York CSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the York region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hove Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	27
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	10.53 %	14.94 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£263
Average daily rate	-	£280
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£282
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£21.30
Average hourly rate	-	£21.30
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£21.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.97	£28.64
% change on same period last year	-9.33 %
Application Development York
Matching contract IT job ads	19	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.087 %
Daily rates quoted	3	34
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£306
Average daily rate	£355	£315
% change on same period last year	+12.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£22.36
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£23.79
% change on same period last year	+26.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£25.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
CSS North Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the York region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CSS across the York region.

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CSS across the York region.

CSS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 3 (100.00 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) W3C 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) VBA

3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) VB6 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) C#

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 3 (100.00 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 1 2 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) VBA 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB