Reading CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	37
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	48	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	19.43 %	14.35 %
Daily rates quoted	19	5
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£304
Average daily rate	£280	£329
% change on same period last year	-14.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£285
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.97	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	247	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.229 %
Daily rates quoted	73	52
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£334
Average daily rate	£330	£351
% change on same period last year	-6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.26	£28.42
Average hourly rate	£35.66	£29.71
% change on same period last year	+20.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.07	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
CSS Berkshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Reading 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 IT contract jobs citing CSS across the Reading region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 67 (72.04 %) HTML 2 62 (66.67 %) JavaScript 3 45 (48.39 %) XHTML 4 37 (39.78 %) XML 5 27 (29.03 %) .NET 6 24 (25.81 %) C# 6 24 (25.81 %) AJAX 7 21 (22.58 %) PHP 7 21 (22.58 %) SQL Server 8 20 (21.51 %) ASP.NET 8 20 (21.51 %) MySQL 9 18 (19.35 %) Linux 10 17 (18.28 %) JSP 11 15 (16.13 %) Photoshop 12 14 (15.05 %) Java

13 13 (13.98 %) CMS 13 13 (13.98 %) PHP5 14 12 (12.90 %) Web Development 14 12 (12.90 %) LAMP 14 12 (12.90 %) ASP 15 11 (11.83 %) Flash 15 11 (11.83 %) XSLT 15 11 (11.83 %) Subversion 16 9 (9.677 %) Adobe Illustrator 16 9 (9.677 %) Content Management 16 9 (9.677 %) Red Hat 16 9 (9.677 %) DOM 17 8 (8.602 %) Python 17 8 (8.602 %) Apache 17 8 (8.602 %) Eclipse

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 67 (72.04 %) HTML 2 45 (48.39 %) XHTML 3 37 (39.78 %) XML 4 27 (29.03 %) .NET 5 24 (25.81 %) AJAX 6 20 (21.51 %) ASP.NET 7 17 (18.28 %) JSP 8 12 (12.90 %) ASP 8 12 (12.90 %) LAMP 9 11 (11.83 %) XSLT 10 9 (9.677 %) DOM 11 8 (8.602 %) Drupal 12 7 (7.527 %) JSTL 13 6 (6.452 %) WebServices 14 4 (4.301 %) XSL 15 3 (3.226 %) Zend Framework 15 3 (3.226 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 3 (3.226 %) CAML 15 3 (3.226 %) Windows SharePoint Services 16 2 (2.151 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 13 (13.98 %) CMS 2 8 (8.602 %) Apache 3 6 (6.452 %) SharePoint 4 4 (4.301 %) Tomcat 4 4 (4.301 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (2.151 %) Movable Type 5 2 (2.151 %) Mambo 5 2 (2.151 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.075 %) IIS 6 1 (1.075 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.075 %) TeamSite 6 1 (1.075 %) Commerce Server 6 1 (1.075 %) WebLogic Portal 6 1 (1.075 %) Commerce Server 2007
Applications 1 15 (16.13 %) Photoshop 2 9 (9.677 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 6 (6.452 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.075 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.151 %) Internet 1 2 (2.151 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (22.58 %) SQL Server 2 20 (21.51 %) MySQL 3 5 (5.376 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (3.226 %) PostgreSQL 5 2 (2.151 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (1.075 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.075 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.075 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 11 (11.83 %) Flash 1 11 (11.83 %) Subversion 2 8 (8.602 %) Eclipse 3 6 (6.452 %) Visual Studio 4 4 (4.301 %) Ant 4 4 (4.301 %) Dreamweaver 5 3 (3.226 %) FrontPage 6 1 (1.075 %) JUnit 6 1 (1.075 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 6 (6.452 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.151 %) Government 2 2 (2.151 %) Retail 2 2 (2.151 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.075 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.075 %) Publishing 3 1 (1.075 %) Finance 3 1 (1.075 %) Education	Job Titles 1 65 (69.89 %) Developer 2 35 (37.63 %) Web Developer 3 16 (17.20 %) .NET Developer 4 12 (12.90 %) Web Designer 5 10 (10.75 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 8 (8.602 %) C# Developer 6 8 (8.602 %) Senior Developer 7 7 (7.527 %) Senior Web Developer 7 7 (7.527 %) PHP Developer 7 7 (7.527 %) Photoshop Designer 7 7 (7.527 %) Web Manager 7 7 (7.527 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (5.376 %) Development Manager 9 4 (4.301 %) Web Development Manager 9 4 (4.301 %) Junior 10 3 (3.226 %) Consultant 10 3 (3.226 %) Applications Developer 10 3 (3.226 %) Project Leader 11 2 (2.151 %) ASP Developer 11 2 (2.151 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.301 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (3.226 %) Taxonomies 2 3 (3.226 %) Social Network 2 3 (3.226 %) N-Tier 2 3 (3.226 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 18 (19.35 %) Linux 2 3 (3.226 %) Unix 2 3 (3.226 %) Windows 3 1 (1.075 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (12.90 %) Web Development 2 9 (9.677 %) Content Management 3 6 (6.452 %) Web Design 4 5 (5.376 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (4.301 %) Project Management 5 4 (4.301 %) Migration 6 3 (3.226 %) OO 6 3 (3.226 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (2.151 %) CRM 7 2 (2.151 %) Direct Marketing 7 2 (2.151 %) System Testing 8 1 (1.075 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.075 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (1.075 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.075 %) Extreme Programming 8 1 (1.075 %) SEO	Programming Languages 1 62 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 24 (25.81 %) C# 3 21 (22.58 %) PHP 4 14 (15.05 %) Java 5 13 (13.98 %) PHP5 6 8 (8.602 %) Python 6 8 (8.602 %) SQL 7 4 (4.301 %) DHTML 7 4 (4.301 %) Perl 8 3 (3.226 %) C 8 3 (3.226 %) C++ 8 3 (3.226 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.151 %) VBScript 9 2 (2.151 %) ActionScript 9 2 (2.151 %) Ruby 10 1 (1.075 %) Korn 10 1 (1.075 %) XPath 10 1 (1.075 %) PHP4 10 1 (1.075 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 3 (3.226 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.151 %) MCP 2 2 (2.151 %) MCAD 2 2 (2.151 %) MCSD 3 1 (1.075 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (7.527 %) WCAG 2 3 (3.226 %) SLA 3 2 (2.151 %) QA
Vendors 1 9 (9.677 %) Red Hat 2 7 (7.527 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.301 %) Quark 4 3 (3.226 %) Zend 5 2 (2.151 %) FatWire 5 2 (2.151 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.075 %) BEA