Suffolk CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	32
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	6.818 %	2.632 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£150	-
Average daily rate	£200	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£285
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.97	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Application Development Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	44	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.040 %
Daily rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£311
Average daily rate	£357	£325
% change on same period last year	+10.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£34.40
Average hourly rate	£17.75	£35.46
% change on same period last year	-49.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£36.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
CSS East of England

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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

CSS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CSS within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Ipswich	-	2	£200	-

CSS East of England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 6 (66.67 %) XHTML 2 5 (55.56 %) JavaScript 2 5 (55.56 %) AJAX 3 4 (44.44 %) Statistical Analysis 3 4 (44.44 %) PHP 3 4 (44.44 %) MySQL 3 4 (44.44 %) Linux 3 4 (44.44 %) Apache 3 4 (44.44 %) Web Design 4 3 (33.33 %) C# 4 3 (33.33 %) HTML 4 3 (33.33 %) .NET 5 2 (22.22 %) DHTML 5 2 (22.22 %) SQL 5 2 (22.22 %) OOP

5 2 (22.22 %) WebServices 5 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 5 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (22.22 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (22.22 %) SOA 5 2 (22.22 %) Subversion 5 2 (22.22 %) Finance 6 1 (11.11 %) Advertising 6 1 (11.11 %) Sony 6 1 (11.11 %) Flash 6 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (11.11 %) N-Tier 6 1 (11.11 %) Multimedia 6 1 (11.11 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (11.11 %) Photoshop

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 6 (66.67 %) XHTML 2 5 (55.56 %) AJAX 3 3 (33.33 %) HTML 3 3 (33.33 %) .NET 4 2 (22.22 %) WebServices 5 1 (11.11 %) XML 5 1 (11.11 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (44.44 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (44.44 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (22.22 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (22.22 %) Subversion 2 1 (11.11 %) Flash	General 1 2 (22.22 %) Finance 2 1 (11.11 %) Advertising 2 1 (11.11 %) Multimedia 2 1 (11.11 %) Video Editing
Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) Web Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) PHP Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) MySQL Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) PHP Web Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) C# Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 4 (44.44 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (44.44 %) Web Design 1 4 (44.44 %) Statistical Analysis 2 2 (22.22 %) OOP 2 2 (22.22 %) SOA 3 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 5 (55.56 %) JavaScript 2 4 (44.44 %) PHP 3 3 (33.33 %) C# 4 2 (22.22 %) DHTML 4 2 (22.22 %) SQL 5 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET 5 1 (11.11 %) ActionScript	Vendors 1 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 2 1 (11.11 %) Sony