Staffordshire CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	6.061 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£280
% change on same period last year	+6.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	-
Average hourly rate	£22.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£28.57
% change on same period last year	-10.05 %
Application Development Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	66	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£337
Average daily rate	£373	£348
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.71	£32.86
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£33.57
% change on same period last year	-25.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£34.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
CSS West Midlands

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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent	-	3	-	-
Lichfield	-	1	-	-

CSS West Midlands

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (87.50 %) PHP 2 6 (75.00 %) HTML 3 5 (62.50 %) MySQL 3 5 (62.50 %) JavaScript 4 4 (50.00 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (50.00 %) PHP5 5 3 (37.50 %) AJAX 5 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (37.50 %) ASP 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL 6 2 (25.00 %) SAP 6 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 2 (25.00 %) Zend 6 2 (25.00 %) Zend Studio

7 1 (12.50 %) PHP4 7 1 (12.50 %) Load Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (12.50 %) Web Design 7 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 7 1 (12.50 %) JSP 7 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 1 (12.50 %) Java 7 1 (12.50 %) Linux 7 1 (12.50 %) Apache 7 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 7 1 (12.50 %) CRM 7 1 (12.50 %) ERP 7 1 (12.50 %) B2B 7 1 (12.50 %) B2C

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 6 (75.00 %) HTML 2 3 (37.50 %) AJAX 2 3 (37.50 %) ASP 3 1 (12.50 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) MySQL 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) Zend Studio	Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Web Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) ASP Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) PHP Developer
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Load Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Design 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (12.50 %) ERP 3 1 (12.50 %) B2B 3 1 (12.50 %) B2C
Programming Languages 1 7 (87.50 %) PHP 2 5 (62.50 %) JavaScript 3 4 (50.00 %) PHP5 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) PHP4 5 1 (12.50 %) Java	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) SAP 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (25.00 %) Zend