Southampton CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Southampton region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	9
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	26	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	39.39 %	30.30 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£300
Average daily rate	£200	£329
% change on same period last year	-39.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£285
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.67	£19.60
Average hourly rate	£32.46	£21.71
% change on same period last year	+49.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.25	£23.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.97	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Application Development Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	66	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	11	24
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£313
Average daily rate	£346	£333
% change on same period last year	+3.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.96	£23.47
Average hourly rate	£34.85	£26.39
% change on same period last year	+32.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.74	£29.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
CSS Hampshire

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 Southampton 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 Southampton region.

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Southampton region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 25 (71.43 %) XHTML 2 22 (62.86 %) XML 3 21 (60.00 %) .NET 4 19 (54.29 %) SQL Server 4 19 (54.29 %) HTML 5 18 (51.43 %) Visual Studio 6 14 (40.00 %) JavaScript 7 13 (37.14 %) ASP 7 13 (37.14 %) Photoshop 7 13 (37.14 %) CMS 8 11 (31.43 %) .NET Framework 9 10 (28.57 %) Content Management 9 10 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 10 9 (25.71 %) SQL 10 9 (25.71 %) Web Development

11 8 (22.86 %) SQL Server 2005 11 8 (22.86 %) Intranet 11 8 (22.86 %) VBScript 11 8 (22.86 %) VB.NET 12 7 (20.00 %) C# 12 7 (20.00 %) ColdFusion 12 7 (20.00 %) Flash 13 6 (17.14 %) Marketing 14 5 (14.29 %) Internet 14 5 (14.29 %) Adobe 14 5 (14.29 %) ActionScript 14 5 (14.29 %) IIS 14 5 (14.29 %) XSLT 14 5 (14.29 %) WebServices 14 5 (14.29 %) OO

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 25 (71.43 %) XHTML 2 22 (62.86 %) XML 3 21 (60.00 %) .NET 4 19 (54.29 %) HTML 5 13 (37.14 %) ASP 6 11 (31.43 %) .NET Framework 7 10 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 8 5 (14.29 %) WebServices 8 5 (14.29 %) Adobe Flex 8 5 (14.29 %) AJAX 8 5 (14.29 %) XSLT 9 3 (8.571 %) XMPP 10 2 (5.714 %) ActiveX 10 2 (5.714 %) Middleware 10 2 (5.714 %) DOM 10 2 (5.714 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 13 (37.14 %) CMS 2 7 (20.00 %) ColdFusion 3 5 (14.29 %) IIS 4 4 (11.43 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (5.714 %) Apache 5 2 (5.714 %) Tomcat 5 2 (5.714 %) SharePoint 6 1 (2.857 %) ColdFusion MX
Applications 1 13 (37.14 %) Photoshop 2 4 (11.43 %) MS Excel 3 3 (8.571 %) FreeHand 3 3 (8.571 %) Fireworks 3 3 (8.571 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (5.714 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (5.714 %) Acrobat	Communications & Networking 1 8 (22.86 %) Intranet 2 5 (14.29 %) Internet 3 3 (8.571 %) HTTP 3 3 (8.571 %) RTSP 4 1 (2.857 %) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (54.29 %) SQL Server 2 8 (22.86 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (14.29 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (11.43 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.857 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 18 (51.43 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (20.00 %) Flash 3 3 (8.571 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 6 (17.14 %) Marketing 2 3 (8.571 %) Finance 3 1 (2.857 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 23 (65.71 %) Developer 2 9 (25.71 %) Web Developer 3 7 (20.00 %) ColdFusion Developer 4 6 (17.14 %) C# Developer 5 4 (11.43 %) Web Designer 5 4 (11.43 %) .NET Developer 6 3 (8.571 %) Junior Developer 6 3 (8.571 %) Junior Web Developer 6 3 (8.571 %) Flex Developer 6 3 (8.571 %) Junior 7 2 (5.714 %) Interface Designer 7 2 (5.714 %) Systems Developer 7 2 (5.714 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.714 %) VB.NET Developer 7 2 (5.714 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.714 %) .NET Web Developer 8 1 (2.857 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (2.857 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (2.857 %) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.714 %) NHS 1 2 (5.714 %) W3C 1 2 (5.714 %) STB 2 1 (2.857 %) iDTV 2 1 (2.857 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 4 (11.43 %) Windows 1 4 (11.43 %) Linux 2 3 (8.571 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (2.857 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (28.57 %) Content Management 2 9 (25.71 %) Web Development 3 5 (14.29 %) OO 4 3 (8.571 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (8.571 %) OOD 4 3 (8.571 %) OOP 5 1 (2.857 %) Digital Marketing 5 1 (2.857 %) Web Design 5 1 (2.857 %) SSADM	Programming Languages 1 14 (40.00 %) JavaScript 2 9 (25.71 %) SQL 3 8 (22.86 %) VBScript 3 8 (22.86 %) VB.NET 4 7 (20.00 %) C# 5 5 (14.29 %) ActionScript 6 4 (11.43 %) C++ 6 4 (11.43 %) VB 6 4 (11.43 %) C 7 2 (5.714 %) Perl 8 1 (2.857 %) Embedded C 8 1 (2.857 %) Embedded C++
Vendors 1 5 (14.29 %) Adobe 2 4 (11.43 %) Business Objects 3 3 (8.571 %) MKS 4 2 (5.714 %) Google 4 2 (5.714 %) Tridion 5 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft