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 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 73 94 85
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -18
Contract jobs citing CSS 29 21 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.06% 1.08% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.13% 7.55% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 33
10th Percentile £410 £390 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -14.14%
75th Percentile £467 £575 £500
90th Percentile £651 £631 £688
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.91 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
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 239 278 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.94% 14.32% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 196 237
10th Percentile £375 £313 £360
25th Percentile £414 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £598 £639 £675
90th Percentile £689 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 0
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile - £56.25 -
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
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 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 31 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
Warwickshire +11 14 - - 7
Birmingham +2 4 - - 26
Shropshire - 3 £461 - 2
Wolverhampton - 3 £850 - 1
Coventry +4 2 £413 -2.94% 2
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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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Maya
2 8 (27.59%) NUKE
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (10.34%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (6.90%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.90%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
1 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Postman
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (37.93%) Automotive
1 11 (37.93%) Games
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
5 3 (10.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) SAP Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Developer
7 1 (3.45%) CRM Architect
7 1 (3.45%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Scala Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (96.55%) HTML
2 11 (37.93%) Django
3 7 (24.14%) CSS3
3 7 (24.14%) HTML5
4 5 (17.24%) .NET
4 5 (17.24%) jQuery
4 5 (17.24%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (17.24%) SAPUI5
5 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 3 (10.34%) React
6 3 (10.34%) Unreal Engine
6 3 (10.34%) V-Ray
7 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (6.90%) Blazor
7 2 (6.90%) Entity Framework
7 2 (6.90%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (6.90%) KnockoutJS
7 2 (6.90%) Next.js
7 2 (6.90%) Node.js
7 2 (6.90%) RequireJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Animation
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 7 (24.14%) MVC
1 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (24.14%) Workflow
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Thinking
2 6 (20.69%) User Experience
3 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
3 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
3 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
3 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (17.24%) Validation
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) CRM
4 3 (10.34%) Microservices
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) User Stories
4 3 (10.34%) Visualisation
5 2 (6.90%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) JavaScript
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) C++
4 8 (27.59%) Python
4 8 (27.59%) Tcl
5 6 (20.69%) C#
6 5 (17.24%) ABAP
6 5 (17.24%) COBOL
7 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (6.90%) Ruby
9 1 (3.45%) Scala
9 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Adobe
2 5 (17.24%) SAP
3 3 (10.34%) Autodesk