Leeds CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Leeds 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	35	31
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	43	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	13.74 %	15.05 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£113	£308
Average daily rate	£130	£317
% change on same period last year	-58.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£147	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£281
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.33	£19.11
Average hourly rate	£32.83	£19.83
% change on same period last year	+65.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.33	£20.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.65	£28.31
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	313	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	54	44
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£331
Average daily rate	£297	£354
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.55	£23.78
Average hourly rate	£32.51	£25.08
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.47	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
CSS West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 75 (74.26 %) HTML 2 62 (61.39 %) .NET 3 55 (54.46 %) JavaScript 4 49 (48.51 %) ASP.NET 5 47 (46.53 %) C# 6 45 (44.55 %) SQL Server 7 43 (42.57 %) XML 8 35 (34.65 %) XHTML 9 28 (27.72 %) SQL Server 2005 10 23 (22.77 %) WebServices 11 22 (21.78 %) Visual Studio 12 19 (18.81 %) E-Commerce 13 17 (16.83 %) XSLT 13 17 (16.83 %) AJAX 14 16 (15.84 %) Photoshop

14 16 (15.84 %) Flash 15 15 (14.85 %) Windows 15 15 (14.85 %) SQL 16 14 (13.86 %) PHP 17 13 (12.87 %) Dreamweaver 17 13 (12.87 %) Web Development 18 12 (11.88 %) Microsoft 19 10 (9.901 %) Fireworks 19 10 (9.901 %) CMS 20 9 (8.911 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 20 9 (8.911 %) W3C 20 9 (8.911 %) Visual Studio Team System 21 8 (7.921 %) ASP.NET 2.0 21 8 (7.921 %) ASP 22 7 (6.931 %) VB.NET

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 75 (74.26 %) HTML 2 62 (61.39 %) .NET 3 49 (48.51 %) ASP.NET 4 43 (42.57 %) XML 5 35 (34.65 %) XHTML 6 23 (22.77 %) WebServices 7 17 (16.83 %) XSLT 7 17 (16.83 %) AJAX 8 9 (8.911 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 8 (7.921 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 8 (7.921 %) ASP 10 4 (3.960 %) RSS 10 4 (3.960 %) DOM 10 4 (3.960 %) JSON 11 3 (2.970 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (2.970 %) JSP 12 2 (1.980 %) SOAP 12 2 (1.980 %) XSL 13 1 (0.990 %) NHibernate 13 1 (0.990 %) KML	Application Platforms 1 10 (9.901 %) CMS 2 6 (5.941 %) Apache 3 5 (4.950 %) IIS 3 5 (4.950 %) ColdFusion 4 4 (3.960 %) SharePoint 5 2 (1.980 %) Tomcat 6 1 (0.990 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (0.990 %) Lotus Domino 6 1 (0.990 %) WebLogic 6 1 (0.990 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.990 %) Commerce Server 6 1 (0.990 %) ATG Dynamo 6 1 (0.990 %) TIBCO EMS 6 1 (0.990 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 16 (15.84 %) Photoshop 2 10 (9.901 %) Fireworks 3 6 (5.941 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 3 (2.970 %) FreeHand 5 1 (0.990 %) ImageReady 5 1 (0.990 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (0.990 %) BusinessWorks 1 1 (0.990 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.970 %) Internet 2 2 (1.980 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.990 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 45 (44.55 %) SQL Server 2 28 (27.72 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (6.931 %) MySQL 4 6 (5.941 %) SQL Server 7 5 5 (4.950 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.990 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 22 (21.78 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (15.84 %) Flash 3 13 (12.87 %) Dreamweaver 4 9 (8.911 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.990 %) Ant 5 1 (0.990 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.990 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.990 %) FrontPage	General 1 6 (5.941 %) Finance 2 4 (3.960 %) Retail 2 4 (3.960 %) Telecoms 3 2 (1.980 %) Multimedia 3 2 (1.980 %) Marketing 3 2 (1.980 %) Back Office 4 1 (0.990 %) Electronics 4 1 (0.990 %) Publishing 4 1 (0.990 %) Games
Job Titles 1 89 (88.12 %) Developer 2 41 (40.59 %) .NET Developer 3 31 (30.69 %) Web Developer 4 21 (20.79 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 12 (11.88 %) Web Designer 5 12 (11.88 %) C# Developer 6 9 (8.911 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 8 (7.921 %) PHP Developer 8 6 (5.941 %) HTML Developer 9 5 (4.950 %) .NET Web Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) SQL Server Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) SQL Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) Website Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) Senior Developer 12 2 (1.980 %) Java Developer 12 2 (1.980 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 2 (1.980 %) E-Learning Developer 12 2 (1.980 %) MySQL Developer 12 2 (1.980 %) JavaScript Developer 13 1 (0.990 %) C# Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (8.911 %) W3C 2 4 (3.960 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (1.980 %) E-Learning 3 2 (1.980 %) SCORM 4 1 (0.990 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.990 %) RIA 4 1 (0.990 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 15 (14.85 %) Windows 2 6 (5.941 %) Linux 3 3 (2.970 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (18.81 %) E-Commerce 2 13 (12.87 %) Web Development 3 6 (5.941 %) Software Testing 3 6 (5.941 %) Unit Testing 3 6 (5.941 %) Time Management 3 6 (5.941 %) Configuration Management 4 5 (4.950 %) Web Design 4 5 (4.950 %) Regression Testing 4 5 (4.950 %) OO 4 5 (4.950 %) Content Management 5 4 (3.960 %) SEO 6 2 (1.980 %) OOP 6 2 (1.980 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (0.990 %) B2B 7 1 (0.990 %) OOD 7 1 (0.990 %) UML 7 1 (0.990 %) CRM 7 1 (0.990 %) Workflow 7 1 (0.990 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (0.990 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 55 (54.46 %) JavaScript 2 47 (46.53 %) C# 3 15 (14.85 %) SQL 4 14 (13.86 %) PHP 5 7 (6.931 %) VB.NET 6 6 (5.941 %) DHTML 6 6 (5.941 %) Java 7 5 (4.950 %) ActionScript 8 3 (2.970 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (1.980 %) Perl 9 2 (1.980 %) Shell Script 10 1 (0.990 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.990 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (0.990 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (5.941 %) QA 2 1 (0.990 %) HL7	System Software 1 1 (0.990 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 12 (11.88 %) Microsoft 2 6 (5.941 %) Adobe 3 5 (4.950 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.990 %) Lotus 4 1 (0.990 %) TIBCO 4 1 (0.990 %) ATG 4 1 (0.990 %) RedDot 4 1 (0.990 %) Google