The first table below looks at the demand for CSS3 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 CSS3 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CSS 3
Rank 88 132 107
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -25
Contract jobs citing CSS3 23 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.116% 0.212% 0.471%
As % of the Application Development category 4.752% 0.892% 2.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 6
Average daily rate £268 £325 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.69% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £263 £399
10% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £400 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
484 785 643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.48% 23.77% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 469 283
Average daily rate £325 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 38
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -24.81%
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%
CSS3
England

CSS3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CSS3 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South West CSS3 Jobs Demand Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS3 across the South West region.

South West CSS3 Daily Rate Trend

CSS3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS3 across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West CSS3 Daily Rate Histogram

CSS3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the South West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Devon - 11 £350 -
Bristol +19 9 £250 -20.00%
Gloucestershire +30 1 - -
Dorset +4 1 £250 -
Wiltshire - 1 £300 -
CSS3
England

CSS3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CSS3 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 CSS3.

1 36 (100.00%) CSS
2 35 (97.22%) HTML5
3 28 (77.78%) JavaScript
4 20 (55.56%) jQuery
5 18 (50.00%) HTML
6 11 (30.56%) PHP
7 10 (27.78%) XML
8 9 (25.00%) Web Services
8 9 (25.00%) Photoshop
8 9 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
9 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
9 8 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (22.22%) MVC
9 8 (22.22%) XHTML
10 7 (19.44%) WordPress
11 6 (16.67%) Git (software)
11 6 (16.67%) User Experience Design
11 6 (16.67%) RESTful
11 6 (16.67%) Subversion
11 6 (16.67%) Web Development
11 6 (16.67%) Drupal
11 6 (16.67%) Fireworks
11 6 (16.67%) ISO 14001
11 6 (16.67%) Summit
11 6 (16.67%) ISO 9001
11 6 (16.67%) MySQL
12 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
12 5 (13.89%) Adobe
12 5 (13.89%) JAXB

CSS3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CSS3 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 CSS3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (100.00%) CSS
2 35 (97.22%) HTML5
3 20 (55.56%) jQuery
4 18 (50.00%) HTML
5 10 (27.78%) XML
6 9 (25.00%) Web Services
7 8 (22.22%) XHTML
8 6 (16.67%) RESTful
9 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
9 5 (13.89%) JAXB
9 5 (13.89%) Dojo
10 3 (8.333%) ASP
10 3 (8.333%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (8.333%) Backbone.js
11 2 (5.556%) LINQ
11 2 (5.556%) Django
11 2 (5.556%) Ajax
11 2 (5.556%) WCF
11 2 (5.556%) WF
11 2 (5.556%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) WordPress
2 6 (16.67%) Drupal
3 4 (11.11%) Magento
3 4 (11.11%) CMS
4 1 (2.778%) Apache
4 1 (2.778%) IIS
4 1 (2.778%) nginx
4 1 (2.778%) Joomla!
4 1 (2.778%) Jetty
Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 9 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (16.67%) Fireworks
3 3 (8.333%) MS Office
4 2 (5.556%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Summit
2 1 (2.778%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) Internet
1 2 (5.556%) HTTP
1 2 (5.556%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.778%) DNS
2 1 (2.778%) POP3
2 1 (2.778%) SMTP
2 1 (2.778%) Intranet
2 1 (2.778%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) MySQL
2 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.778%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 6 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.778%) Xcode
General
1 4 (11.11%) Marketing
2 3 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (2.778%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Designer
3 8 (22.22%) Web Designer
4 7 (19.44%) Web Developer
5 6 (16.67%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.11%) UI Programmer
6 4 (11.11%) UI Developer
7 3 (8.333%) HTML Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Photoshop Designer
8 2 (5.556%) Front-End Web Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Drupal Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.778%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Programmer
9 1 (2.778%) PHP Drupal Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Mobile Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Mobile Software Engineer
9 1 (2.778%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.556%) New Media
2 1 (2.778%) E-Learning
2 1 (2.778%) Visualisation
2 1 (2.778%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.778%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.333%) Windows
1 3 (8.333%) Android
1 3 (8.333%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (22.22%) MVC
2 6 (16.67%) User Experience Design
2 6 (16.67%) Web Development
3 5 (13.89%) Usability Testing
3 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
3 5 (13.89%) Information Architecture
4 4 (11.11%) Analytics
4 4 (11.11%) Time Management
4 4 (11.11%) Web Design
4 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 3 (8.333%) SEO
5 3 (8.333%) Web Analytics
5 3 (8.333%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (5.556%) Unit Testing
6 2 (5.556%) Workflow
6 2 (5.556%) OO
7 1 (2.778%) Data Modelling
7 1 (2.778%) UML
7 1 (2.778%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) PHP
3 5 (13.89%) XQuery
3 5 (13.89%) XPath
4 2 (5.556%) PHP5
4 2 (5.556%) SQL
4 2 (5.556%) C#
4 2 (5.556%) Python
5 1 (2.778%) Java
5 1 (2.778%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.778%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.778%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) ISO 14001
1 6 (16.67%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Adobe
2 4 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.556%) Zend
4 2 (5.556%) Ektron
4 2 (5.556%) Infragistics
4 2 (5.556%) Telerik
5 1 (2.778%) Oracle
5 1 (2.778%) Facebook
5 1 (2.778%) Twitter
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