The first table below looks at the demand for CSS3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS3 over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CSS 3
Rank 13 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing CSS3 6 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 7.143% 5.093% -
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% 14.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £305 £313
% change year-on-year
-1.63% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 75 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.57% 34.72% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 69
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS3
West Midlands

CSS3
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire CSS3 Daily Rate Trend

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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Stoke-on-Trent +5 6 £330 +1.53%
CSS3
West Midlands

CSS3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 17 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 17 (100.00%) CSS
1 17 (100.00%) XML
1 17 (100.00%) XSLT
1 17 (100.00%) XHTML
1 17 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 17 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 17 (100.00%) SOA
1 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 17 (100.00%) SEO
1 17 (100.00%) Ajax
1 17 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 17 (100.00%) HTML5
2 15 (88.24%) Degree
2 15 (88.24%) SQL
2 15 (88.24%) jQuery
2 15 (88.24%) Web Application Development
3 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) Document Management
4 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 6 (35.29%) AccuRev
5 4 (23.53%) Games
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
6 3 (17.65%) Windows

CSS3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 17 (100.00%) CSS
1 17 (100.00%) XML
1 17 (100.00%) XSLT
1 17 (100.00%) XHTML
1 17 (100.00%) Ajax
1 17 (100.00%) HTML5
2 15 (88.24%) jQuery
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 16 (94.12%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 16 (94.12%) VB.NET Developer
2 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET Developer
3 14 (82.35%) Web Developer
3 14 (82.35%) SQL Developer
3 14 (82.35%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
4 3 (17.65%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Website Developer
6 1 (5.882%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
2 3 (17.65%) WURFL
3 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Android
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
1 3 (17.65%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 17 (100.00%) SOA
1 17 (100.00%) SEO
1 17 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 15 (88.24%) Web Application Development
3 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) Document Management
5 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (88.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) AccuRev