Oxford CSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Oxford 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	18
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	21	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	26.58 %	16.90 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£233	-
Average daily rate	£253	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£273	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£262	£270
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£12.63
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£13.69
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£14.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.53	£28.45
% change on same period last year	-10.23 %
Application Development Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	79	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.072 %
Daily rates quoted	29	14
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£277
Average daily rate	£306	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£18.86
Average hourly rate	£15.88	£20.11
% change on same period last year	-21.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.25	£21.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
CSS Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (88.10 %) HTML 2 30 (71.43 %) JavaScript 3 22 (52.38 %) .NET 4 19 (45.24 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (38.10 %) XHTML 6 12 (28.57 %) C# 7 11 (26.19 %) SQL 7 11 (26.19 %) XML 8 9 (21.43 %) SQL Server 9 8 (19.05 %) PHP 10 7 (16.67 %) VB.NET 10 7 (16.67 %) AJAX 11 6 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 11 6 (14.29 %) Web Development 11 6 (14.29 %) Perl

12 5 (11.90 %) Construction 12 5 (11.90 %) Visual Studio 12 5 (11.90 %) Windows 12 5 (11.90 %) OO 13 4 (9.524 %) Life Science 13 4 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 4 (9.524 %) Linux 13 4 (9.524 %) Java 13 4 (9.524 %) Publishing 13 4 (9.524 %) MVC 13 4 (9.524 %) Spring 13 4 (9.524 %) Hibernate 14 3 (7.143 %) Cocoon 14 3 (7.143 %) Windows NT 14 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 37 (88.10 %) HTML 2 22 (52.38 %) .NET 3 19 (45.24 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (38.10 %) XHTML 5 11 (26.19 %) XML 6 7 (16.67 %) AJAX 7 4 (9.524 %) Spring 7 4 (9.524 %) MVC 7 4 (9.524 %) Hibernate 7 4 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (7.143 %) Cocoon 8 3 (7.143 %) XSLT 9 2 (4.762 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (4.762 %) Lucene 9 2 (4.762 %) J2EE 9 2 (4.762 %) ASP 9 2 (4.762 %) script.aculo.us 9 2 (4.762 %) MooTools 10 1 (2.381 %) XSL 10 1 (2.381 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.143 %) Apache 1 3 (7.143 %) Tomcat 2 2 (4.762 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (7.143 %) Photoshop 2 2 (4.762 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.381 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2 6 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.762 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 5 (11.90 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (7.143 %) Ant 3 2 (4.762 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (2.381 %) Flash	General 1 5 (11.90 %) Construction 2 4 (9.524 %) Publishing 3 1 (2.381 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.381 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.381 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.381 %) Animation 3 1 (2.381 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 31 (73.81 %) Developer 2 13 (30.95 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (11.90 %) C# Developer 4 5 (11.90 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) Java Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) Web Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) Software Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) SQL Server Developer 5 4 (9.524 %) Web Editor 5 4 (9.524 %) Web Content Editor 5 4 (9.524 %) Content Editor 6 3 (7.143 %) Perl Developer 6 3 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (7.143 %) Software Development Engineer 7 2 (4.762 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (4.762 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (4.762 %) JavaScript Developer 7 2 (4.762 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.524 %) Life Science 2 1 (2.381 %) BBC
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.90 %) Windows 2 4 (9.524 %) Linux 3 3 (7.143 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (14.29 %) Web Development 2 5 (11.90 %) OO 3 1 (2.381 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (2.381 %) Content Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Logistics 3 1 (2.381 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (2.381 %) Time Management 3 1 (2.381 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 30 (71.43 %) JavaScript 2 12 (28.57 %) C# 3 11 (26.19 %) SQL 4 8 (19.05 %) PHP 5 7 (16.67 %) VB.NET 6 6 (14.29 %) Perl 7 4 (9.524 %) Java 8 2 (4.762 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (4.762 %) VB 8 2 (4.762 %) C 9 1 (2.381 %) ActionScript 9 1 (2.381 %) PHP5 9 1 (2.381 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.381 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) WAI	Vendors 1 3 (7.143 %) Oracle 1 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.762 %) Zend 3 1 (2.381 %) Quark 3 1 (2.381 %) Google