Oxfordshire CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	13
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	45	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	21.95 %	23.62 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£289
Average daily rate	£230	£299
% change on same period last year	-23.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.50	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£16.72	£27.81
% change on same period last year	-39.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.94	£29.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.01	£26.28
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	205	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.224 %
Daily rates quoted	46	32
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£290
Average daily rate	£309	£310
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.03	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£21.44	£30.53
% change on same period last year	-29.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.85	£32.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
CSS South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the Oxfordshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing CSS across the Oxfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Oxford	-9	19	£288	-2.21 %

CSS South East

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS.

1 67 (68.37 %) HTML 2 63 (64.29 %) JavaScript 3 49 (50.00 %) XHTML 4 35 (35.71 %) .NET 5 28 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 6 27 (27.55 %) C# 7 26 (26.53 %) PHP 7 26 (26.53 %) SQL Server 8 22 (22.45 %) MySQL 9 20 (20.41 %) XML 10 15 (15.31 %) ASP 11 14 (14.29 %) SQL 11 14 (14.29 %) AJAX 12 13 (13.27 %) Web Development 12 13 (13.27 %) PHP5

13 12 (12.24 %) WebServices 13 12 (12.24 %) Zend 13 12 (12.24 %) Zend Framework 13 12 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 14 10 (10.20 %) Web 2.0 14 10 (10.20 %) Transact-SQL 15 9 (9.184 %) OOP 16 8 (8.163 %) Content Management 17 7 (7.143 %) OO 17 7 (7.143 %) Photoshop 18 6 (6.122 %) VBScript 18 6 (6.122 %) Windows 18 6 (6.122 %) Linux 18 6 (6.122 %) Dreamweaver 18 6 (6.122 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing CSS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 67 (68.37 %) HTML 2 49 (50.00 %) XHTML 3 35 (35.71 %) .NET 4 28 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 5 20 (20.41 %) XML 6 15 (15.31 %) ASP 7 14 (14.29 %) AJAX 8 12 (12.24 %) Zend Framework 8 12 (12.24 %) WebServices 9 4 (4.082 %) JSON 9 4 (4.082 %) SOAP 9 4 (4.082 %) DOM 10 2 (2.041 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (1.020 %) Flex 2 11 1 (1.020 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (1.020 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (1.020 %) XSLT 11 1 (1.020 %) OpenGL 11 1 (1.020 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.082 %) Apache 1 4 (4.082 %) CMS 2 1 (1.020 %) IIS 2 1 (1.020 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 7 (7.143 %) Photoshop 2 4 (4.082 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.020 %) Doxygen	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.082 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.020 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (26.53 %) SQL Server 2 22 (22.45 %) MySQL 3 12 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (4.082 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (3.061 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (2.041 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 6 (6.122 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (3.061 %) Subversion 2 3 (3.061 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (3.061 %) Flash 3 2 (2.041 %) FrontPage
General 1 6 (6.122 %) Marketing 2 3 (3.061 %) Construction 2 3 (3.061 %) Publishing 3 2 (2.041 %) Games 3 2 (2.041 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (1.020 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 83 (84.69 %) Developer 2 31 (31.63 %) Web Developer 3 21 (21.43 %) .NET Developer 3 21 (21.43 %) PHP Developer 4 14 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 13 (13.27 %) C# Developer 6 12 (12.24 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 9 (9.184 %) ASP Developer 8 8 (8.163 %) Web Designer 9 5 (5.102 %) SQL Developer 9 5 (5.102 %) SQL Server Developer 9 5 (5.102 %) MySQL Developer 10 4 (4.082 %) PHP Web Developer 11 3 (3.061 %) Web Content Editor 11 3 (3.061 %) Content Editor 11 3 (3.061 %) .NET Web Developer 11 3 (3.061 %) HTML Developer 11 3 (3.061 %) Web Editor 11 3 (3.061 %) Coordinator 12 2 (2.041 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.20 %) Web 2.0 2 4 (4.082 %) Social Network 2 4 (4.082 %) Client/Server 3 3 (3.061 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 6 (6.122 %) Windows 1 6 (6.122 %) Linux 2 3 (3.061 %) Unix 3 1 (1.020 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.27 %) Web Development 2 9 (9.184 %) OOP 3 8 (8.163 %) Content Management 4 7 (7.143 %) OO 5 4 (4.082 %) Web Design 6 3 (3.061 %) Email Marketing 6 3 (3.061 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.041 %) Direct Marketing 7 2 (2.041 %) Digital Marketing 8 1 (1.020 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.020 %) Internet Marketing 8 1 (1.020 %) Logistics 8 1 (1.020 %) OOD 8 1 (1.020 %) E-business 8 1 (1.020 %) SEO 8 1 (1.020 %) E-Procurement	Programming Languages 1 63 (64.29 %) JavaScript 2 27 (27.55 %) C# 3 26 (26.53 %) PHP 4 14 (14.29 %) SQL 5 13 (13.27 %) PHP5 6 10 (10.20 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (6.122 %) VBScript 8 5 (5.102 %) DHTML 9 4 (4.082 %) VB.NET 10 3 (3.061 %) ActionScript 10 3 (3.061 %) PHP4 10 3 (3.061 %) Java 11 1 (1.020 %) C++ 11 1 (1.020 %) VB 11 1 (1.020 %) Fortran
Qualifications 1 2 (2.041 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.020 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.061 %) WAI
Vendors 1 12 (12.24 %) Zend 2 2 (2.041 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.020 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.020 %) Red Hat