CSS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring CSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 -25 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 22 10 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.85% 1.28% 4.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.22% 7.46% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 39
10th Percentile £270 £256 £313
25th Percentile £313 £292 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -26.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £402 £423 £534
90th Percentile £415 £432 £578
England median daily rate £435 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 196 134 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.39% 17.16% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 102 153
10th Percentile £265 £306 £313
25th Percentile £351 £329 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £481 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CSS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CSS

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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 6 months to 15 September 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
Northamptonshire +6 18 £358 - 19
Derbyshire +7 2 £410 -3.53% 7
Nottinghamshire -7 2 £500 +35.59% 17
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.55%) InDesign
1 1 (4.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) SaaS
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
1 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
1 3 (13.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) JUnit
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
2 4 (18.18%) Mockito
2 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
2 4 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) Grunt
4 2 (9.09%) gulp
4 2 (9.09%) Jasmine
4 2 (9.09%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (9.09%) Mocha
4 2 (9.09%) Protractor
4 2 (9.09%) Subversion
4 2 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Angular Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior
6 1 (4.55%) Junior UI/UX Designer
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.55%) UI Designer
6 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
6 1 (4.55%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (4.55%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (100.00%) HTML
2 11 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (40.91%) RESTful
3 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
4 8 (36.36%) React
5 7 (31.82%) JPA
5 7 (31.82%) REST
6 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
6 6 (27.27%) HTML5
7 5 (22.73%) Spring
8 4 (18.18%) CSS3
8 4 (18.18%) Jest
8 4 (18.18%) Node.js
8 4 (18.18%) Redux
8 4 (18.18%) RxJS
9 3 (13.64%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (13.64%) RAML
9 3 (13.64%) Spring Batch
9 3 (13.64%) Web Services
10 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) State Machine
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Social Media
3 1 (4.55%) Blog
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) Microservices
3 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
4 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (22.73%) Responsive Web Design
4 5 (22.73%) User Experience
5 4 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) SDLC
5 4 (18.18%) TDD
5 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Web Development
6 3 (13.64%) Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) API Development
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 11 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 4 (18.18%) Python
6 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
7 2 (9.09%) C#
7 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Veracode
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe
3 2 (9.09%) Facebook
3 2 (9.09%) Instagram
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 2 (9.09%) Twitter
3 2 (9.09%) YouTube
4 1 (4.55%) Avaya
4 1 (4.55%) Genesys