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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -31 +4 -18
Contract jobs citing CSS 8 24 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.64% 3.15% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 12.90% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 5
10th Percentile £355 £270 £264
25th Percentile £392 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £413
Median % change year-on-year +17.08% -12.00% -17.50%
75th Percentile £440 £403 £438
90th Percentile £445 £457 £520
England median daily rate £475 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +10.85% -14.30% -

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 172 186 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.74% 24.44% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 158 103
10th Percentile £381 £266 £306
25th Percentile £412 £354 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £445
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -8.43% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £544
90th Percentile £600 £569 £622
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -12.18% -61.54%
75th Percentile £26.88 £24.05 £27.50
90th Percentile £28.75 £24.71 -
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
% change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%

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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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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 27 August 2026. 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
Leicestershire -6 3 - - 9
Derbyshire -9 3 £435 +6.10% 12
Northamptonshire -3 1 £335 -6.42% 7
Nottinghamshire -20 1 £425 -15.00% 14
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 3 (37.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Content Coordinator
1 3 (37.50%) Coordinator
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Web Content Coordinator
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth
4 2 (25.00%) React
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (12.50%) JPA
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Node.js
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Swagger
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Digital Signage
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Tizen
1 1 (12.50%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) AI
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Digital Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) Optimization Problems
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) SEO
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) API Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle