CSS Contracts in the West Midlands

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 65 93 92
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing CSS 31 19 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.30% 0.98% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.48% 7.31% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 33
10th Percentile £367 £340 £263
25th Percentile £411 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +17.65% -14.14%
75th Percentile £470 £575 £538
90th Percentile £508 £631 £688
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £33.91 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 230 260 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.07% 13.40% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 191 247
10th Percentile £381 £306 £360
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CSS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +7 8 - - 14
Coventry +11 5 £470 +10.59% 5
Birmingham +8 5 £475 -13.64% 25
Walsall - 4 £375 -
Shropshire -6 3 £461 +23.00% 1
Wolverhampton - 3 £850 - 1
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (22.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) InfoPath
2 3 (9.68%) Maya
2 3 (9.68%) NUKE
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
1 8 (25.81%) PowerApps
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (22.58%) Power Automate
3 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Functions
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) AWS
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
1 4 (12.90%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Automotive
2 3 (9.68%) Games
2 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.68%) Retail
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Software Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Flutter Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 2 (6.45%) SAP Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Trainer
7 2 (6.45%) Web Developer
8 1 (3.23%) CRM Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (96.77%) HTML
2 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 8 (25.81%) React
3 7 (22.58%) CSS3
3 7 (22.58%) HTML5
4 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
4 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
4 5 (16.13%) Entity Framework
4 5 (16.13%) jQuery
4 5 (16.13%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (16.13%) SAPUI5
5 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (12.90%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (12.90%) RESTful
6 3 (9.68%) Django
6 3 (9.68%) SPFx
7 2 (6.45%) Blazor
7 2 (6.45%) Flutter
7 2 (6.45%) Next.js
7 2 (6.45%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) Animation
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) MVC
1 9 (29.03%) Workflow
2 7 (22.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) User Experience
3 6 (19.35%) Web Development
4 5 (16.13%) Code Quality
4 5 (16.13%) CRM
4 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
4 5 (16.13%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Validation
5 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.68%) Agile
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
6 3 (9.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 28 (90.32%) JavaScript
2 12 (38.71%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) ABAP
4 5 (16.13%) COBOL
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.68%) C++
6 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) Python
6 3 (9.68%) Tcl
6 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.45%) Ruby
8 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) SAP
3 2 (6.45%) Adobe