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This section looks at the demand for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank2238
Rank change on same period last yearUp+16
Matching permanent IT job ads839586
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.443 %0.240 %
As % of the category below20.99 %12.76 %
Salaries quoted741505
Average minimum salary£26,096£26,302
Average salary£28,685£28,987
% change on same period last year-1.04 %
Average maximum salary£31,274£31,673
UK excluding London average salary£31,187£30,801
% change on same period last year+1.25 %
North West IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
North West
Matching permanent IT job ads39974594
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.110 %1.881 %
Salaries quoted34723952
Average minimum salary£29,752£31,523
Average salary£32,816£34,621
% change on same period last year-5.21 %
Average maximum salary£35,880£37,719
UK excluding London average salary£35,873£36,830
% change on same period last year-2.59 %
CSS EnglandCSS
England

CSS
Demand Trend

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

North West CSS Demand Trend

CSS
Salary Trend

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

North West CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

North West CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ManchesterUp+17389£29,577-3.07 %
CheshireUp+5240£28,219+1.47 %
LancashireUp+2893£26,683+3.31 %
MerseysideUp+183£28,143+1.09 %
CumbriaNew entry-16£25,433-
CSS EnglandCSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

11101 (70.13 %)HTML
2910 (57.96 %)JavaScript
3814 (51.85 %).NET
4674 (42.93 %)ASP.NET
5601 (38.28 %)XHTML
6577 (36.75 %)XML
7563 (35.86 %)SQL Server
8472 (30.06 %)C#
9430 (27.39 %)PHP
10428 (27.26 %)SQL
11413 (26.31 %)AJAX
12319 (20.32 %)MySQL
13300 (19.11 %)Web Development
14262 (16.69 %)Flash
15223 (14.20 %)Java
16215 (13.69 %)OO
17201 (12.80 %)ASP
18192 (12.23 %)E-Commerce
18192 (12.23 %)SEO
19190 (12.10 %)WebServices
20189 (12.04 %)Marketing
21182 (11.59 %)Internet
22181 (11.53 %)VB.NET
23180 (11.46 %)Photoshop
24163 (10.38 %)SQL Server 2000
25162 (10.32 %)Web Design
26155 (9.873 %)W3C
27154 (9.809 %)SQL Server 2005
28147 (9.363 %)Microsoft
29140 (8.917 %)Visual Studio

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11101 (70.13 %)HTML
2814 (51.85 %).NET
3674 (42.93 %)ASP.NET
4601 (38.28 %)XHTML
5577 (36.75 %)XML
6413 (26.31 %)AJAX
7201 (12.80 %)ASP
8190 (12.10 %)WebServices
9128 (8.153 %)XSLT
1097 (6.178 %)J2EE
1188 (5.605 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1280 (5.096 %)JSP
1357 (3.631 %).NET Framework
1448 (3.057 %)LAMP
1547 (2.994 %)SOAP
1642 (2.675 %)XSL
1739 (2.484 %)RSS
1739 (2.484 %)Servlets
1837 (2.357 %)JDBC
1837 (2.357 %)Spring
North West IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
188 (5.605 %)IIS
279 (5.032 %)CMS
376 (4.841 %)SharePoint
471 (4.522 %)Apache
548 (3.057 %)SharePoint Server 2007
636 (2.293 %)Lotus Notes
733 (2.102 %)Lotus Domino
822 (1.401 %)ColdFusion
917 (1.083 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1015 (0.955 %)Tomcat
1015 (0.955 %)WebLogic
1112 (0.764 %)JBoss
1112 (0.764 %)WebLogic Portal
126 (0.382 %)Joomla!
134 (0.255 %)WebSphere Application Server
143 (0.191 %)Tuxedo
143 (0.191 %)iPlanet
143 (0.191 %)Zope
143 (0.191 %)Plone
143 (0.191 %)TYPO3
North West IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1180 (11.46 %)Photoshop
2110 (7.006 %)Adobe Illustrator
390 (5.732 %)MS Excel
446 (2.930 %)Fireworks
516 (1.019 %)FreeHand
613 (0.828 %)MS Office
76 (0.382 %)ImageReady
83 (0.191 %)Paint Shop Pro
83 (0.191 %)InDesign
83 (0.191 %)MS PowerPoint
92 (0.127 %)MS Visio
North West IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
118 (1.146 %)SAP R/3
118 (1.146 %)SAP Oil and Gas
118 (1.146 %)SAP IS-U
25 (0.318 %)Bond Adapt
33 (0.191 %)WebTrends
42 (0.127 %)Google Analytics
North West IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1182 (11.59 %)Internet
2118 (7.516 %)Intranet
329 (1.847 %)HTTP
427 (1.720 %)Extranet
513 (0.828 %)DNS
69 (0.573 %)FTP
76 (0.382 %)SSL
76 (0.382 %)DAB
84 (0.255 %)DMZ
84 (0.255 %)TCP/IP
93 (0.191 %)Firewall
102 (0.127 %)WEP
111 (0.064 %)SSH
111 (0.064 %)VPN
111 (0.064 %)POP3
111 (0.064 %)SMTP
111 (0.064 %)SAN
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1563 (35.86 %)SQL Server
2319 (20.32 %)MySQL
3163 (10.38 %)SQL Server 2000
4154 (9.809 %)SQL Server 2005
543 (2.739 %)Crystal Reports
626 (1.656 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
723 (1.465 %)SQL Server 7
817 (1.083 %)RDBMS
916 (1.019 %)DB2
1014 (0.892 %)PostgreSQL
1111 (0.701 %)DTS
1210 (0.637 %)Oracle Reports
139 (0.573 %)SQL Server Integration Services
148 (0.510 %)MS Access
157 (0.446 %)Oracle 8/8i
164 (0.255 %)Oracle 10g
173 (0.191 %)Oracle 9i
173 (0.191 %)Informix
182 (0.127 %)Datawarehouse
182 (0.127 %)EDRMS
North West IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1262 (16.69 %)Flash
2140 (8.917 %)Visual Studio
3130 (8.280 %)Dreamweaver
427 (1.720 %)VSS/SourceSafe
523 (1.465 %)Eclipse
614 (0.892 %)Ant
711 (0.701 %)Subversion
89 (0.573 %)JUnit
93 (0.191 %)JIRA
93 (0.191 %)NUnit
102 (0.127 %)JDeveloper
111 (0.064 %)Synon
111 (0.064 %)Log4j
111 (0.064 %)jMock
111 (0.064 %)FrontPage
North West IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1189 (12.04 %)Marketing
2100 (6.369 %)Finance
361 (3.885 %)Graphic Design
457 (3.631 %)Advertising
541 (2.611 %)Health
639 (2.484 %)Pensions
733 (2.102 %)Education
827 (1.720 %)Insurance
921 (1.338 %)Banking
1018 (1.146 %)Retail
1018 (1.146 %)Billing
1117 (1.083 %)Multimedia
1216 (1.019 %)Construction
1216 (1.019 %)Pharmaceutical
1313 (0.828 %)Games
1412 (0.764 %)Legal
1511 (0.701 %)Publishing
167 (0.446 %)Government
167 (0.446 %)Flash Games
175 (0.318 %)FMCG
North West IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11152 (73.38 %)Developer
2599 (38.15 %)Web Developer
3235 (14.97 %).NET Developer
4224 (14.27 %)PHP Developer
5164 (10.45 %)ASP.NET Developer
6163 (10.38 %)Web Designer
7144 (9.172 %)C# Developer
8110 (7.006 %)PHP Web Developer
9102 (6.497 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
1097 (6.178 %)Senior Developer
1187 (5.541 %).NET Web Developer
1283 (5.287 %)Java Developer
1363 (4.013 %)C# Web Developer
1461 (3.885 %)Applications Developer
1556 (3.567 %)Software Developer
1653 (3.376 %)Programmer
1750 (3.185 %)MySQL Developer
1848 (3.057 %)Web Applications Developer
1947 (2.994 %)Junior
2037 (2.357 %)Photoshop Designer
North West IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1155 (9.873 %)W3C
222 (1.401 %)Computer Science
317 (1.083 %)Web 2.0
415 (0.955 %)N-Tier
510 (0.637 %)E-Learning
68 (0.510 %)Data Integration
76 (0.382 %)Streaming Video
84 (0.255 %)Blackberry
84 (0.255 %)AS400
84 (0.255 %)Mathematics
93 (0.191 %)Italian Language
93 (0.191 %)Spanish Language
93 (0.191 %)Client/Server
93 (0.191 %)VLE
93 (0.191 %)Tandem
102 (0.127 %)PDA
102 (0.127 %)SCORM
102 (0.127 %)NHS
102 (0.127 %)Copywriting
102 (0.127 %)Data Extraction
North West IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1120 (7.643 %)Linux
283 (5.287 %)Windows
352 (3.312 %)UNIX
43 (0.191 %)Solaris
52 (0.127 %)Windows 2000
52 (0.127 %)Windows XP
61 (0.064 %)Mac OS X
61 (0.064 %)SUSE
61 (0.064 %)FreeBSD
61 (0.064 %)AIX
North West IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1300 (19.11 %)Web Development
2215 (13.69 %)OO
3192 (12.23 %)E-Commerce
3192 (12.23 %)SEO
4162 (10.32 %)Web Design
591 (5.796 %)Content Management
686 (5.478 %)OOP
759 (3.758 %)Pay per click
850 (3.185 %)UML
940 (2.548 %)Project Management
1034 (2.166 %)Search Engine Marketing
1034 (2.166 %)Internet Marketing
1130 (1.911 %)Unit Testing
1225 (1.592 %)OOA/OOD
1324 (1.529 %)Agile Software Development
1422 (1.401 %)CRM
1521 (1.338 %)OOD
1620 (1.274 %)Service Management
1620 (1.274 %)Integration Testing
1719 (1.210 %)Data Management
North West IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1910 (57.96 %)JavaScript
2472 (30.06 %)C#
3430 (27.39 %)PHP
4428 (27.26 %)SQL
5223 (14.20 %)Java
6181 (11.53 %)VB.NET
7127 (8.089 %)VB
8108 (6.879 %)DHTML
996 (6.115 %)PHP5
1089 (5.669 %)ActionScript
1187 (5.541 %)Transact-SQL
1260 (3.822 %)PHP4
1359 (3.758 %)Perl
1440 (2.548 %)VB6
1531 (1.975 %)C++
1626 (1.656 %)Ruby
1723 (1.465 %)LotusScript
1822 (1.401 %)VBScript
1920 (1.274 %)Python
2015 (0.955 %)Formula Language
North West IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1126 (8.025 %)Degree
221 (1.338 %)Microsoft Certification
311 (0.701 %)HND
48 (0.510 %)MCAD
56 (0.382 %)MCSD
56 (0.382 %)MCP
62 (0.127 %)GNVQ
71 (0.064 %)Sun Certification
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (0.510 %)QA
26 (0.382 %)WCAG
32 (0.127 %)WAI
41 (0.064 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
North West IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12 (0.127 %)Active Directory
North West IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
16 (0.382 %)SCOM
North West IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1147 (9.363 %)Microsoft
2106 (6.752 %)Oracle
353 (3.376 %)Adobe
436 (2.293 %)Lotus
526 (1.656 %)Google
625 (1.592 %)Sybase
721 (1.338 %)SAP
818 (1.146 %)IBM
97 (0.446 %)Yahoo!
105 (0.318 %)Tridion
114 (0.255 %)Macromedia
123 (0.191 %)BEA
132 (0.127 %)Geac
132 (0.127 %)Lagan
132 (0.127 %)Infor
141 (0.064 %)Northgate
141 (0.064 %)Novell
141 (0.064 %)Siemens
141 (0.064 %)Sun
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