CSS Contracts in the North of England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 66 69
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 -37
Contract jobs citing CSS 71 184 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.53% 3.29% 3.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.85% 16.90% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 127 183
10th Percentile £299 £319 £300
25th Percentile £363 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +24.59%
75th Percentile £510 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £617 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +17.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile - £50.65 £39.75
25th Percentile £37.63 £53.88 £48.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £59.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +5.31% +111.33%
75th Percentile - £64.88 £75.00
90th Percentile - £67.95 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% +26.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 904 1,089 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.47% 19.49% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 848 1,218
10th Percentile £362 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North West -42 42 £450 -7.19% 109
Yorkshire -19 26 £429 -4.72% 51
North East -2 3 £405 -19.00% 20
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (11.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (5.63%) CMS
4 3 (4.23%) IIS
5 2 (2.82%) Apache
5 2 (2.82%) Drupal
5 2 (2.82%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.41%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 10 (14.08%) Photoshop
2 6 (8.45%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (5.63%) InVision
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Maximo
2 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) Azure
2 5 (7.04%) GitHub
2 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.63%) Figma
3 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Contentful
6 1 (1.41%) Contentstack
6 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.41%) Miro
6 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) MySQL
3 7 (9.86%) Metadata
3 7 (9.86%) PowerPivot
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Power View
5 5 (7.04%) Power BI
6 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.23%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.82%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.41%) GIS
9 1 (1.41%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (7.04%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.41%) ESLint
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) Selenium
4 1 (1.41%) Storybook
4 1 (1.41%) TestRail
4 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Marketing
2 6 (8.45%) Publishing
3 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Advertising
6 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (54.93%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Designer
3 7 (9.86%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) Email Designer
4 6 (8.45%) SharePoint Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Interaction Designer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.23%) Pega Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) C# Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (94.37%) HTML
2 15 (21.13%) .NET
3 14 (19.72%) React
4 13 (18.31%) AngularJS
5 9 (12.68%) Node.js
6 7 (9.86%) .NET Framework
6 7 (9.86%) HTML5
7 6 (8.45%) CSS3
7 6 (8.45%) REST
8 4 (5.63%) Entity Framework
8 4 (5.63%) jQuery
8 4 (5.63%) JSON
8 4 (5.63%) Web Services
9 3 (4.23%) Ajax
9 3 (4.23%) LDAP
9 3 (4.23%) NancyFx
9 3 (4.23%) RESTful
9 3 (4.23%) Vue
9 3 (4.23%) XHTML
9 3 (4.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.45%) Animation
3 4 (5.63%) CMDB
3 4 (5.63%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.41%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Android
1 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) Agile
2 14 (19.72%) ITIL
3 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.49%) Prototyping
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps
4 10 (14.08%) Scrum
5 8 (11.27%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (11.27%) Interaction Design
5 8 (11.27%) ITSM
5 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
5 8 (11.27%) Web Development
6 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
6 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
6 7 (9.86%) Front End Development
6 7 (9.86%) Metadata Management
6 7 (9.86%) Statistics
6 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
6 7 (9.86%) User Experience
7 6 (8.45%) Email Marketing
7 6 (8.45%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (64.79%) JavaScript
2 17 (23.94%) SQL
3 15 (21.13%) C#
4 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.68%) Java
5 9 (12.68%) Python
6 7 (9.86%) PHP
6 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (15.49%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.63%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.82%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.41%) Ansible
2 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Adobe
2 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) VMware
4 6 (8.45%) dotdigital
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
5 3 (4.23%) Nintex
5 3 (4.23%) Pega
5 3 (4.23%) SAP