The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 St Albans 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 5 7 4
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 6 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 18.75% 8.000% 20.00%
As % of the Application Development category 75.00% 16.67% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
Average daily rate £375 £375 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.78%
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 £19.76 £27.75
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.79%
All Application Development
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 25.00% 48.00% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 7
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Hertfordshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the St Albans region.

St Albans CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) jQuery
3 3 (42.86%) Video on Demand
3 3 (42.86%) HTML5
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) CSS3
3 3 (42.86%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) E-Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) VLE
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) jQuery
2 3 (42.86%) HTML5
2 3 (42.86%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Web Developer
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (28.57%) E-Learning Developer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Coordinator
3 2 (28.57%) Moodle Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Video on Demand
2 2 (28.57%) E-Learning
2 2 (28.57%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Web Development
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Web Design
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree