The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 24 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 Warrington 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 18 9 17
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +8
Contract jobs citing CSS 3 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 2.459% 9.574% 1.282%
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% 30.00% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £231 £276 £900
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.28% -69.30%
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
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 30 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 17.21% 31.91% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 16
Average daily rate £283 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.28% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £260 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £435 £900
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Cheshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington 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 Warrington region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (37.50%) HTML5
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 2 (25.00%) Underscore.js
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) soapUI
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
5 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Publishing
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (37.50%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) Underscore.js
5 1 (12.50%) soapUI
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) MVC
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
1 2 (25.00%) OO
1 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle