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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank393344
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Up+11
Matching contract IT job ads168718402702
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.854 %4.001 %3.301 %
As % of the Application Development category14.74 %18.62 %13.97 %
Daily rates quoted790673900
Average daily rate£275£296£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.170 %-1.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£175£190£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£425£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£250£275
% change year-on-year
--9.090 %
Hourly rates quoted75156200
Average hourly rate£20.00£22.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-26.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.50£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£21.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.970 %-28.33 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11447988319342
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.15 %21.49 %23.63 %
Daily rates quoted569332846126
Average daily rate£375£350£355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-1.400 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£493£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted3816451158
Average hourly rate£32.00£30.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£15.00£19.53
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.00£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %

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.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS Demand Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS within the UK.

CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

CSS Daily Rate Histogram

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CSS within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

CSS Hourly Rate Histogram

CSS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-71590£275-8.33 %
LondonDown-18784£300-
South EastDown-2224£250-
City of LondonDown-24174£325+12.06 %
South WestUp+14128£225-2.17 %
North WestUp+5121£275+13.40 %
West MidlandsUp+13107£220-26.66 %
YorkshireUp+393£270+28.57 %
ScotlandUp+777£250-1.96 %
East of EnglandUp+473£300+9.09 %
ManchesterUp+1272£250-38.27 %
West YorkshireUp+1162£270+35.00 %
LeedsUp+2155£270+35.00 %
HampshireUp+149£275-8.33 %
BerkshireUp+646£263-
EdinburghUp+1244£235+22.07 %
BristolDown-134£213-6.59 %
East MidlandsDown-234£263+22.09 %
HertfordshireUp+2331£300-6.97 %
SurreyDown-2431£250+7.52 %
BirminghamUp+728£200-46.66 %
GlasgowUp+125£286-39.73 %
OxfordshireUp+1723£225-
WiltshireUp+1922£225-47.05 %
SomersetUp+2620£250+11.11 %
BuckinghamshireUp+919£145-49.56 %
East SussexUp+719£300-
WarwickshireUp+1018£300-
BrightonUp+718£300+20.00 %
ShropshireUp+2017£220-

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

12464 (71.82 %)HTML
22213 (64.50 %)JavaScript
31201 (35.00 %)XHTML
41113 (32.44 %).NET
51027 (29.93 %)XML
6991 (28.88 %)AJAX
7852 (24.83 %)ASP.NET
8792 (23.08 %)PHP
9699 (20.37 %)C#
10618 (18.01 %)SQL Server
11577 (16.82 %)Java
12550 (16.03 %)jQuery
13535 (15.59 %)SQL
14519 (15.13 %)Flash
15494 (14.40 %)MySQL
16453 (13.20 %)Photoshop
17428 (12.47 %)Web Development
18412 (12.01 %)Web Services
19390 (11.37 %)CMS
20387 (11.28 %)OO
21356 (10.38 %)XSLT
22343 (9.997 %)E-Commerce
23333 (9.706 %)W3C
24329 (9.589 %)Agile Software Development
25300 (8.744 %)Content Management
26290 (8.452 %)SQL Server 2005
27274 (7.986 %)Visual Studio
28251 (7.316 %)Linux
29231 (6.733 %)Apache
30230 (6.704 %)JSP

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12464 (71.82 %)HTML
21201 (35.00 %)XHTML
31113 (32.44 %).NET
41027 (29.93 %)XML
5991 (28.88 %)AJAX
6852 (24.83 %)ASP.NET
7550 (16.03 %)jQuery
8519 (15.13 %)Flash
9412 (12.01 %)Web Services
10356 (10.38 %)XSLT
11230 (6.704 %)JSP
11230 (6.704 %)Spring
12221 (6.441 %)MVC
13188 (5.479 %)ASP
14171 (4.984 %)DHTML
15159 (4.634 %)J2EE
16155 (4.518 %)Hibernate
17139 (4.051 %)LAMP
18134 (3.906 %).NET Framework
1991 (2.652 %)DOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1390 (11.37 %)CMS
2231 (6.733 %)Apache
3202 (5.887 %)SharePoint
4160 (4.663 %)Tomcat
5143 (4.168 %)Drupal
6126 (3.672 %)IIS
790 (2.623 %)SharePoint Server 2007
843 (1.253 %)Joomla!
931 (0.904 %)ColdFusion
1030 (0.874 %)WordPress
1127 (0.787 %)EPiServer
1225 (0.729 %)TeamSite
1321 (0.612 %)Magento
1321 (0.612 %)WebLogic
1417 (0.495 %)Apache Solr
1516 (0.466 %)Umbraco
1615 (0.437 %)Lotus Domino
1711 (0.321 %)Oracle Spatial
1711 (0.321 %)Sitecore CMS
1711 (0.321 %)ATG Dynamo
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1453 (13.20 %)Photoshop
2127 (3.702 %)Adobe Illustrator
385 (2.477 %)Fireworks
469 (2.011 %)MS Excel
561 (1.778 %)MS Office
629 (0.845 %)MS Visio
718 (0.525 %)InfoPath
817 (0.495 %)MS PowerPoint
914 (0.408 %)InDesign
1010 (0.291 %)Acrobat
117 (0.204 %)Paint Shop Pro
124 (0.117 %)MS Project
124 (0.117 %)Spreadsheet
132 (0.058 %)ImageReady
141 (0.029 %)CA Clarity
141 (0.029 %)FreeHand
141 (0.029 %)QuarkXPress
141 (0.029 %)Shockwave
141 (0.029 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.233 %)Google Analytics
25 (0.146 %)Oracle EBS R12
25 (0.146 %)Oracle iStore
34 (0.117 %)Remedy ITSM
34 (0.117 %)Remedy AR System
42 (0.058 %)WebTrends
42 (0.058 %)BusinessWorks
42 (0.058 %)Dynamics CRM
51 (0.029 %)Dynamics AX
51 (0.029 %)Dynamics GP
51 (0.029 %)Dynamics NAV
51 (0.029 %)SAP Oil and Gas
51 (0.029 %)Line 500
51 (0.029 %)TIBCO iProcess
51 (0.029 %)SAP HR
51 (0.029 %)Navision
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1212 (6.179 %)Internet
2162 (4.722 %)Intranet
366 (1.924 %)HTTP
436 (1.049 %)Firewall
530 (0.874 %)DNS
629 (0.845 %)LDAP
728 (0.816 %)Extranet
824 (0.700 %)FTP
920 (0.583 %)TCP/IP
1016 (0.466 %)Cisco PIX
1113 (0.379 %)SNMP
1211 (0.321 %)SSL
1211 (0.321 %)MPLS
1211 (0.321 %)OSPF
1211 (0.321 %)BGP
1310 (0.291 %)VoIP
149 (0.262 %)Cisco ASA
156 (0.175 %)SMTP
164 (0.117 %)LAN
173 (0.087 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1618 (18.01 %)SQL Server
2494 (14.40 %)MySQL
3290 (8.452 %)SQL Server 2005
480 (2.332 %)SQL Server 2008
578 (2.273 %)SQL Server 2000
638 (1.108 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
730 (0.874 %)Oracle 10g
826 (0.758 %)SQL Server Integration Services
924 (0.700 %)RDBMS
1020 (0.583 %)GIS
1119 (0.554 %)PostgreSQL
1218 (0.525 %)Oracle 9i
1312 (0.350 %)ETL
1411 (0.321 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1411 (0.321 %)DTS
1411 (0.321 %)OLAP
1510 (0.291 %)Crystal Reports
169 (0.262 %)DB2
169 (0.262 %)Oracle 8/8i
178 (0.233 %)Datawarehouse
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1274 (7.986 %)Visual Studio
2229 (6.674 %)Subversion
3210 (6.121 %)Dreamweaver
493 (2.711 %)Ant
591 (2.652 %)Eclipse
686 (2.507 %)JUnit
762 (1.807 %)Maven
857 (1.661 %)Selenium
945 (1.312 %)Team Foundation Server
1040 (1.166 %)NUnit
1132 (0.933 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1229 (0.845 %)JIRA
1328 (0.816 %)CruiseControl
1427 (0.787 %)FitNesse
1516 (0.466 %)ClearCase
1615 (0.437 %)TestNG
1711 (0.321 %)IntelliJ
1810 (0.291 %)TeamCity
1810 (0.291 %)FrontPage
198 (0.233 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1181 (5.275 %)Finance
2145 (4.226 %)Marketing
3108 (3.148 %)Banking
4101 (2.944 %)Government
596 (2.798 %)Graphic Design
674 (2.157 %)Games
768 (1.982 %)Investment Banking
866 (1.924 %)Publishing
960 (1.749 %)Telecoms
1059 (1.720 %)Retail
1148 (1.399 %)Health
1244 (1.282 %)Multimedia
1339 (1.137 %)Insurance
1429 (0.845 %)Education
1525 (0.729 %)Advertising
1619 (0.554 %)Animation
1714 (0.408 %)Front Office
1813 (0.379 %)Online Games
1912 (0.350 %)Back Office
2010 (0.291 %)Financial Institution
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12626 (76.54 %)Developer
2855 (24.92 %)Web Developer
3450 (13.12 %)Designer
4438 (12.77 %).NET Developer
5325 (9.472 %)PHP Developer
6307 (8.948 %)Web Designer
7286 (8.336 %)Front-End Developer
8212 (6.179 %)ASP.NET Developer
9208 (6.062 %)Java Developer
9208 (6.062 %)C# Developer
10173 (5.042 %)Senior Developer
11117 (3.410 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1299 (2.885 %)Front-End Web Developer
1398 (2.856 %)CSS Developer
1492 (2.681 %)HTML Developer
1580 (2.332 %)UI Designer
1673 (2.128 %)JavaScript Developer
1770 (2.040 %)Analyst
1869 (2.011 %)SharePoint Developer
1968 (1.982 %).NET Web Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1333 (9.706 %)W3C
292 (2.681 %)Open Source
379 (2.303 %)NHS
474 (2.157 %)Web 2.0
545 (1.312 %)Computer Science
636 (1.049 %)Social Network
734 (0.991 %)E-Learning
832 (0.933 %)N-Tier
931 (0.904 %)iPhone
1022 (0.641 %)Mathematics
1120 (0.583 %)RIA
1219 (0.554 %)Blackberry
1317 (0.495 %)Data Protection Act
1416 (0.466 %)Management Information System
1512 (0.350 %)Dependency Injection
1610 (0.291 %)BBC
1610 (0.291 %)Statistics
179 (0.262 %)Blog
188 (0.233 %)SCORM
188 (0.233 %)Handset
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1251 (7.316 %)Linux
2149 (4.343 %)Windows
3122 (3.556 %)UNIX
431 (0.904 %)Windows Server 2003
528 (0.816 %)Android
623 (0.670 %)Red Hat Linux
712 (0.350 %)Windows XP
810 (0.291 %)Windows Server 2008
810 (0.291 %)Windows Mobile
97 (0.204 %)Windows 2000 Server
106 (0.175 %)Debian
106 (0.175 %)Solaris
115 (0.146 %)Ubuntu
115 (0.146 %)Windows Vista
123 (0.087 %)CentOS
123 (0.087 %)Windows 2000
132 (0.058 %)Windows 7
132 (0.058 %)openSUSE
141 (0.029 %)MVS
141 (0.029 %)Mac OS X
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1428 (12.47 %)Web Development
2387 (11.28 %)OO
3343 (9.997 %)E-Commerce
4329 (9.589 %)Agile Software Development
5300 (8.744 %)Content Management
6196 (5.713 %)Web Design
7162 (4.722 %)TDD
8158 (4.605 %)Scrum
9123 (3.585 %)SEO
10115 (3.352 %)Unit Testing
1175 (2.186 %)Web Accessibility
1274 (2.157 %)OOP
1373 (2.128 %)UML
1464 (1.865 %)Information Architecture
1561 (1.778 %)CRM
1655 (1.603 %)Project Management
1752 (1.516 %)Migration
1846 (1.341 %)OOD
1846 (1.341 %)SOA
1945 (1.312 %)Continuous Integration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12213 (64.50 %)JavaScript
2792 (23.08 %)PHP
3699 (20.37 %)C#
4577 (16.82 %)Java
5535 (15.59 %)SQL
6225 (6.558 %)ActionScript
7176 (5.130 %)VB.NET
8155 (4.518 %)PHP5
9147 (4.284 %)T-SQL
10121 (3.527 %)C
11110 (3.206 %)Perl
1297 (2.827 %)Python
1383 (2.419 %)VB
1467 (1.953 %)Ruby
1467 (1.953 %)ActionScript 3.0
1562 (1.807 %)PL/SQL
1647 (1.370 %)VBScript
1740 (1.166 %)PHP4
1838 (1.108 %)ActionScript 2.0
1932 (0.933 %)C++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1117 (3.410 %)Security Cleared
2107 (3.119 %)Degree
374 (2.157 %)SC Cleared
421 (0.612 %)Microsoft Certification
520 (0.583 %)Cisco Certification
619 (0.554 %)CCNP
716 (0.466 %)MCTS
813 (0.379 %)MCAD
912 (0.350 %)CCSP
1011 (0.321 %)ISEB
1011 (0.321 %)MCP
119 (0.262 %)MCSD
128 (0.233 %)CCIP
128 (0.233 %)CTC Cleared
128 (0.233 %)DV Cleared
137 (0.204 %)CCNA
137 (0.204 %)CCIE
144 (0.117 %)PRINCE2 Certification
144 (0.117 %)Sun Certification
144 (0.117 %)ISTQB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
152 (1.516 %)WCAG
239 (1.137 %)WAI
330 (0.874 %)QA
43 (0.087 %)PCI DSS
52 (0.058 %)SLA
61 (0.029 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (0.408 %)Active Directory
24 (0.117 %)AquaLogic
33 (0.087 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.058 %)Terminal Server
42 (0.058 %)Citrix Presentation Server
51 (0.029 %)Squid
51 (0.029 %)Oracle RAC
51 (0.029 %)Postfix
51 (0.029 %)Sendmail
51 (0.029 %)MSMQ
51 (0.029 %)OpenSSO
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.146 %)OpenView
15 (0.146 %)OVSD
23 (0.087 %)SCOM
23 (0.087 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
23 (0.087 %)MSI
32 (0.058 %)CONTROL-M
32 (0.058 %)CA SiteMinder
32 (0.058 %)SCCM
32 (0.058 %)Zenoss
41 (0.029 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1207 (6.033 %)Microsoft
2196 (5.713 %)Oracle
3186 (5.421 %)Adobe
486 (2.507 %)Zend
550 (1.457 %)JBoss
634 (0.991 %)Sybase
730 (0.874 %)RedDot
826 (0.758 %)Google
925 (0.729 %)Cisco
1023 (0.670 %)Red Hat
1121 (0.612 %)Interwoven
1220 (0.583 %)Nokia
1319 (0.554 %)ATG
1319 (0.554 %)Apple
1319 (0.554 %)IBM
1417 (0.495 %)Juniper
1417 (0.495 %)BEA
1417 (0.495 %)CheckPoint
1516 (0.466 %)Salesforce.com
1615 (0.437 %)Mercator