The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 12 16 20
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 44 28 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 17.60% 13.66% 10.78%
As % of the Application Development category 38.94% 26.92% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 42 24 18
Average salary £41,750 £31,250 £35,625
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.60% -12.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £21,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £35,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £33,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.47% +3.07%
All Application Development
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
113 104 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 45.20% 50.73% 60.48%
Number of salaries quoted 110 98 101
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £26,596
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CSS
Bedfordshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford CSS Jobs Demand Trend

CSS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CSS across the Bedford region.

Bedford CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bedford CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CSS.

1 56 (93.33%) HTML
2 54 (90.00%) C#
2 54 (90.00%) .NET
3 51 (85.00%) JavaScript
4 46 (76.67%) MVC
5 37 (61.67%) ASP.NET
5 37 (61.67%) Microsoft
6 34 (56.67%) SQL Server
7 33 (55.00%) SQL
8 31 (51.67%) T-SQL
9 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 29 (48.33%) Scrum
11 25 (41.67%) Silverlight
12 24 (40.00%) WCF
12 24 (40.00%) WinForms
12 24 (40.00%) MS Excel
13 22 (36.67%) XML
14 21 (35.00%) Team Foundation Server
15 19 (31.67%) MSTest
15 19 (31.67%) WF
15 19 (31.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 19 (31.67%) Web Services
15 19 (31.67%) Crystal Reports
16 18 (30.00%) .NET Framework
17 17 (28.33%) WPF
17 17 (28.33%) Visual Studio Team System
17 17 (28.33%) TDD
18 16 (26.67%) Windows
18 16 (26.67%) LINQ
18 16 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 56 (93.33%) HTML
2 54 (90.00%) .NET
3 37 (61.67%) ASP.NET
4 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 25 (41.67%) Silverlight
6 24 (40.00%) WCF
6 24 (40.00%) WinForms
7 22 (36.67%) XML
8 19 (31.67%) WF
8 19 (31.67%) Web Services
9 18 (30.00%) .NET Framework
10 17 (28.33%) WPF
11 16 (26.67%) LINQ
11 16 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 13 (21.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 12 (20.00%) ASP
15 7 (11.67%) jQuery
16 5 (8.333%) NHibernate
17 3 (5.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.33%) Windows Azure
2 6 (10.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 6 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (3.333%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.667%) Photoshop
3 3 (5.000%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (56.67%) SQL Server
2 19 (31.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 19 (31.67%) Crystal Reports
3 10 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (5.000%) MS Access
7 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 21 (35.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 19 (31.67%) MSTest
3 17 (28.33%) Visual Studio Team System
4 13 (21.67%) NUnit
5 8 (13.33%) Subversion
5 8 (13.33%) PowerBuilder
6 7 (11.67%) Visual Studio
7 4 (6.667%) JIRA
8 3 (5.000%) Balsamiq Mockups
8 3 (5.000%) Axure RP
9 2 (3.333%) Rhino Mocks
9 2 (3.333%) Moq
10 1 (1.667%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (5.000%) Multimedia
2 1 (1.667%) Finance
2 1 (1.667%) Retail
2 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (86.67%) Developer
2 29 (48.33%) C# Developer
3 21 (35.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 15 (25.00%) .NET Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Web Developer
6 9 (15.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 8 (13.33%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (8.333%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.333%) Programmer
8 5 (8.333%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (8.333%) Team Leader
8 5 (8.333%) Development Team Leader
8 5 (8.333%) C# Programmer
8 5 (8.333%) .NET Team Leader
9 4 (6.667%) Web Team Leader
9 4 (6.667%) .NET Web Developer
9 4 (6.667%) Software Developer
10 3 (5.000%) Junior
10 3 (5.000%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.667%) Wiki
2 3 (5.000%) New Media
2 3 (5.000%) SaaS
2 3 (5.000%) Graphic Design
3 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.667%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) MVC
2 29 (48.33%) Scrum
3 17 (28.33%) TDD
4 13 (21.67%) Project Management
5 10 (16.67%) CRM
6 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
6 9 (15.00%) Kanban
7 4 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.667%) SOA
8 3 (5.000%) ETL
8 3 (5.000%) Web Design
8 3 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (5.000%) Information Architecture
8 3 (5.000%) Knowledge Management
9 2 (3.333%) Web Development
9 2 (3.333%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (90.00%) C#
2 51 (85.00%) JavaScript
3 33 (55.00%) SQL
4 31 (51.67%) T-SQL
5 6 (10.00%) VBScript
6 4 (6.667%) VB6
6 4 (6.667%) VB
6 4 (6.667%) C
6 4 (6.667%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.000%) VBA
8 2 (3.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (6.667%) Degree
Vendors
1 37 (61.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 4 (6.667%) Telerik
4 2 (3.333%) Typemock
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The successful .NET Web Developer will have a proven commercial experience developing, ideally web hosted, applications using C# with ASP.NET... b) Excellent working knowledge of C# and...
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Salary: From £28,000 to £35,000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bedford, South East
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Capita Resourcing
Salary: £27000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Ability to customise sites with SharePoint Templates and a working knowledge of HTML and CSS... Ability to develop and maintain Apps, Workflows, Web Parts and Content Types in...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £27000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013