Liverpool CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Liverpool 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	21	15
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	12	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.33 %	31.25 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£261
Average daily rate	£363	£298
% change on same period last year	+21.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£281
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£29.83
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£33.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.65	£28.31
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Application Development Liverpool
Matching contract IT job ads	90	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	35	12
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£290
Average daily rate	£364	£323
% change on same period last year	+12.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.67	£26.15
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£29.46
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.33	£32.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
CSS Merseyside

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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Liverpool 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 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 18 (75.00 %) JavaScript 2 16 (66.67 %) HTML 3 11 (45.83 %) Java 4 9 (37.50 %) Photoshop 5 8 (33.33 %) SQL 5 8 (33.33 %) XML 5 8 (33.33 %) Flash 6 7 (29.17 %) XHTML 6 7 (29.17 %) ActionScript 6 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 6 7 (29.17 %) AJAX 7 6 (25.00 %) JSP 7 6 (25.00 %) Struts 8 5 (20.83 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 5 (20.83 %) Government

8 5 (20.83 %) Spring 9 4 (16.67 %) Web Development 9 4 (16.67 %) Dreamweaver 9 4 (16.67 %) WebServices 9 4 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 9 4 (16.67 %) UML 9 4 (16.67 %) JUnit 9 4 (16.67 %) DHTML 10 3 (12.50 %) .NET 10 3 (12.50 %) J2EE 10 3 (12.50 %) Ant 10 3 (12.50 %) PHP 10 3 (12.50 %) Servlets 10 3 (12.50 %) RDBMS 10 3 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 16 (66.67 %) HTML 2 8 (33.33 %) XML 3 7 (29.17 %) XHTML 3 7 (29.17 %) AJAX 4 6 (25.00 %) JSP 4 6 (25.00 %) Struts 5 5 (20.83 %) Spring 6 4 (16.67 %) WebServices 7 3 (12.50 %) Servlets 7 3 (12.50 %) .NET 7 3 (12.50 %) J2EE 7 3 (12.50 %) JSTL 7 3 (12.50 %) iBATIS 8 2 (8.333 %) Hibernate 8 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 9 1 (4.167 %) XSLT 9 1 (4.167 %) Adobe Flex 9 1 (4.167 %) Drupal 9 1 (4.167 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) Apache 1 1 (4.167 %) Tomcat 1 1 (4.167 %) CMS 1 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Application Server 1 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) Photoshop 2 5 (20.83 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (12.50 %) ImageReady 3 3 (12.50 %) Fireworks 4 1 (4.167 %) Adobe Director 4 1 (4.167 %) Adobe Premiere 4 1 (4.167 %) Adobe After Effects	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) RDBMS 1 3 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) Flash 2 4 (16.67 %) Dreamweaver 2 4 (16.67 %) JUnit 3 3 (12.50 %) Ant 4 1 (4.167 %) JDeveloper
General 1 5 (20.83 %) Government 2 3 (12.50 %) Health 2 3 (12.50 %) Animation 3 2 (8.333 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (8.333 %) Education 4 1 (4.167 %) Finance 4 1 (4.167 %) Publishing 4 1 (4.167 %) Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 20 (83.33 %) Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) Java Developer 3 3 (12.50 %) E-Learning Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Web Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Web Designer 4 2 (8.333 %) PHP Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Flash Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) ASP Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) MySQL Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop Designer 5 1 (4.167 %) Java Applications Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Digital Producer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) E-Learning 1 3 (12.50 %) SCORM	Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) Linux 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 1 4 (16.67 %) UML 1 4 (16.67 %) Web Development 2 3 (12.50 %) System Testing 3 2 (8.333 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (8.333 %) OO 4 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (4.167 %) SOA 4 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Web Design 4 1 (4.167 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 18 (75.00 %) JavaScript 2 11 (45.83 %) Java 3 8 (33.33 %) SQL 4 7 (29.17 %) ActionScript 5 4 (16.67 %) DHTML 6 3 (12.50 %) PHP 7 2 (8.333 %) C# 7 2 (8.333 %) Lingo 8 1 (4.167 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) QA
Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 2 3 (12.50 %) Sun 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 4 1 (4.167 %) Macromedia 4 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft