The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 22 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 17 32 15
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -17
Permanent jobs citing CSS 28 10 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 10.94% 4.717% 10.33%
As % of the Application Development category 25.69% 10.87% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 12
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £33,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.47% +3.07%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
109 92 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 42.58% 43.40% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 79 44 44
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CSS
County Antrim

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Belfast CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 19 (59.38%) HTML
3 16 (50.00%) jQuery
3 16 (50.00%) HTML5
4 15 (46.88%) OO
5 13 (40.63%) SQL
5 13 (40.63%) .NET
5 13 (40.63%) ASP.NET
5 13 (40.63%) CSS3
6 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 10 (31.25%) C#
7 10 (31.25%) XML
7 10 (31.25%) MVC
8 8 (25.00%) Java
8 8 (25.00%) Ajax
9 7 (21.88%) Degree
9 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
10 6 (18.75%) Visual Studio
10 6 (18.75%) WebSphere
10 6 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (18.75%) Computer Architecture
11 5 (15.63%) QA
11 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
11 5 (15.63%) JSP
12 4 (12.50%) Struts
12 4 (12.50%) PHP
12 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
12 4 (12.50%) Web Development
12 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 19 (59.38%) HTML
2 16 (50.00%) jQuery
2 16 (50.00%) HTML5
3 13 (40.63%) .NET
3 13 (40.63%) ASP.NET
3 13 (40.63%) CSS3
4 10 (31.25%) XML
5 8 (25.00%) Ajax
6 6 (18.75%) WebSphere
7 5 (15.63%) JSP
8 4 (12.50%) Struts
8 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (9.375%) Silverlight
9 3 (9.375%) Web Services
10 2 (6.250%) J2EE
10 2 (6.250%) JSON
10 2 (6.250%) KnockoutJS
11 1 (3.125%) Memcached
11 1 (3.125%) WebSockets
11 1 (3.125%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) CMS
2 2 (6.250%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.250%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.250%) WordPress
2 2 (6.250%) ExpressionEngine
3 1 (3.125%) Apache
3 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
1 3 (9.375%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.250%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (3.125%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.375%) Broadband
2 2 (6.250%) DNS
2 2 (6.250%) Intranet
2 2 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (9.375%) MySQL
4 2 (6.250%) GIS
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.125%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.125%) Redis
5 1 (3.125%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.250%) JIRA
2 2 (6.250%) Subversion
2 2 (6.250%) Gradle
3 1 (3.125%) WATIR
3 1 (3.125%) Selenium
General
1 3 (9.375%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Advertising
2 2 (6.250%) Marketing
2 2 (6.250%) Banking
2 2 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (3.125%) Multimedia
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Web Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) Microsoft Developer
6 3 (9.375%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (9.375%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 3 (9.375%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.375%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Junior
7 2 (6.250%) Junior Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Creative Web Developer
8 1 (3.125%) Senior JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.125%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.125%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (3.125%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Open Source
1 3 (9.375%) STB
1 3 (9.375%) IPTV
2 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.250%) Life Science
2 2 (6.250%) RIA
2 2 (6.250%) Social Media
3 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) UNIX
1 2 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) OO
2 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 10 (31.25%) MVC
4 6 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (18.75%) Computer Architecture
5 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 4 (12.50%) Web Development
6 3 (9.375%) Time Management
6 3 (9.375%) SOA
7 2 (6.250%) Web Design
7 2 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.250%) Email Marketing
7 2 (6.250%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (3.125%) Web Application Development
8 1 (3.125%) Stress Testing
8 1 (3.125%) Web Testing
8 1 (3.125%) Test Management
8 1 (3.125%) Test Automation
8 1 (3.125%) Content Management
8 1 (3.125%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 10 (31.25%) C#
4 8 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) PHP
6 3 (9.375%) VB.NET
7 2 (6.250%) Ruby
7 2 (6.250%) Groovy
8 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 3 (9.375%) Postgraduate
3 2 (6.250%) BC Cleared
3 2 (6.250%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle
3 2 (6.250%) ESRI
4 1 (3.125%) Facebook
4 1 (3.125%) BEA
4 1 (3.125%) IBM
4 1 (3.125%) JBoss
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