CSS Job Trends in the West Midlands

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 74 70
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -26
Permanent jobs citing CSS 64 176 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.97% 3.27% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.02% 20.68% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 35 63 114
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,350 £34,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £75,369 £68,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 426 851 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.12% 15.82% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 319 471 517
10th Percentile £32,425 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

CSS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CSS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS in the West Midlands

CSS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -26 20 £30,500 -44.55% 17
Staffordshire +4 17 £45,000 -14.29% 12
Warwickshire +21 14 £55,000 +50.68% 7
Solihull -9 3 £90,000 +71.43% 1
Herefordshire - 3 - - 1
Walsall +5 1 £33,000 - 5
Wolverhampton -4 1 £34,000 -9.33% 8
Coventry -4 1 - - 10
Shropshire -15 1 £37,500 - 3
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (20.31%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) WordPress
3 4 (6.25%) CMS
4 3 (4.69%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (67.19%) Azure
2 36 (56.25%) AWS
3 13 (20.31%) GCP
4 8 (12.50%) GitHub
5 6 (9.38%) SaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Figma
7 3 (4.69%) Firebase
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.13%) Google Analytics
8 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (45.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) MySQL
2 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (42.19%) JIRA
2 24 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 24 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 24 (37.50%) GitLab
2 24 (37.50%) Maven
2 24 (37.50%) Selenium
2 24 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 24 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 15 (23.44%) Git
4 2 (3.13%) webpack
5 1 (1.56%) Babel
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Vite
General
1 34 (53.13%) Finance
2 29 (45.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (37.50%) Banking
4 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
5 11 (17.19%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (17.19%) Investment Banking
5 11 (17.19%) Retail
6 8 (12.50%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.13%) iGaming
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 25 (39.06%) Developer
3 8 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) Trainee
4 5 (7.81%) React Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Digital Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Junior
5 4 (6.25%) Trainee Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Trainee Software Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Graduate
6 3 (4.69%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Junior Software Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Web Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.13%) IT Graduate
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (93.75%) HTML
2 40 (62.50%) React
3 25 (39.06%) Spring
4 24 (37.50%) JPA
4 24 (37.50%) Kafka
4 24 (37.50%) Redux
4 24 (37.50%) Spring Boot
5 16 (25.00%) HTML5
6 14 (21.88%) Hibernate
6 14 (21.88%) RESTful
7 12 (18.75%) CSS3
7 12 (18.75%) Jest
7 12 (18.75%) REST
8 11 (17.19%) Sass
9 8 (12.50%) Node.js
10 7 (10.94%) .NET
11 6 (9.38%) Next.js
12 5 (7.81%) jQuery
13 4 (6.25%) Entity Framework
13 4 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.69%) W3C
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) CMDB
5 1 (1.56%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.56%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) Agile
2 37 (57.81%) Front End Development
3 31 (48.44%) DevOps
3 31 (48.44%) Software Engineering
4 30 (46.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 28 (43.75%) Mentoring
6 26 (40.63%) Microservices
6 26 (40.63%) Test Automation
7 25 (39.06%) Performance Optimisation
7 25 (39.06%) SDLC
8 24 (37.50%) Containerisation
9 19 (29.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (29.69%) User Experience
10 15 (23.44%) Clean Code
10 15 (23.44%) Responsive Web Design
11 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (20.31%) TDD
13 11 (17.19%) Migration
13 11 (17.19%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 58 (90.63%) JavaScript
2 30 (46.88%) SQL
3 27 (42.19%) Java
4 15 (23.44%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.06%) C#
5 9 (14.06%) Python
6 8 (12.50%) PHP
7 4 (6.25%) R
8 2 (3.13%) C++
8 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
2 9 (14.06%) Degree
3 8 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 8 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (39.06%) QA
2 17 (26.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (39.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (42.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (37.50%) Solace
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Ahrefs
5 1 (1.56%) HubSpot