The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 21 20 39
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +19
Contract jobs citing CSS 57 56 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.651% 6.292% 2.875%
As % of the Application Development category 21.59% 23.53% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 8
Average daily rate £288 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.53% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £380 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
264 238 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.44% 26.74% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 158 79
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £264 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -47.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
West Yorkshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds CSS Hourly Rate Histogram

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 80 (74.77%) HTML
2 78 (72.90%) JavaScript
3 60 (56.07%) .NET
4 58 (54.21%) C#
5 51 (47.66%) jQuery
6 45 (42.06%) ASP.NET
7 37 (34.58%) MVC
8 34 (31.78%) Web Services
9 32 (29.91%) SQL Server
10 26 (24.30%) HTML5
11 24 (22.43%) PHP
11 24 (22.43%) Scrum
12 22 (20.56%) Ajax
12 22 (20.56%) MySQL
13 21 (19.63%) SQL
14 20 (18.69%) Web Development
15 19 (17.76%) SQL Server 2008
16 18 (16.82%) ASP.NET MVC
16 18 (16.82%) Silverlight
16 18 (16.82%) .NET Framework
16 18 (16.82%) TDD
16 18 (16.82%) Visual Studio
16 18 (16.82%) XML
17 17 (15.89%) Oracle
17 17 (15.89%) Internet
18 16 (14.95%) Agile Software Development
18 16 (14.95%) CSS3
19 15 (14.02%) REST
19 15 (14.02%) BDD
19 15 (14.02%) Git (software)

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 80 (74.77%) HTML
2 60 (56.07%) .NET
3 51 (47.66%) jQuery
4 45 (42.06%) ASP.NET
5 34 (31.78%) Web Services
6 26 (24.30%) HTML5
7 22 (20.56%) Ajax
8 18 (16.82%) .NET Framework
8 18 (16.82%) Silverlight
8 18 (16.82%) XML
8 18 (16.82%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (14.95%) CSS3
10 15 (14.02%) REST
10 15 (14.02%) SOAP
11 12 (11.21%) XHTML
11 12 (11.21%) WPF
11 12 (11.21%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 11 (10.28%) WCF
13 10 (9.346%) J2EE
14 8 (7.477%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 15 (14.02%) Apache
1 15 (14.02%) CMS
2 13 (12.15%) Amazon AWS
3 12 (11.21%) Route 53
3 12 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (11.21%) Amazon S3
4 9 (8.411%) SharePoint
4 9 (8.411%) Apache Solr
4 9 (8.411%) Adobe CQ
5 8 (7.477%) EPiServer CMS
6 7 (6.542%) Tomcat
6 7 (6.542%) nginx
7 4 (3.738%) Drupal
7 4 (3.738%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.869%) WordPress
8 2 (1.869%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (1.869%) DotNetNuke
9 1 (0.935%) Windows Azure
9 1 (0.935%) Magento
9 1 (0.935%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.673%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.869%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.869%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.869%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.935%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.89%) Internet
2 7 (6.542%) HTTP
2 7 (6.542%) DNS
3 1 (0.935%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.91%) SQL Server
2 22 (20.56%) MySQL
3 19 (17.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 12 (11.21%) Redis
4 12 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (6.542%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (4.673%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.804%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.869%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (1.869%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (1.869%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.935%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.935%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.935%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.935%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Visual Studio
2 15 (14.02%) Git (software)
3 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.477%) Maven
5 6 (5.607%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 5 (4.673%) Selenium
7 4 (3.738%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.935%) Subversion
8 1 (0.935%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.935%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.935%) Flash Builder
8 1 (0.935%) Hudson
8 1 (0.935%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.935%) JUnit
General
1 7 (6.542%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.804%) Interactive Media
3 1 (0.935%) German Language
3 1 (0.935%) Japanese Language
3 1 (0.935%) Finance
3 1 (0.935%) Marketing
3 1 (0.935%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 100 (93.46%) Developer
2 44 (41.12%) .NET Developer
3 15 (14.02%) PHP Developer
4 11 (10.28%) Web Developer
5 10 (9.346%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.477%) Front-End Developer
7 6 (5.607%) Front-End Web Developer
7 6 (5.607%) CMS Developer
7 6 (5.607%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (4.673%) Web Designer
8 5 (4.673%) Programmer
8 5 (4.673%) Designer
8 5 (4.673%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (4.673%) Mobile Developer
9 4 (3.738%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.738%) C# Developer
9 4 (3.738%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (2.804%) Applications Developer
10 3 (2.804%) Software Developer
11 2 (1.869%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.411%) Open Source
2 8 (7.477%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.673%) W3C
3 5 (4.673%) RIA
4 3 (2.804%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.869%) NHS
5 2 (1.869%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.935%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.935%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.935%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (0.935%) Streaming Video
6 1 (0.935%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.935%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.08%) Linux
2 3 (2.804%) Windows
3 2 (1.869%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (1.869%) UNIX
4 1 (0.935%) Android
4 1 (0.935%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.58%) MVC
2 24 (22.43%) Scrum
3 20 (18.69%) Web Development
4 18 (16.82%) TDD
5 16 (14.95%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (14.02%) BDD
7 13 (12.15%) E-Commerce
7 13 (12.15%) OO
8 12 (11.21%) Security Testing
9 11 (10.28%) Workflow
10 7 (6.542%) SOA
10 7 (6.542%) Kanban
10 7 (6.542%) Test Automation
10 7 (6.542%) Software Engineering
11 6 (5.607%) Supplier Management
11 6 (5.607%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (4.673%) B2C
12 5 (4.673%) Document Management
12 5 (4.673%) Automated Testing
13 4 (3.738%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (72.90%) JavaScript
2 58 (54.21%) C#
3 24 (22.43%) PHP
4 21 (19.63%) SQL
5 13 (12.15%) Java
6 12 (11.21%) XAML
7 9 (8.411%) Ruby
8 8 (7.477%) Perl
9 7 (6.542%) C++
9 7 (6.542%) Python
9 7 (6.542%) Bash shell
10 6 (5.607%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.804%) VB
11 3 (2.804%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.804%) PHP5
12 2 (1.869%) OCaml
12 2 (1.869%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.869%) VB6
13 1 (0.935%) C
13 1 (0.935%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 4 (3.738%) Degree
2 3 (2.804%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.869%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.869%) WAI
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Oracle
2 15 (14.02%) Adobe
3 13 (12.15%) EPiServer
4 12 (11.21%) Percona
5 7 (6.542%) hybris
6 6 (5.607%) Zend
7 4 (3.738%) RedDot
8 3 (2.804%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.804%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.935%) Omniture