The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 35 33 40
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +7
Contract jobs citing CSS 20 29 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 3.817% 4.039% 2.521%
As % of the Application Development category 16.81% 22.83% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 7
Average daily rate £210 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £253 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £325 £370
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 £19.76 £27.75
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.79%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
119 127 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.71% 17.69% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 57 51
Average daily rate £375 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Buckinghamshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 32 (71.11%) JavaScript
2 30 (66.67%) HTML
3 17 (37.78%) Ajax
4 16 (35.56%) jQuery
5 15 (33.33%) OO
6 14 (31.11%) XML
7 13 (28.89%) ASP.NET
7 13 (28.89%) C#
7 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
7 13 (28.89%) .NET
7 13 (28.89%) HTML5
8 11 (24.44%) PHP
8 11 (24.44%) SQL Server 2005
9 9 (20.00%) Finance
9 9 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 9 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 9 (20.00%) JSON
9 9 (20.00%) Dojo
10 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (17.78%) MVC
10 8 (17.78%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (15.56%) Software Architecture
11 7 (15.56%) Mercurial
11 7 (15.56%) Moq
11 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 7 (15.56%) FogBugz
11 7 (15.56%) NUnit
11 7 (15.56%) Use Case
11 7 (15.56%) J2EE

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 30 (66.67%) HTML
2 17 (37.78%) Ajax
3 16 (35.56%) jQuery
4 14 (31.11%) XML
5 13 (28.89%) ASP.NET
5 13 (28.89%) .NET
5 13 (28.89%) HTML5
6 9 (20.00%) JSON
6 9 (20.00%) Dojo
7 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 7 (15.56%) J2EE
8 7 (15.56%) Web Services
9 6 (13.33%) Struts
9 6 (13.33%) XHTML
9 6 (13.33%) JMS
9 6 (13.33%) DHTML
9 6 (13.33%) JDBC
9 6 (13.33%) JSP
9 6 (13.33%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) concrete5
1 5 (11.11%) WordPress
1 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.889%) CMS
3 2 (4.444%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.222%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.222%) Moodle
4 1 (2.222%) Drupal
4 1 (2.222%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.222%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.222%) Kentico
4 1 (2.222%) SilverStripe
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.222%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) HTTP
1 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.444%) Internet
3 1 (2.222%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
2 11 (24.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (15.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Mercurial
1 7 (15.56%) Moq
1 7 (15.56%) FogBugz
1 7 (15.56%) NUnit
2 4 (8.889%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.444%) Ant
3 2 (4.444%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.444%) Maven
4 1 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.222%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.222%) JUnit
4 1 (2.222%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.222%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.889%) Marketing
3 1 (2.222%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (97.78%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Web Developer
3 9 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 9 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 8 (17.78%) C# Developer
5 6 (13.33%) C# Web Developer
6 5 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
6 5 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.889%) HTML Developer
8 3 (6.667%) PHP Programmer
8 3 (6.667%) Programmer
9 2 (4.444%) UI Programmer
9 2 (4.444%) UI Developer
9 2 (4.444%) CSS Developer
9 2 (4.444%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (4.444%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (4.444%) Java Developer
10 1 (2.222%) J2EE Developer
10 1 (2.222%) ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (2.222%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Open Source
2 1 (2.222%) Online Games
2 1 (2.222%) Statistics
2 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.222%) UNIX
1 1 (2.222%) Windows
1 1 (2.222%) AIX
1 1 (2.222%) Solaris
1 1 (2.222%) Linux
1 1 (2.222%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) OO
2 9 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (17.78%) MVC
3 8 (17.78%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (15.56%) Software Architecture
4 7 (15.56%) Use Case
5 6 (13.33%) OOA/OOD
5 6 (13.33%) Web Development
6 3 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (4.444%) UML
7 2 (4.444%) OOP
7 2 (4.444%) Content Management
7 2 (4.444%) Web Design
8 1 (2.222%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.222%) Workflow
8 1 (2.222%) Systems Analysis
8 1 (2.222%) Performance Testing
8 1 (2.222%) Refactoring
8 1 (2.222%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (71.11%) JavaScript
2 13 (28.89%) C#
3 11 (24.44%) PHP
4 7 (15.56%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (4.444%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.222%) VB6
7 1 (2.222%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.222%) VB
7 1 (2.222%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.222%) MCITP
2 1 (2.222%) MCPD
2 1 (2.222%) MCP
2 1 (2.222%) MCAD
2 1 (2.222%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.667%) Eloqua
2 2 (4.444%) Oracle
3 1 (2.222%) Omniture
3 1 (2.222%) JBoss
3 1 (2.222%) Ektron
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