The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worcester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Worcester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 6 2 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing CSS 6 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcester 15.79% 33.33% -
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% 71.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £271 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.76 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+77.12% -28.14%
All Application Development
Worcester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcester 63.16% 46.67% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CSS
Worcestershire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcester 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 Worcester region.

Worcester 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 Worcester region.

Worcester CSS Hourly Rate Trend

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcester 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 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) XHTML
3 5 (71.43%) Photoshop
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) Adobe
4 3 (42.86%) W3C
4 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
4 3 (42.86%) Flash
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Content Management
4 3 (42.86%) CMS
4 3 (42.86%) Stellent
4 3 (42.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (42.86%) Content Management
5 2 (28.57%) Marketing
5 2 (28.57%) SEO
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) Internet
5 2 (28.57%) FTP
6 1 (14.29%) OO
6 1 (14.29%) PHP
6 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (14.29%) HTML5
6 1 (14.29%) CSS3
6 1 (14.29%) VMware

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcester 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 6 (85.71%) XHTML
2 3 (42.86%) jQuery
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 3 (42.86%) Flash
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Photoshop
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) FTP
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Web Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
3 1 (14.29%) CSS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Content Management
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Content Management
2 2 (28.57%) SEO
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe
1 3 (42.86%) Stellent
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Telerik