The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 14 57 35
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -22
Contract jobs citing CSS 75 24 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 8.711% 2.109% 4.656%
As % of the Application Development category 35.05% 14.20% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 20
Average daily rate £375 £250 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £224 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +1.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £12.60 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £23.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -29.82%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
214 169 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.85% 14.85% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 61 112
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £458 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Berkshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 90 (70.87%) JavaScript
2 87 (68.50%) HTML
3 73 (57.48%) jQuery
4 64 (50.39%) HTML5
5 63 (49.61%) .NET
6 52 (40.94%) C#
7 50 (39.37%) MVC
8 43 (33.86%) ASP.NET
9 37 (29.13%) CSS3
10 32 (25.20%) XML
11 28 (22.05%) Ajax
12 27 (21.26%) Microsoft
13 26 (20.47%) ASP.NET MVC
14 24 (18.90%) CMS
15 23 (18.11%) SQL
15 23 (18.11%) Photoshop
16 22 (17.32%) SQL Server
17 21 (16.54%) Web Services
18 20 (15.75%) TDD
19 18 (14.17%) Windows
19 18 (14.17%) Marketing
20 17 (13.39%) Agile Software Development
20 17 (13.39%) .NET Framework
20 17 (13.39%) KnockoutJS
20 17 (13.39%) XHTML
21 16 (12.60%) Scrum
22 15 (11.81%) WCF
22 15 (11.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
22 15 (11.81%) Digital Media
23 13 (10.24%) BDD

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 87 (68.50%) HTML
2 73 (57.48%) jQuery
3 64 (50.39%) HTML5
4 63 (49.61%) .NET
5 43 (33.86%) ASP.NET
6 37 (29.13%) CSS3
7 32 (25.20%) XML
8 28 (22.05%) Ajax
9 26 (20.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 21 (16.54%) Web Services
11 17 (13.39%) .NET Framework
11 17 (13.39%) KnockoutJS
11 17 (13.39%) XHTML
12 15 (11.81%) WCF
12 15 (11.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 13 (10.24%) JSP
14 10 (7.874%) XSLT
14 10 (7.874%) JSON
14 10 (7.874%) LINQ
14 10 (7.874%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 24 (18.90%) CMS
2 9 (7.087%) Windows Azure
3 7 (5.512%) ESB
4 4 (3.150%) IIS
5 3 (2.362%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.575%) WordPress
6 2 (1.575%) Drupal
6 2 (1.575%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.787%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.787%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.787%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.787%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Photoshop
2 13 (10.24%) MS Excel
3 5 (3.937%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.150%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.575%) MS Office
6 1 (0.787%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.575%) HTTP
1 2 (1.575%) Intranet
2 1 (0.787%) VLAN
2 1 (0.787%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.787%) Network Security
2 1 (0.787%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.787%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.787%) HSRP
2 1 (0.787%) GLBP
2 1 (0.787%) DHCP
2 1 (0.787%) SNMP
2 1 (0.787%) VPN
2 1 (0.787%) Firewall
2 1 (0.787%) VRRP
2 1 (0.787%) OSPF
2 1 (0.787%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.937%) MySQL
3 4 (3.150%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.362%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.575%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.787%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.787%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.787%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.787%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.874%) Jasmine
2 8 (6.299%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.299%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.512%) Dreamweaver
3 7 (5.512%) Subversion
4 6 (4.724%) JIRA
4 6 (4.724%) SpecFlow
5 4 (3.150%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.362%) MSTest
6 3 (2.362%) PhoneGap
7 2 (1.575%) Xcode
7 2 (1.575%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.787%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (0.787%) Moq
8 1 (0.787%) NuGet
8 1 (0.787%) Gradle
General
1 18 (14.17%) Marketing
2 12 (9.449%) Publishing
3 9 (7.087%) Advertising
4 8 (6.299%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.299%) Banking
5 7 (5.512%) Japanese Language
5 7 (5.512%) Korean Language
5 7 (5.512%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (5.512%) Games
6 5 (3.937%) Retail
7 4 (3.150%) Finance
8 1 (0.787%) Music
8 1 (0.787%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (82.68%) Developer
2 28 (22.05%) Front-End Developer
3 25 (19.69%) .NET Developer
4 16 (12.60%) Web Developer
4 16 (12.60%) UI Developer
5 15 (11.81%) UI Programmer
6 9 (7.087%) JavaScript Developer
7 8 (6.299%) Programmer
7 8 (6.299%) C# Developer
7 8 (6.299%) Designer
7 8 (6.299%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.512%) Web Producer
9 6 (4.724%) Web Designer
10 5 (3.937%) CSS Developer
10 5 (3.937%) PHP Developer
10 5 (3.937%) HTML Developer
10 5 (3.937%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.150%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.150%) C# Programmer
12 3 (2.362%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Digital Media
2 8 (6.299%) W3C
3 7 (5.512%) iPad
4 5 (3.937%) Blackberry
5 4 (3.150%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.575%) Open Source
6 2 (1.575%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.787%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.787%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.787%) Animation
7 1 (0.787%) Online Games
7 1 (0.787%) iPhone
7 1 (0.787%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.787%) New Media
7 1 (0.787%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.787%) SecurID
7 1 (0.787%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.17%) Windows
2 13 (10.24%) Android
3 7 (5.512%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.150%) Linux
5 3 (2.362%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.575%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.787%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.787%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.787%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.37%) MVC
2 20 (15.75%) TDD
3 17 (13.39%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (12.60%) Scrum
5 13 (10.24%) BDD
5 13 (10.24%) Web Development
5 13 (10.24%) Content Management
6 12 (9.449%) SOA
7 9 (7.087%) OO
8 7 (5.512%) Information Architecture
8 7 (5.512%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (4.724%) UML
9 6 (4.724%) Automation Testing
9 6 (4.724%) MVVM
10 5 (3.937%) E-Commerce
11 4 (3.150%) Digital Marketing
11 4 (3.150%) Kanban
11 4 (3.150%) Multithreading
12 3 (2.362%) Dependency Injection
12 3 (2.362%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 90 (70.87%) JavaScript
2 52 (40.94%) C#
3 23 (18.11%) SQL
4 9 (7.087%) PHP
5 8 (6.299%) Java
6 6 (4.724%) Perl
6 6 (4.724%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.362%) Python
8 2 (1.575%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.787%) Lua
9 1 (0.787%) Scala
9 1 (0.787%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.787%) VB
9 1 (0.787%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.787%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (3.150%) Degree
2 3 (2.362%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.362%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.787%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.787%) CCNP
3 1 (0.787%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.787%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.575%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (1.575%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 27 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.24%) Adobe
3 4 (3.150%) Oracle
4 2 (1.575%) Citrix
4 2 (1.575%) Sencha
5 1 (0.787%) NetScout
5 1 (0.787%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.787%) Google
5 1 (0.787%) Zend
5 1 (0.787%) TippingPoint
5 1 (0.787%) Twitter
5 1 (0.787%) JBoss
5 1 (0.787%) Nokia
5 1 (0.787%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.787%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.787%) Cisco
5 1 (0.787%) Blue Coat
5 1 (0.787%) Sony
5 1 (0.787%) ESRI
Reading, Berkshire
Digital Media Agency based just outside of Reading seek PHP Developer with a focus on back end technologies less front end JavaScript, HTML and CSS stuff... PHP, MySQL,...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013