The first table below looks at the demand for CSS3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS3 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 North West 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
CSS 3
Rank 77 122 123
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS3 41 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.759% 0.321% 0.098%
As % of the Application Development category 6.426% 1.125% 0.401%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 0
Average daily rate £275 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £305 £313
% change year-on-year
-1.63% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.61 £12.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.88% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS3
England

CSS3
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West CSS3 Daily Rate Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS3 across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West CSS3 Daily Rate Histogram

CSS3
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS3 across the North West region.

North West CSS3 Hourly 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +27 24 £273 -9.16%
Cheshire +4 7 £375 +17.18%
Lancashire - 7 £263 -
Merseyside - 7 £225 -
CSS3
England

CSS3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 93 (100.00%) CSS
2 85 (91.40%) JavaScript
3 82 (88.17%) HTML5
4 67 (72.04%) jQuery
5 44 (47.31%) HTML
6 36 (38.71%) PHP
7 28 (30.11%) Ajax
8 27 (29.03%) MySQL
9 26 (27.96%) MVC
10 24 (25.81%) JSON
11 22 (23.66%) .NET
12 19 (20.43%) Web Design
13 18 (19.35%) Java
13 18 (19.35%) Web Services
14 17 (18.28%) XML
14 17 (18.28%) ASP.NET
15 15 (16.13%) C#
16 14 (15.05%) OO
16 14 (15.05%) XHTML
16 14 (15.05%) Subversion
16 14 (15.05%) Git (software)
17 13 (13.98%) SQL
17 13 (13.98%) Photoshop
18 12 (12.90%) SQL Server
18 12 (12.90%) SOAP
18 12 (12.90%) CMS
18 12 (12.90%) Spring
18 12 (12.90%) Zend
19 11 (11.83%) CodeIgniter
19 11 (11.83%) Mobile App

CSS3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 93 (100.00%) CSS
2 82 (88.17%) HTML5
3 67 (72.04%) jQuery
4 44 (47.31%) HTML
5 28 (30.11%) Ajax
6 24 (25.81%) JSON
7 22 (23.66%) .NET
8 18 (19.35%) Web Services
9 17 (18.28%) XML
9 17 (18.28%) ASP.NET
10 14 (15.05%) XHTML
11 12 (12.90%) SOAP
11 12 (12.90%) Spring
12 11 (11.83%) CodeIgniter
12 11 (11.83%) JSP
13 10 (10.75%) XSL
13 10 (10.75%) Hibernate
13 10 (10.75%) Backbone.js
14 9 (9.677%) LAMP
14 9 (9.677%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (12.90%) CMS
2 7 (7.527%) WordPress
2 7 (7.527%) Apache
3 6 (6.452%) Umbraco
3 6 (6.452%) Drupal
4 3 (3.226%) ESB
4 3 (3.226%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.075%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (1.075%) Magento
5 1 (1.075%) Mule
5 1 (1.075%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.075%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.075%) TeamSite
5 1 (1.075%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Photoshop
2 7 (7.527%) Fireworks
3 5 (5.376%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.075%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.301%) Intranet
2 2 (2.151%) Internet
3 1 (1.075%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) MySQL
2 12 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.376%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.301%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Subversion
1 14 (15.05%) Git (software)
2 11 (11.83%) NetBeans
3 9 (9.677%) Eclipse
4 7 (7.527%) JIRA
5 6 (6.452%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.226%) JUnit
7 2 (2.151%) Dreamweaver
7 2 (2.151%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.075%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.075%) PhoneGap
8 1 (1.075%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 6 (6.452%) Finance
2 5 (5.376%) Games
3 3 (3.226%) Retail
3 3 (3.226%) Marketing
3 3 (3.226%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.151%) Banking
5 1 (1.075%) Local Government
5 1 (1.075%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 86 (92.47%) Developer
2 29 (31.18%) Web Developer
3 24 (25.81%) Front-End Developer
4 9 (9.677%) Designer
4 9 (9.677%) JavaScript Developer
5 8 (8.602%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.602%) .NET Developer
5 8 (8.602%) Mobile Developer
6 7 (7.527%) ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (7.527%) PHP Developer
6 7 (7.527%) Applications Developer
7 6 (6.452%) Web Designer
7 6 (6.452%) Front-End Web Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Drupal Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Web Applications Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Java Web Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.301%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.301%) Java Applications Developer
9 4 (4.301%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.301%) Social Media
3 3 (3.226%) Web 2.0
4 2 (2.151%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.075%) Open Source
5 1 (1.075%) RIA
5 1 (1.075%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.075%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.075%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.075%) Social Network
5 1 (1.075%) W3C
5 1 (1.075%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Windows
2 8 (8.602%) Linux
3 6 (6.452%) Android
3 6 (6.452%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.226%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.96%) MVC
2 19 (20.43%) Web Design
3 14 (15.05%) OO
4 11 (11.83%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (10.75%) SEO
6 9 (9.677%) Web Development
7 8 (8.602%) TDD
8 6 (6.452%) OOD
8 6 (6.452%) OOP
8 6 (6.452%) Content Management
9 5 (5.376%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (5.376%) Scrum
9 5 (5.376%) Business Development
10 4 (4.301%) ITIL
11 3 (3.226%) Waterfall
11 3 (3.226%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (3.226%) Web Accessibility
11 3 (3.226%) Progressive Enhancement
11 3 (3.226%) Release Management
11 3 (3.226%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (91.40%) JavaScript
2 36 (38.71%) PHP
3 18 (19.35%) Java
4 15 (16.13%) C#
5 13 (13.98%) SQL
6 8 (8.602%) XPath
7 6 (6.452%) PHP5
8 3 (3.226%) Ruby
8 3 (3.226%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.075%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.075%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (1.075%) Plesk
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Zend
2 9 (9.677%) Twitter
3 8 (8.602%) Oracle
3 8 (8.602%) Facebook
4 7 (7.527%) Adobe
5 5 (5.376%) Google
6 3 (3.226%) Perforce
6 3 (3.226%) IBM
7 2 (2.151%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.151%) JBoss
8 1 (1.075%) Alterian
8 1 (1.075%) Interwoven
8 1 (1.075%) Apple
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