CSS Contracts in the North of England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 93 125 71
Rank change year-on-year +32 -54 -5
Contract jobs citing CSS 70 66 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.14% 1.38% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.19% 7.31% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 128
10th Percentile £327 £298 £317
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -6.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £490 £528 £570
90th Percentile £538 £575 £603
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £50.65
25th Percentile - £37.63 £53.88
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.39% +13.33%
75th Percentile - - £64.88
90th Percentile - - £67.95
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 687 903 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.98% 18.85% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 616 876
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £595 £596
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +10 42 £400 -5.88% 145
North East +15 17 £380 -16.07% 16
Yorkshire +8 14 £470 +15.34% 56
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (18.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Camunda
3 1 (1.43%) CMS
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
3 1 (1.43%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) InVision
1 2 (2.86%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.43%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
1 13 (18.57%) Power Automate
1 13 (18.57%) Power Platform
1 13 (18.57%) PowerApps
2 12 (17.14%) AWS
2 12 (17.14%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) npm
4 2 (2.86%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.43%) Apigee
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Figma
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (1.43%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.71%) MySQL
2 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.86%) Redis
3 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (34.29%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) JIRA
3 8 (11.43%) webpack
4 6 (8.57%) Babel
4 6 (8.57%) Jasmine
4 6 (8.57%) Mocha
5 5 (7.14%) Subversion
6 4 (5.71%) Grunt
6 4 (5.71%) gulp
7 3 (4.29%) GitLab
7 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
7 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.86%) Axure RP
9 1 (1.43%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.43%) git-flow
9 1 (1.43%) Gradle
9 1 (1.43%) Hudson
9 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) French Language
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Electronics
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Billing
7 1 (1.43%) German Language
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (82.86%) Developer
2 23 (32.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 11 (15.71%) React Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Software Developer
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.14%) HTML Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Angular Developer
8 4 (5.71%) HTML CSS Developer
9 3 (4.29%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) SAP Developer
9 3 (4.29%) SAPUI5 Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Lead
10 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (97.14%) HTML
2 29 (41.43%) React
3 22 (31.43%) Node.js
4 21 (30.00%) HTML5
5 19 (27.14%) RESTful
6 15 (21.43%) AngularJS
7 14 (20.00%) Sass
8 13 (18.57%) .NET
9 12 (17.14%) REST
10 9 (12.86%) SPFx
11 8 (11.43%) jQuery
12 7 (10.00%) Jest
13 6 (8.57%) CSS3
14 5 (7.14%) Mustache
14 5 (7.14%) Spring
15 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
15 4 (5.71%) Web Services
16 3 (4.29%) Flask
16 3 (4.29%) RxJS
16 3 (4.29%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Unix
3 3 (4.29%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.86%) Android
4 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Front End Development
2 25 (35.71%) Agile
3 19 (27.14%) User Experience
3 19 (27.14%) Web Development
4 13 (18.57%) TDD
5 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.71%) Task Automation
6 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (12.86%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.43%) API Development
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) Microservices
8 8 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.00%) DevOps
9 7 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 7 (10.00%) SDLC
10 6 (8.57%) B2B
10 6 (8.57%) Web Accessibility
11 5 (7.14%) Web Design
12 4 (5.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 17 (24.29%) Java
3 14 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.57%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.43%) Python
6 5 (7.14%) C#
7 3 (4.29%) PHP
7 3 (4.29%) SQL
8 2 (2.86%) Bash
8 2 (2.86%) Ruby
9 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) WCAG
2 11 (15.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.43%) Puppet
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) SAP
3 4 (5.71%) Virgin Media
4 3 (4.29%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe
5 2 (2.86%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO