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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 54 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 -13
Contract jobs citing CSS 22 12 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.59% 1.58% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 9.23% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 32
10th Percentile £274 £280 £356
25th Percentile £324 £327 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% -28.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £460 £428 £538
90th Percentile £550 £444 £586
England median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -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 217 130 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.59% 17.08% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 98 127
10th Percentile £270 £309 £300
25th Percentile £360 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £496 £510 £538
90th Percentile £605 £584 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £20.74 - £56.90
25th Percentile £21.48 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £22.83 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.65%
75th Percentile £24.05 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.71 - £64.10
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

CSS job vacancy trend 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 0 14 £358 +2.79% 20
Leicestershire - 4 £575 - 7
Derbyshire +2 2 £410 -3.53% 6
Nottinghamshire -9 2 £500 +21.21% 11
CSS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) CMS
2 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Headless CMS
3 2 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (9.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.55%) InDesign
1 1 (4.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Kontent
2 3 (13.64%) SaaS
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
1 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
1 3 (13.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) JUnit
2 3 (13.64%) Maven
2 3 (13.64%) Mockito
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
2 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
2 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.09%) Grunt
3 2 (9.09%) gulp
3 2 (9.09%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (9.09%) Mocha
3 2 (9.09%) Protractor
3 2 (9.09%) Subversion
3 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%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Angular Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) CMS Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) React Developer
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (100.00%) HTML
2 13 (59.09%) AngularJS
3 11 (50.00%) React
3 11 (50.00%) RESTful
4 7 (31.82%) REST
5 6 (27.27%) .NET
5 6 (27.27%) .NET Framework
5 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 6 (27.27%) HTML5
5 6 (27.27%) JPA
5 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (18.18%) CSS3
7 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
7 3 (13.64%) Jest
7 3 (13.64%) Node.js
7 3 (13.64%) RAML
7 3 (13.64%) Spring
7 3 (13.64%) Spring Batch
7 3 (13.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) State Machine
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Social Media
4 1 (4.55%) Blog
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (27.27%) Microservices
3 5 (22.73%) API Development
3 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
3 5 (22.73%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) AI
4 4 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
4 4 (18.18%) MVC
4 4 (18.18%) SDLC
4 4 (18.18%) User Experience
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) TDD
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) C#
5 4 (18.18%) Python
5 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
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
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Adobe
3 3 (13.64%) Veracode
4 2 (9.09%) Facebook
4 2 (9.09%) Instagram
4 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 2 (9.09%) Sitecore
4 2 (9.09%) Twitter
4 2 (9.09%) YouTube
5 1 (4.55%) Avaya
5 1 (4.55%) Genesys