The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Suffolk 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 16 29 21
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -8
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 9.317% 3.200% 7.865%
As % of the Application Development category 26.32% 11.59% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 6
Average daily rate £300 £345 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £398 £513
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 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
57 69 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 35.40% 27.60% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 33
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £29.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
East of England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Ipswich +7 7 £351 -4.94%
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £225 -
CSS
East of England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 18 (90.00%) HTML
2 16 (80.00%) .NET
3 9 (45.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (35.00%) C#
4 7 (35.00%) VB.NET
4 7 (35.00%) Web Services
4 7 (35.00%) N-Tier
4 7 (35.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (35.00%) Graphic Design
5 6 (30.00%) WCF
6 5 (25.00%) MySQL
6 5 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (20.00%) PHP
7 4 (20.00%) Windows
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
8 3 (15.00%) LAMP
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (15.00%) Web Development
9 2 (10.00%) jQuery
9 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (10.00%) SQL
9 2 (10.00%) XHTML
10 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (5.000%) MVC
10 1 (5.000%) SEO
10 1 (5.000%) NHS
10 1 (5.000%) XML
10 1 (5.000%) XSLT

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 18 (90.00%) HTML
2 16 (80.00%) .NET
3 9 (45.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (35.00%) Web Services
4 7 (35.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (30.00%) WCF
6 3 (15.00%) LAMP
7 2 (10.00%) jQuery
7 2 (10.00%) XHTML
8 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (5.000%) WPF
8 1 (5.000%) WF
8 1 (5.000%) Silverlight
8 1 (5.000%) LINQ
8 1 (5.000%) Ajax
8 1 (5.000%) XML
8 1 (5.000%) XSLT
8 1 (5.000%) SOAP
8 1 (5.000%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (65.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (35.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 6 (30.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) LAMP Developer
6 2 (10.00%) CSS Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 2 (10.00%) HTML Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) N-Tier
1 7 (35.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (15.00%) Web Development
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.000%) MVC
4 1 (5.000%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C#
1 7 (35.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.000%) Twitter