CSS Contracts in the North West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 81 91 62
Rank change year-on-year +10 -29 +9
Contract jobs citing CSS 42 43 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 1.55% 3.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.57% 8.51% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 79
10th Percentile £312 £358 £318
25th Percentile £365 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £483 £516 £586
90th Percentile £538 £575 £638
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 505 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.49% 18.19% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 371 464
10th Percentile £363 £350 £337
25th Percentile £402 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CSS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +17 26 £435 +3.57% 106
Cheshire +1 9 £358 -24.63% 18
Merseyside +4 2 - - 14
Lancashire -4 1 - - 33
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Camunda
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) JBoss
3 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) InVision
1 2 (4.76%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.38%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (23.81%) Power Automate
1 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
1 10 (23.81%) PowerApps
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
4 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) Jasmine
2 6 (14.29%) Mocha
3 5 (11.90%) Babel
3 5 (11.90%) Subversion
3 5 (11.90%) webpack
4 4 (9.52%) Grunt
4 4 (9.52%) gulp
4 4 (9.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) Axure RP
5 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.38%) Balsamiq
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) Hudson
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) NetBeans
6 1 (2.38%) Selenium
6 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (80.95%) Developer
2 17 (40.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 8 (19.05%) Software Developer
5 7 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (11.90%) React Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SAP Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SAPUI5 Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Designer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UX Designer
9 1 (2.38%) Agile Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Developer
9 1 (2.38%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Junior Digital Project Manager
9 1 (2.38%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) HTML
2 20 (47.62%) HTML5
3 18 (42.86%) React
4 14 (33.33%) Node.js
5 11 (26.19%) RESTful
6 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 9 (21.43%) REST
7 8 (19.05%) .NET
7 8 (19.05%) jQuery
7 8 (19.05%) Sass
8 6 (14.29%) SPFx
9 5 (11.90%) CSS3
9 5 (11.90%) Mustache
10 4 (9.52%) Spring
11 3 (7.14%) RxJS
11 3 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (7.14%) SAPUI5
11 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
11 3 (7.14%) XML
12 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
1 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.76%) Android
3 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Front End Development
2 18 (42.86%) Agile
3 16 (38.10%) Web Development
4 13 (30.95%) User Experience
5 8 (19.05%) API Development
5 8 (19.05%) Task Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 6 (14.29%) B2B
7 6 (14.29%) DevOps
7 6 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
8 5 (11.90%) TDD
8 5 (11.90%) Web Design
9 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.52%) Usability Testing
9 4 (9.52%) User Research
9 4 (9.52%) UX Design
9 4 (9.52%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 39 (92.86%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.81%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 9 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) TIBCO