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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 46 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing CSS 16 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.20% 1.85% 4.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.95% 16.13% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 15
10th Percentile £317 £312 £431
25th Percentile £350 £381 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £463 £586
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% -21.08% +30.22%
75th Percentile £375 £575 £619
90th Percentile £397 £594 £663
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +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 107 62 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 21.40% 11.44% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 50 77
10th Percentile £314 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £320 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -19.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £490 £513 £575
90th Percentile £588 £620 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.08%
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 £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%

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 7 June 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 -1 15 £358 -11.88% 5
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
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 7 (43.75%) Confluence
2 4 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (18.75%) nginx
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Camunda
4 1 (6.25%) CMS
4 1 (6.25%) JBoss
4 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) InVision
1 2 (12.50%) UserZoom
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
3 7 (43.75%) JIRA
4 5 (31.25%) Gradle
5 4 (25.00%) Subversion
5 4 (25.00%) Xcode
6 3 (18.75%) Gerrit
7 2 (12.50%) Axure RP
8 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
8 1 (6.25%) Hudson
8 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
8 1 (6.25%) JUnit
8 1 (6.25%) Maven
8 1 (6.25%) NetBeans
8 1 (6.25%) Selenium
8 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Billing
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 3 (18.75%) UI Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) UI Designer
5 1 (6.25%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (6.25%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (6.25%) User Researcher
5 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 6 (37.50%) React
3 5 (31.25%) HTML5
3 5 (31.25%) jQuery
4 4 (25.00%) CSS3
4 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (25.00%) Spring
5 3 (18.75%) lodash
5 3 (18.75%) Node.js
5 3 (18.75%) React Native
5 3 (18.75%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 2 (12.50%) Ajax
6 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 2 (12.50%) Kafka
6 2 (12.50%) Middleware
6 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
6 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (25.00%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Android
1 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) User Experience
3 8 (50.00%) UX Design
4 6 (37.50%) Front End Development
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
6 4 (25.00%) BDD
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) iOS Development
6 4 (25.00%) Mobile Development
6 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 4 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
7 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (18.75%) User Research
7 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) C
4 4 (25.00%) C++
4 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (25.00%) Objective-C
4 4 (25.00%) Ruby
4 4 (25.00%) Scala
4 4 (25.00%) Swift
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) TIBCO