The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 24 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 Sheffield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 15 12 19
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Contract jobs citing CSS 9 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 6.000% 7.586% 7.407%
As % of the Application Development category 21.43% 20.37% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
Average daily rate £256 £225 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.88% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £159 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £284 £330
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 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
42 54 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 28.00% 37.24% 45.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 35
Average daily rate £288 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
South Yorkshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 22 (88.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (84.00%) HTML
3 13 (52.00%) jQuery
4 10 (40.00%) HTML5
5 9 (36.00%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (36.00%) MVC
5 9 (36.00%) MySQL
6 8 (32.00%) XML
6 8 (32.00%) CSS3
7 7 (28.00%) PHP
8 6 (24.00%) .NET
8 6 (24.00%) C#
8 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET
8 6 (24.00%) XSLT
8 6 (24.00%) Linux
8 6 (24.00%) Apache
8 6 (24.00%) LAMP
8 6 (24.00%) PHPUnit
8 6 (24.00%) Web Development
8 6 (24.00%) Symfony
9 5 (20.00%) WCF
10 4 (16.00%) W3C
10 4 (16.00%) Eclipse
10 4 (16.00%) JSP
10 4 (16.00%) Java
10 4 (16.00%) Liferay
10 4 (16.00%) Alfresco
10 4 (16.00%) Software Architecture
11 3 (12.00%) WCAG

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 21 (84.00%) HTML
2 13 (52.00%) jQuery
3 10 (40.00%) HTML5
4 8 (32.00%) XML
4 8 (32.00%) CSS3
5 6 (24.00%) .NET
5 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (24.00%) XSLT
5 6 (24.00%) LAMP
5 6 (24.00%) Symfony
6 5 (20.00%) WCF
7 4 (16.00%) JSP
8 2 (8.000%) Hibernate
8 2 (8.000%) XHTML
8 2 (8.000%) J2EE
8 2 (8.000%) Struts
8 2 (8.000%) JDBC
8 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
8 2 (8.000%) Spring
8 2 (8.000%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.00%) Liferay
2 4 (16.00%) Alfresco
3 3 (12.00%) CMS
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (8.000%) GlassFish
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (4.000%) WordPress
5 1 (4.000%) Joomla!
5 1 (4.000%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (4.000%) Drupal
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.000%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) LDAP
2 1 (4.000%) SSL
2 1 (4.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MySQL
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.000%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) PHPUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (8.000%) NetBeans
3 2 (8.000%) JUnit
3 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.000%) Subversion
3 2 (8.000%) Maven
3 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
3 2 (8.000%) Selenium
3 2 (8.000%) FitNesse
3 2 (8.000%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Web Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Designer
4 3 (12.00%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (12.00%) PHP Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Web Designer
5 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) PHP Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) Web Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) SharePoint Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) W3C
2 2 (8.000%) E-Learning
2 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Android
2 2 (8.000%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (36.00%) MVC
2 6 (24.00%) Web Development
3 4 (16.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) OO
4 3 (12.00%) Web Design
5 2 (8.000%) Workflow
5 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.000%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.000%) OOP
5 2 (8.000%) ITIL
6 1 (4.000%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.000%) Supplier Management
6 1 (4.000%) Content Management
6 1 (4.000%) TDD
6 1 (4.000%) SEO
6 1 (4.000%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (28.00%) PHP
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 2 (8.000%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.000%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) WCAG
2 2 (8.000%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (8.000%) Sun
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle
1 2 (8.000%) Twitter
2 1 (4.000%) Zend
2 1 (4.000%) Lotus
2 1 (4.000%) Adobe