CSS Contracts in the North West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 58 74
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -47
Contract jobs citing CSS 42 111 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 3.45% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% 18.50% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 79 101
10th Percentile £356 £318 £263
25th Percentile £364 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.26% +24.59%
75th Percentile £492 £587 £545
90th Percentile £575 £638 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.00
25th Percentile £37.63 - £43.13
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.88
90th Percentile - - £58.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.75 £55.25
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.33% +24.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 600 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.24% 18.67% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 473 751
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £648 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £39.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £41.40 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £45.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +10.80% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 - £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -14 28 £420 -1.18% 60
Lancashire +2 7 - - 8
Cheshire -20 6 £475 -3.28% 25
Cumbria - 1 £575 - 1
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 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 7 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (7.14%) CMS
2 3 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) AWS
1 6 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) GitHub
3 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (7.14%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.67%) Metadata
2 7 (16.67%) PowerPivot
2 7 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Power View
4 3 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.76%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.38%) Storybook
General
1 6 (14.29%) Publishing
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (61.90%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 6 (14.29%) SharePoint Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Designer
4 4 (9.52%) Interaction Designer
5 3 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Pega Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.76%) React Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (2.38%) GIS Developer
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.38%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.38%) SharePoint Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (92.86%) HTML
2 14 (33.33%) .NET
2 14 (33.33%) React
3 9 (21.43%) Node.js
4 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 5 (11.90%) REST
6 4 (9.52%) CSS3
6 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
6 4 (9.52%) HTML5
7 3 (7.14%) JSON
7 3 (7.14%) NancyFx
7 3 (7.14%) Vue
7 3 (7.14%) Web Services
7 3 (7.14%) XHTML
8 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (4.76%) Jest
8 2 (4.76%) RESTful
9 1 (2.38%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
1 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.38%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Agile
2 8 (19.05%) ITIL
3 7 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 7 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 7 (16.67%) Statistics
4 6 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (14.29%) Information Architecture
4 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.90%) API Development
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
6 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
6 4 (9.52%) E-Commerce
6 4 (9.52%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (9.52%) Interaction Design
6 4 (9.52%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (9.52%) Microservices
6 4 (9.52%) User Research
6 4 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 13 (30.95%) C#
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.90%) Java
6 5 (11.90%) PHP
7 4 (9.52%) Python
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
9 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) VMware
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) IBM
3 3 (7.14%) Nintex
3 3 (7.14%) Pega
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow