Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 3 September 2010 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.

LinkCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Location
3 months to
3 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank242025
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Up+5
Matching permanent IT job ads8372568310352
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK7.755 %8.279 %5.776 %
As % of the Application Development category19.72 %21.75 %17.56 %
Salaries quoted738950729322
Average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£23,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£46,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£30,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
424512612658957
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK39.32 %38.06 %32.90 %
Salaries quoted363162228550897
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.060 %-5.710 %

CSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 3 September 2010 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 3 September 2010. 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
EnglandDown-38126£35,000+7.69 %
LondonDown-43659£40,000+6.66 %
South EastDown-51717£35,000+7.69 %
City of LondonDown-6868£40,000+9.58 %
East of EnglandDown-6591£32,500-
North WestDown-8565£30,000+9.09 %
SurreyDown-3470£40,000+14.28 %
South WestDown-1453£30,350-2.09 %
YorkshireDown-1427£30,000+9.09 %
BerkshireUp+3389£37,500+7.14 %
ManchesterDown-1365£30,000+5.26 %
West MidlandsDown-7347£32,500+18.18 %
East MidlandsDown-3313£30,000+7.14 %
West YorkshireDown-5261£30,000+25.00 %
HertfordshireUp+13227£35,000+7.69 %
HampshireDown-14200£30,000-
CambridgeshireDown-13178£35,000+7.69 %
LeedsDown-4175£30,000+23.71 %
WiltshireUp+19144£32,500+8.33 %
BuckinghamshireDown-5144£35,000+7.69 %
ReadingUp+23143£37,500+15.38 %
KentDown-1143£33,000+17.85 %
ScotlandNo change0138£32,500-
CambridgeDown-19129£35,000+7.69 %
West SussexDown-4124£30,000-7.69 %
OxfordshireDown-10121£40,000+23.07 %
CheshireDown-18108£31,000+19.23 %
NottinghamshireUp+490£29,000-
South YorkshireDown-688£32,500+8.33 %
BristolUp+187£28,500-8.06 %

CSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, 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.

112127 (74.72 %)JavaScript
211918 (73.43 %)HTML
36959 (42.87 %).NET
45571 (34.32 %)XML
55552 (34.21 %)AJAX
65511 (33.95 %)ASP.NET
75391 (33.21 %)C#
85287 (32.57 %)XHTML
95012 (30.88 %)SQL Server
104784 (29.47 %)SQL
114415 (27.20 %)PHP
123889 (23.96 %)jQuery
133462 (21.33 %)MySQL
143321 (20.46 %)Java
152890 (17.81 %)OO
162796 (17.23 %)Web Development
172775 (17.10 %)Flash
182726 (16.80 %)E-Commerce
192419 (14.90 %)Web Services
202228 (13.73 %)Photoshop
212121 (13.07 %)Linux
222061 (12.70 %)Degree
232013 (12.40 %)Microsoft
242012 (12.40 %)Agile Software Development
251916 (11.80 %)MVC
261839 (11.33 %)CMS
271585 (9.765 %)Subversion
271585 (9.765 %)Marketing
281531 (9.433 %)SQL Server 2005
291530 (9.426 %)XSLT

CSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, 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
111918 (73.43 %)HTML
26959 (42.87 %).NET
35571 (34.32 %)XML
45552 (34.21 %)AJAX
55511 (33.95 %)ASP.NET
65287 (32.57 %)XHTML
73889 (23.96 %)jQuery
82775 (17.10 %)Flash
92419 (14.90 %)Web Services
101530 (9.426 %)XSLT
111265 (7.794 %)J2EE
121228 (7.566 %)Spring
131116 (6.876 %)ASP
141106 (6.814 %)JSP
151057 (6.512 %)LAMP
161022 (6.297 %).NET Framework
17934 (5.754 %)WCF
18786 (4.843 %)Hibernate
19702 (4.325 %)Silverlight
20694 (4.276 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11839 (11.33 %)CMS
21417 (8.730 %)Apache
31049 (6.463 %)IIS
4860 (5.299 %)SharePoint
5548 (3.376 %)Drupal
6499 (3.074 %)Tomcat
7368 (2.267 %)SharePoint Server 2007
8337 (2.076 %)WordPress
9277 (1.707 %)Joomla!
10248 (1.528 %)ColdFusion
11191 (1.177 %)WebLogic
12160 (0.986 %)Magento
13154 (0.949 %)BizTalk Server
14131 (0.807 %)Umbraco
1588 (0.542 %)SharePoint 2010
1683 (0.511 %)Commerce Server
1780 (0.493 %)Sitecore CMS
1875 (0.462 %)ESB
1875 (0.462 %)WebSphere Application Server
1964 (0.394 %)EPiServer CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12228 (13.73 %)Photoshop
2966 (5.952 %)MS Excel
3823 (5.071 %)Adobe Illustrator
4505 (3.111 %)Fireworks
5357 (2.199 %)MS Office
6247 (1.522 %)MS Visio
788 (0.542 %)MS PowerPoint
873 (0.450 %)InDesign
964 (0.394 %)Acrobat
1054 (0.333 %)InfoPath
1130 (0.185 %)Adobe After Effects
1224 (0.148 %)MS Project
1322 (0.136 %)FrameMaker
1419 (0.117 %)XMetaL
1516 (0.099 %)OmniGraffle
1516 (0.099 %)ImageReady
1516 (0.099 %)Adobe Director
1615 (0.092 %)Spreadsheet
1710 (0.062 %)Adobe Premiere
189 (0.055 %)Maya
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1121 (0.745 %)Google Analytics
280 (0.493 %)WebTrends
328 (0.173 %)Dynamics CRM
422 (0.136 %)Summit
516 (0.099 %)Microsoft CRM
611 (0.068 %)Oracle EBS
79 (0.055 %)Optimost
87 (0.043 %)Oracle BPM
87 (0.043 %)Retail-J
95 (0.031 %)Dynamics GP
104 (0.025 %)GoldMine
104 (0.025 %)SAP IS-U
104 (0.025 %)JDE OneWorld
104 (0.025 %)Dynamics NAV
104 (0.025 %)Visualfiles
113 (0.018 %)Enfinity
113 (0.018 %)Global One
113 (0.018 %)SAP FI
113 (0.018 %)INSURE/90
113 (0.018 %)SAP FI-CA
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11229 (7.572 %)Internet
2599 (3.690 %)Intranet
3448 (2.760 %)HTTP
4185 (1.140 %)Extranet
5143 (0.881 %)Firewall
6131 (0.807 %)TCP/IP
7122 (0.752 %)DNS
869 (0.425 %)VPN
965 (0.400 %)FTP
1059 (0.364 %)Cisco ASA
1153 (0.327 %)SMTP
1251 (0.314 %)Network Security
1349 (0.302 %)Cisco PIX
1435 (0.216 %)LDAP
1435 (0.216 %)SSL
1533 (0.203 %)Broadband
1630 (0.185 %)SNMP
1630 (0.185 %)NetScreen
1728 (0.173 %)Wireless
1826 (0.160 %)SSH
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15012 (30.88 %)SQL Server
23462 (21.33 %)MySQL
31531 (9.433 %)SQL Server 2005
4904 (5.570 %)SQL Server 2008
5451 (2.779 %)SQL Server 2000
6365 (2.249 %)RDBMS
7254 (1.565 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8234 (1.442 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9188 (1.158 %)PostgreSQL
10146 (0.900 %)DB2
11108 (0.665 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
1299 (0.610 %)OLAP
1384 (0.518 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1482 (0.505 %)Oracle 8/8i
1581 (0.499 %)MS Access
1581 (0.499 %)ETL
1679 (0.487 %)Oracle 9i
1770 (0.431 %)Oracle 10g
1868 (0.419 %)Crystal Reports
1966 (0.407 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11585 (9.765 %)Subversion
21267 (7.806 %)Visual Studio
3801 (4.935 %)Dreamweaver
4600 (3.697 %)NUnit
5420 (2.588 %)JUnit
6378 (2.329 %)Eclipse
7319 (1.965 %)Maven
8297 (1.830 %)Team Foundation Server
9282 (1.737 %)Ant
10262 (1.614 %)VSS/SourceSafe
11255 (1.571 %)Rhino Mocks
12204 (1.257 %)Selenium
13160 (0.986 %)Git (software)
1496 (0.591 %)CruiseControl
1595 (0.585 %)JIRA
1687 (0.536 %)Moq
1749 (0.302 %)Cucumber
1847 (0.290 %)PHPUnit
1943 (0.265 %)FitNesse
2042 (0.259 %)Firebug
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11585 (9.765 %)Marketing
21440 (8.872 %)Finance
3912 (5.619 %)Pensions
4630 (3.881 %)Insurance
5591 (3.641 %)Health
6573 (3.530 %)Retail
7550 (3.389 %)Games
8531 (3.272 %)Education
9393 (2.421 %)Advertising
10338 (2.082 %)Telecoms
11315 (1.941 %)Publishing
12314 (1.935 %)Multimedia
13298 (1.836 %)Social Media
14275 (1.694 %)Graphic Design
15267 (1.645 %)Banking
16164 (1.010 %)Animation
17152 (0.936 %)Back Office
18150 (0.924 %)Music
19143 (0.881 %)Online Games
20120 (0.739 %)Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
112721 (78.37 %)Developer
24469 (27.53 %)Web Developer
32875 (17.71 %).NET Developer
42016 (12.42 %)Senior Developer
51962 (12.09 %)PHP Developer
61615 (9.950 %)C# Developer
71445 (8.903 %)ASP.NET Developer
81373 (8.459 %)Designer
91221 (7.523 %)Java Developer
101088 (6.703 %)Front-End Developer
111077 (6.635 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
121015 (6.253 %)Web Designer
13657 (4.048 %)Software Developer
14620 (3.820 %)Junior
15573 (3.530 %).NET Web Developer
16541 (3.333 %)Junior Developer
17537 (3.308 %)Analyst
18522 (3.216 %)Senior Web Developer
19518 (3.191 %)Senior .NET Developer
20517 (3.185 %)PHP Web Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11183 (7.289 %)W3C
2754 (4.645 %)Computer Science
3657 (4.048 %)Open Source
4404 (2.489 %)Web 2.0
5398 (2.452 %)N-Tier
6290 (1.787 %)Social Network
7263 (1.620 %)iPhone
8256 (1.577 %)Client/Server
9193 (1.189 %)Mathematics
10137 (0.844 %)Blog
11128 (0.789 %)SaaS
1291 (0.561 %)Management Information System
1388 (0.542 %)RIA
1487 (0.536 %)Blackberry
1576 (0.468 %)Multithreading
1674 (0.456 %)E-Learning
1755 (0.339 %)BBC
1850 (0.308 %)Statistics
1949 (0.302 %)German Language
2048 (0.296 %)Cloud Computing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12121 (13.07 %)Linux
21265 (7.794 %)Windows
3872 (5.372 %)UNIX
4214 (1.318 %)Windows Server 2003
5161 (0.992 %)Android
6119 (0.733 %)Windows Server 2008
7109 (0.672 %)Solaris
891 (0.561 %)Windows XP
951 (0.314 %)Windows 2000
1050 (0.308 %)Red Hat Linux
1146 (0.283 %)Windows 7
1244 (0.271 %)Windows Mobile
1338 (0.234 %)Windows 2000 Server
1436 (0.222 %)Windows Vista
1534 (0.209 %)Ubuntu
1631 (0.191 %)Debian
1726 (0.160 %)Mac OS X
1823 (0.142 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1919 (0.117 %)Mac OS
2014 (0.086 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12890 (17.81 %)OO
22796 (17.23 %)Web Development
32726 (16.80 %)E-Commerce
42012 (12.40 %)Agile Software Development
51916 (11.80 %)MVC
61425 (8.779 %)Scrum
71251 (7.707 %)TDD
81239 (7.634 %)SEO
91115 (6.870 %)Content Management
101069 (6.586 %)Web Design
11956 (5.890 %)OOP
12666 (4.103 %)Unit Testing
13613 (3.777 %)UML
14584 (3.598 %)Project Management
15449 (2.766 %)SOA
16422 (2.600 %)Continuous Integration
17395 (2.434 %)CRM
18385 (2.372 %)OOD
19320 (1.972 %)Software Engineering
20302 (1.861 %)Digital Marketing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112127 (74.72 %)JavaScript
25391 (33.21 %)C#
34784 (29.47 %)SQL
44415 (27.20 %)PHP
53321 (20.46 %)Java
61423 (8.767 %)VB.NET
71288 (7.935 %)ActionScript
81046 (6.444 %)T-SQL
9981 (6.044 %)PHP5
10859 (5.292 %)C
11714 (4.399 %)Perl
12586 (3.610 %)VB
13493 (3.037 %)C++
14456 (2.809 %)ActionScript 3.0
15421 (2.594 %)Ruby
16309 (1.904 %)ActionScript 2.0
17306 (1.885 %)Python
18277 (1.707 %)PL/SQL
19226 (1.392 %)Shell Script
20209 (1.288 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12061 (12.70 %)Degree
2573 (3.530 %)Microsoft Certification
3354 (2.181 %)MCSD
4343 (2.113 %)MCAD
5288 (1.774 %)MCTS
6280 (1.725 %)MCP
7160 (0.986 %)Security Cleared
887 (0.536 %)Cisco Certification
985 (0.524 %)MCPD
1073 (0.450 %)SC Cleared
1159 (0.364 %)CCNP
1255 (0.339 %)Sun Certification
1333 (0.203 %)ISEB
1428 (0.173 %)PMI Certification
1527 (0.166 %)CCNA
1625 (0.154 %)PhD
1719 (0.117 %)CCDA
1817 (0.105 %)PMP
1915 (0.092 %)HND
1915 (0.092 %)CCSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1393 (2.421 %)QA
2137 (0.844 %)WAI
3102 (0.628 %)WCAG
474 (0.456 %)SLA
528 (0.173 %)PCI DSS
622 (0.136 %)PAS 78
78 (0.049 %)ISO 9001
83 (0.018 %)ISO/IEC 27001
83 (0.018 %)HL7
92 (0.012 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
92 (0.012 %)GLP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1117 (0.721 %)Active Directory
240 (0.246 %)MSMQ
325 (0.154 %)VMware Infrastructure
423 (0.142 %)VMware ESX
520 (0.123 %)Postfix
619 (0.117 %)Squid
713 (0.080 %)Sendmail
812 (0.074 %)ISA Server
911 (0.068 %)Varnish
1010 (0.062 %)Oracle RAC
1010 (0.062 %)qmail
119 (0.055 %)Terminal Services
128 (0.049 %)OpenSSO
137 (0.043 %)Samba
145 (0.031 %)VMware Workstation
154 (0.025 %)vSphere
154 (0.025 %)Snort
163 (0.018 %)Oracle RMAN
172 (0.012 %)Hyper-V
172 (0.012 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (0.092 %)BMC PATROL
212 (0.074 %)Control-M
38 (0.049 %)Zenoss
47 (0.043 %)MIIS
56 (0.037 %)Puppet
64 (0.025 %)Cacti
64 (0.025 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
73 (0.018 %)Plesk
73 (0.018 %)Cisco UCCE
73 (0.018 %)Data Guard
82 (0.012 %)WSUS
82 (0.012 %)SolarWinds Orion
82 (0.012 %)HP Quality Center
82 (0.012 %)CiscoWorks
82 (0.012 %)Nessus
91 (0.006 %)Backup Exec
91 (0.006 %)OpenView
91 (0.006 %)Netcool
91 (0.006 %)Nagios
91 (0.006 %)Norton AntiVirus
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12013 (12.40 %)Microsoft
21440 (8.872 %)Oracle
31128 (6.950 %)Adobe
4819 (5.046 %)Zend
5374 (2.304 %)Google
6219 (1.349 %)EPiServer
7194 (1.195 %)JBoss
8159 (0.980 %)IBM
9129 (0.795 %)Cisco
1096 (0.591 %)Sitecore
1184 (0.518 %)Sun
1279 (0.487 %)Perforce
1376 (0.468 %)ATG
1460 (0.370 %)Salesforce.com
1559 (0.364 %)VMware
1649 (0.302 %)Red Hat
1748 (0.296 %)Symbian
1748 (0.296 %)Juniper
1748 (0.296 %)Macromedia
1846 (0.283 %)Omniture