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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the South East region.

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Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank374952
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads264196385
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East3.643 %2.549 %2.571 %
As % of the Application Development category15.57 %14.12 %11.78 %
Daily rates quoted916167
Average daily rate£250£250£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£163£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£350£375
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£260£275
% change year-on-year
-3.840 %-5.450 %
Hourly rates quoted182554
Average hourly rate£36.00£17.50£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+105.71 %-36.36 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£10.50£16.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£33.00£37.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£20.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00 %-33.33 %
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
169613883267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East23.41 %18.05 %21.82 %
Daily rates quoted657420807
Average daily rate£303£298£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.510 %-8.300 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£206£200£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£400£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted96105330
Average hourly rate£36.00£31.50£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.60£13.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.10£43.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.25£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.830 %-7.690 %
CSS EnglandCSS
England

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.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South East CSS Demand Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS across the South East region.

South East CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

South East CSS Daily Rate Histogram

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

South East CSS Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
BerkshireUp+1965£225-19.64 %
SurreyDown-1049£273+21.11 %
HampshireDown-237£255+2.00 %
OxfordshireUp+1729£250-
KentUp+2024£278+246.87 %
East SussexNo change023£250-
BuckinghamshireDown-315£158-42.72 %
Home CountiesNew entry-10--
West SussexUp+29£250-13.04 %
MiddlesexDown-93£365-
M4 CorridorUp+42--
Thames ValleyDown-12--
SussexNew entry-1--
CSS EnglandCSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1405 (71.43 %)HTML
2356 (62.79 %)JavaScript
3207 (36.51 %).NET
4184 (32.45 %)XHTML
5174 (30.69 %)ASP.NET
6154 (27.16 %)XML
7153 (26.98 %)AJAX
8136 (23.99 %)PHP
9128 (22.57 %)SQL Server
10126 (22.22 %)C#
11116 (20.46 %)Flash
12103 (18.17 %)SQL
1399 (17.46 %)jQuery
1490 (15.87 %)MySQL
1581 (14.29 %)Photoshop
1679 (13.93 %)Web Development
1775 (13.23 %)Java
1874 (13.05 %)SQL Server 2005
1968 (11.99 %)XSLT
2067 (11.82 %)CMS
2160 (10.58 %)Content Management
2253 (9.347 %)ASP
2351 (8.995 %)VB.NET
2448 (8.466 %)OO
2546 (8.113 %)Dreamweaver
2546 (8.113 %)W3C
2645 (7.937 %)E-Commerce
2744 (7.760 %)Web Services
2842 (7.407 %)Adobe
2940 (7.055 %)Oracle

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1405 (71.43 %)HTML
2207 (36.51 %).NET
3184 (32.45 %)XHTML
4174 (30.69 %)ASP.NET
5154 (27.16 %)XML
6153 (26.98 %)AJAX
7116 (20.46 %)Flash
899 (17.46 %)jQuery
968 (11.99 %)XSLT
1053 (9.347 %)ASP
1144 (7.760 %)Web Services
1233 (5.820 %)LAMP
1331 (5.467 %)JSP
1423 (4.056 %)Spring
1423 (4.056 %)JSON
1521 (3.704 %)DHTML
1620 (3.527 %).NET Framework
1717 (2.998 %)MVC
1813 (2.293 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1912 (2.116 %)Microformats
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
167 (11.82 %)CMS
234 (5.996 %)Drupal
333 (5.820 %)Apache
432 (5.644 %)Tomcat
529 (5.115 %)SharePoint
620 (3.527 %)IIS
718 (3.175 %)SharePoint Server 2007
87 (1.235 %)DotNetNuke
87 (1.235 %)Joomla!
87 (1.235 %)ColdFusion
96 (1.058 %)LiveLink
96 (1.058 %)Alfresco
105 (0.882 %)TYPO3
114 (0.705 %)Umbraco
114 (0.705 %)WordPress
114 (0.705 %)Sitecore CMS
123 (0.529 %)SAP Portal
123 (0.529 %)EPiServer
132 (0.353 %)ArcGIS
132 (0.353 %)WebLogic
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
181 (14.29 %)Photoshop
237 (6.526 %)Adobe Illustrator
310 (1.764 %)MS Office
49 (1.587 %)Fireworks
55 (0.882 %)MS Excel
64 (0.705 %)Acrobat
73 (0.529 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.529 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.353 %)InDesign
91 (0.176 %)DOC1
91 (0.176 %)Adobe Captivate
91 (0.176 %)MS Project
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.353 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.176 %)SAP HR
21 (0.176 %)Exstream
21 (0.176 %)SAP Oil and Gas
21 (0.176 %)Remedy ITSM
21 (0.176 %)Remedy AR System
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
137 (6.526 %)Intranet
223 (4.056 %)Internet
315 (2.646 %)Extranet
411 (1.940 %)Firewall
57 (1.235 %)FTP
57 (1.235 %)SNMP
57 (1.235 %)MPLS
57 (1.235 %)OSPF
57 (1.235 %)BGP
57 (1.235 %)VoIP
66 (1.058 %)Cisco PIX
75 (0.882 %)SSL
84 (0.705 %)HTTP
93 (0.529 %)TCP/IP
102 (0.353 %)SSH
102 (0.353 %)SMTP
102 (0.353 %)Broadband
102 (0.353 %)NetScreen
102 (0.353 %)SMPP
111 (0.176 %)GPRS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1128 (22.57 %)SQL Server
290 (15.87 %)MySQL
374 (13.05 %)SQL Server 2005
417 (2.998 %)SQL Server 2008
515 (2.646 %)SQL Server 2000
67 (1.235 %)SQL Server Integration Services
76 (1.058 %)GIS
76 (1.058 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
85 (0.882 %)DTS
93 (0.529 %)RDBMS
93 (0.529 %)Oracle 10g
93 (0.529 %)Oracle 8/8i
102 (0.353 %)BusinessObjects
111 (0.176 %)Oracle 9i
111 (0.176 %)MS Access
111 (0.176 %)Datawarehouse
111 (0.176 %)DB2
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
146 (8.113 %)Dreamweaver
236 (6.349 %)Visual Studio
326 (4.586 %)Eclipse
422 (3.880 %)Ant
519 (3.351 %)Subversion
610 (1.764 %)NUnit
78 (1.411 %)Team Foundation Server
87 (1.235 %)VSS/SourceSafe
92 (0.353 %)Expression Blend
101 (0.176 %)TeamCity
101 (0.176 %)Git (software)
101 (0.176 %)TortoiseSVN
101 (0.176 %)PHPUnit
101 (0.176 %)JUnit
101 (0.176 %)Fiddler
South East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
129 (5.115 %)Marketing
221 (3.704 %)Telecoms
320 (3.527 %)Graphic Design
418 (3.175 %)Finance
512 (2.116 %)Government
512 (2.116 %)Insurance
611 (1.940 %)Publishing
611 (1.940 %)Multimedia
79 (1.587 %)Games
88 (1.411 %)Home Office
88 (1.411 %)Education
94 (0.705 %)Health
103 (0.529 %)Back Office
103 (0.529 %)Retail
103 (0.529 %)Local Government
112 (0.353 %)Construction
121 (0.176 %)Automotive
121 (0.176 %)Manufacturing
121 (0.176 %)Advertising
121 (0.176 %)Retail Banking
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1444 (78.31 %)Developer
2150 (26.46 %)Web Developer
3102 (17.99 %).NET Developer
492 (16.23 %)Designer
567 (11.82 %)Web Designer
658 (10.23 %)PHP Developer
755 (9.700 %)ASP.NET Developer
832 (5.644 %)C# Developer
832 (5.644 %)Java Developer
931 (5.467 %)CSS Developer
1025 (4.409 %)UI Designer
1025 (4.409 %)VB.NET Developer
1124 (4.233 %)HTML Developer
1221 (3.704 %)UI Developer
1320 (3.527 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1419 (3.351 %)SharePoint Developer
1518 (3.175 %)Java Web Developer
1617 (2.998 %)Front-End Developer
1715 (2.646 %)Website Developer
1814 (2.469 %).NET Web Developer
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
146 (8.113 %)W3C
212 (2.116 %)Open Source
38 (1.411 %)Web 2.0
38 (1.411 %)Computer Science
38 (1.411 %)iPhone
46 (1.058 %)Social Network
46 (1.058 %)N-Tier
55 (0.882 %)Copywriting
62 (0.353 %)Blog
62 (0.353 %)NHS
62 (0.353 %)Management Information System
62 (0.353 %)Dependency Injection
62 (0.353 %)E-Learning
71 (0.176 %)AS400
71 (0.176 %)iSeries
71 (0.176 %)Mashup
71 (0.176 %)Remote Sensing
71 (0.176 %)Data Integration
71 (0.176 %)Smartcard
71 (0.176 %)Blackberry
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
134 (5.996 %)Linux
218 (3.175 %)Windows
37 (1.235 %)Windows Server 2003
37 (1.235 %)Android
37 (1.235 %)Red Hat Linux
44 (0.705 %)UNIX
52 (0.353 %)Windows CE
61 (0.176 %)Windows XP
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
179 (13.93 %)Web Development
260 (10.58 %)Content Management
348 (8.466 %)OO
445 (7.937 %)E-Commerce
523 (4.056 %)Web Design
523 (4.056 %)Agile Software Development
620 (3.527 %)SEO
718 (3.175 %)Web Usability
817 (2.998 %)UML
914 (2.469 %)Project Management
1013 (2.293 %)TDD
1112 (2.116 %)OOP
1211 (1.940 %)Product Marketing
1310 (1.764 %)CRM
148 (1.411 %)Migration
157 (1.235 %)Information Architecture
157 (1.235 %)Load Balancing
157 (1.235 %)Scrum
166 (1.058 %)Business Analysis
175 (0.882 %)Unit Testing
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1356 (62.79 %)JavaScript
2136 (23.99 %)PHP
3126 (22.22 %)C#
4103 (18.17 %)SQL
575 (13.23 %)Java
651 (8.995 %)VB.NET
736 (6.349 %)T-SQL
828 (4.938 %)ActionScript
927 (4.762 %)PHP5
1024 (4.233 %)Python
1119 (3.351 %)PL/SQL
1217 (2.998 %)C
1316 (2.822 %)VB
1412 (2.116 %)Perl
1511 (1.940 %)ActionScript 3.0
1610 (1.764 %)ActionScript 2.0
179 (1.587 %)PHP4
188 (1.411 %)C++
196 (1.058 %)Objective-C
204 (0.705 %)Ruby
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
120 (3.527 %)Security Cleared
216 (2.822 %)SC Cleared
314 (2.469 %)Degree
49 (1.587 %)Microsoft Certification
58 (1.411 %)CCNP
58 (1.411 %)Cisco Certification
67 (1.235 %)CCIE
76 (1.058 %)MCTS
84 (0.705 %)MCAD
92 (0.353 %)MCSD
92 (0.353 %)MCPD
101 (0.176 %)CCSA
101 (0.176 %)CCSE
101 (0.176 %)CCSP
101 (0.176 %)MCP
101 (0.176 %)ISEB
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (1.058 %)WAI
23 (0.529 %)WCAG
32 (0.353 %)QA
South East IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.353 %)Active Directory
21 (0.176 %)Oracle RAC
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.882 %)OpenView
15 (0.882 %)OVSD
21 (0.176 %)ServiceCenter
21 (0.176 %)SCOM
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
142 (7.407 %)Adobe
240 (7.055 %)Oracle
338 (6.702 %)Microsoft
417 (2.998 %)Zend
510 (1.764 %)Cisco
67 (1.235 %)Red Hat
67 (1.235 %)CheckPoint
76 (1.058 %)Apple
76 (1.058 %)Nokia
76 (1.058 %)HP
76 (1.058 %)Juniper
85 (0.882 %)Radware
85 (0.882 %)Redback
94 (0.705 %)Informatica
94 (0.705 %)JBoss
94 (0.705 %)Sitecore
103 (0.529 %)Google
103 (0.529 %)SAP
103 (0.529 %)IBM
112 (0.353 %)Macromedia