The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 9 15 18
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Contract jobs citing CSS 22 21 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 12.94% 12.35% 9.249%
As % of the Application Development category 56.41% 33.87% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 12
Average daily rate £310 £334 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.11% +11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £230 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £365 £350
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
39 62 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 22.94% 36.47% 47.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 44
Average daily rate £320 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
South West

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Somerset CSS Daily Rate Histogram

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton +1 7 £392 +9.51%
Bath +1 4 £260 +8.90%
Bridgwater - 3 £306 -
CSS
South West

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 30 (93.75%) HTML
2 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 21 (65.63%) C#
3 21 (65.63%) .NET
4 19 (59.38%) SQL
5 16 (50.00%) Java
5 16 (50.00%) ASP.NET
6 13 (40.63%) ASP
7 12 (37.50%) Visual Studio
7 12 (37.50%) PHP
7 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
8 10 (31.25%) Web Services
8 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
8 10 (31.25%) MVC
9 9 (28.13%) TDD
9 9 (28.13%) SharePoint 2010
10 8 (25.00%) Retail
10 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (21.88%) XML
11 7 (21.88%) VB
11 7 (21.88%) Spring
12 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
12 6 (18.75%) Oracle
13 5 (15.63%) Publishing
13 5 (15.63%) Project Management
13 5 (15.63%) Regression Testing
13 5 (15.63%) XSL
13 5 (15.63%) ISO 9000
13 5 (15.63%) RAD

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 30 (93.75%) HTML
2 21 (65.63%) .NET
3 16 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 13 (40.63%) ASP
5 10 (31.25%) Web Services
6 7 (21.88%) XML
6 7 (21.88%) Spring
7 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
8 5 (15.63%) XSL
8 5 (15.63%) J2EE
8 5 (15.63%) Spring MVC
8 5 (15.63%) jQuery
9 4 (12.50%) HTML5
10 3 (9.375%) JSP
10 3 (9.375%) WCF
10 3 (9.375%) WPF
10 3 (9.375%) WF
10 3 (9.375%) CodeIgniter
11 2 (6.250%) Symfony
11 2 (6.250%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (28.13%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (15.63%) WordPress
4 3 (9.375%) Apache
5 2 (6.250%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.125%) CMS
6 1 (3.125%) Joomla!
6 1 (3.125%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (3.125%) DB2
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.50%) Subversion
3 2 (6.250%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.250%) Ant
3 2 (6.250%) JUnit
4 1 (3.125%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.125%) NUnit
4 1 (3.125%) MSTest
4 1 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.125%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.00%) Retail
2 5 (15.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 7 (21.88%) PHP Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
5 5 (15.63%) .NET Developer
5 5 (15.63%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (9.375%) PHP Web Developer
7 2 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Classic ASP Developer
7 2 (6.250%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) ASP Developer
7 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Programmer
7 2 (6.250%) Web Applications Developer
7 2 (6.250%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.250%) J2EE Developer
7 2 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Animation
2 2 (6.250%) Cryptography
3 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) iPad
3 1 (3.125%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Linux
2 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) MVC
2 9 (28.13%) TDD
3 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (15.63%) Project Management
4 5 (15.63%) Regression Testing
4 5 (15.63%) RAD
4 5 (15.63%) Data Management
4 5 (15.63%) User Experience Design
4 5 (15.63%) Web Development
4 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 4 (12.50%) UML
5 4 (12.50%) ITIL
5 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 4 (12.50%) ITSM
5 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 3 (9.375%) Change Management
6 3 (9.375%) SOA
6 3 (9.375%) Pair Programming
6 3 (9.375%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 21 (65.63%) C#
3 19 (59.38%) SQL
4 16 (50.00%) Java
5 12 (37.50%) PHP
6 7 (21.88%) VB
7 5 (15.63%) VBScript
7 5 (15.63%) C
7 5 (15.63%) VB6
8 2 (6.250%) VB.NET
9 1 (3.125%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) MCTS
2 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) ISEB Practitioner
2 4 (12.50%) MCSD
2 4 (12.50%) ISEB
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.125%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO 9000
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) TickIT
3 3 (9.375%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (9.375%) Zend
4 1 (3.125%) Apple
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