The first table below looks at the demand for CSS3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS3 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 Merseyside 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
CSS 3
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CSS3 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.349% - -
As % of the Application Development category 11.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £194 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 75 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 28.71% 28.85% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 18
Average daily rate £325 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £14.79 £25.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.85% +85.18%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS3
North West

CSS3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CSS3 across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside CSS3 Jobs Demand Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS3 across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside CSS3 Daily Rate Trend

CSS3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 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
Liverpool - 6 £163 -
Wirral - 1 - -
CSS3
North West

CSS3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing CSS3 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 CSS3.

1 22 (100.00%) CSS
2 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
2 21 (95.45%) HTML5
3 16 (72.73%) jQuery
3 16 (72.73%) PHP
4 11 (50.00%) MySQL
4 11 (50.00%) MVC
5 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
5 10 (45.45%) .NET
5 10 (45.45%) OO
5 10 (45.45%) Zend
5 10 (45.45%) CodeIgniter
6 9 (40.91%) Git (software)
6 9 (40.91%) Mobile App
7 8 (36.36%) C#
7 8 (36.36%) HTML
7 8 (36.36%) SEO
7 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
8 7 (31.82%) Visual Studio
8 7 (31.82%) CMS
8 7 (31.82%) Umbraco
8 7 (31.82%) Twitter
9 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (27.27%) Facebook
9 6 (27.27%) Web Development
9 6 (27.27%) XML
10 5 (22.73%) XSD
10 5 (22.73%) XSLT
10 5 (22.73%) Windows
10 5 (22.73%) Linux

CSS3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing CSS3 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 CSS3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (100.00%) CSS
2 21 (95.45%) HTML5
3 16 (72.73%) jQuery
4 10 (45.45%) CodeIgniter
4 10 (45.45%) .NET
5 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 8 (36.36%) HTML
6 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (27.27%) XML
7 5 (22.73%) XSD
7 5 (22.73%) XSLT
7 5 (22.73%) CakePHP
7 5 (22.73%) Google Maps API
7 5 (22.73%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (22.73%) Backbone.js
8 4 (18.18%) Ajax
9 3 (13.64%) JSON
9 3 (13.64%) WCF
10 2 (9.091%) Node.js
10 2 (9.091%) Twitter Bootstrap
Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) CMS
1 7 (31.82%) Umbraco
2 5 (22.73%) WordPress
3 1 (4.545%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.545%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MySQL
2 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git (software)
2 7 (31.82%) Visual Studio
3 5 (22.73%) NetBeans
4 2 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (9.091%) Games
2 1 (4.545%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Web Developer
4 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Front-End Web Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (18.18%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
7 2 (9.091%) PHP Developer
8 1 (4.545%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (4.545%) PHP Programmer
8 1 (4.545%) Web Programmer
8 1 (4.545%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Mobile App
2 4 (18.18%) Social Media
3 2 (9.091%) Mobile Games
4 1 (4.545%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) MVC
2 10 (45.45%) OO
3 8 (36.36%) SEO
4 6 (27.27%) Web Development
5 5 (22.73%) Business Development
5 5 (22.73%) OOD
6 2 (9.091%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (9.091%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (9.091%) OOP
6 2 (9.091%) Web Design
6 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.545%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (4.545%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) PHP
3 8 (36.36%) C#
4 5 (22.73%) XPath
5 1 (4.545%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Plesk
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Zend
2 7 (31.82%) Twitter
3 6 (27.27%) Facebook
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle
4 5 (22.73%) Google
5 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.091%) Adobe
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