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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 94 90
Rank change year-on-year -46 -4 -56
Permanent jobs citing CSS 62 76 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.73% 2.54% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.42% 16.14% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55 36 166
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £46,875 £64,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 462 471 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.41% 15.75% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 376 340 1,011
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +10.58% -11.11%

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 23 May 2026.

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 23 May 2026. 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 -21 26 £30,500 -46.96% 9
Herefordshire -15 10 £45,000 -
Warwickshire -14 6 £60,000 +21.83% 1
Shropshire -24 6 £37,500 -34.78% 2
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Worcestershire -21 3 £42,500 -15.00% 2
Halesowen - 3 £47,500 -
Dudley - 2 £30,250 -
Coventry -24 1 - - 3
Wolverhampton -24 1 £32,500 -31.58% 1
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 19 (30.65%) WordPress
2 5 (8.06%) CMS
3 4 (6.45%) nginx
4 3 (4.84%) IIS
5 1 (1.61%) Confluence
5 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Photoshop
2 4 (6.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Shopify
2 4 (6.45%) Line 50
3 3 (4.84%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) AWS
2 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 25 (40.32%) GitHub
3 13 (20.97%) Figma
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.61%) Miro
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (30.65%) Internet
2 4 (6.45%) Network Security
2 4 (6.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) MySQL
2 4 (6.45%) FileMaker
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (41.94%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Vite
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 19 (30.65%) Multimedia
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Developer
2 19 (30.65%) Trainee
3 13 (20.97%) Designer
4 12 (19.35%) HTML CSS Designer
4 12 (19.35%) Web Designer
5 11 (17.74%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Trainee Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (11.29%) IT Support
8 4 (6.45%) Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) IT Support Technician
8 4 (6.45%) IT Technician
8 4 (6.45%) PHP Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Product Owner
8 4 (6.45%) Support Technician
8 4 (6.45%) Trainee Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) Web Administrator
9 3 (4.84%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.84%) IT Support Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (96.77%) HTML
2 5 (8.06%) Laravel
2 5 (8.06%) RESTful
2 5 (8.06%) Vue
3 4 (6.45%) .NET
3 4 (6.45%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
3 4 (6.45%) YAML
4 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.84%) jQuery
4 3 (4.84%) JSON
4 3 (4.84%) XML
5 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) CSS3
5 2 (3.23%) HTML5
5 2 (3.23%) React
5 2 (3.23%) React Native
5 2 (3.23%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.84%) Social Media
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) Mac OS
3 4 (6.45%) Unix
4 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.81%) Mentoring
2 15 (24.19%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.52%) Agile
4 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
4 9 (14.52%) User Experience
5 5 (8.06%) E-Commerce
5 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (6.45%) Backlog Management
6 4 (6.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (6.45%) Business Strategy
6 4 (6.45%) Clean Code
6 4 (6.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (6.45%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.45%) Product Backlog
6 4 (6.45%) Product Vision
6 4 (6.45%) Project Delivery
6 4 (6.45%) Roadmaps
6 4 (6.45%) Service Management
6 4 (6.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) JavaScript
2 31 (50.00%) PHP
3 28 (45.16%) Python
4 17 (27.42%) SQL
5 11 (17.74%) R
6 6 (9.68%) C#
7 4 (6.45%) Bash
7 4 (6.45%) Java
8 3 (4.84%) VBA
9 2 (3.23%) C++
9 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) AWS Certification
1 19 (30.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 19 (30.65%) Azure Certification
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) ISO 14001
1 4 (6.45%) ISO 9001
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Adobe
3 4 (6.45%) Apple
3 4 (6.45%) Sage
4 2 (3.23%) Facebook
5 1 (1.61%) YouTube