 2 (5.128 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.564 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 6 (15.38 %) Photoshop 2 2 (5.128 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (2.564 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.564 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (41.03 %) MySQL 2 13 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) Flash 2 2 (5.128 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (2.564 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (2.564 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 8 (20.51 %) Publishing 2 3 (7.692 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.564 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.564 %) Local Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Finance 3 1 (2.564 %) Government	Job Titles 1 34 (87.18 %) Developer 2 11 (28.21 %) Web Developer 3 8 (20.51 %) PHP Developer 4 7 (17.95 %) Perl Developer 4 7 (17.95 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (10.26 %) PHP Web Developer 6 3 (7.692 %) C# Developer 6 3 (7.692 %) Web Designer 6 3 (7.692 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.128 %) Junior Developer 7 2 (5.128 %) Junior 7 2 (5.128 %) Flash Developer 7 2 (5.128 %) Junior Perl Developer 7 2 (5.128 %) Flash Designer 8 1 (2.564 %) Website Developer 8 1 (2.564 %) MySQL Developer 8 1 (2.564 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (2.564 %) Systems Programmer 8 1 (2.564 %) Web Programmer 8 1 (2.564 %) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.26 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (10.26 %) UNIX 1 4 (10.26 %) Linux 2 2 (5.128 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (23.08 %) OOP 2 5 (12.82 %) Web Development 3 4 (10.26 %) OO 4 3 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (5.128 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (2.564 %) UML 6 1 (2.564 %) Data Migration 6 1 (2.564 %) ERP 6 1 (2.564 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (2.564 %) OOD 6 1 (2.564 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.564 %) Migration 6 1 (2.564 %) Web Design 6 1 (2.564 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 24 (61.54 %) JavaScript 2 10 (25.64 %) C# 2 10 (25.64 %) PHP 3 8 (20.51 %) SQL 4 7 (17.95 %) Perl 5 6 (15.38 %) DHTML 6 4 (10.26 %) VB 7 3 (7.692 %) PHP5 8 2 (5.128 %) ActionScript 8 2 (5.128 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (2.564 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 2 (5.128 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft