The first table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Rank 9 11 19
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1354 1038 653
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 18.51% 14.18% 9.309%
As % of the Application Development category 38.17% 28.77% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1233 979 613
Average salary £31,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,450 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3547 3608 3104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 48.50% 49.29% 44.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3163 3309 2834
Average salary £34,000 £34,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
CSS
England

CSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 North West region.

North West CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Job Locations

The table below 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 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +4 840 £32,500 +1.56% 124
Cheshire 0 290 £30,000 -6.25% 44
Lancashire +7 113 £31,500 -1.56% 25
Merseyside +5 91 £30,000 -11.76% 30
Cumbria -2 8 £30,000 -22.58% 3
CSS
England

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 2080 (82.54%) HTML
2 1954 (77.54%) JavaScript
3 1282 (50.87%) .NET
4 1091 (43.29%) C#
5 1078 (42.78%) ASP.NET
6 1047 (41.55%) jQuery
7 815 (32.34%) SQL
8 786 (31.19%) SQL Server
9 753 (29.88%) MVC
10 686 (27.22%) PHP
11 561 (22.26%) MySQL
12 528 (20.95%) E-Commerce
13 510 (20.24%) XML
14 469 (18.61%) Ajax
15 453 (17.98%) HTML5
16 452 (17.94%) Web Development
17 447 (17.74%) Web Services
18 402 (15.95%) OO
19 384 (15.24%) XHTML
20 367 (14.56%) CSS3
21 322 (12.78%) Agile Software Development
22 309 (12.26%) TDD
22 309 (12.26%) Microsoft
23 295 (11.71%) .NET Framework
24 280 (11.11%) Java
25 268 (10.63%) WCF
26 264 (10.48%) Degree
27 260 (10.32%) ASP.NET MVC
28 257 (10.20%) Windows
29 252 (10.00%) CMS

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 2080 (82.54%) HTML
2 1282 (50.87%) .NET
3 1078 (42.78%) ASP.NET
4 1047 (41.55%) jQuery
5 510 (20.24%) XML
6 469 (18.61%) Ajax
7 453 (17.98%) HTML5
8 447 (17.74%) Web Services
9 384 (15.24%) XHTML
10 367 (14.56%) CSS3
11 295 (11.71%) .NET Framework
12 268 (10.63%) WCF
13 260 (10.32%) ASP.NET MVC
14 191 (7.579%) LINQ
15 150 (5.952%) Flash
16 133 (5.278%) SOAP
17 129 (5.119%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 107 (4.246%) JSON
19 103 (4.087%) ASP
20 100 (3.968%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 252 (10.00%) CMS
2 139 (5.516%) Apache
3 120 (4.762%) SharePoint
4 108 (4.286%) Magento
5 101 (4.008%) WordPress
6 99 (3.929%) IIS
7 45 (1.786%) Drupal
8 40 (1.587%) Umbraco
9 34 (1.349%) Tomcat
10 30 (1.190%) SharePoint 2010
11 26 (1.032%) Sitecore CMS
11 26 (1.032%) Windows Azure
12 25 (0.992%) Joomla!
13 20 (0.794%) nginx
14 15 (0.595%) SharePoint Server
15 13 (0.516%) BizTalk Server
16 10 (0.397%) ESB
17 8 (0.317%) WebSphere Application Server
17 8 (0.317%) SharePoint Foundation
18 7 (0.278%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 250 (9.921%) Photoshop
2 139 (5.516%) MS Excel
3 114 (4.524%) Adobe Illustrator
4 95 (3.770%) Fireworks
5 19 (0.754%) MS Office
6 16 (0.635%) InfoPath
7 6 (0.238%) MS Project
7 6 (0.238%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.119%) InDesign
8 3 (0.119%) RoboHelp
9 1 (0.040%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 53 (2.103%) Google Analytics
2 28 (1.111%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.476%) Bond Adapt
4 6 (0.238%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.198%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.159%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.040%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 128 (5.079%) Internet
2 114 (4.524%) HTTP
3 57 (2.262%) Intranet
4 18 (0.714%) Wireless
5 16 (0.635%) DNS
6 15 (0.595%) SSL
7 10 (0.397%) VPN
8 9 (0.357%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (0.317%) Firewall
10 7 (0.278%) Cisco PIX
10 7 (0.278%) Extranet
11 5 (0.198%) Network Security
11 5 (0.198%) EIGRP
11 5 (0.198%) WLAN
12 4 (0.159%) LAN
12 4 (0.159%) FTP
12 4 (0.159%) LDAP
12 4 (0.159%) CTI
12 4 (0.159%) VLAN
12 4 (0.159%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 786 (31.19%) SQL Server
2 561 (22.26%) MySQL
3 173 (6.865%) SQL Server 2008
4 87 (3.452%) SQL Server 2005
5 68 (2.698%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 58 (2.302%) RDBMS
7 36 (1.429%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 33 (1.310%) SQL Server 2000
9 16 (0.635%) Crystal Reports
10 15 (0.595%) MongoDB
11 14 (0.556%) Oracle 8/8i
12 10 (0.397%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.397%) Big Data
13 8 (0.317%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.238%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (0.198%) Oracle 11g
15 5 (0.198%) PostgreSQL
16 4 (0.159%) Oracle 10g
16 4 (0.159%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.159%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 251 (9.960%) Visual Studio
2 159 (6.310%) Git (software)
3 146 (5.794%) Subversion
4 121 (4.802%) Dreamweaver
5 62 (2.460%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (1.071%) Xcode
6 27 (1.071%) Rhino Mocks
7 25 (0.992%) NUnit
8 22 (0.873%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.714%) JUnit
10 15 (0.595%) Selenium
10 15 (0.595%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 13 (0.516%) Ant
12 11 (0.437%) PhoneGap
12 11 (0.437%) Axure RP
12 11 (0.437%) Maven
13 9 (0.357%) RSpec
13 9 (0.357%) JIRA
13 9 (0.357%) CruiseControl
14 8 (0.317%) Oracle Forms
General
1 250 (9.921%) Marketing
2 120 (4.762%) Retail
3 115 (4.563%) Finance
4 71 (2.817%) Games
5 64 (2.540%) Back Office
6 38 (1.508%) Legal
7 22 (0.873%) Advertising
8 19 (0.754%) Publishing
9 16 (0.635%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.556%) Law
11 10 (0.397%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.397%) Automotive
12 8 (0.317%) Multimedia
13 7 (0.278%) Local Government
13 7 (0.278%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.238%) Banking
14 6 (0.238%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.159%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.159%) Billing
16 3 (0.119%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 2085 (82.74%) Developer
2 641 (25.44%) Web Developer
3 562 (22.30%) .NET Developer
4 359 (14.25%) C# Developer
5 327 (12.98%) PHP Developer
6 313 (12.42%) C# .NET Developer
7 289 (11.47%) ASP.NET Developer
8 231 (9.167%) Software Developer
9 227 (9.008%) Designer
10 222 (8.810%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 191 (7.579%) Web Designer
12 190 (7.540%) Front-End Developer
13 178 (7.063%) Senior Developer
14 140 (5.556%) Java Developer
15 135 (5.357%) .NET Web Developer
16 92 (3.651%) Junior
16 92 (3.651%) PHP Web Developer
17 87 (3.452%) Junior Developer
18 85 (3.373%) PHP MySQL Developer
19 80 (3.175%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.905%) Mobile App
2 115 (4.563%) Computer Science
3 99 (3.929%) Open Source
4 89 (3.532%) N-Tier
5 84 (3.333%) Social Media
6 71 (2.817%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (2.778%) Digital Media
8 45 (1.786%) iPhone
9 38 (1.508%) W3C
10 34 (1.349%) New Media
11 29 (1.151%) Blackberry
12 25 (0.992%) Copywriting
13 20 (0.794%) iPad
14 19 (0.754%) SaaS
15 17 (0.675%) Web 2.0
15 17 (0.675%) Animation
16 15 (0.595%) Graphic Design
17 12 (0.476%) Management Information System
17 12 (0.476%) RIA
18 11 (0.437%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 257 (10.20%) Windows
2 236 (9.365%) Linux
3 161 (6.389%) Android
4 141 (5.595%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.024%) UNIX
6 34 (1.349%) Windows Phone
7 17 (0.675%) Windows Mobile
8 9 (0.357%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.317%) Solaris
10 7 (0.278%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.278%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.119%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.079%) Windows CE
12 2 (0.079%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.040%) CentOS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (29.88%) MVC
2 528 (20.95%) E-Commerce
3 452 (17.94%) Web Development
4 402 (15.95%) OO
5 322 (12.78%) Agile Software Development
6 309 (12.26%) TDD
7 233 (9.246%) OOP
8 195 (7.738%) Web Design
9 186 (7.381%) SEO
10 184 (7.302%) Scrum
11 140 (5.556%) Unit Testing
12 106 (4.206%) Web Application Development
13 86 (3.413%) Continuous Integration
14 80 (3.175%) Analytics
15 74 (2.937%) Digital Marketing
16 65 (2.579%) Mobile Application Development
17 61 (2.421%) UML
18 57 (2.262%) Content Management
19 54 (2.143%) Kanban
20 51 (2.024%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1954 (77.54%) JavaScript
2 1091 (43.29%) C#
3 815 (32.34%) SQL
4 686 (27.22%) PHP
5 280 (11.11%) Java
6 249 (9.881%) VB.NET
7 225 (8.929%) T-SQL
8 135 (5.357%) Ruby
9 104 (4.127%) PHP5
10 75 (2.976%) VB
11 71 (2.817%) C
12 68 (2.698%) ActionScript
13 66 (2.619%) C++
14 54 (2.143%) Objective-C
15 43 (1.706%) ActionScript 3.0
16 37 (1.468%) PL/SQL
17 33 (1.310%) Python
17 33 (1.310%) Perl
18 31 (1.230%) VB6
19 25 (0.992%) VBA
Qualifications
1 264 (10.48%) Degree
2 67 (2.659%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (1.190%) Security Cleared
4 14 (0.556%) MCTS
5 13 (0.516%) MCP
6 9 (0.357%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (0.357%) MCAD
6 9 (0.357%) MCSD
7 8 (0.317%) SC Cleared
7 8 (0.317%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.278%) CCNP
9 5 (0.198%) MCPD
10 4 (0.159%) CCNA
11 2 (0.079%) CCIE
11 2 (0.079%) HND
11 2 (0.079%) ISEB
12 1 (0.040%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.040%) MCITP
12 1 (0.040%) CCSP
12 1 (0.040%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (1.587%) WAI
2 26 (1.032%) QA
3 2 (0.079%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.040%) HL7
4 1 (0.040%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (0.317%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.119%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (0.040%) Plesk
Vendors
1 309 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.921%) Adobe
3 111 (4.405%) Google
4 107 (4.246%) Zend
5 75 (2.976%) Oracle
6 55 (2.183%) Apple
7 46 (1.825%) Telerik
8 34 (1.349%) Twitter
9 30 (1.190%) Sitecore
9 30 (1.190%) Facebook
10 23 (0.913%) Infragistics
11 17 (0.675%) JBoss
12 15 (0.595%) SAP
13 13 (0.516%) EPiServer
14 11 (0.437%) DevExpress
15 10 (0.397%) Cisco
16 9 (0.357%) Omniture
17 8 (0.317%) Remedy
17 8 (0.317%) Rackspace
18 6 (0.238%) IBM
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Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
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Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
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MINT Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Greater Manchester
Jumar Solutions
Salary: Attractive, dependent upon experience.
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Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
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Senitor Associates
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
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Manchester, North West
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £35000 per annum + Bens
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