CSS Contracts in the South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 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 / South East
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	16	28	26
Rank change year-on-year	+12	-2
Contract jobs citing CSS	639	552	616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	8.37%	6.27%	6.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	30.47%	23.45%	25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	441	323	397
Median daily rate	£375	£360	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.16%	+10.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£293	£265	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£475	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	+7.14%	+7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	17	8
Median hourly rate	£43.00	£32.00	£45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+34.37%	-28.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.93	£11.00	£16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£49.50	£46.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.25	£29.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+28.57%	-15.00%

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 South East with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills South East
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	2097	2354	2390
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East	27.45%	26.72%	25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	1340	1510	1514
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£363
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£525	£470
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	55	29
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£43.00	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-1.16%	+7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.40	£12.50	£15.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.50	£55.00	£50.00
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 South East

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South East 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 South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate trend for CSS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for CSS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for CSS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for CSS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 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
Hampshire	+6	107	£350	+4.47%	91
Oxfordshire	+14	105	£401	+6.80%	29
Surrey	+15	100	£375	-4.45%	47
Berkshire	+12	96	£375	-	42
West Sussex	+3	78	£475	+12.42%	28
Buckinghamshire	+1	71	£375	+11.11%	26
East Sussex	+3	53	£325	-7.14%	27
Kent	+3	24	£350	+13.82%	20
Middlesex	+7	10	£401	+11.25%	1
Sussex	-	7	£463	-
CSS England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East

For the 6 months to 25 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 South East region with a requirement for CSS.

1	1124 (92.21%)	HTML
2	957 (78.51%)	JavaScript
3	507 (41.59%)	HTML5
4	505 (41.43%)	Agile Software Development
5	467 (38.31%)	AngularJS
6	441 (36.18%)	jQuery
7	429 (35.19%)	CSS3
8	355 (29.12%)	Front End Development
9	334 (27.40%)	C#
10	319 (26.17%)	.NET
11	279 (22.89%)	MVC
11	279 (22.89%)	Web Development
12	267 (21.90%)	Git (software)
13	224 (18.38%)	SQL
14	213 (17.47%)	Java

15	209 (17.15%)	Ajax
16	197 (16.16%)	SQL Server
17	190 (15.59%)	User Experience
18	184 (15.09%)	ASP.NET
19	161 (13.21%)	TDD
20	159 (13.04%)	CMS
20	159 (13.04%)	Sass
21	153 (12.55%)	Scrum
22	152 (12.47%)	Web Services
23	150 (12.31%)	React
24	149 (12.22%)	XML
25	147 (12.06%)	JSON
26	142 (11.65%)	REST
27	140 (11.48%)	Node.js
28	137 (11.24%)	PHP

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East 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
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	159 (13.04%)	CMS
2	61 (5.00%)	Apache
3	41 (3.36%)	EPiServer
4	39 (3.20%)	SharePoint
5	29 (2.38%)	Confluence
5	29 (2.38%)	Drupal
5	29 (2.38%)	JBoss
6	27 (2.21%)	SharePoint 2013
7	26 (2.13%)	Sitecore CMS
8	25 (2.05%)	IIS
9	24 (1.97%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	24 (1.97%)	WebLogic
9	24 (1.97%)	WordPress
10	23 (1.89%)	Umbraco
11	18 (1.48%)	Tomcat
11	18 (1.48%)	WebSphere
12	14 (1.15%)	NServiceBus
13	11 (0.90%)	nginx
13	11 (0.90%)	SharePoint 2010
14	9 (0.74%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	61 (5.00%)	Photoshop
2	14 (1.15%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	12 (0.98%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	7 (0.57%)	InVision
5	6 (0.49%)	Microsoft Office
6	3 (0.25%)	Microsoft Excel
6	3 (0.25%)	MS Visio
6	3 (0.25%)	OmniGraffle
7	2 (0.16%)	Chatbot
7	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
8	1 (0.082%)	Adobe After Effects
8	1 (0.082%)	Adobe Captivate

Business Applications
1	17 (1.39%)	Dynamics CRM
1	17 (1.39%)	Magento
2	3 (0.25%)	Eloqua
2	3 (0.25%)	Remedy ITSM
3	2 (0.16%)	Dynamics AX
3	2 (0.16%)	Pega PRPC
3	2 (0.16%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	1 (0.082%)	Adobe Campaign
4	1 (0.082%)	SAP Hybris

Cloud Services
1	37 (3.04%)	Amazon AWS
2	30 (2.46%)	GitHub
3	29 (2.38%)	Microsoft Azure
3	29 (2.38%)	SaaS
4	16 (1.31%)	Google Analytics
5	15 (1.23%)	Office 365
6	5 (0.41%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	5 (0.41%)	OpenShift
7	4 (0.33%)	Adobe Analytics
7	4 (0.33%)	Cloud Computing
8	3 (0.25%)	Bluemix
8	3 (0.25%)	IBM Cloud
8	3 (0.25%)	Oracle Service Cloud
9	2 (0.16%)	Amazon EC2
9	2 (0.16%)	Dynamics 365
9	2 (0.16%)	Google Checkout
9	2 (0.16%)	IaaS
9	2 (0.16%)	Oracle CX
9	2 (0.16%)	PaaS
9	2 (0.16%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	47 (3.86%)	HTTP
2	17 (1.39%)	Internet
3	8 (0.66%)	SSL
4	7 (0.57%)	Intranet
4	7 (0.57%)	TCP/IP
5	6 (0.49%)	LDAP
6	3 (0.25%)	Tactical Data Link
7	2 (0.16%)	DNS
8	1 (0.082%)	Extranet
8	1 (0.082%)	Firewall
8	1 (0.082%)	IMAP
8	1 (0.082%)	SMS
8	1 (0.082%)	SMTP
8	1 (0.082%)	SNMP
8	1 (0.082%)	SSH

Database & Business Intelligence
1	197 (16.16%)	SQL Server
2	98 (8.04%)	MySQL
3	82 (6.73%)	MongoDB
4	73 (5.99%)	NoSQL
5	70 (5.74%)	Relational Database
6	38 (3.12%)	Oracle Database
7	26 (2.13%)	SQL Server 2008
8	20 (1.64%)	SQL Server 2012
9	18 (1.48%)	SQL Server 2005
10	17 (1.39%)	Redis
11	13 (1.07%)	Big Data
11	13 (1.07%)	PostgreSQL
12	8 (0.66%)	Hadoop
12	8 (0.66%)	RDBMS
13	7 (0.57%)	Azure SQL Database
14	6 (0.49%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	6 (0.49%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
15	5 (0.41%)	Oracle Database 11g
16	4 (0.33%)	Oracle Database 10g
16	4 (0.33%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	267 (21.90%)	Git (software)
2	101 (8.29%)	Subversion
3	85 (6.97%)	Jenkins
4	57 (4.68%)	Visual Studio
5	55 (4.51%)	IntelliJ
6	49 (4.02%)	Grunt
7	48 (3.94%)	Team Foundation Server
8	46 (3.77%)	JIRA
9	43 (3.53%)	JUnit
10	35 (2.87%)	Eclipse
11	33 (2.71%)	Maven
11	33 (2.71%)	Selenium
12	28 (2.30%)	gulp
13	22 (1.80%)	Axure RP
14	20 (1.64%)	webpack
15	19 (1.56%)	Jasmine
16	18 (1.48%)	Cucumber
17	17 (1.39%)	Karma Test Runner
18	16 (1.31%)	Bitbucket
18	16 (1.31%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	136 (11.16%)	Finance
2	42 (3.45%)	Banking
3	30 (2.46%)	Marketing
4	26 (2.13%)	Advertising
5	17 (1.39%)	Retail
6	12 (0.98%)	Publishing
7	11 (0.90%)	Back Office
8	10 (0.82%)	Telecoms
9	4 (0.33%)	Military
10	3 (0.25%)	Law
11	2 (0.16%)	Automotive
11	2 (0.16%)	Electronics
11	2 (0.16%)	Financial Institution
11	2 (0.16%)	Games
11	2 (0.16%)	Pharmaceutical
11	2 (0.16%)	Spanish Language
12	1 (0.082%)	German Language
12	1 (0.082%)	Investment Banking
12	1 (0.082%)	Italian Language
12	1 (0.082%)	Swedish Language

Job Titles
1	1052 (86.30%)	Developer
2	336 (27.56%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3	214 (17.56%)	JavaScript Developer
4	201 (16.49%)	.NET Developer
5	136 (11.16%)	HTML Developer
6	134 (10.99%)	C# Developer
7	129 (10.58%)	Web Developer
8	123 (10.09%)	C# .NET Developer
9	120 (9.84%)	HTML CSS Developer
10	107 (8.78%)	Angular Developer
11	90 (7.38%)	Java Developer
12	76 (6.23%)	Designer
12	76 (6.23%)	PHP Developer
13	71 (5.82%)	Scala Developer
14	69 (5.66%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
15	67 (5.50%)	Senior Developer
16	65 (5.33%)	ASP.NET Developer
17	55 (4.51%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
18	52 (4.27%)	Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19	50 (4.10%)	UX Designer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	1124 (92.21%)	HTML
2	507 (41.59%)	HTML5
3	467 (38.31%)	AngularJS
4	441 (36.18%)	jQuery
5	429 (35.19%)	CSS3
6	319 (26.17%)	.NET
7	209 (17.15%)	Ajax
8	184 (15.09%)	ASP.NET
9	159 (13.04%)	Sass
10	152 (12.47%)	Web Services
11	150 (12.31%)	React
12	149 (12.22%)	XML
13	147 (12.06%)	JSON
14	142 (11.65%)	REST
15	140 (11.48%)	Node.js
16	110 (9.02%)	Twitter Bootstrap
17	98 (8.04%)	ASP.NET Web API
18	97 (7.96%)	.NET Framework
19	89 (7.30%)	Spring
20	86 (7.05%)	Play Framework

Miscellaneous
1	190 (15.59%)	User Experience
2	49 (4.02%)	Mobile App
3	35 (2.87%)	Greenfield Project
4	31 (2.54%)	Analytical Skills
5	23 (1.89%)	Enterprise Software
6	17 (1.39%)	Computer Science
7	15 (1.23%)	W3C
8	8 (0.66%)	Graphic Design
9	7 (0.57%)	Management Information System
9	7 (0.57%)	N-Tier
10	6 (0.49%)	Algorithms
11	5 (0.41%)	Fintech
11	5 (0.41%)	Online Banking
12	4 (0.33%)	Animation
12	4 (0.33%)	Minimum Viable Product
12	4 (0.33%)	NHS
12	4 (0.33%)	Social Media
13	3 (0.25%)	CMDB
13	3 (0.25%)	Linux Command Line
13	3 (0.25%)	Mobile Banking

Operating Systems
1	132 (10.83%)	Linux
2	72 (5.91%)	Windows
3	62 (5.09%)	Unix
4	19 (1.56%)	Android
4	19 (1.56%)	Windows Server
5	14 (1.15%)	Apple iOS
6	11 (0.90%)	Ubuntu
7	10 (0.82%)	Mac OS X
7	10 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2008
8	8 (0.66%)	Windows Server 2012
9	6 (0.49%)	Windows Server 2003
10	4 (0.33%)	SUSE
11	3 (0.25%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	2 (0.16%)	Debian

Processes & Methodologies
1	505 (41.43%)	Agile Software Development
2	355 (29.12%)	Front End Development
3	279 (22.89%)	MVC
3	279 (22.89%)	Web Development
4	161 (13.21%)	TDD
5	153 (12.55%)	Scrum
6	107 (8.78%)	OO
7	106 (8.70%)	Continuous Integration
8	97 (7.96%)	Open Source
9	86 (7.05%)	Web Design
10	85 (6.97%)	Responsive Web Design
11	84 (6.89%)	Test Automation
12	82 (6.73%)	Unit Testing
13	78 (6.40%)	Wireframes
14	62 (5.09%)	E-Commerce
14	62 (5.09%)	Microservices
15	60 (4.92%)	Software Engineering
16	58 (4.76%)	Prototyping
17	56 (4.59%)	BDD
18	55 (4.51%)	Digital Transformation Programme

Programming Languages
1	957 (78.51%)	JavaScript
2	334 (27.40%)	C#
3	224 (18.38%)	SQL
4	213 (17.47%)	Java
5	137 (11.24%)	PHP
6	94 (7.71%)	Scala
7	77 (6.32%)	Python
8	49 (4.02%)	TypeScript
9	46 (3.77%)	VB.NET
10	39 (3.20%)	Ruby
11	36 (2.95%)	ES6
12	34 (2.79%)	T-SQL
13	21 (1.72%)	C++
13	21 (1.72%)	Groovy
14	18 (1.48%)	PowerShell
15	16 (1.31%)	C
16	15 (1.23%)	PL/SQL
17	11 (0.90%)	Perl
18	10 (0.82%)	ECMAScript
19	9 (0.74%)	PHP 5

Qualifications
1	53 (4.35%)	Degree
2	43 (3.53%)	Security Cleared
3	39 (3.20%)	SC Cleared
4	15 (1.23%)	Computer Science Degree
5	12 (0.98%)	Microsoft Certification
6	11 (0.90%)	DV Cleared
7	5 (0.41%)	BPSS Clearance
7	5 (0.41%)	ISTQB
7	5 (0.41%)	MCSE
7	5 (0.41%)	MCTS
8	2 (0.16%)	ITIL Certification
9	1 (0.082%)	CTC Cleared
9	1 (0.082%)	MCSD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	25 (2.05%)	QA
2	4 (0.33%)	SLA
3	3 (0.25%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	2 (0.16%)	Data Quality
4	2 (0.16%)	PCI DSS
5	1 (0.082%)	COBIT
5	1 (0.082%)	FATCA
5	1 (0.082%)	HL7
5	1 (0.082%)	ISO 9001
5	1 (0.082%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.082%)	PMO
5	1 (0.082%)	WCAG

System Software
1	63 (5.17%)	Docker
2	4 (0.33%)	Active Directory
3	2 (0.16%)	VMware ESXi
3	2 (0.16%)	vSphere
4	1 (0.082%)	Shibboleth

Systems Management
1	51 (4.18%)	Puppet
2	10 (0.82%)	Terraform
3	7 (0.57%)	Grafana
3	7 (0.57%)	Kibana
4	3 (0.25%)	Ansible
4	3 (0.25%)	Kubernetes
4	3 (0.25%)	Opscode Chef
5	2 (0.16%)	Capistrano
5	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Clustering
5	2 (0.16%)	vCenter Server
6	1 (0.082%)	CloudForms
6	1 (0.082%)	HP Quality Center
6	1 (0.082%)	Oozie
6	1 (0.082%)	Piwik
6	1 (0.082%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
6	1 (0.082%)	TeamSite
6	1 (0.082%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	98 (8.04%)	Microsoft
2	87 (7.14%)	Oracle
3	52 (4.27%)	Google
4	43 (3.53%)	Adobe
5	34 (2.79%)	Sitecore
6	17 (1.39%)	IBM
7	16 (1.31%)	webMethods
8	14 (1.15%)	ServiceNow
9	13 (1.07%)	Telerik
9	13 (1.07%)	Zend
10	11 (0.90%)	Salesforce.com
11	9 (0.74%)	HP
12	7 (0.57%)	New Relic
12	7 (0.57%)	Nintex
12	7 (0.57%)	Twitter
13	6 (0.49%)	BMC
14	5 (0.41%)	FatWire
14	5 (0.41%)	Red Hat
14	5 (0.41%)	Remedy
14	5 (0.41%)	SAP