The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 15 10 14
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +4
Contract jobs citing CSS 19 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 9.091% 7.442% 9.130%
As % of the Application Development category 25.68% 25.40% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
Average daily rate £300 £210 £139
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +51.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £181 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £257 £178
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -75.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -27.27%
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 63 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.41% 29.30% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 28
Average daily rate £295 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.27% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £383 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
East Midlands

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire CSS Hourly Rate Trend

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 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leicester -8 8 £245 -10.90%
Loughborough - 2 £265 -
CSS
East Midlands

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 31 (86.11%) HTML
2 30 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 20 (55.56%) PHP
3 20 (55.56%) jQuery
4 19 (52.78%) MySQL
5 14 (38.89%) .NET
6 13 (36.11%) CSS3
7 12 (33.33%) PHPUnit
7 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 12 (33.33%) TDD
8 11 (30.56%) Ajax
8 11 (30.56%) HTML5
9 10 (27.78%) CodeIgniter
9 10 (27.78%) MVC
9 10 (27.78%) Linux
9 10 (27.78%) Web Services
10 9 (25.00%) OO
10 9 (25.00%) Zend
11 8 (22.22%) Web Development
11 8 (22.22%) XHTML
11 8 (22.22%) E-Commerce
11 8 (22.22%) C#
12 7 (19.44%) Apache
12 7 (19.44%) OOP
12 7 (19.44%) Twitter
12 7 (19.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (16.67%) Subversion
13 6 (16.67%) XML
13 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
13 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 31 (86.11%) HTML
2 20 (55.56%) jQuery
3 14 (38.89%) .NET
4 13 (36.11%) CSS3
5 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 11 (30.56%) Ajax
6 11 (30.56%) HTML5
7 10 (27.78%) CodeIgniter
7 10 (27.78%) Web Services
8 8 (22.22%) XHTML
9 7 (19.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 6 (16.67%) XML
11 5 (13.89%) LAMP
12 4 (11.11%) SOAP
12 4 (11.11%) JSON
12 4 (11.11%) REST
13 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET 2.0
13 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
14 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 2 (5.556%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) Apache
2 2 (5.556%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.556%) CMS
2 2 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.778%) WordPress
3 1 (2.778%) Magento
3 1 (2.778%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) MySQL
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) PHPUnit
2 6 (16.67%) Subversion
3 4 (11.11%) Git (software)
4 1 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.778%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.778%) JIRA
4 1 (2.778%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.778%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (5.556%) Finance
1 2 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (94.44%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) PHP Developer
3 7 (19.44%) .NET Developer
4 6 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Web Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (5.556%) CSS Developer
7 2 (5.556%) User Experience Developer
7 2 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 2 (5.556%) MySQL Developer
7 2 (5.556%) PHP Web Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (5.556%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Analyst Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.778%) N-Tier
1 1 (2.778%) Smartphone
1 1 (2.778%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.778%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) TDD
2 10 (27.78%) MVC
3 9 (25.00%) OO
4 8 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 8 (22.22%) Web Development
5 7 (19.44%) OOP
6 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
8 3 (8.333%) SEO
9 2 (5.556%) PRINCE2
9 2 (5.556%) PRINCE
9 2 (5.556%) Kanban
9 2 (5.556%) Web Application Development
10 1 (2.778%) Market Research
10 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
10 1 (2.778%) Refactoring
10 1 (2.778%) Data Analysis
10 1 (2.778%) Software Engineering
10 1 (2.778%) Mobile Commerce
10 1 (2.778%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 20 (55.56%) PHP
3 8 (22.22%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 3 (8.333%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.556%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.556%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.778%) Python
7 1 (2.778%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Zend
2 7 (19.44%) Twitter
3 1 (2.778%) Adobe
3 1 (2.778%) Apple