CSS Contracts in the Midlands

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 102 75
Rank change year-on-year +29 -27 -11
Contract jobs citing CSS 42 36 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.20% 1.31% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.17% 9.38% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 83
10th Percentile £314 £213 £295
25th Percentile £363 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £468 £575 £525
90th Percentile £486 £625 £625
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% - -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.82% -6.38% +6.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.69% 13.96% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 273 464
10th Percentile £315 £277 £313
25th Percentile £400 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £678 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Midlands +28 31 £443 -11.50% 69
East Midlands +3 10 £326 +44.89% 38
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) InfoPath
2 3 (7.14%) Maya
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.14%) NUKE
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
1 9 (21.43%) PowerApps
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (19.05%) Power Automate
3 6 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Functions
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (11.90%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) AWS
5 2 (4.76%) Figma
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.38%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Power BI
1 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
1 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Postman
2 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) JUnit
2 4 (9.52%) Maven
2 4 (9.52%) Selenium
3 3 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Gradle
4 2 (4.76%) HP UFT
4 2 (4.76%) IntelliJ
4 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Mockito
4 2 (4.76%) NetBeans
4 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.76%) Subversion
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Automotive
2 3 (7.14%) Games
2 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Police
3 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (9.52%) Automation Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 3 (7.14%) SAP Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Designer
7 2 (4.76%) Flutter Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 2 (4.76%) SAP Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Trainer
7 2 (4.76%) UI Designer
7 2 (4.76%) UI/UX Designer
7 2 (4.76%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (97.62%) HTML
2 10 (23.81%) HTML5
2 10 (23.81%) React
3 9 (21.43%) .NET
4 8 (19.05%) CSS3
4 8 (19.05%) jQuery
5 7 (16.67%) Node.js
6 6 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 6 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 6 (14.29%) Entity Framework
6 6 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 6 (14.29%) RESTful
6 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 5 (11.90%) Ajax
7 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
7 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (11.90%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (11.90%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (11.90%) SAPUI5
8 4 (9.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.14%) Animation
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Agile
1 12 (28.57%) MVC
2 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (23.81%) User Experience
2 10 (23.81%) Web Development
2 10 (23.81%) Workflow
3 8 (19.05%) Front End Development
3 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 7 (16.67%) Microservices
4 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 6 (14.29%) CRM
5 6 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
6 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
6 5 (11.90%) DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) TDD
6 5 (11.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (88.10%) JavaScript
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) Java
4 10 (23.81%) C#
5 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.90%) ABAP
6 5 (11.90%) COBOL
7 3 (7.14%) C++
7 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.14%) Python
7 3 (7.14%) Tcl
7 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.76%) Ruby
9 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) Adobe
4 2 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.76%) Veracode
5 1 (2.38%) Perforce
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce