The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 16 34 33
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -1
Contract jobs citing CSS 155 146 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 7.685% 4.513% 4.735%
As % of the Application Development category 32.22% 18.99% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 91 57
Average daily rate £300 £323 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% +29.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £419 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
Average hourly rate £24.50 £23.88 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.61% +44.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £10.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.90 £25.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
481 769 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.85% 23.77% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 460 301
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 37
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -25.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

South West 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 West 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
Bristol +8 41 £256 -14.58%
Devon +9 29 £320 -3.39%
Somerset +6 22 £310 -7.11%
Wiltshire +6 21 £275 -17.91%
Gloucestershire +33 18 £301 -29.17%
Dorset +10 16 £200 -38.46%
CSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 232 (81.40%) HTML
2 224 (78.60%) JavaScript
3 133 (46.67%) .NET
4 116 (40.70%) C#
5 114 (40.00%) jQuery
6 95 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 83 (29.12%) XML
8 75 (26.32%) PHP
9 67 (23.51%) SQL Server
10 65 (22.81%) MVC
11 62 (21.75%) Web Services
12 56 (19.65%) Agile Software Development
12 56 (19.65%) HTML5
13 55 (19.30%) Java
14 54 (18.95%) SQL
14 54 (18.95%) MySQL
14 54 (18.95%) Web Development
15 43 (15.09%) Visual Studio
15 43 (15.09%) Microsoft
16 39 (13.68%) Ajax
17 37 (12.98%) CSS3
18 35 (12.28%) SharePoint
19 33 (11.58%) Finance
20 32 (11.23%) VB.NET
21 30 (10.53%) Oracle
21 30 (10.53%) OO
22 28 (9.825%) Linux
22 28 (9.825%) XSLT
22 28 (9.825%) SQL Server 2008
23 27 (9.474%) CMS

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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
1 232 (81.40%) HTML
2 133 (46.67%) .NET
3 114 (40.00%) jQuery
4 95 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 83 (29.12%) XML
6 62 (21.75%) Web Services
7 56 (19.65%) HTML5
8 39 (13.68%) Ajax
9 37 (12.98%) CSS3
10 28 (9.825%) XSLT
11 23 (8.070%) Spring
12 22 (7.719%) ASP
13 21 (7.368%) .NET Framework
13 21 (7.368%) J2EE
13 21 (7.368%) Hibernate
14 20 (7.018%) WCF
15 18 (6.316%) Dojo
15 18 (6.316%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (5.614%) XHTML
17 15 (5.263%) REST
Application Platforms
1 35 (12.28%) SharePoint
2 27 (9.474%) CMS
3 25 (8.772%) SharePoint 2010
4 16 (5.614%) Drupal
5 14 (4.912%) WordPress
6 11 (3.860%) Apache
7 7 (2.456%) Kentico
8 6 (2.105%) ArcGIS
8 6 (2.105%) IIS
8 6 (2.105%) ArcSDE
8 6 (2.105%) MS Project Server
8 6 (2.105%) Joomla!
9 5 (1.754%) SharePoint 2013
9 5 (1.754%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (1.404%) Tomcat
10 4 (1.404%) Magento
11 3 (1.053%) ESB
11 3 (1.053%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (1.053%) ExpressionEngine
11 3 (1.053%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 24 (8.421%) Photoshop
2 20 (7.018%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (3.509%) MS Excel
4 9 (3.158%) Fireworks
5 6 (2.105%) MS Project
6 3 (1.053%) MS Office
7 2 (0.702%) InDesign
7 2 (0.702%) Google Apps
8 1 (0.351%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.351%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.351%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.351%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.860%) Oracle Applications
2 7 (2.456%) Summit
3 4 (1.404%) Google Analytics
4 3 (1.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.702%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.351%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.456%) Internet
2 4 (1.404%) Intranet
3 2 (0.702%) HTTP
3 2 (0.702%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.351%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.351%) IMAP
4 1 (0.351%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.351%) Network Security
4 1 (0.351%) POP3
4 1 (0.351%) SMTP
4 1 (0.351%) DNS
4 1 (0.351%) Extranet
4 1 (0.351%) DVB
4 1 (0.351%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (23.51%) SQL Server
2 54 (18.95%) MySQL
3 28 (9.825%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (4.211%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (4.211%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.509%) GIS
5 10 (3.509%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (1.053%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 3 (1.053%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.053%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (1.053%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.702%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (0.702%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.351%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.351%) SQLite
8 1 (0.351%) DB2
8 1 (0.351%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 43 (15.09%) Visual Studio
2 23 (8.070%) Subversion
3 22 (7.719%) Git (software)
4 16 (5.614%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (3.860%) Dreamweaver
6 7 (2.456%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.754%) JUnit
8 2 (0.702%) Ant
8 2 (0.702%) JIRA
8 2 (0.702%) ReSharper
8 2 (0.702%) Selenium
8 2 (0.702%) jMock
8 2 (0.702%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.702%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.702%) Mockito
8 2 (0.702%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 1 (0.351%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.351%) MSTest
9 1 (0.351%) FrontPage
9 1 (0.351%) Maven
General
1 33 (11.58%) Finance
2 14 (4.912%) Retail
3 11 (3.860%) Marketing
3 11 (3.860%) Publishing
4 7 (2.456%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.456%) Back Office
5 6 (2.105%) Multimedia
6 4 (1.404%) Electronics
6 4 (1.404%) Banking
7 3 (1.053%) Local Government
7 3 (1.053%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.053%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 253 (88.77%) Developer
2 61 (21.40%) .NET Developer
3 51 (17.89%) PHP Developer
4 41 (14.39%) Web Developer
5 23 (8.070%) Java Developer
6 18 (6.316%) Front-End Developer
6 18 (6.316%) ASP.NET Developer
7 16 (5.614%) SharePoint Developer
8 14 (4.912%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 13 (4.561%) Designer
9 13 (4.561%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.509%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.509%) MySQL Developer
11 9 (3.158%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (3.158%) Drupal Developer
11 9 (3.158%) Web Designer
11 9 (3.158%) GIS Developer
11 9 (3.158%) Programmer
12 8 (2.807%) HTML Developer
12 8 (2.807%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.158%) Social Media
1 9 (3.158%) Digital Media
1 9 (3.158%) Open Source
2 7 (2.456%) Mobile App
2 7 (2.456%) E-Learning
3 6 (2.105%) Graphic Design
3 6 (2.105%) Animation
3 6 (2.105%) New Media
4 5 (1.754%) Social Network
4 5 (1.754%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.754%) DTV
5 3 (1.053%) Blog
5 3 (1.053%) SCORM
6 2 (0.702%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.702%) W3C
6 2 (0.702%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.702%) Streaming Video
6 2 (0.702%) Cryptography
6 2 (0.702%) Inversion of Control
6 2 (0.702%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.825%) Linux
2 17 (5.965%) Windows
3 13 (4.561%) Android
4 9 (3.158%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (2.105%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.105%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.105%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.053%) Windows Phone
6 3 (1.053%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.702%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.702%) Debian
7 2 (0.702%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (0.702%) Windows Phone 8
7 2 (0.702%) Windows Phone 7
8 1 (0.351%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (22.81%) MVC
2 56 (19.65%) Agile Software Development
3 54 (18.95%) Web Development
4 30 (10.53%) OO
5 25 (8.772%) Scrum
6 23 (8.070%) SOA
6 23 (8.070%) TDD
7 16 (5.614%) Data Modelling
8 12 (4.211%) Unit Testing
9 11 (3.860%) User Experience Design
9 11 (3.860%) Data Management
10 10 (3.509%) E-Commerce
10 10 (3.509%) Web Design
10 10 (3.509%) Content Management
10 10 (3.509%) Waterfall
11 9 (3.158%) OOP
12 8 (2.807%) SEO
12 8 (2.807%) Data Analysis
12 8 (2.807%) Analytics
13 7 (2.456%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 224 (78.60%) JavaScript
2 116 (40.70%) C#
3 75 (26.32%) PHP
4 55 (19.30%) Java
5 54 (18.95%) SQL
6 32 (11.23%) VB.NET
7 23 (8.070%) XQuery
8 22 (7.719%) XPath
9 21 (7.368%) VB
10 12 (4.211%) C
11 9 (3.158%) Python
12 8 (2.807%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.807%) VB6
12 8 (2.807%) PHP5
13 7 (2.456%) VBScript
13 7 (2.456%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.754%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.754%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.754%) C++
15 3 (1.053%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (8.772%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.965%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.263%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.211%) MCSD
5 8 (2.807%) MCAD
5 8 (2.807%) Degree
6 7 (2.456%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.754%) MCTS
8 4 (1.404%) ISEB
8 4 (1.404%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (1.404%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.351%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.211%) ISO 9001
2 7 (2.456%) ISO 14001
3 5 (1.754%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.754%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.404%) TickIT
5 3 (1.053%) QA
5 3 (1.053%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (0.702%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.351%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.702%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 43 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.53%) Oracle
3 16 (5.614%) Zend
4 15 (5.263%) Adobe
5 11 (3.860%) Google
6 9 (3.158%) ESRI
7 8 (2.807%) Alterian
8 6 (2.105%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.754%) Twitter
10 4 (1.404%) Sitecore
11 3 (1.053%) Facebook
11 3 (1.053%) SAP
11 3 (1.053%) Business Objects
12 2 (0.702%) Infragistics
12 2 (0.702%) Telerik
12 2 (0.702%) Omniture
12 2 (0.702%) Ektron
13 1 (0.351%) Appcelerator
13 1 (0.351%) F5
13 1 (0.351%) JBoss
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