The first part of the table below looks at the demand for CSS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank142023
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads14500113207557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK11.96 %9.277 %7.936 %
As % of the Application Development category28.60 %23.13 %20.81 %
Number of salaries quoted13233102866782
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.07 %+8.33 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507084893836309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.84 %40.11 %38.13 %
Number of salaries quoted450904320731294
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CSS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CSS Demand Trend

CSS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CSS within the UK.

CSS Salary Trend

CSS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CSS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

CSS Salary Histogram

CSS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+513900£37,500+7.14 %
LondonUp+106540£42,500+6.25 %
South EastUp+12899£37,000+5.71 %
City of LondonUp+161168£45,000+12.50 %
North WestUp+81100£32,000+6.66 %
East of EnglandUp+2911£33,000-5.71 %
SurreyDown-1744£42,500+8.97 %
YorkshireUp+2708£31,000+3.33 %
South WestUp+1699£32,000-1.53 %
BerkshireDown-1632£40,000+14.28 %
ManchesterUp+7554£32,000+6.66 %
West MidlandsUp+4522£33,500+8.06 %
HampshireDown-1453£35,000+7.69 %
West YorkshireUp+3442£31,500+5.00 %
East MidlandsNo change0432£30,000-
CheshireUp+4293£31,500+5.00 %
LeedsUp+1287£31,500+5.00 %
ScotlandUp+11286£34,000+4.61 %
HertfordshireUp+10260£37,500-6.25 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2260£35,000+7.69 %
East SussexNo change0254£32,500-7.14 %
BrightonDown-1238£32,500-5.79 %
ReadingDown-3226£40,000+14.28 %
CambridgeshireDown-17224£35,000-
BristolUp+3223£30,000-
OxfordshireUp+5204£33,500-4.28 %
West SussexUp+3185£33,000-5.71 %
EssexUp+2166£32,500-7.14 %
CambridgeDown-12165£32,500-
LeicestershireUp+4163£29,750+7.20 %

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

121808 (79.67 %)JavaScript
221610 (78.95 %)HTML
311264 (41.15 %).NET
410690 (39.05 %)jQuery
59464 (34.57 %)C#
69058 (33.09 %)ASP.NET
78217 (30.02 %)XML
87812 (28.54 %)PHP
97690 (28.09 %)SQL
107672 (28.03 %)Ajax
117632 (27.88 %)SQL Server
125708 (20.85 %)MVC
135640 (20.60 %)MySQL
145531 (20.21 %)XHTML
155239 (19.14 %)Java
165055 (18.47 %)HTML5
175052 (18.46 %)Web Development
184799 (17.53 %)OO
194415 (16.13 %)Web Services
203941 (14.40 %)E-Commerce
213803 (13.89 %)Degree
223772 (13.78 %)Agile Software Development
233311 (12.10 %)Linux
243292 (12.03 %)Microsoft
253014 (11.01 %)CMS
262939 (10.74 %)CSS3
272925 (10.69 %)Finance
282873 (10.50 %)TDD
292726 (9.959 %)Subversion
302656 (9.703 %)XSLT

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121610 (78.95 %)HTML
211264 (41.15 %).NET
310690 (39.05 %)jQuery
49058 (33.09 %)ASP.NET
58217 (30.02 %)XML
67672 (28.03 %)Ajax
75531 (20.21 %)XHTML
85055 (18.47 %)HTML5
94415 (16.13 %)Web Services
102939 (10.74 %)CSS3
112656 (9.703 %)XSLT
122338 (8.541 %)Flash
131952 (7.131 %)ASP.NET MVC
141874 (6.846 %)WCF
151852 (6.766 %)Spring
161709 (6.243 %).NET Framework
171604 (5.860 %)J2EE
181589 (5.805 %)LAMP
191540 (5.626 %)JSP
201481 (5.410 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13014 (11.01 %)CMS
22189 (7.997 %)Apache
31492 (5.451 %)IIS
41430 (5.224 %)SharePoint
51149 (4.198 %)Drupal
6937 (3.423 %)WordPress
7763 (2.787 %)Tomcat
8574 (2.097 %)Magento
9521 (1.903 %)SharePoint 2010
10503 (1.838 %)Umbraco
11438 (1.600 %)Joomla!
12349 (1.275 %)SharePoint Server
13324 (1.184 %)WebLogic
14217 (0.793 %)Sitecore CMS
15182 (0.665 %)BizTalk Server
16167 (0.610 %)ColdFusion
17160 (0.585 %)WebSphere Application Server
18124 (0.453 %)GlassFish
19111 (0.406 %)Amazon EC2
20107 (0.391 %)Amazon AWS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12650 (9.681 %)Photoshop
21445 (5.279 %)MS Excel
3988 (3.609 %)Adobe Illustrator
4520 (1.900 %)Fireworks
5480 (1.754 %)MS Visio
6359 (1.312 %)MS Office
7131 (0.479 %)InDesign
8101 (0.369 %)InfoPath
987 (0.318 %)MS PowerPoint
1064 (0.234 %)MS Project
1157 (0.208 %)OmniGraffle
1248 (0.175 %)Acrobat
1327 (0.099 %)Adobe After Effects
1420 (0.073 %)GIMP
1420 (0.073 %)Spreadsheet
1516 (0.058 %)Adobe Premiere
1615 (0.055 %)Google Apps
1714 (0.051 %)FreeHand
1813 (0.047 %)XMetaL
1910 (0.037 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1307 (1.122 %)Google Analytics
2113 (0.413 %)Dynamics CRM
386 (0.314 %)WebTrends
450 (0.183 %)SiteCatalyst
530 (0.110 %)Summit
622 (0.080 %)Optimost
720 (0.073 %)Oracle Applications
817 (0.062 %)Tridion
916 (0.058 %)Oracle BPM
1013 (0.047 %)Pivotal CRM
119 (0.033 %)SAP R/3
127 (0.026 %)Dynamics NAV
136 (0.022 %)Apache OFBiz
144 (0.015 %)Oracle Financials
144 (0.015 %)BusinessWorks
153 (0.011 %)Maximo
153 (0.011 %)Agresso
153 (0.011 %)Dynamics GP
153 (0.011 %)SAP ERP
162 (0.007 %)Remedy ITSM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11623 (5.929 %)Internet
2859 (3.138 %)HTTP
3646 (2.360 %)Intranet
4359 (1.312 %)TCP/IP
5338 (1.235 %)DNS
6258 (0.943 %)Firewall
7177 (0.647 %)Extranet
8152 (0.555 %)FTP
9136 (0.497 %)SSL
10104 (0.380 %)Broadband
1199 (0.362 %)Network Security
1293 (0.340 %)Cisco PIX
1386 (0.314 %)SMTP
1473 (0.267 %)BGP
1473 (0.267 %)VPN
1570 (0.256 %)Cisco ASA
1669 (0.252 %)SSH
1764 (0.234 %)OSPF
1764 (0.234 %)Cisco IOS
1863 (0.230 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17632 (27.88 %)SQL Server
25640 (20.60 %)MySQL
32186 (7.986 %)SQL Server 2008
41845 (6.740 %)SQL Server 2005
5526 (1.922 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6449 (1.640 %)RDBMS
7415 (1.516 %)PostgreSQL
8406 (1.483 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9287 (1.048 %)SQL Server 2000
10206 (0.753 %)NoSQL
11176 (0.643 %)MongoDB
12170 (0.621 %)Data Warehouse
13145 (0.530 %)GIS
14119 (0.435 %)Crystal Reports
15118 (0.431 %)DB2
16112 (0.409 %)ETL
17108 (0.395 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1894 (0.343 %)Redis
1993 (0.340 %)Oracle 11g
2092 (0.336 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12726 (9.959 %)Subversion
22226 (8.132 %)Visual Studio
31198 (4.377 %)Git (software)
4767 (2.802 %)Dreamweaver
5763 (2.787 %)Team Foundation Server
6618 (2.258 %)JUnit
7580 (2.119 %)NUnit
8563 (2.057 %)Eclipse
9552 (2.017 %)Maven
10495 (1.808 %)Ant
11383 (1.399 %)Selenium
12312 (1.140 %)JIRA
13285 (1.041 %)VSS/SourceSafe
14241 (0.880 %)Rhino Mocks
15208 (0.760 %)TeamCity
16189 (0.690 %)PHPUnit
17187 (0.683 %)Mercurial
18175 (0.639 %)MSBuild
19146 (0.533 %)Cucumber
20143 (0.522 %)Axure RP
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12925 (10.69 %)Finance
22371 (8.662 %)Marketing
31193 (4.358 %)Retail
4919 (3.357 %)Games
5695 (2.539 %)Advertising
6557 (2.035 %)Publishing
7470 (1.717 %)Telecoms
8405 (1.480 %)Banking
9227 (0.829 %)Multimedia
10205 (0.749 %)Back Office
11189 (0.690 %)Music
12148 (0.541 %)Law
13132 (0.482 %)Legal
1495 (0.347 %)Automotive
1587 (0.318 %)Investment Banking
1679 (0.289 %)Manufacturing
1767 (0.245 %)Pharmaceutical
1866 (0.241 %)Music Industry
1960 (0.219 %)Financial Institution
2059 (0.216 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
122203 (81.11 %)Developer
26758 (24.69 %)Web Developer
35157 (18.84 %).NET Developer
43601 (13.16 %)PHP Developer
53032 (11.08 %)Senior Developer
62792 (10.20 %)C# Developer
72333 (8.523 %)Front-End Developer
82319 (8.472 %)C# .NET Developer
92281 (8.333 %)ASP.NET Developer
101976 (7.219 %)Java Developer
111662 (6.072 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
121565 (5.717 %)Designer
131232 (4.501 %)Software Developer
141096 (4.004 %)Junior
151056 (3.858 %).NET Web Developer
16993 (3.628 %)Junior Developer
17946 (3.456 %)Web Designer
18767 (2.802 %)Senior .NET Developer
19752 (2.747 %)Analyst
20718 (2.623 %)PHP Web Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11720 (6.284 %)Computer Science
21303 (4.760 %)Open Source
31192 (4.355 %)W3C
41142 (4.172 %)Social Media
5876 (3.200 %)iPhone
6749 (2.736 %)Digital Media
7492 (1.797 %)N-Tier
8464 (1.695 %)Blackberry
9443 (1.618 %)SaaS
10438 (1.600 %)Social Network
11418 (1.527 %)iPad
12385 (1.406 %)Web 2.0
13315 (1.151 %)Graphic Design
14279 (1.019 %)Mathematics
15256 (0.935 %)Online Games
16254 (0.928 %)New Media
17234 (0.855 %)Management Information System
18208 (0.760 %)RIA
19207 (0.756 %)Blog
20161 (0.588 %)Visualisation
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13311 (12.10 %)Linux
22322 (8.483 %)Windows
31417 (5.177 %)Android
41202 (4.391 %)UNIX
5956 (3.492 %)Apple iOS
6311 (1.136 %)Windows Server 2003
7269 (0.983 %)Windows Server 2008
8197 (0.720 %)Windows Mobile
9122 (0.446 %)Solaris
1076 (0.278 %)Mac OS X
1172 (0.263 %)Ubuntu
1269 (0.252 %)Windows XP
1368 (0.248 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1463 (0.230 %)Debian
1557 (0.208 %)Windows Phone 7
1654 (0.197 %)CentOS
1736 (0.132 %)BlackBerry OS
1832 (0.117 %)Windows 7
1832 (0.117 %)Mac OS
1923 (0.084 %)webOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15708 (20.85 %)MVC
25052 (18.46 %)Web Development
34799 (17.53 %)OO
43941 (14.40 %)E-Commerce
53772 (13.78 %)Agile Software Development
62873 (10.50 %)TDD
72501 (9.137 %)Scrum
81941 (7.091 %)OOP
91887 (6.894 %)SEO
101710 (6.247 %)Content Management
111426 (5.210 %)Unit Testing
121268 (4.632 %)Web Design
13959 (3.503 %)Project Management
14822 (3.003 %)Continuous Integration
15772 (2.820 %)UML
16750 (2.740 %)Web Application Development
17675 (2.466 %)BDD
17675 (2.466 %)Software Engineering
18624 (2.280 %)CRM
19564 (2.060 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
121808 (79.67 %)JavaScript
29464 (34.57 %)C#
37812 (28.54 %)PHP
47690 (28.09 %)SQL
55239 (19.14 %)Java
62216 (8.096 %)VB.NET
71801 (6.579 %)PHP5
81601 (5.849 %)T-SQL
91264 (4.618 %)Ruby
101168 (4.267 %)Python
111068 (3.902 %)ActionScript
12859 (3.138 %)Perl
13799 (2.919 %)C++
14797 (2.912 %)VB
15535 (1.954 %)C
16470 (1.717 %)PL/SQL
17434 (1.586 %)XPath
18420 (1.534 %)ActionScript 3.0
19409 (1.494 %)Objective-C
20299 (1.092 %)Shell Script
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13803 (13.89 %)Degree
2616 (2.250 %)Microsoft Certification
3277 (1.012 %)MCP
4215 (0.785 %)MCTS
5209 (0.764 %)Security Cleared
6207 (0.756 %)MCSD
7179 (0.654 %)MCAD
8138 (0.504 %)Cisco Certification
9122 (0.446 %)SC Cleared
1097 (0.354 %)CCNP
1169 (0.252 %)MCSE
1169 (0.252 %)HND
1266 (0.241 %)CCSP
1365 (0.237 %)MCPD
1455 (0.201 %)CCNA
1546 (0.168 %)ISEB
1633 (0.121 %)Sun Certification
1732 (0.117 %)ITIL Certification
1829 (0.106 %)PMI Certification
1922 (0.080 %)ISTQB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1836 (3.054 %)QA
2195 (0.712 %)WAI
3185 (0.676 %)WCAG
4151 (0.552 %)SLA
5106 (0.387 %)ISO 9001
682 (0.300 %)PCI DSS
748 (0.175 %)ISO/IEC 27001
831 (0.113 %)PAS 78
98 (0.029 %)Data Quality
103 (0.011 %)COBIT
112 (0.007 %)21 CFR Part 11
121 (0.004 %)ISO 8583
121 (0.004 %)BS7799
121 (0.004 %)Solvency II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1232 (0.848 %)Active Directory
270 (0.256 %)VMware Infrastructure
349 (0.179 %)Varnish
439 (0.142 %)VMware ESX
522 (0.080 %)MetaFrame
616 (0.058 %)Hyper-V
713 (0.047 %)vSphere
812 (0.044 %)Postfix
812 (0.044 %)Sendmail
812 (0.044 %)UAG
911 (0.040 %)XenApp
105 (0.018 %)Xen
114 (0.015 %)Novell eDirectory
123 (0.011 %)NFS
123 (0.011 %)Veritas Cluster Server
132 (0.007 %)vCloud
132 (0.007 %)IMail Server
132 (0.007 %)SpamAssassin
132 (0.007 %)Squid
132 (0.007 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
138 (0.139 %)Puppet
235 (0.128 %)SCCM
328 (0.102 %)Plesk
415 (0.055 %)Foglight
514 (0.051 %)CiscoWorks
611 (0.040 %)OpenView Configuration Management
710 (0.037 %)NetBackup
89 (0.033 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
89 (0.033 %)SCOM
98 (0.029 %)MOM
98 (0.029 %)Unicenter
107 (0.026 %)Norton AntiVirus
107 (0.026 %)OpenView
107 (0.026 %)WSUS
116 (0.022 %)Ionix
116 (0.022 %)Backup Exec
125 (0.018 %)Cisco IPCC
125 (0.018 %)Nagios
125 (0.018 %)Netcool
125 (0.018 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13292 (12.03 %)Microsoft
21791 (6.543 %)Oracle
31576 (5.757 %)Zend
41343 (4.906 %)Adobe
5872 (3.186 %)Google
6813 (2.970 %)Facebook
7543 (1.984 %)JBoss
8294 (1.074 %)Twitter
9277 (1.012 %)Sitecore
10251 (0.917 %)ATG
11245 (0.895 %)Cisco
12234 (0.855 %)Symbian
13220 (0.804 %)IBM
14204 (0.745 %)Apple
15156 (0.570 %)EPiServer
16135 (0.493 %)Salesforce.com
17130 (0.475 %)VMware
18126 (0.460 %)hybris
19124 (0.453 %)Red Hat
20119 (0.435 %)SAP