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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 106 71
Rank change year-on-year +3 -35 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 64 77 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.91% 1.63% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 8.47% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 117
10th Percentile £328 £297 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £490 £547 £570
90th Percentile £538 £575 £605
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.03% +21.74%
England median hourly rate £42.82 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -31.50% +2.04% +6.99%

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 654 909 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.53% 19.23% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 608 835
10th Percentile £358 £362 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 7
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.78
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £41.99
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £66.88
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £74.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +12 43 £400 -11.11% 785
Yorkshire -2 12 £400 -15.79% 731
North East +7 9 £380 -6.17% 221
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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 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Camunda
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) InVision
1 2 (3.13%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.56%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.31%) AWS
1 13 (20.31%) Azure
2 4 (6.25%) npm
3 3 (4.69%) Figma
3 3 (4.69%) GCP
3 3 (4.69%) Serverless
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.13%) GitHub
4 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.13%) SaaS
4 2 (3.13%) ShareGate
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (39.06%) Git
2 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 9 (14.06%) webpack
3 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.38%) Babel
4 6 (9.38%) GitLab
5 5 (7.81%) Gradle
5 5 (7.81%) Jasmine
5 5 (7.81%) Mocha
5 5 (7.81%) Subversion
6 4 (6.25%) Xcode
7 3 (4.69%) Grunt
7 3 (4.69%) gulp
8 2 (3.13%) Axure RP
8 2 (3.13%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (3.13%) UI Automator
9 1 (1.56%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.56%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (1.56%) Hudson
9 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Banking
3 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) French Language
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (75.00%) Developer
2 18 (28.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (14.06%) React Developer
4 8 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Angular Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.81%) HTML Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.25%) HTML CSS Developer
7 4 (6.25%) iOS Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) SAP Developer
8 3 (4.69%) SAPUI5 Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.13%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.13%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Consultant
9 2 (3.13%) SharePoint Developer
9 2 (3.13%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (100.00%) HTML
2 22 (34.38%) AngularJS
3 21 (32.81%) React
4 20 (31.25%) Node.js
5 19 (29.69%) HTML5
6 16 (25.00%) RESTful
7 14 (21.88%) REST
8 12 (18.75%) .NET
9 9 (14.06%) Sass
10 7 (10.94%) jQuery
11 6 (9.38%) Jest
12 5 (7.81%) Ajax
12 5 (7.81%) Spring
12 5 (7.81%) Vue
12 5 (7.81%) Web Services
12 5 (7.81%) XML
13 4 (6.25%) CSS3
13 4 (6.25%) JSON
13 4 (6.25%) Mustache
13 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Android
2 6 (9.38%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (4.69%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Agile
2 28 (43.75%) Front End Development
3 24 (37.50%) User Experience
4 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.88%) TDD
5 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (14.06%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) API Development
7 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 8 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.50%) UX Design
8 7 (10.94%) Microservices
9 6 (9.38%) Project Management
9 6 (9.38%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (9.38%) Scrum
9 6 (9.38%) SDLC
9 6 (9.38%) Unit Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Web Development
9 6 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 56 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 21 (32.81%) Java
3 13 (20.31%) Python
4 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.50%) C#
6 6 (9.38%) Ruby
6 6 (9.38%) SQL
7 5 (7.81%) Kotlin
8 4 (6.25%) C
8 4 (6.25%) C++
8 4 (6.25%) Objective-C
8 4 (6.25%) Scala
8 4 (6.25%) Swift
9 3 (4.69%) Bash
9 3 (4.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) Accessibility
2 11 (17.19%) WCAG
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.56%) Puppet
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Virgin Media
3 3 (4.69%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Adobe
4 2 (3.13%) Nintex
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) TIBCO