| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) |
| 3 months to
18 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 10 | 29 | 17 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 +19 |  -12 |
|
| Matching contract IT job ads | 34 | 6 | 43 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire | 10.90 % | 2.091 % | 7.388 % |
| As % of the Application Development category | 34.00 % | 7.500 % | 19.28 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| Average daily rate | £269 | - | £288 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £250 | £260 | £275 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Average hourly rate | £15.00 | £17.50 | £22.50 |
| Average hourly rate % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than | £13.30 | £17.50 | £15.70 |
| 10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than | £122.00 | £17.50 | £26.15 |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £24.50 | £20.00 | £27.50 |
| % change year-on-year | |
|
|
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category | 100 | 80 | 223 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire | 32.05 % | 27.87 % | 38.32 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 38 | 25 | 34 |
| Average daily rate | £290 | £300 | £325 |
| Average daily rate % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than | £225 | £225 | £225 |
| 10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than | £388 | £375 | £450 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £300 | £300 | £325 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Average hourly rate | £42.50 | £30.50 | £22.00 |
| Average hourly rate % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than | £14.10 | £18.80 | £9.50 |
| 10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than | £175.00 | £32.00 | £27.50 |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £27.50 | £30.00 | £32.50 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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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.
The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.
