CSS Contracts in the North East

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 22 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing CSS 17 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.36% 0.59% 4.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.56% 3.51% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 13
10th Percentile £335 £412 £327
25th Percentile £363 £427 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% -9.45% -0.25%
75th Percentile £489 £477 £560
90th Percentile £490 £491 £630
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
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
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 64 57 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.19% 16.76% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 101
10th Percentile £354 £334 £380
25th Percentile £380 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -25.04% +11.92%
75th Percentile £538 £501 £675
90th Percentile £629 £590 £758
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - £27.12 £49.50
90th Percentile - £38.56 -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for CSS in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +6 14 £380 -16.07% 12
Durham - 3 £470 - 3
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
1 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) git-flow
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) French Language
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Electronics
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (23.53%) HTML CSS Developer
3 4 (23.53%) HTML Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) React Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (5.88%) OpenEdge Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) Jest
2 6 (35.29%) Node.js
2 6 (35.29%) Sass
3 4 (23.53%) React
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) SPFx
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Front End Development
2 6 (35.29%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Web Development
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
6 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) WCAG
2 3 (17.65%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Virgin Media
3 2 (11.76%) New Relic
3 2 (11.76%) SAP