The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 17 11 20
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +9
Contract jobs citing CSS 5 19 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 3.650% 10.44% 3.086%
As % of the Application Development category 13.89% 35.85% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 4
Average daily rate £163 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +13.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 53 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 26.28% 29.12% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 15
Average daily rate £375 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.79 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Merseyside

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 (92.86%) JavaScript
2 22 (78.57%) jQuery
3 18 (64.29%) HTML5
3 18 (64.29%) MVC
3 18 (64.29%) CSS3
4 16 (57.14%) PHP
5 15 (53.57%) .NET
6 14 (50.00%) HTML
6 14 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 14 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 13 (46.43%) C#
8 12 (42.86%) MySQL
9 11 (39.29%) OO
9 11 (39.29%) Zend
9 11 (39.29%) CodeIgniter
10 10 (35.71%) Mobile App
11 8 (28.57%) WCF
12 7 (25.00%) Git (software)
12 7 (25.00%) Web Development
12 7 (25.00%) SEO
12 7 (25.00%) CMS
12 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
13 6 (21.43%) XML
13 6 (21.43%) Umbraco
13 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (21.43%) Facebook
13 6 (21.43%) Twitter
14 5 (17.86%) Razor View Engine
14 5 (17.86%) WordPress
14 5 (17.86%) Google Maps API

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 22 (78.57%) jQuery
2 18 (64.29%) HTML5
2 18 (64.29%) CSS3
3 15 (53.57%) .NET
4 14 (50.00%) HTML
4 14 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 11 (39.29%) CodeIgniter
6 8 (28.57%) WCF
7 6 (21.43%) XML
7 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (17.86%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (17.86%) Google Maps API
8 5 (17.86%) CakePHP
8 5 (17.86%) Ajax
8 5 (17.86%) XSD
8 5 (17.86%) XSLT
9 4 (14.29%) JSON
10 3 (10.71%) Backbone.js
11 2 (7.143%) Node.js
12 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) CMS
2 6 (21.43%) Umbraco
3 5 (17.86%) WordPress
4 1 (3.571%) Magento
4 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.571%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (42.86%) MySQL
3 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.571%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (17.86%) NetBeans
3 1 (3.571%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (7.143%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Web Developer
4 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (10.71%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.571%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (3.571%) PHP Programmer
7 1 (3.571%) Web Programmer
7 1 (3.571%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Social Media
3 2 (7.143%) Mobile Games
4 1 (3.571%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) MVC
2 11 (39.29%) OO
3 7 (25.00%) Web Development
3 7 (25.00%) SEO
4 5 (17.86%) Business Development
4 5 (17.86%) OOD
5 3 (10.71%) OOP
5 3 (10.71%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.571%) Game Development
7 1 (3.571%) Web Design
7 1 (3.571%) Scrum
7 1 (3.571%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (3.571%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) JavaScript
2 16 (57.14%) PHP
3 13 (46.43%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) XPath
5 2 (7.143%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) Plesk
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Zend
2 6 (21.43%) Facebook
2 6 (21.43%) Twitter
3 5 (17.86%) Google
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
4 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.571%) Adobe
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