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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 88 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 -27 -2
Contract jobs citing CSS 43 45 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 1.66% 3.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.19% 9.18% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 72
10th Percentile £313 £350 £319
25th Percentile £361 £369 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £491 £523 £588
90th Percentile £538 £575 £638
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £42.82 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -31.50% +2.04% +6.52%

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 422 490 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.50% 18.03% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 352 447
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £545 £598 £575
90th Percentile £636 £750 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.76
25th Percentile - £45.88 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%
75th Percentile £79.38 £72.03 £44.78
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.15 £45.62
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 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 23 £400 -5.88% 86
Cheshire 0 13 £367 -20.76% 29
Merseyside 0 2 £475 -13.64% 13
Lancashire -6 1 - - 26
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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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Camunda
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) InVision
1 2 (4.65%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.33%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) Figma
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
4 2 (4.65%) ShareGate
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
1 2 (4.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) Babel
3 5 (11.63%) Gradle
3 5 (11.63%) Jasmine
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 5 (11.63%) Mocha
3 5 (11.63%) Subversion
3 5 (11.63%) webpack
4 4 (9.30%) Xcode
5 3 (6.98%) Grunt
5 3 (6.98%) gulp
6 2 (4.65%) Axure RP
6 2 (4.65%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (4.65%) GitLab
6 2 (4.65%) UI Automator
7 1 (2.33%) Balsamiq
7 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.33%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.33%) Hudson
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (76.74%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (18.60%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (11.63%) React Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Angular Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.30%) iOS Developer
6 3 (6.98%) SAP Developer
6 3 (6.98%) SAPUI5 Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.65%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.65%) UI/UX Developer
7 2 (4.65%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.65%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (100.00%) HTML
2 18 (41.86%) HTML5
3 15 (34.88%) AngularJS
3 15 (34.88%) React
4 14 (32.56%) Node.js
5 11 (25.58%) RESTful
6 10 (23.26%) REST
7 9 (20.93%) .NET
8 7 (16.28%) jQuery
9 5 (11.63%) Sass
9 5 (11.63%) XML
10 4 (9.30%) Ajax
10 4 (9.30%) Mustache
10 4 (9.30%) Spring
11 3 (6.98%) CSS3
11 3 (6.98%) JSON
11 3 (6.98%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (6.98%) SAPUI5
11 3 (6.98%) Semantic HTML
11 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Android
1 6 (13.95%) Apple iOS
2 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 3 (6.98%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Agile
2 22 (51.16%) Front End Development
3 18 (41.86%) User Experience
4 8 (18.60%) API Development
4 8 (18.60%) DevOps
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.60%) TDD
4 8 (18.60%) UX Design
5 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
6 6 (13.95%) B2B
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (13.95%) Unit Testing
6 6 (13.95%) Web Development
6 6 (13.95%) Wireframes
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (11.63%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (11.63%) Scrum
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Web Accessibility
8 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) JavaScript
2 14 (32.56%) Java
3 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.63%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) C
5 4 (9.30%) C++
5 4 (9.30%) Kotlin
5 4 (9.30%) Objective-C
5 4 (9.30%) Ruby
5 4 (9.30%) Scala
5 4 (9.30%) Swift
6 3 (6.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (16.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (6.98%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) Adobe
3 2 (4.65%) Nintex
3 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) TIBCO