CSS Contracts in the East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) England / East Midlands
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	7	22	15
Rank change year-on-year	+15	-7
Contract jobs citing CSS	195	96	128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands	12.85%	6.19%	7.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	41.23%	25.88%	29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	135	75	91
Median daily rate	£350	£311	£285
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.44%	+9.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£286	£215	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£450	£375
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	+7.14%	+7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
Median hourly rate	£112.25	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£32.00	£33.77
% change year-on-year	+18.75%	-5.24%

CSS is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills East Midlands
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	473	371	435
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands	31.16%	23.94%	26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	298	235	276
Median daily rate	£375	£350	£310
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.14%	+12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£240	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£499	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	11	2	1
Median hourly rate	£50.00	£35.75	£15.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+39.86%	+138.33%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East Midlands citing CSS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing CSS in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate trend for CSS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing CSS in the East Midlands over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for CSS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate trend for CSS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing CSS in the East Midlands over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for CSS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Leicestershire	+9	73	£300	+25.00%	33
Nottinghamshire	+15	62	£350	-	52
Northamptonshire	+16	42	£450	+7.14%	18
Derbyshire	-11	14	£400	+45.45%	6
Lincolnshire	+4	10	£263	+5.00%	7
Rutland	-	1	£338	-
CSS England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing CSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the East Midlands region with a requirement for CSS.

1	326 (93.68%)	HTML
2	293 (84.20%)	JavaScript
3	157 (45.11%)	HTML5
4	152 (43.68%)	CSS3
5	149 (42.82%)	AngularJS
6	137 (39.37%)	Front End Development
7	133 (38.22%)	jQuery
8	114 (32.76%)	Agile Software Development
9	90 (25.86%)	React
10	88 (25.29%)	C#
11	86 (24.71%)	.NET
12	79 (22.70%)	Git (software)
13	71 (20.40%)	Node.js
13	71 (20.40%)	MVC
14	62 (17.82%)	Test Automation

15	60 (17.24%)	Twitter Bootstrap
16	58 (16.67%)	ASP.NET
17	57 (16.38%)	Web Development
18	56 (16.09%)	User Experience
19	52 (14.94%)	Angular 2
20	50 (14.37%)	SQL
21	49 (14.08%)	TDD
22	48 (13.79%)	Sass
23	47 (13.51%)	Grunt
23	47 (13.51%)	Java
23	47 (13.51%)	SQL Server
24	42 (12.07%)	gulp
25	41 (11.78%)	Scrum
26	40 (11.49%)	PHP
27	39 (11.21%)	E-Commerce

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	23 (6.61%)	CMS
2	11 (3.16%)	Drupal
3	10 (2.87%)	Adobe Experience Manager
4	9 (2.59%)	Apache
5	7 (2.01%)	Apache Solr
5	7 (2.01%)	WordPress
6	4 (1.15%)	SharePoint
6	4 (1.15%)	Sitefinity
7	3 (0.86%)	SharePoint 2010
8	2 (0.57%)	CoreMedia CMS
8	2 (0.57%)	JBoss
8	2 (0.57%)	WebSphere
8	2 (0.57%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	1 (0.29%)	GlassFish
9	1 (0.29%)	IIS
9	1 (0.29%)	Umbraco
9	1 (0.29%)	WebLogic
9	1 (0.29%)	WebLogic Integration
9	1 (0.29%)	WebLogic Portal
9	1 (0.29%)	WebSphere Process Server

Applications
1	11 (3.16%)	Adobe Creative Suite
2	6 (1.72%)	Photoshop
3	4 (1.15%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	2 (0.57%)	OmniGraffle
5	1 (0.29%)	AutoCAD
5	1 (0.29%)	InDesign
5	1 (0.29%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	8 (2.30%)	Magento
2	2 (0.57%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
2	2 (0.57%)	Oracle BPM
3	1 (0.29%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	16 (4.60%)	Amazon AWS
2	5 (1.44%)	Microsoft Azure
3	3 (0.86%)	GitHub
3	3 (0.86%)	SaaS
4	2 (0.57%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
4	2 (0.57%)	Google Analytics
5	1 (0.29%)	Adobe Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	4 (1.15%)	HTTP
2	1 (0.29%)	DNS
2	1 (0.29%)	Internet
2	1 (0.29%)	Intranet
2	1 (0.29%)	Skype
2	1 (0.29%)	SMS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	47 (13.51%)	SQL Server
2	28 (8.05%)	MySQL
3	16 (4.60%)	MongoDB
4	10 (2.87%)	Relational Database
5	8 (2.30%)	NoSQL
5	8 (2.30%)	SQL Server 2008
6	5 (1.44%)	Oracle Database
6	5 (1.44%)	SQL Server 2005
7	4 (1.15%)	DB2
8	3 (0.86%)	RDBMS
9	2 (0.57%)	Big Data
9	2 (0.57%)	SQL Server 2012
10	1 (0.29%)	Couchbase
10	1 (0.29%)	MS Access
10	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Database 10g
10	1 (0.29%)	Oracle9i Database
10	1 (0.29%)	Pentaho
10	1 (0.29%)	Redis
10	1 (0.29%)	SQL Server 2000
10	1 (0.29%)	SSDT

Development Applications
1	79 (22.70%)	Git (software)
2	47 (13.51%)	Grunt
3	42 (12.07%)	gulp
4	33 (9.48%)	Jasmine
5	24 (6.90%)	Selenium
6	22 (6.32%)	Karma Test Runner
7	21 (6.03%)	WebDriver
8	18 (5.17%)	webpack
9	17 (4.89%)	Bower
10	15 (4.31%)	Protractor
11	13 (3.74%)	Cucumber
12	11 (3.16%)	Mocha
13	9 (2.59%)	Visual Studio
14	7 (2.01%)	Jenkins
14	7 (2.01%)	PHPUnit
15	6 (1.72%)	Axure RP
16	5 (1.44%)	NUnit
17	4 (1.15%)	Balsamiq Mockups
17	4 (1.15%)	JIRA
17	4 (1.15%)	MSTest

General
1	32 (9.20%)	Retail
2	24 (6.90%)	Finance
3	6 (1.72%)	Marketing
4	4 (1.15%)	Banking
4	4 (1.15%)	Multimedia
5	3 (0.86%)	Advertising
5	3 (0.86%)	Games
5	3 (0.86%)	Manufacturing
5	3 (0.86%)	Telecoms
6	2 (0.57%)	Aerospace
6	2 (0.57%)	Automotive
7	1 (0.29%)	Back Office

Job Titles
1	310 (89.08%)	Developer
2	103 (29.60%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3	90 (25.86%)	JavaScript Developer
4	46 (13.22%)	.NET Developer
4	46 (13.22%)	Angular Developer
5	45 (12.93%)	HTML Developer
6	40 (11.49%)	HTML CSS Developer
7	36 (10.34%)	C# Developer
8	34 (9.77%)	UI Developer
9	27 (7.76%)	Web Developer
10	25 (7.18%)	C# .NET Developer
11	24 (6.90%)	ASP.NET Developer
12	23 (6.61%)	PHP Developer
13	18 (5.17%)	Senior Developer
14	16 (4.60%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
15	15 (4.31%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
16	12 (3.45%)	Designer
16	12 (3.45%)	Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17	11 (3.16%)	Full Stack Developer
18	10 (2.87%)	Node.js Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	326 (93.68%)	HTML
2	157 (45.11%)	HTML5
3	152 (43.68%)	CSS3
4	149 (42.82%)	AngularJS
5	133 (38.22%)	jQuery
6	90 (25.86%)	React
7	86 (24.71%)	.NET
8	71 (20.40%)	Node.js
9	60 (17.24%)	Twitter Bootstrap
10	58 (16.67%)	ASP.NET
11	52 (14.94%)	Angular 2
12	48 (13.79%)	Sass
13	38 (10.92%)	Ember.js
14	33 (9.48%)	RESTful
15	32 (9.20%)	Web Services
16	30 (8.62%)	Ajax
17	28 (8.05%)	ASP.NET MVC
18	24 (6.90%)	XML
19	20 (5.75%)	ASP.NET Web API
20	18 (5.17%)	LESS

Miscellaneous
1	56 (16.09%)	User Experience
2	13 (3.74%)	Analytical Skills
3	9 (2.59%)	Graphic Design
4	8 (2.30%)	Mobile App
5	5 (1.44%)	Greenfield Project
6	4 (1.15%)	Credit Risk
7	3 (0.86%)	Freedom of Information
7	3 (0.86%)	Social Media
7	3 (0.86%)	VLE
8	2 (0.57%)	Smart Meter
9	1 (0.29%)	Animation
9	1 (0.29%)	Client/Server
9	1 (0.29%)	Computer Science
9	1 (0.29%)	DataPower
9	1 (0.29%)	e-Learning
9	1 (0.29%)	Embedded Systems
9	1 (0.29%)	Enterprise Software
9	1 (0.29%)	NHS
9	1 (0.29%)	VHDL
9	1 (0.29%)	W3C

Operating Systems
1	19 (5.46%)	Linux
2	9 (2.59%)	Windows
3	5 (1.44%)	Unix
4	2 (0.57%)	Android
4	2 (0.57%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	137 (39.37%)	Front End Development
2	114 (32.76%)	Agile Software Development
3	71 (20.40%)	MVC
4	62 (17.82%)	Test Automation
5	57 (16.38%)	Web Development
6	49 (14.08%)	TDD
7	41 (11.78%)	Scrum
8	39 (11.21%)	E-Commerce
9	32 (9.20%)	Continuous Integration
10	27 (7.76%)	Web Design
11	24 (6.90%)	Responsive Web Design
12	21 (6.03%)	Unit Testing
12	21 (6.03%)	Wireframes
13	20 (5.75%)	Microservices
13	20 (5.75%)	OO
14	19 (5.46%)	Migration
15	16 (4.60%)	Analytics
15	16 (4.60%)	BDD
16	12 (3.45%)	OOP
17	11 (3.16%)	Content Management

Programming Languages
1	293 (84.20%)	JavaScript
2	88 (25.29%)	C#
3	50 (14.37%)	SQL
4	47 (13.51%)	Java
5	40 (11.49%)	PHP
6	26 (7.47%)	ES6
7	15 (4.31%)	TypeScript
8	8 (2.30%)	Ruby
9	7 (2.01%)	Python
10	6 (1.72%)	VB.NET
11	5 (1.44%)	VB
12	4 (1.15%)	T-SQL
13	3 (0.86%)	PowerShell
14	2 (0.57%)	ActionScript
14	2 (0.57%)	R
14	2 (0.57%)	VB6
14	2 (0.57%)	VBScript
14	2 (0.57%)	XPath
15	1 (0.29%)	PHP 7
15	1 (0.29%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	7 (2.01%)	Degree
2	2 (0.57%)	Microsoft Certification
3	1 (0.29%)	Analytics IQ
3	1 (0.29%)	BPSS Clearance
3	1 (0.29%)	Computer Science Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	8 (2.30%)	WAI
2	3 (0.86%)	QA
3	2 (0.57%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	1 (0.29%)	WCAG

System Software
1	10 (2.87%)	Docker
2	1 (0.29%)	Active Directory

Vendors
1	23 (6.61%)	Adobe
2	16 (4.60%)	Microsoft
3	10 (2.87%)	Oracle
4	6 (1.72%)	Twitter
5	5 (1.44%)	Google
6	4 (1.15%)	IBM
6	4 (1.15%)	Xamarin
7	3 (0.86%)	Blackboard
7	3 (0.86%)	Cognos
8	2 (0.57%)	Perforce
8	2 (0.57%)	SAP
8	2 (0.57%)	Zend
9	1 (0.29%)	ClickTale
9	1 (0.29%)	hybris
9	1 (0.29%)	InterSystems
9	1 (0.29%)	Sencha
9	1 (0.29%)	ServiceNow
9	1 (0.29%)	Sybase
9	1 (0.29%)	Tableau
9	1 (0.29%)	Telerik