The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 22 7 10
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 36 31 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 10.68% 19.87% 22.62%
As % of the Application Development category 21.95% 36.05% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 32 28 57
Average salary £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,650 £22,415 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £39,750 £45,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
164 86 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 48.66% 55.13% 61.11%
Number of salaries quoted 94 76 150
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CSS
Cheshire

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS across the Chester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Chester CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

1 104 (67.97%) JavaScript
2 102 (66.67%) HTML
3 86 (56.21%) .NET
4 72 (47.06%) C#
5 70 (45.75%) SQL
6 66 (43.14%) jQuery
7 61 (39.87%) MVC
8 58 (37.91%) ASP.NET
9 56 (36.60%) Web Services
10 53 (34.64%) E-Commerce
11 39 (25.49%) XML
12 38 (24.84%) MySQL
13 37 (24.18%) Ajax
14 36 (23.53%) PHP
15 35 (22.88%) SQL Server
15 35 (22.88%) XHTML
16 30 (19.61%) HTML5
17 29 (18.95%) Java
18 28 (18.30%) .NET Framework
19 27 (17.65%) WCF
19 27 (17.65%) Photoshop
20 26 (16.99%) SOAP
21 25 (16.34%) Agile Software Development
21 25 (16.34%) CSS3
22 23 (15.03%) Visual Studio
23 21 (13.73%) Scrum
24 19 (12.42%) CMS
25 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
26 16 (10.46%) Digital Media
26 16 (10.46%) Magento

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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
1 102 (66.67%) HTML
2 86 (56.21%) .NET
3 66 (43.14%) jQuery
4 58 (37.91%) ASP.NET
5 56 (36.60%) Web Services
6 39 (25.49%) XML
7 37 (24.18%) Ajax
8 35 (22.88%) XHTML
9 30 (19.61%) HTML5
10 28 (18.30%) .NET Framework
11 27 (17.65%) WCF
12 26 (16.99%) SOAP
13 25 (16.34%) CSS3
14 15 (9.804%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (9.804%) Spring
15 14 (9.150%) XSLT
16 12 (7.843%) JSON
17 10 (6.536%) Django
18 8 (5.229%) RESTful
19 7 (4.575%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 19 (12.42%) CMS
2 16 (10.46%) Magento
3 13 (8.497%) WordPress
4 12 (7.843%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (3.922%) Drupal
6 5 (3.268%) Apache
6 5 (3.268%) IIS
7 2 (1.307%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.654%) ESB
Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Photoshop
2 8 (5.229%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.268%) MS Excel
3 5 (3.268%) MS Office
4 2 (1.307%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.843%) HTTP
2 8 (5.229%) Internet
3 1 (0.654%) Firewall
3 1 (0.654%) Wireless
3 1 (0.654%) RIP
3 1 (0.654%) VPN
3 1 (0.654%) WLAN
3 1 (0.654%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.654%) 802.11
3 1 (0.654%) MPLS
3 1 (0.654%) OSPF
3 1 (0.654%) BGP
3 1 (0.654%) SSL
3 1 (0.654%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.654%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (0.654%) FWSM
3 1 (0.654%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (24.84%) MySQL
2 35 (22.88%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.190%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (5.229%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.654%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Visual Studio
2 9 (5.882%) Dreamweaver
3 4 (2.614%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.961%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.307%) JUnit
6 1 (0.654%) NUnit
6 1 (0.654%) Selenium
6 1 (0.654%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.654%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.654%) Hudson
6 1 (0.654%) QUnit
6 1 (0.654%) Jasmine
General
1 9 (5.882%) Marketing
2 6 (3.922%) Finance
3 4 (2.614%) Automotive
4 3 (1.961%) Retail
5 2 (1.307%) Banking
5 2 (1.307%) Publishing
5 2 (1.307%) Legal
6 1 (0.654%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.654%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.654%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 142 (92.81%) Developer
2 50 (32.68%) Web Developer
3 40 (26.14%) .NET Developer
4 29 (18.95%) C# Developer
5 23 (15.03%) C# .NET Developer
6 19 (12.42%) Java Developer
7 16 (10.46%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.804%) Software Developer
8 15 (9.804%) ASP.NET Developer
9 13 (8.497%) Designer
10 11 (7.190%) Front-End Developer
11 10 (6.536%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.536%) .NET Web Developer
11 10 (6.536%) Web Designer
12 9 (5.882%) PHP Developer
13 8 (5.229%) Programmer
14 7 (4.575%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.575%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 6 (3.922%) Lead Web Developer
16 5 (3.268%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.46%) Digital Media
2 8 (5.229%) Open Source
3 7 (4.575%) N-Tier
3 7 (4.575%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.268%) SaaS
5 3 (1.961%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.307%) W3C
6 2 (1.307%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.654%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.654%) SecurID
7 1 (0.654%) Blog
7 1 (0.654%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.536%) Android
1 10 (6.536%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.575%) Linux
3 5 (3.268%) Windows
4 4 (2.614%) UNIX
5 2 (1.307%) Windows CE
6 1 (0.654%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) MVC
2 53 (34.64%) E-Commerce
3 25 (16.34%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (13.73%) Scrum
5 15 (9.804%) TDD
6 14 (9.150%) Pair Programming
6 14 (9.150%) Web Application Development
7 10 (6.536%) Web Development
7 10 (6.536%) Software Engineering
7 10 (6.536%) Web Design
8 9 (5.882%) Unit Testing
8 9 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (4.575%) Requirements Management
10 6 (3.922%) Internet Marketing
11 5 (3.268%) Configuration Management
11 5 (3.268%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (3.268%) Mobile Application Development
12 4 (2.614%) Refactoring
12 4 (2.614%) SEO
13 3 (1.961%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 104 (67.97%) JavaScript
2 72 (47.06%) C#
3 70 (45.75%) SQL
4 36 (23.53%) PHP
5 29 (18.95%) Java
6 12 (7.843%) T-SQL
7 11 (7.190%) Python
8 8 (5.229%) VB.NET
9 5 (3.268%) C++
10 4 (2.614%) C
11 3 (1.961%) VBA
12 2 (1.307%) XPath
12 2 (1.307%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.654%) Groovy
13 1 (0.654%) Ruby
13 1 (0.654%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 15 (9.804%) Degree
2 3 (1.961%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.654%) SLA
1 1 (0.654%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.804%) Adobe
3 14 (9.150%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.961%) Oracle
5 2 (1.307%) Facebook
5 2 (1.307%) Zend
6 1 (0.654%) Sony
6 1 (0.654%) JBoss
6 1 (0.654%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.654%) Nokia
6 1 (0.654%) Cisco
6 1 (0.654%) hybris
6 1 (0.654%) Foundry
6 1 (0.654%) Twitter
Chester, North West
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Posted: 16 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Very strong working knowledge of HTML / HTML5 2. Very strong working knowledge of CSS / CSS3 3. Very strong working knowledge of Javascript / jQuery 4. Strong working knowledge of...
Blueleaf
Salary: £Attractive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Implement, customise, and manage CMS/ecommerce sites as well as bespoke applications 3... Very strong working knowledge of .NET4 using C# 2. Knowledge of MVC framework 3. Very...
Blueleaf
Salary: £Attractive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
The right applicant will be operating as a vital team member producing software to a high level of quality. All systems are built across highly transactional and low...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Very strong working knowledge of Object Orientated PHP5 - Very strong working knowledge of SQL (in particular MySQL) - Strong working knowledge of XHTML/CSS/ JavaScript What goodies will you...
Blueleaf
Salary: £Attractive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester
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Blue-Leaf Digital
Salary: £0 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Very strong working knowledge of Object Orientated PHP5 - Very strong working knowledge of SQL (in particular MySQL) - Strong working knowledge of XHTML/CSS/ JavaScript What goodies will you...
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Salary: £Attractive!
Posted: 8 May 2013
Chester, North West
They have landed a project to re-develop the websites and customer facing systems for a major aggregator, as such need an experience ASP.Net developer to join...
Computer Futures
Salary: £37000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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The company produces EPoS systems for a range of companies in the Leisure and Hospitality sector in the UK and after the successful launch of their core product.....
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Salary: £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013