The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City 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 5 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CSS 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 12.12% - 5.556%
As % of the Application Development category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £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 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 12.12% 12.50% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
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 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Hertfordshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City CSS Daily Rate Trend

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) XHTML
1 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) XPath
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Adobe
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
2 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (20.00%) YUI
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) WordPress
4 1 (20.00%) concrete5
4 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Web Design

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 (80.00%) XHTML
1 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) YUI
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
1 1 (20.00%) concrete5
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) UI Developer
3 2 (40.00%) UI Programmer
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) XPath
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe
1 3 (60.00%) Apple