The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS 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 Oxfordshire 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
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS 39 67 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 8.553% 10.82% 9.719%
As % of the Application Development category 40.63% 34.90% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 41 25
Average daily rate £250 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £175 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £18.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
96 192 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.05% 31.02% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 98 119
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £218 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
South East

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -10 12 £325 +44.44%
Henley-on-Thames 0 6 £165 -42.60%
Abingdon - 3 £400 -
CSS
South East

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 55 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 50 (75.76%) HTML
3 43 (65.15%) jQuery
4 21 (31.82%) MVC
5 20 (30.30%) CMS
5 20 (30.30%) PHP
5 20 (30.30%) SQL
6 19 (28.79%) Ajax
7 18 (27.27%) HTML5
8 17 (25.76%) C#
9 16 (24.24%) .NET
9 16 (24.24%) CSS3
10 15 (22.73%) MySQL
10 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
11 12 (18.18%) Scrum
11 12 (18.18%) Java
12 11 (16.67%) Photoshop
12 11 (16.67%) ASP.NET
13 10 (15.15%) TDD
13 10 (15.15%) Google
13 10 (15.15%) Marketing
14 9 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
14 9 (13.64%) Web Development
14 9 (13.64%) Google Analytics
14 9 (13.64%) Analytics
14 9 (13.64%) Content Management
14 9 (13.64%) Web Services
14 9 (13.64%) Oracle
14 9 (13.64%) XHTML
14 9 (13.64%) Interwoven

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 50 (75.76%) HTML
2 43 (65.15%) jQuery
3 19 (28.79%) Ajax
4 18 (27.27%) HTML5
5 16 (24.24%) .NET
5 16 (24.24%) CSS3
6 11 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 9 (13.64%) Web Services
7 9 (13.64%) XHTML
8 8 (12.12%) XML
8 8 (12.12%) JSP
9 6 (9.091%) Hibernate
9 6 (9.091%) Spring
10 5 (7.576%) J2EE
10 5 (7.576%) Struts
10 5 (7.576%) XSL
10 5 (7.576%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (6.061%) .NET Framework
11 4 (6.061%) ASP
12 3 (4.545%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 20 (30.30%) CMS
2 4 (6.061%) Apache
2 4 (6.061%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.061%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.545%) TeamSite
3 3 (4.545%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.030%) MODX
4 2 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (3.030%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.515%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (1.515%) IIS
5 1 (1.515%) Kentico
5 1 (1.515%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 6 (9.091%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.030%) Internet
2 1 (1.515%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) MySQL
1 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.545%) OLAP
3 3 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.030%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.515%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Git (software)
1 4 (6.061%) Eclipse
1 4 (6.061%) Maven
1 4 (6.061%) Subversion
2 3 (4.545%) JUnit
2 3 (4.545%) JIRA
3 2 (3.030%) Firebug
3 2 (3.030%) Fiddler
3 2 (3.030%) Selenium
3 2 (3.030%) FitNesse
3 2 (3.030%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.030%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (1.515%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.515%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.515%) Mercurial
General
1 10 (15.15%) Marketing
2 7 (10.61%) German Language
3 6 (9.091%) French Language
4 4 (6.061%) Finance
5 3 (4.545%) Publishing
5 3 (4.545%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.030%) Banking
6 2 (3.030%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.030%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.515%) Back Office
7 1 (1.515%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 54 (81.82%) Developer
2 14 (21.21%) PHP Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Front-End Developer
4 9 (13.64%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Programmer
5 7 (10.61%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Web Manager
6 6 (9.091%) Web Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Analyst
7 5 (7.576%) SQL Developer
8 4 (6.061%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (6.061%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.061%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (6.061%) Business Developer
8 4 (6.061%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.545%) PL/SQL Developer
9 3 (4.545%) Senior Programmer
9 3 (4.545%) Java Programmer
9 3 (4.545%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 3 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) Digital Media
2 3 (4.545%) N-Tier
2 3 (4.545%) Pharmacovigilance
3 2 (3.030%) W3C
4 1 (1.515%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.515%) Statistics
4 1 (1.515%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
2 6 (9.091%) Linux
3 2 (3.030%) Android
3 2 (3.030%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.030%) UNIX
3 2 (3.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) MVC
2 12 (18.18%) Scrum
3 10 (15.15%) TDD
4 9 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (13.64%) Web Development
4 9 (13.64%) Analytics
4 9 (13.64%) Content Management
5 8 (12.12%) SEO
6 6 (9.091%) Web Analytics
6 6 (9.091%) Unit Testing
6 6 (9.091%) Online Marketing
6 6 (9.091%) Information Architecture
6 6 (9.091%) OO
6 6 (9.091%) B2B
6 6 (9.091%) Project Management
7 4 (6.061%) Web Application Development
7 4 (6.061%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.061%) PRINCE2
7 4 (6.061%) Workflow
8 3 (4.545%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 55 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 20 (30.30%) PHP
2 20 (30.30%) SQL
3 17 (25.76%) C#
4 12 (18.18%) Java
5 7 (10.61%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.576%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.545%) Python
7 3 (4.545%) C
7 3 (4.545%) PHP5
8 2 (3.030%) PHP4
8 2 (3.030%) Ruby
8 2 (3.030%) ActionScript 3.0
8 2 (3.030%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (3.030%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.515%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (3.030%) Degree
1 2 (3.030%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) SLA
1 2 (3.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Google
2 9 (13.64%) Oracle
2 9 (13.64%) Interwoven
3 3 (4.545%) JBoss
3 3 (4.545%) IBM
3 3 (4.545%) Sencha
3 3 (4.545%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (3.030%) Adobe
5 1 (1.515%) SAP
5 1 (1.515%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.515%) Facebook
5 1 (1.515%) Twitter
Oxford, Oxfordshire
The client is currently developing with HTML 5 and CSS 3... The Front End Developer should also have experience integrating with 3rd party APIs (like Google Maps, Twitter,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £280 - £320 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013