Slough CSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Slough 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	16
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	32	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	42.67 %	26.92 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£228	-
Average daily rate	£249	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£270	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£271
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	£39.07
Average hourly rate	£29.92	£39.23
% change on same period last year	-23.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.33	£39.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.87	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-9.81 %
Application Development Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	75	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.079 %
Daily rates quoted	11	10
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£305
Average daily rate	£265	£317
% change on same period last year	-16.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.15	£40.82
Average hourly rate	£38.65	£40.96
% change on same period last year	-5.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.15	£41.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
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 Slough 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 Slough region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Slough region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Slough region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Slough region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 36 (87.80 %) HTML 2 20 (48.78 %) ActionScript 2 20 (48.78 %) JavaScript 2 20 (48.78 %) Flash 3 17 (41.46 %) XHTML 4 15 (36.59 %) AJAX 4 15 (36.59 %) Internet 5 12 (29.27 %) DHTML 5 12 (29.27 %) Content Management 5 12 (29.27 %) Web Design 6 11 (26.83 %) Photoshop 6 11 (26.83 %) ASP 7 10 (24.39 %) Dreamweaver 7 10 (24.39 %) CMS 8 9 (21.95 %) NHS

8 9 (21.95 %) ASP.NET 8 9 (21.95 %) IIS 8 9 (21.95 %) .NET 9 8 (19.51 %) JSP 9 8 (19.51 %) jQuery 10 7 (17.07 %) DB2 UDB 10 7 (17.07 %) Windows Server 2003 10 7 (17.07 %) Intranet 10 7 (17.07 %) Windows 10 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 10 7 (17.07 %) DB2 10 7 (17.07 %) Java 10 7 (17.07 %) IBM 11 6 (14.63 %) Web Development 12 5 (12.20 %) VSS/SourceSafe

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 36 (87.80 %) HTML 2 17 (41.46 %) XHTML 3 15 (36.59 %) AJAX 4 11 (26.83 %) ASP 5 9 (21.95 %) ASP.NET 5 9 (21.95 %) .NET 6 8 (19.51 %) JSP 6 8 (19.51 %) jQuery 7 3 (7.317 %) WebServices 8 2 (4.878 %) XML 8 2 (4.878 %) XSLT 9 1 (2.439 %) WinForms 9 1 (2.439 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (2.439 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 1 (2.439 %) Drupal	Application Platforms 1 10 (24.39 %) CMS 2 9 (21.95 %) IIS 3 4 (9.756 %) Plone 4 1 (2.439 %) Joomla! 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 11 (26.83 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.439 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.439 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 15 (36.59 %) Internet 2 7 (17.07 %) Intranet 3 5 (12.20 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 1 7 (17.07 %) DB2 1 7 (17.07 %) DB2 UDB 2 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 20 (48.78 %) Flash 2 10 (24.39 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (12.20 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (2.439 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (2.439 %) Eclipse 4 1 (2.439 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (12.20 %) Multimedia 1 5 (12.20 %) Animation 2 2 (4.878 %) Publishing 3 1 (2.439 %) Video Editing 3 1 (2.439 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.439 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.439 %) Health	Job Titles 1 27 (65.85 %) Developer 2 17 (41.46 %) Web Developer 3 9 (21.95 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (21.95 %) Analyst 3 9 (21.95 %) Web Analyst 4 8 (19.51 %) ActionScript Developer 4 8 (19.51 %) Flash Developer 5 5 (12.20 %) Website Developer 6 2 (4.878 %) Web Designer 7 1 (2.439 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (2.439 %) HTML Developer 7 1 (2.439 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (21.95 %) NHS 2 2 (4.878 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 7 (17.07 %) Windows 1 7 (17.07 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (29.27 %) Web Design 1 12 (29.27 %) Content Management 2 6 (14.63 %) Web Development 3 4 (9.756 %) Release Management 4 2 (4.878 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.439 %) Creative Marketing	Programming Languages 1 20 (48.78 %) JavaScript 1 20 (48.78 %) ActionScript 2 12 (29.27 %) DHTML 3 7 (17.07 %) Java 4 4 (9.756 %) C# 4 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET 5 1 (2.439 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (4.878 %) Degree 2 1 (2.439 %) MCSD 2 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 7 (17.07 %) IBM 2 2 (4.878 %) Adobe 2 2 (4.878 %) Macromedia 3 1 (2.439 %) ION Trading 3 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft