CSS Job Trends in the Midlands

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring CSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 52 72
Rank change year-on-year -44 +20 -39
Permanent jobs citing CSS 155 383 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.77% 3.82% 3.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.50% 25.83% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 76 140 193
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,813 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £63,875 £79,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 689 1,483 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.32% 14.79% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 479 866 930
10th Percentile £36,650 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,149 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CSS

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
East Midlands -34 90 £47,500 +5.56% 56
West Midlands -28 66 £47,500 +2.70% 84
CSS
England

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 48 (30.97%) Confluence
2 14 (9.03%) CMS
3 5 (3.23%) IIS
4 4 (2.58%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.58%) WordPress
5 3 (1.94%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.65%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.65%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.94%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.94%) Sketch
3 2 (1.29%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.29%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.29%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Sprinklr
2 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.29%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 80 (51.61%) Azure
2 70 (45.16%) AWS
3 49 (31.61%) GCP
4 10 (6.45%) Figma
5 5 (3.23%) GitHub
5 5 (3.23%) Serverless
6 4 (2.58%) SaaS
7 3 (1.94%) Contentful
7 3 (1.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.29%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.29%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.29%) Sage Pay
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) Ethernet
1 3 (1.94%) Modbus
1 3 (1.94%) MQTT
2 2 (1.29%) Internet
2 2 (1.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (50.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.39%) MySQL
3 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.94%) Power BI
3 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.29%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (43.23%) JIRA
2 65 (41.94%) GitLab
3 63 (40.65%) Bitbucket
3 63 (40.65%) Cucumber
3 63 (40.65%) Maven
3 63 (40.65%) Selenium
3 63 (40.65%) SonarQube
3 63 (40.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (8.39%) Git
5 2 (1.29%) Babel
5 2 (1.29%) Storybook
5 2 (1.29%) Subversion
5 2 (1.29%) webpack
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 80 (51.61%) Finance
2 67 (43.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (40.65%) Banking
4 32 (20.65%) Retail
4 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
5 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (10.32%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (10.32%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.45%) Law
8 5 (3.23%) Marketing
8 5 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.94%) Automotive
9 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.29%) iGaming
10 2 (1.29%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Back Office
11 1 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (41.94%) Software Engineer
2 57 (36.77%) Developer
3 18 (11.61%) Senior
4 14 (9.03%) PHP Developer
5 13 (8.39%) Consultant
5 13 (8.39%) Implementation Consultant
5 13 (8.39%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (5.81%) PHP Symfony Developer
7 9 (5.81%) Symfony Developer
8 7 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.52%) Junior
8 7 (4.52%) React Developer
9 6 (3.87%) C# Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Graduate
9 6 (3.87%) Graduate Developer
9 6 (3.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 5 (3.23%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.23%) Lead
10 5 (3.23%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (90.97%) HTML
2 92 (59.35%) React
3 67 (43.23%) Spring
4 66 (42.58%) Redux
4 66 (42.58%) Spring Boot
5 64 (41.29%) JPA
6 63 (40.65%) Kafka
7 49 (31.61%) Hibernate
8 28 (18.06%) HTML5
9 25 (16.13%) RESTful
10 24 (15.48%) CSS3
11 23 (14.84%) .NET
11 23 (14.84%) REST
12 20 (12.90%) Sass
13 18 (11.61%) Jest
14 13 (8.39%) jQuery
15 11 (7.10%) ASP.NET
16 9 (5.81%) AngularJS
16 9 (5.81%) Node.js
16 9 (5.81%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (40.65%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (40.65%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.87%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.58%) W3C
5 3 (1.94%) Animation
5 3 (1.94%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.94%) Industry 4.0
5 3 (1.94%) IoT
5 3 (1.94%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.94%) SCADA
5 3 (1.94%) Video Editing
5 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.29%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Windows
2 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) CentOS
3 1 (0.65%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (63.87%) Agile
2 90 (58.06%) Front End Development
3 75 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 75 (48.39%) DevOps
4 74 (47.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 70 (45.16%) Test Automation
6 68 (43.87%) Containerisation
6 68 (43.87%) Microservices
6 68 (43.87%) Software Engineering
7 65 (41.94%) SDLC
8 64 (41.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 62 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (37.42%) Clean Code
11 47 (30.32%) TDD
12 36 (23.23%) User Experience
13 29 (18.71%) Mentoring
14 26 (16.77%) Responsive Web Design
15 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (13.55%) Project Management
17 20 (12.90%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 135 (87.10%) JavaScript
2 100 (64.52%) SQL
3 74 (47.74%) Java
4 32 (20.65%) TypeScript
5 26 (16.77%) C#
6 19 (12.26%) PHP
7 8 (5.16%) Python
8 6 (3.87%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.58%) C++
10 2 (1.29%) C
10 2 (1.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (10.97%) Degree
2 10 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.23%) HND
4 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.94%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.94%) HNC
5 3 (1.94%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (40.65%) QA
2 29 (18.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.23%) GDPR
4 3 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.29%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 66 (42.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (43.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.94%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 63 (40.65%) Solace
2 18 (11.61%) Adobe
3 9 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.87%) Guidewire
5 5 (3.23%) Google
5 5 (3.23%) Siemens
6 3 (1.94%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.94%) Oracle
6 3 (1.94%) Rockwell
6 3 (1.94%) VMware
7 2 (1.29%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.29%) SAP
7 2 (1.29%) Toshiba
8 1 (0.65%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.65%) Red Hat