Scotland CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Scotland 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough 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 Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	69
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	73	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.061 %
As % of the category below	15.05 %	7.463 %
Daily rates quoted	20	5
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£240
Average daily rate	£286	£250
% change on same period last year	+14.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£281
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.65	£28.31
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Application Development Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	485	804
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.646 %	0.813 %
Daily rates quoted	96	144
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£323
Average daily rate	£310	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.36	£24.92
Average hourly rate	£30.20	£27.47
% change on same period last year	+9.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.04	£30.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
CSS UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Glasgow	+33	30	£319	+15.90 %
Edinburgh	+5	27	£233	-0.08 %
West Lothian	-	2	£425	-
Aberdeen	-	1	-	-
Aberdeenshire	-	1	-	-

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CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 95 (66.43 %) HTML 2 90 (62.94 %) JavaScript 3 53 (37.06 %) .NET 4 50 (34.97 %) XHTML 5 46 (32.17 %) ASP.NET 6 42 (29.37 %) C# 7 35 (24.48 %) XML 8 31 (21.68 %) AJAX 9 27 (18.88 %) Java 10 25 (17.48 %) Finance 11 24 (16.78 %) CMS 11 24 (16.78 %) RedDot 11 24 (16.78 %) SQL 11 24 (16.78 %) Photoshop 12 23 (16.08 %) SQL Server

13 20 (13.99 %) PHP 14 18 (12.59 %) Publishing 15 14 (9.790 %) Visual Studio 15 14 (9.790 %) Windows 15 14 (9.790 %) Flash 15 14 (9.790 %) Web Development 15 14 (9.790 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 13 (9.091 %) ASP 16 13 (9.091 %) Banking 17 12 (8.392 %) Web Design 17 12 (8.392 %) SharePoint 17 12 (8.392 %) Microsoft 18 11 (7.692 %) WebServices 18 11 (7.692 %) J2EE 19 9 (6.294 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 95 (66.43 %) HTML 2 53 (37.06 %) .NET 3 50 (34.97 %) XHTML 4 46 (32.17 %) ASP.NET 5 35 (24.48 %) XML 6 31 (21.68 %) AJAX 7 13 (9.091 %) ASP 8 11 (7.692 %) WebServices 8 11 (7.692 %) J2EE 9 9 (6.294 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 8 (5.594 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 11 7 (4.895 %) XSL 12 4 (2.797 %) jQuery 13 3 (2.098 %) Spring 13 3 (2.098 %) JSP 14 2 (1.399 %) ADO.NET 14 2 (1.399 %) LAMP 14 2 (1.399 %) XSLT 14 2 (1.399 %) .NET Framework 14 2 (1.399 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 24 (16.78 %) CMS 2 14 (9.790 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 12 (8.392 %) SharePoint 4 5 (3.497 %) IIS 5 4 (2.797 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (1.399 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (1.399 %) Lotus Domino 7 1 (0.699 %) Apache 7 1 (0.699 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.699 %) Office Project Server 7 1 (0.699 %) Joomla!
Applications 1 24 (16.78 %) Photoshop 2 7 (4.895 %) MS Excel 3 6 (4.196 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 5 (3.497 %) Fireworks 5 1 (0.699 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.699 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 8 (5.594 %) Intranet 1 8 (5.594 %) Internet 2 4 (2.797 %) LDAP 3 2 (1.399 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (16.08 %) SQL Server 2 9 (6.294 %) MySQL 2 9 (6.294 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (2.098 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (2.098 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.399 %) GIS 4 2 (1.399 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (1.399 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.699 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.699 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (0.699 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 14 (9.790 %) Visual Studio 1 14 (9.790 %) Flash 2 9 (6.294 %) Dreamweaver 3 8 (5.594 %) FrontPage 4 1 (0.699 %) InterDev 4 1 (0.699 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.699 %) Subversion
General 1 25 (17.48 %) Finance 2 18 (12.59 %) Publishing 3 13 (9.091 %) Banking 4 5 (3.497 %) Retail 5 4 (2.797 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (1.399 %) Online Banking 6 2 (1.399 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (1.399 %) Advertising 7 1 (0.699 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.699 %) Legal 7 1 (0.699 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.699 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 103 (72.03 %) Developer 2 37 (25.87 %) Web Developer 3 19 (13.29 %) .NET Developer 4 16 (11.19 %) Web Designer 5 13 (9.091 %) PHP Developer 6 8 (5.594 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 7 (4.895 %) Senior Developer 8 6 (4.196 %) .NET Web Developer 9 5 (3.497 %) Architect 9 5 (3.497 %) Sharepoint Architect 10 4 (2.797 %) Flash Developer 11 3 (2.098 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 11 3 (2.098 %) C# Developer 11 3 (2.098 %) Java Developer 11 3 (2.098 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 2 (1.399 %) Java Web Developer 12 2 (1.399 %) Oracle Database Developer 12 2 (1.399 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 2 (1.399 %) Oracle Developer 12 2 (1.399 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.594 %) W3C 2 2 (1.399 %) E-Learning 3 1 (0.699 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 14 (9.790 %) Windows 2 1 (0.699 %) Solaris 2 1 (0.699 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (9.790 %) Web Development 2 12 (8.392 %) Web Design 3 8 (5.594 %) Content Management 3 8 (5.594 %) Workflow 4 7 (4.895 %) OO 5 6 (4.196 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (2.797 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (2.098 %) Continuous Integration 7 3 (2.098 %) OOP 7 3 (2.098 %) OOD 7 3 (2.098 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (1.399 %) Information Management 8 2 (1.399 %) Software Engineering 8 2 (1.399 %) Systems Analysis 8 2 (1.399 %) SOA 8 2 (1.399 %) Migration 8 2 (1.399 %) Wealth Management 9 1 (0.699 %) ITIL 9 1 (0.699 %) UML 9 1 (0.699 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 90 (62.94 %) JavaScript 2 42 (29.37 %) C# 3 27 (18.88 %) Java 4 24 (16.78 %) SQL 5 20 (13.99 %) PHP 6 9 (6.294 %) DHTML 6 9 (6.294 %) VB.NET 6 9 (6.294 %) ActionScript 7 7 (4.895 %) Transact-SQL 7 7 (4.895 %) VBScript 8 5 (3.497 %) VBA 9 2 (1.399 %) VB 9 2 (1.399 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (1.399 %) Perl 10 1 (0.699 %) C 10 1 (0.699 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 3 (2.098 %) Degree 2 2 (1.399 %) MCAD 2 2 (1.399 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.699 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (3.497 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 24 (16.78 %) RedDot 2 12 (8.392 %) Microsoft 3 9 (6.294 %) Adobe 4 3 (2.098 %) Macromedia 4 3 (2.098 %) Oracle 5 2 (1.399 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.699 %) Proxima 6 1 (0.699 %) Sybase 6 1 (0.699 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (0.699 %) Compuware 6 1 (0.699 %) Interwoven