CSS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing CSS 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.59% 1.20% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.56% 8.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
North West median daily rate £426 £400 £410
% change year-on-year +6.50% -2.44% -15.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £30.00 - £46.18

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 36 25 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.56% 15.06% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 13
10th Percentile £415 £388 -
25th Percentile £450 £453 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +21.11% -6.49%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £494
90th Percentile £582 £638 £550
North West median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +13.77%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

CSS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Liverpool -15 1 £560 - 4
Wirral - 1 - -
CSS
North West

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft