The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 15 30
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +15
Contract jobs citing CSS 115 153 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 7.042% 6.824% 4.757%
As % of the Application Development category 29.79% 28.44% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 77 66
Average daily rate £263 £250 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -25.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £347 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
Average hourly rate £23.00 £16.25 £11.48
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.53% +41.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.40 £11.75 £10.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.60 £40.00 £21.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -31.03%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Birmingham 0 26 £268 +7.00%
Worcestershire -4 14 £290 -
Warwickshire -5 13 £243 -4.90%
Staffordshire +2 12 £325 +1.96%
Wolverhampton +3 9 £263 +22.09%
Coventry 0 6 £135 -66.25%
Solihull +5 4 £275 +37.62%
Shropshire +11 3 £560 +86.66%
Herefordshire -4 2 £255 +13.33%
Walsall - 2 £300 -
CSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 202 (82.11%) JavaScript
2 177 (71.95%) HTML
3 135 (54.88%) .NET
4 131 (53.25%) jQuery
5 113 (45.93%) ASP.NET
6 105 (42.68%) C#
7 89 (36.18%) HTML5
8 83 (33.74%) SQL Server
9 80 (32.52%) SQL
10 76 (30.89%) CSS3
11 57 (23.17%) XML
12 54 (21.95%) XHTML
13 52 (21.14%) VB.NET
14 48 (19.51%) Ajax
15 42 (17.07%) Photoshop
16 38 (15.45%) MVC
17 37 (15.04%) CMS
17 37 (15.04%) E-Commerce
18 34 (13.82%) Web Development
18 34 (13.82%) XSLT
19 33 (13.41%) .NET Framework
20 32 (13.01%) SEO
21 27 (10.98%) Unit Testing
22 25 (10.16%) Degree
22 25 (10.16%) Java
22 25 (10.16%) Web Services
23 24 (9.756%) PHP
24 23 (9.350%) OO
24 23 (9.350%) Web Application Development
25 22 (8.943%) Agile Software Development

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 177 (71.95%) HTML
2 135 (54.88%) .NET
3 131 (53.25%) jQuery
4 113 (45.93%) ASP.NET
5 89 (36.18%) HTML5
6 76 (30.89%) CSS3
7 57 (23.17%) XML
8 54 (21.95%) XHTML
9 48 (19.51%) Ajax
10 34 (13.82%) XSLT
11 33 (13.41%) .NET Framework
12 25 (10.16%) Web Services
13 20 (8.130%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (6.911%) JSP
15 16 (6.504%) Flash
15 16 (6.504%) JSON
16 14 (5.691%) WCF
17 13 (5.285%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 11 (4.472%) J2EE
19 10 (4.065%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 37 (15.04%) CMS
2 9 (3.659%) Sitecore CMS
2 9 (3.659%) Apache
3 8 (3.252%) Umbraco
4 7 (2.846%) WordPress
4 7 (2.846%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.033%) Drupal
5 5 (2.033%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.033%) Adobe CQ
6 4 (1.626%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (1.626%) IIS
6 4 (1.626%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.407%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.407%) Magento
7 1 (0.407%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.407%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.407%) DotNetNuke
7 1 (0.407%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.407%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.407%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 42 (17.07%) Photoshop
2 10 (4.065%) MS Excel
3 8 (3.252%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.220%) MS Office
5 2 (0.813%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.407%) Fireworks
6 1 (0.407%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.439%) Internet
1 6 (2.439%) FTP
2 3 (1.220%) OSPF
2 3 (1.220%) BGP
2 3 (1.220%) Firewall
2 3 (1.220%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.813%) Intranet
3 2 (0.813%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.407%) HTTP
4 1 (0.407%) LAN
4 1 (0.407%) WAN
4 1 (0.407%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (33.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.911%) SQL Server 2008
2 17 (6.911%) MySQL
3 7 (2.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.033%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (2.033%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.813%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.813%) OLTP
5 2 (0.813%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.813%) MS Access
5 2 (0.813%) DTS
6 1 (0.407%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.407%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.407%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.407%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.407%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 19 (7.724%) Subversion
2 11 (4.472%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.846%) Maven
3 7 (2.846%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.846%) Dreamweaver
4 6 (2.439%) Ant
4 6 (2.439%) JIRA
5 4 (1.626%) MSBuild
5 4 (1.626%) Flash Builder
6 3 (1.220%) NUnit
6 3 (1.220%) Git (software)
6 3 (1.220%) PhoneGap
7 2 (0.813%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 2 (0.813%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.407%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.407%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 13 (5.285%) Games
2 10 (4.065%) Marketing
3 6 (2.439%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.439%) Finance
4 3 (1.220%) Retail
5 2 (0.813%) Back Office
6 1 (0.407%) German Language
6 1 (0.407%) Japanese Language
6 1 (0.407%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.407%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.407%) Advertising
6 1 (0.407%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 220 (89.43%) Developer
2 83 (33.74%) Web Developer
3 73 (29.67%) .NET Developer
4 61 (24.80%) Front-End Developer
5 37 (15.04%) ASP.NET Developer
6 25 (10.16%) Front-End Web Developer
7 20 (8.130%) VB.NET Developer
8 19 (7.724%) .NET Web Developer
9 18 (7.317%) SQL Developer
9 18 (7.317%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
10 15 (6.098%) C# Developer
10 15 (6.098%) Programmer
10 15 (6.098%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (5.691%) Java Developer
11 14 (5.691%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 12 (4.878%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (4.472%) Java Web Developer
14 8 (3.252%) PHP Developer
15 7 (2.846%) Designer
16 6 (2.439%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.537%) N-Tier
2 16 (6.504%) W3C
3 6 (2.439%) Graphic Design
4 5 (2.033%) Open Source
4 5 (2.033%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.033%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.626%) Digital Media
5 4 (1.626%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.220%) iPhone
6 3 (1.220%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.220%) WURFL
7 2 (0.813%) VLE
8 1 (0.407%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.407%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.407%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.407%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.407%) NHS
8 1 (0.407%) E-Learning
8 1 (0.407%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.407%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.472%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.659%) Linux
3 7 (2.846%) Android
3 7 (2.846%) Windows
4 3 (1.220%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (1.220%) BlackBerry OS
5 1 (0.407%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.45%) MVC
2 37 (15.04%) E-Commerce
3 34 (13.82%) Web Development
4 32 (13.01%) SEO
5 27 (10.98%) Unit Testing
6 23 (9.350%) OO
6 23 (9.350%) Web Application Development
7 22 (8.943%) Agile Software Development
8 21 (8.537%) TDD
9 19 (7.724%) SOA
10 12 (4.878%) Document Management
11 11 (4.472%) Content Management
12 10 (4.065%) Web Accessibility
13 7 (2.846%) OOP
13 7 (2.846%) OOD
14 5 (2.033%) Scrum
15 4 (1.626%) Migration
15 4 (1.626%) ITIL
15 4 (1.626%) Enterprise Content Management
15 4 (1.626%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (82.11%) JavaScript
2 105 (42.68%) C#
3 80 (32.52%) SQL
4 52 (21.14%) VB.NET
5 25 (10.16%) Java
6 24 (9.756%) PHP
7 15 (6.098%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.252%) ActionScript
8 8 (3.252%) ActionScript 3.0
9 7 (2.846%) VB
9 7 (2.846%) Objective-C
10 5 (2.033%) PHP5
11 4 (1.626%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.220%) VB6
12 3 (1.220%) Python
12 3 (1.220%) XAML
13 2 (0.813%) J#
13 2 (0.813%) VBScript
13 2 (0.813%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (10.16%) Degree
2 4 (1.626%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.407%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.407%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.033%) QA
2 3 (1.220%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.813%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.407%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.220%) OpenView
Vendors
1 20 (8.130%) Adobe
2 16 (6.504%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.691%) Facebook
4 11 (4.472%) Oracle
5 10 (4.065%) Sitecore
6 6 (2.439%) AccuRev
7 5 (2.033%) Alterian
8 3 (1.220%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.220%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.220%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.220%) Cisco
8 3 (1.220%) HP
8 3 (1.220%) Juniper
8 3 (1.220%) BMC
8 3 (1.220%) Nokia
8 3 (1.220%) Stellent
8 3 (1.220%) OPNET
8 3 (1.220%) F5
9 2 (0.813%) Appcelerator
9 2 (0.813%) Apple
West Midlands
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Posted: 15 May 2013
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Posted: 24 May 2013
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Posted: 29 April 2013
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Wolverhampton, West Midlands (County)
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Posted: 20 May 2013
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
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Rate: £38,326 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
West Midlands
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