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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -34
Permanent jobs citing CSS 68 185 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.09% 3.06% 3.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.14% 20.74% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 75 125
10th Percentile £26,625 £29,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,063 £32,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,563 £60,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,500 £76,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.68%

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 449 892 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.79% 14.74% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 337 532 551
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,418
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,914 £78,750
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

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS in the West Midlands

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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 18 September 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 -18 20 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Staffordshire +11 17 £45,000 +9.09% 14
Warwickshire +12 14 £55,000 +50.68% 10
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Herefordshire - 3 - - 1
Coventry +1 2 £65,000 +30.00% 16
Solihull -2 2 - - 3
Worcestershire +7 1 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Walsall +4 1 £33,000 - 7
Wolverhampton 0 1 £34,000 -15.00% 8
Shropshire -4 1 £37,500 +36.36% 8
CSS
England

CSS
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 14 (20.59%) Confluence
2 10 (14.71%) CMS
3 4 (5.88%) Umbraco
3 4 (5.88%) WordPress
4 2 (2.94%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.47%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Adobe XD
1 3 (4.41%) Sketch
2 1 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.47%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) Azure
2 31 (45.59%) AWS
3 15 (22.06%) GCP
4 10 (14.71%) Figma
5 5 (7.35%) GitHub
6 4 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.94%) Contentful
8 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.94%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.47%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.47%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (45.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) MySQL
3 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 25 (36.76%) JIRA
2 24 (35.29%) Bitbucket
2 24 (35.29%) Cucumber
2 24 (35.29%) GitLab
2 24 (35.29%) Maven
2 24 (35.29%) Selenium
2 24 (35.29%) SonarQube
2 24 (35.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (16.18%) Git
4 2 (2.94%) Storybook
5 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 37 (54.41%) Finance
2 28 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (35.29%) Banking
4 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
5 14 (20.59%) Retail
6 11 (16.18%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (16.18%) Investment Banking
7 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.35%) Marketing
8 4 (5.88%) Multimedia
8 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.41%) Automotive
10 2 (2.94%) iGaming
10 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.47%) Back Office
11 1 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (41.18%) Developer
2 26 (38.24%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (11.76%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) React Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Digital Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Graduate
5 4 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Junior
5 4 (5.88%) Trainee
6 3 (4.41%) Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Junior Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Junior UI/UX Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Junior UX Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.41%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (4.41%) UX Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (91.18%) HTML
2 40 (58.82%) React
3 25 (36.76%) Spring
4 24 (35.29%) JPA
4 24 (35.29%) Kafka
4 24 (35.29%) Redux
4 24 (35.29%) Spring Boot
5 17 (25.00%) HTML5
6 14 (20.59%) CSS3
6 14 (20.59%) Hibernate
6 14 (20.59%) REST
6 14 (20.59%) RESTful
7 13 (19.12%) Sass
8 12 (17.65%) Jest
9 8 (11.76%) .NET
9 8 (11.76%) jQuery
10 7 (10.29%) Node.js
11 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
12 5 (7.35%) Vue
13 4 (5.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.88%) W3C
4 3 (4.41%) Animation
4 3 (4.41%) Video Editing
4 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.47%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile Games
6 1 (1.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) CentOS
2 1 (1.47%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) Agile
1 41 (60.29%) Front End Development
2 35 (51.47%) DevOps
3 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (42.65%) Software Engineering
4 28 (41.18%) Microservices
5 26 (38.24%) Test Automation
6 25 (36.76%) Containerisation
6 25 (36.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 25 (36.76%) SDLC
6 25 (36.76%) User Experience
7 23 (33.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (33.82%) Mentoring
8 16 (23.53%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (22.06%) Clean Code
9 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (19.12%) TDD
11 11 (16.18%) Migration
11 11 (16.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (79.41%) JavaScript
2 35 (51.47%) SQL
3 29 (42.65%) Java
4 19 (27.94%) TypeScript
5 10 (14.71%) C#
6 6 (8.82%) PHP
7 4 (5.88%) Python
8 3 (4.41%) C++
9 2 (2.94%) R
9 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
1 6 (8.82%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (35.29%) QA
2 18 (26.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.35%) GDPR
4 3 (4.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Solace
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) Guidewire
4 5 (7.35%) Google
5 4 (5.88%) Adobe
6 1 (1.47%) Ahrefs
6 1 (1.47%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat