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 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 13 58 37
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -21
Contract jobs citing CSS 76 23 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.157% 2.162% 4.541%
As % of the Application Development category 36.19% 14.56% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 19
Average daily rate £375 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £224 £210
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 2 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.80 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £18.20 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 158 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.30% 14.85% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 116
Average daily rate £363 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -43.58%
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 17 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 17 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 92 (71.32%) JavaScript
2 89 (68.99%) HTML
3 75 (58.14%) jQuery
4 65 (50.39%) .NET
5 64 (49.61%) HTML5
6 54 (41.86%) C#
7 52 (40.31%) MVC
8 45 (34.88%) ASP.NET
9 37 (28.68%) CSS3
10 32 (24.81%) XML
11 30 (23.26%) Ajax
12 28 (21.71%) ASP.NET MVC
12 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
13 24 (18.60%) CMS
13 24 (18.60%) SQL Server
14 23 (17.83%) Photoshop
14 23 (17.83%) SQL
14 23 (17.83%) Web Services
15 21 (16.28%) TDD
16 19 (14.73%) Agile Software Development
16 19 (14.73%) .NET Framework
17 18 (13.95%) Marketing
17 18 (13.95%) Scrum
17 18 (13.95%) Windows
18 17 (13.18%) XHTML
18 17 (13.18%) WCF
18 17 (13.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 17 (13.18%) KnockoutJS
19 15 (11.63%) Web Development
19 15 (11.63%) Digital Media

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 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 89 (68.99%) HTML
2 75 (58.14%) jQuery
3 65 (50.39%) .NET
4 64 (49.61%) HTML5
5 45 (34.88%) ASP.NET
6 37 (28.68%) CSS3
7 32 (24.81%) XML
8 30 (23.26%) Ajax
9 28 (21.71%) ASP.NET MVC
10 23 (17.83%) Web Services
11 19 (14.73%) .NET Framework
12 17 (13.18%) WCF
12 17 (13.18%) XHTML
12 17 (13.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 17 (13.18%) KnockoutJS
13 13 (10.08%) JSP
14 12 (9.302%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 10 (7.752%) XSLT
15 10 (7.752%) LINQ
15 10 (7.752%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 24 (18.60%) CMS
2 9 (6.977%) Windows Azure
3 7 (5.426%) ESB
4 4 (3.101%) IIS
5 3 (2.326%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.550%) Joomla!
6 2 (1.550%) Drupal
6 2 (1.550%) WordPress
7 1 (0.775%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.775%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.775%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.775%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 23 (17.83%) Photoshop
2 13 (10.08%) MS Excel
3 5 (3.876%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.101%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.550%) MS Office
6 1 (0.775%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.550%) Intranet
1 2 (1.550%) HTTP
2 1 (0.775%) SNMP
2 1 (0.775%) VPN
2 1 (0.775%) DHCP
2 1 (0.775%) OSPF
2 1 (0.775%) BGP
2 1 (0.775%) VRRP
2 1 (0.775%) Firewall
2 1 (0.775%) VLAN
2 1 (0.775%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.775%) Network Security
2 1 (0.775%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.775%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.775%) HSRP
2 1 (0.775%) GLBP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.876%) MySQL
3 4 (3.101%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.326%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.550%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.775%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.775%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.775%) GIS
6 1 (0.775%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.752%) Visual Studio
1 10 (7.752%) Jasmine
2 8 (6.202%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.426%) Subversion
3 7 (5.426%) Dreamweaver
3 7 (5.426%) SpecFlow
4 6 (4.651%) JIRA
5 4 (3.101%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.326%) PhoneGap
6 3 (2.326%) MSTest
7 2 (1.550%) Xcode
7 2 (1.550%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.775%) WatiN
8 1 (0.775%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (0.775%) Moq
8 1 (0.775%) NuGet
8 1 (0.775%) Gradle
General
1 18 (13.95%) Marketing
2 12 (9.302%) Publishing
3 9 (6.977%) Advertising
4 8 (6.202%) Banking
4 8 (6.202%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.426%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (5.426%) Games
5 7 (5.426%) Japanese Language
5 7 (5.426%) Korean Language
6 5 (3.876%) Retail
6 5 (3.876%) Finance
7 1 (0.775%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.775%) Music
Job Titles
1 107 (82.95%) Developer
2 28 (21.71%) Front-End Developer
3 26 (20.16%) .NET Developer
4 17 (13.18%) Web Developer
5 16 (12.40%) UI Developer
6 15 (11.63%) UI Programmer
7 9 (6.977%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (6.202%) C# Developer
8 8 (6.202%) Programmer
8 8 (6.202%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (6.202%) Designer
9 7 (5.426%) Web Producer
10 6 (4.651%) Web Designer
11 5 (3.876%) ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (3.876%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.876%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.876%) HTML Developer
11 5 (3.876%) CSS Developer
12 4 (3.101%) C# Programmer
12 4 (3.101%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Digital Media
2 8 (6.202%) W3C
3 7 (5.426%) iPad
4 5 (3.876%) Blackberry
5 4 (3.101%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.550%) Open Source
6 2 (1.550%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.775%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.775%) Animation
7 1 (0.775%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.775%) Online Games
7 1 (0.775%) iPhone
7 1 (0.775%) BBC
7 1 (0.775%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.775%) SecurID
7 1 (0.775%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.775%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Windows
2 13 (10.08%) Android
3 7 (5.426%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.101%) Linux
5 3 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.550%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.775%) VMS
7 1 (0.775%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.775%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.31%) MVC
2 21 (16.28%) TDD
3 19 (14.73%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (13.95%) Scrum
5 15 (11.63%) Web Development
6 14 (10.85%) BDD
7 13 (10.08%) Content Management
8 12 (9.302%) SOA
9 11 (8.527%) OO
10 7 (5.426%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (5.426%) Information Architecture
11 6 (4.651%) MVVM
11 6 (4.651%) UML
11 6 (4.651%) Automation Testing
12 5 (3.876%) E-Commerce
13 4 (3.101%) Multithreading
13 4 (3.101%) Kanban
13 4 (3.101%) Digital Marketing
14 3 (2.326%) Dependency Injection
14 3 (2.326%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 92 (71.32%) JavaScript
2 54 (41.86%) C#
3 23 (17.83%) SQL
4 9 (6.977%) PHP
5 8 (6.202%) Java
6 6 (4.651%) Perl
6 6 (4.651%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.326%) Python
8 2 (1.550%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.775%) Ruby
9 1 (0.775%) Lua
9 1 (0.775%) Scala
9 1 (0.775%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.775%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.775%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (3.876%) Degree
2 3 (2.326%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.326%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.775%) CCNP
3 1 (0.775%) CCNA
3 1 (0.775%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.775%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.775%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.550%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.550%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.08%) Adobe
3 4 (3.101%) Oracle
4 2 (1.550%) Sencha
4 2 (1.550%) Citrix
5 1 (0.775%) Nokia
5 1 (0.775%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.775%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.775%) Sony
5 1 (0.775%) ESRI
5 1 (0.775%) Blue Coat
5 1 (0.775%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.775%) Google
5 1 (0.775%) NetScout
5 1 (0.775%) Zend
5 1 (0.775%) TippingPoint
5 1 (0.775%) Twitter
5 1 (0.775%) JBoss
5 1 (0.775%) Cisco
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