The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Salford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank - 5 -
Contract jobs citing CSS 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - 12.50% -
As % of the Application Development category - 75.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+55.55% -13.46%
All Application Development
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
5 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.83% 16.67% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £323 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
CSS
Manchester

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Salford CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) MarkLogic
3 2 (50.00%) Publishing
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) XML Schema
3 2 (50.00%) XQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (25.00%) Flash

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) XML Schema
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MarkLogic
General
1 2 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) XQuery
4 1 (25.00%) ActionScript