The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 23 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 8 12 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 25.00% 17.65% 25.45%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 32.43% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 11
Average daily rate £328 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% +30.00%
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 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 37 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 50.00% 54.41% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
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
Staffordshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 27 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 23 (85.19%) C#
2 23 (85.19%) VB.NET
2 23 (85.19%) .NET
2 23 (85.19%) SQL Server
2 23 (85.19%) XML
2 23 (85.19%) XSLT
2 23 (85.19%) ASP.NET
3 21 (77.78%) jQuery
4 20 (74.07%) HTML5
5 18 (66.67%) Ajax
5 18 (66.67%) E-Commerce
6 17 (62.96%) N-Tier
6 17 (62.96%) SOA
6 17 (62.96%) SEO
6 17 (62.96%) XHTML
6 17 (62.96%) Unit Testing
6 17 (62.96%) CSS3
7 15 (55.56%) SQL
7 15 (55.56%) Degree
7 15 (55.56%) Web Application Development
8 12 (44.44%) Document Management
9 10 (37.04%) HTML
10 8 (29.63%) TDD
11 7 (25.93%) .NET Framework
12 6 (22.22%) AccuRev
12 6 (22.22%) JIRA
13 4 (14.81%) Games
13 4 (14.81%) Flash Builder
13 4 (14.81%) ActionScript 3.0

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 23 (85.19%) .NET
1 23 (85.19%) XML
1 23 (85.19%) XSLT
1 23 (85.19%) ASP.NET
2 21 (77.78%) jQuery
3 20 (74.07%) HTML5
4 18 (66.67%) Ajax
5 17 (62.96%) XHTML
5 17 (62.96%) CSS3
6 10 (37.04%) HTML
7 7 (25.93%) .NET Framework
8 4 (14.81%) Flash
8 4 (14.81%) Web Services
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Flash Builder
General
1 4 (14.81%) Games
2 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Developer
2 23 (85.19%) .NET Developer
3 16 (59.26%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 16 (59.26%) VB.NET Developer
3 16 (59.26%) ASP.NET Developer
4 14 (51.85%) SQL Developer
4 14 (51.85%) .NET Web Developer
4 14 (51.85%) Web Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Programmer
5 3 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Designer
5 3 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Flash Designer
5 3 (11.11%) Flash Programmer
5 3 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Website Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Flash Developer
7 1 (3.704%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) N-Tier
2 3 (11.11%) Blackberry
2 3 (11.11%) WURFL
2 3 (11.11%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.704%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
1 3 (11.11%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (11.11%) Android
1 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 3 (11.11%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 17 (62.96%) SOA
2 17 (62.96%) SEO
2 17 (62.96%) Unit Testing
3 15 (55.56%) Web Application Development
4 12 (44.44%) Document Management
5 8 (29.63%) TDD
6 3 (11.11%) OOD
6 3 (11.11%) OO
6 3 (11.11%) Web Development
7 2 (7.407%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 23 (85.19%) C#
2 23 (85.19%) VB.NET
3 15 (55.56%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (14.81%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) AccuRev
2 4 (14.81%) Adobe