The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Nottinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 20 10 23
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +13
Contract jobs citing CSS 23 33 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 6.907% 11.58% 3.741%
As % of the Application Development category 22.12% 27.05% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 8
Average daily rate £290 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £335 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -27.27%
All Application Development
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 122 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 31.23% 42.81% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 32
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+223.52% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
East Midlands

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Nottingham -12 18 £325 +4.83%
CSS
East Midlands

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 37 (90.24%) JavaScript
2 35 (85.37%) HTML
3 27 (65.85%) jQuery
4 23 (56.10%) .NET
5 22 (53.66%) ASP.NET
6 20 (48.78%) C#
7 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
8 17 (41.46%) HTML5
9 13 (31.71%) SQL
10 11 (26.83%) Ajax
11 10 (24.39%) SQL Server 2008
11 10 (24.39%) CSS3
12 9 (21.95%) CMS
13 8 (19.51%) MVC
14 7 (17.07%) OO
14 7 (17.07%) E-Commerce
14 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (14.63%) Web Services
16 5 (12.20%) XML
16 5 (12.20%) PHP
16 5 (12.20%) ASP
16 5 (12.20%) Agile Software Development
16 5 (12.20%) Web Application Development
16 5 (12.20%) WCF
17 4 (9.756%) Graphic Design
17 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
17 4 (9.756%) Web Development
17 4 (9.756%) QMS
17 4 (9.756%) Apple iOS

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 35 (85.37%) HTML
2 27 (65.85%) jQuery
3 23 (56.10%) .NET
4 22 (53.66%) ASP.NET
5 17 (41.46%) HTML5
6 11 (26.83%) Ajax
7 10 (24.39%) CSS3
8 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 6 (14.63%) Web Services
10 5 (12.20%) XML
10 5 (12.20%) ASP
10 5 (12.20%) WCF
11 4 (9.756%) XHTML
12 3 (7.317%) WebSphere
12 3 (7.317%) WinForms
12 3 (7.317%) JSON
12 3 (7.317%) Sass
13 2 (4.878%) HTML5 Canvas
13 2 (4.878%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 9 (21.95%) CMS
2 3 (7.317%) Kentico
2 3 (7.317%) Umbraco
3 2 (4.878%) WordPress
3 2 (4.878%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (2.439%) Drupal
4 1 (2.439%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.439%) Magento
4 1 (2.439%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.878%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (24.39%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (9.756%) MySQL
3 4 (9.756%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.439%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.439%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.439%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.439%) JUnit
General
1 2 (4.878%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (97.56%) Developer
2 14 (34.15%) .NET Developer
3 13 (31.71%) Web Developer
4 11 (26.83%) Front-End Developer
5 8 (19.51%) C# Developer
6 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (14.63%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (12.20%) .NET Web Developer
9 4 (9.756%) Uniface Developer
10 3 (7.317%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (4.878%) CSS Developer
11 2 (4.878%) C# Web Developer
11 2 (4.878%) HTML Developer
11 2 (4.878%) ASP Developer
11 2 (4.878%) Senior Web Developer
11 2 (4.878%) Senior Developer
12 1 (2.439%) Lead Developer
12 1 (2.439%) Analyst
12 1 (2.439%) Analyst Developer
12 1 (2.439%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.439%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.756%) Android
1 4 (9.756%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.317%) Windows
3 1 (2.439%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.51%) MVC
2 7 (17.07%) OO
2 7 (17.07%) E-Commerce
3 5 (12.20%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (12.20%) Web Application Development
4 4 (9.756%) QMS
4 4 (9.756%) Waterfall
4 4 (9.756%) Web Development
4 4 (9.756%) Quality Management
5 3 (7.317%) E-business
5 3 (7.317%) OOD
5 3 (7.317%) OOP
5 3 (7.317%) Content Management
5 3 (7.317%) Scrum
5 3 (7.317%) Web Design
5 3 (7.317%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (4.878%) Unit Testing
6 2 (4.878%) Performance Improvement
6 2 (4.878%) TDD
6 2 (4.878%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 37 (90.24%) JavaScript
2 20 (48.78%) C#
3 13 (31.71%) SQL
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 4 (9.756%) Uniface
6 2 (4.878%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.317%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (9.756%) Oracle
1 4 (9.756%) Adobe
2 2 (4.878%) Google
2 2 (4.878%) IBM
2 2 (4.878%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.878%) Facebook
2 2 (4.878%) Twitter
3 1 (2.439%) Sitecore