CSS Contracts in Cheshire

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 52 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -19 +13
Contract jobs citing CSS 9 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 1.19% 5.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.71% 11.76% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 21
10th Percentile £313 £317 £418
25th Percentile £330 £370 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% -2.01% +2.05%
75th Percentile £388 £575 £594
90th Percentile £401 - £638
North West median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

CSS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in Cheshire

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for CSS in Cheshire

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in Cheshire

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford +2 8 £358 - 1
Macclesfield - 1 £400 - 1
CSS
North West

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Camunda
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) InVision
1 2 (22.22%) UserZoom
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Axure RP
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Gradle
4 1 (11.11%) HP UFT
4 1 (11.11%) Hudson
4 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) NetBeans
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) UI Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
4 3 (33.33%) CSS3
4 3 (33.33%) Node.js
4 3 (33.33%) React
4 3 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (22.22%) Ajax
5 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
5 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
5 2 (22.22%) jQuery
5 2 (22.22%) Kafka
5 2 (22.22%) Middleware
5 2 (22.22%) Spring MVC
5 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) API Development
3 3 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 3 (33.33%) User Research
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
3 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (22.22%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (22.22%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (22.22%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) TIBCO