The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Walsall region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Walsall 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CSS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 10.00% - -
As % of the Application Development category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+55.55% -13.46%
All Application Development
Walsall
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 10.00% - 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £475
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 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
CSS
West Midlands

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Walsall 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 Walsall region.

Walsall CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Facebook
3 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SEO
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Facebook
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore