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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 53 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -10
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 8 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.05% 1.15% 3.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.05% 7.41% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 25
10th Percentile £300 £286 £400
25th Percentile £359 £344 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -27.40% +21.95%
75th Percentile £606 £409 £530
90th Percentile £625 £436 £538
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 199 108 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.67% 15.54% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 82 117
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £368 £355 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £523 £510 £538
90th Percentile £625 £562 £650
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £21.21 - £22.90
25th Percentile £22.64 - £26.02
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +119.93%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £58.25
90th Percentile £25.14 - £62.30
England median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%

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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 29 November 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 29 November 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 8 £367 +5.23% 12
Leicestershire -5 7 £600 +62.16% 8
Nottinghamshire -7 2 £388 -9.62% 15
Derbyshire - 1 £410 - 6
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 7 (38.89%) CMS
2 5 (27.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Headless CMS
2 5 (27.78%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (27.78%) Umbraco
3 2 (11.11%) Confluence
4 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.56%) InDesign
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Kontent
2 5 (27.78%) Contentful
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Grunt
2 2 (11.11%) gulp
2 2 (11.11%) Jasmine
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Mocha
2 2 (11.11%) Mockito
2 2 (11.11%) Protractor
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (38.89%) CMS Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Angular Developer
5 5 (27.78%) C# Developer
5 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (27.78%) React Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Consultant
7 1 (5.56%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) HTML
2 13 (72.22%) AngularJS
3 11 (61.11%) RESTful
4 10 (55.56%) React
5 8 (44.44%) .NET
5 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
6 7 (38.89%) .NET Framework
6 7 (38.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (33.33%) HTML5
8 4 (22.22%) CSS3
8 4 (22.22%) REST
9 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
9 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 2 (11.11%) Jest
9 2 (11.11%) jQuery
9 2 (11.11%) Node.js
9 2 (11.11%) React Native
9 2 (11.11%) Redux
9 2 (11.11%) RxJS
9 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Blog
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (38.89%) MVC
2 7 (38.89%) User Experience
3 6 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) API Development
6 2 (11.11%) API Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Mobile First
6 2 (11.11%) TDD
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) UX Design
6 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Adobe
2 5 (27.78%) Sitecore
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Veracode
5 1 (5.56%) Avaya
5 1 (5.56%) Facebook
5 1 (5.56%) Genesys
5 1 (5.56%) Instagram
5 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (5.56%) YouTube