CSS Contracts in the North of England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 69 69
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 -37
Contract jobs citing CSS 69 180 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.47% 3.15% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.82% 16.39% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 127 178
10th Percentile £299 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £519 £570 £550
90th Percentile £575 £605 £604
England median daily rate £495 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -1.00% -5.63% +17.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - £50.65 £33.75
25th Percentile £37.63 £53.88 £43.13
Median hourly rate £46.18 £59.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +13.33% +96.37%
75th Percentile - £64.88 £56.25
90th Percentile - £67.95 £57.50
England median hourly rate £61.25 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.26% +6.82% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 882 1,098 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.79% 19.24% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 855 1,223
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 26
10th Percentile £14.56 £43.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +47.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +9.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -32 43 £450 -2.70% 115
Yorkshire -9 23 £408 -7.39% 55
North East +3 3 £405 -19.00% 18
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.14%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (10.14%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (5.80%) CMS
4 3 (4.35%) IIS
5 2 (2.90%) Drupal
5 2 (2.90%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.45%) Apache
6 1 (1.45%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.45%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 10 (14.49%) Photoshop
2 6 (8.70%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (5.80%) InVision
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Maximo
2 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) GitHub
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) Figma
3 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.45%) Contentful
6 1 (1.45%) Contentstack
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) Miro
6 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) Metadata
2 7 (10.14%) PowerPivot
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Power View
4 4 (5.80%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.90%) Power BI
6 1 (1.45%) GIS
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) QGIS
6 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Selenium
4 1 (1.45%) Storybook
4 1 (1.45%) TestRail
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Marketing
2 6 (8.70%) Publishing
3 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Advertising
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (56.52%) Developer
2 16 (23.19%) Designer
3 10 (14.49%) Senior
4 7 (10.14%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.70%) Email Designer
5 6 (8.70%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (7.25%) ServiceNow Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Interaction Designer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Pega Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) C# Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Full Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.90%) UI Designer
9 2 (2.90%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (92.75%) HTML
2 16 (23.19%) React
3 15 (21.74%) .NET
4 10 (14.49%) Node.js
5 9 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 8 (11.59%) CSS3
6 8 (11.59%) HTML5
7 7 (10.14%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.25%) REST
9 4 (5.80%) Entity Framework
9 4 (5.80%) JSON
9 4 (5.80%) Sass
9 4 (5.80%) Vue
9 4 (5.80%) Web Services
10 3 (4.35%) Ajax
10 3 (4.35%) jQuery
10 3 (4.35%) LDAP
10 3 (4.35%) NancyFx
10 3 (4.35%) RESTful
10 3 (4.35%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Animation
2 5 (7.25%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.80%) CMDB
3 4 (5.80%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.45%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.99%) Agile
2 11 (15.94%) ITIL
2 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.94%) Prototyping
3 10 (14.49%) DevOps
4 9 (13.04%) Front End Development
4 9 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
4 9 (13.04%) Web Development
5 8 (11.59%) Interaction Design
5 8 (11.59%) Test Automation
6 7 (10.14%) Metadata Management
6 7 (10.14%) Scrum
6 7 (10.14%) Statistics
6 7 (10.14%) User Experience
7 6 (8.70%) Email Marketing
7 6 (8.70%) Information Architecture
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.70%) Time Management
7 6 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 43 (62.32%) JavaScript
2 14 (20.29%) C#
3 13 (18.84%) SQL
4 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.59%) Java
5 8 (11.59%) Python
5 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.14%) PHP
7 2 (2.90%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
1 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) WCAG
5 1 (1.45%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Adobe
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) VMware
3 6 (8.70%) dotdigital
3 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) IBM
4 3 (4.35%) Nintex
4 3 (4.35%) Pega
4 3 (4.35%) SAP