The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Southampton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 18 20 19
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 6.102% 4.825% 4.972%
As % of the Application Development category 26.87% 21.57% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 2
Average daily rate £270 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £259 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £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 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -27.27%
All Application Development
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
67 51 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 22.71% 22.37% 23.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 12
Average daily rate £330 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Hampshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 21 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (56.67%) HTML
2 17 (56.67%) jQuery
3 16 (53.33%) PHP
4 15 (50.00%) HTML5
5 12 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (40.00%) MySQL
6 11 (36.67%) CSS3
7 10 (33.33%) MVC
8 8 (26.67%) XML
8 8 (26.67%) OOP
8 8 (26.67%) Subversion
8 8 (26.67%) PHP5
9 7 (23.33%) Magento
9 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET
9 7 (23.33%) .NET
9 7 (23.33%) CMS
10 6 (20.00%) XHTML
10 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 6 (20.00%) C#
10 6 (20.00%) Drupal
10 6 (20.00%) WordPress
11 5 (16.67%) Web Development
11 5 (16.67%) Java
12 4 (13.33%) SOAP
12 4 (13.33%) Web Services
12 4 (13.33%) UNIX
12 4 (13.33%) Ajax
13 3 (10.00%) Java EE
13 3 (10.00%) Spring

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 17 (56.67%) HTML
1 17 (56.67%) jQuery
2 15 (50.00%) HTML5
3 11 (36.67%) CSS3
4 8 (26.67%) XML
5 7 (23.33%) .NET
5 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET
6 6 (20.00%) XHTML
7 4 (13.33%) Ajax
7 4 (13.33%) SOAP
7 4 (13.33%) Web Services
8 3 (10.00%) JDBC
8 3 (10.00%) JSP
8 3 (10.00%) Servlets
8 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (10.00%) XSLT
8 3 (10.00%) JPA
8 3 (10.00%) Java EE
8 3 (10.00%) Spring
9 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) CMS
1 7 (23.33%) Magento
2 6 (20.00%) Drupal
2 6 (20.00%) WordPress
3 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Azure
5 1 (3.333%) EPiServer CMS
5 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.333%) TeamSite
5 1 (3.333%) ESB
5 1 (3.333%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.333%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) Intranet
1 1 (3.333%) Internet
1 1 (3.333%) Extranet
1 1 (3.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) MySQL
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Subversion
2 3 (10.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (10.00%) JUnit
2 3 (10.00%) Log4j
3 2 (6.667%) Xcode
3 2 (6.667%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (3.333%) Aerospace
1 1 (3.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) PHP Developer
3 5 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 3 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (6.667%) CMS Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.667%) iOS Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Drupal Developer
7 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (3.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.333%) W3C
1 1 (3.333%) Mobile Games
1 1 (3.333%) iPhone
1 1 (3.333%) Social Media
1 1 (3.333%) iPad
1 1 (3.333%) Digital Media
1 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) UNIX
2 2 (6.667%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.333%) Windows
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
3 1 (3.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (33.33%) MVC
3 8 (26.67%) OOP
4 5 (16.67%) Web Development
5 2 (6.667%) Validation
5 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.667%) OO
5 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.667%) OOD
5 2 (6.667%) UML
6 1 (3.333%) TDD
6 1 (3.333%) Pair Programming
6 1 (3.333%) Zachman Framework
6 1 (3.333%) TOGAF
6 1 (3.333%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (3.333%) Software Architecture
6 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.333%) BDD
6 1 (3.333%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (53.33%) PHP
3 8 (26.67%) PHP5
4 6 (20.00%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (6.667%) C
7 2 (6.667%) C++
8 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.333%) Python
8 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
8 1 (3.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.00%) Zend
2 2 (6.667%) Twitter
3 1 (3.333%) EPiServer
3 1 (3.333%) Interwoven