Leicestershire CSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Leicestershire 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwynedd Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	32
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	7	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	12.28 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£300
Average daily rate	£306	£350
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£268	£265
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.34	£28.06
% change on same period last year	-16.80 %
Application Development Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	57	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	16	14
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£357
Average daily rate	£349	£383
% change on same period last year	-8.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.66	£27.76
Average hourly rate	£35.25	£31.70
% change on same period last year	+11.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.84	£35.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
CSS East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Leicestershire region.

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Loughborough	-	1	-	-
Leicester	-2	1	-	-

CSS East Midlands

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 15 (83.33 %) HTML 2 8 (44.44 %) XHTML 3 7 (38.89 %) Flash 4 6 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver 4 6 (33.33 %) C# 4 6 (33.33 %) .NET 4 6 (33.33 %) Photoshop 4 6 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (27.78 %) Web Design 6 4 (22.22 %) Finance 6 4 (22.22 %) ASP 6 4 (22.22 %) SQL 6 4 (22.22 %) JavaScript 7 3 (16.67 %) PHP 7 3 (16.67 %) PL/SQL

7 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 7 3 (16.67 %) Oracle APEX 7 3 (16.67 %) TDD 8 2 (11.11 %) Intranet 8 2 (11.11 %) MySQL 8 2 (11.11 %) XML 8 2 (11.11 %) ActionScript 9 1 (5.556 %) VBScript 9 1 (5.556 %) IIS 9 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 9 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (5.556 %) WebTrends 9 1 (5.556 %) RDBMS 9 1 (5.556 %) W3C 9 1 (5.556 %) E-Commerce

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 15 (83.33 %) HTML 2 8 (44.44 %) XHTML 3 6 (33.33 %) .NET 3 6 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (22.22 %) ASP 5 2 (11.11 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.556 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (33.33 %) Photoshop 2 1 (5.556 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.11 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.11 %) MySQL 2 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2 1 (5.556 %) RDBMS 2 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 7 (38.89 %) Flash 2 6 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (16.67 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 4 (22.22 %) Finance 2 1 (5.556 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 13 (72.22 %) Developer 2 6 (33.33 %) Web Designer 3 4 (22.22 %) Web Developer 4 3 (16.67 %) Oracle Developer 4 3 (16.67 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (11.11 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Flash Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) MySQL Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) C# Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) W3C
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (27.78 %) Web Design 2 3 (16.67 %) TDD 3 1 (5.556 %) Content Management 3 1 (5.556 %) Web Development 3 1 (5.556 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 6 (33.33 %) C# 2 4 (22.22 %) JavaScript 2 4 (22.22 %) SQL 3 3 (16.67 %) PHP 3 3 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (11.11 %) ActionScript 5 1 (5.556 %) PHP5 5 1 (5.556 %) VBScript
Vendors 1 3 (16.67 %) Oracle