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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 59 62
Rank change year-on-year -73 +3 -28
Permanent jobs citing CSS 98 259 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.21% 4.15% 3.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.03% 24.39% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 92 120 227
10th Percentile £27,575 - £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,875
90th Percentile £72,125 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%

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 652 1,062 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.03% 17.01% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 539 580 1,226
10th Percentile £32,125 £34,938 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CSS
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

CSS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

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 25 January 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
West Midlands -40 53 £30,500 -44.55% 33
East Midlands -53 46 £46,250 +20.92% 58
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 (13.27%) CMS
2 6 (6.12%) WordPress
3 4 (4.08%) nginx
3 4 (4.08%) Umbraco
4 3 (3.06%) Apache
4 3 (3.06%) IIS
5 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.02%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (4.08%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.04%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.04%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Shopify
2 3 (3.06%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (54.08%) AWS
2 41 (41.84%) Azure
3 36 (36.73%) GitHub
4 10 (10.20%) Serverless
5 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (9.18%) SaaS
6 5 (5.10%) Figma
7 3 (3.06%) ChatGPT
7 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.06%) Firebase
7 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.04%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.02%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 30 (30.61%) Internet
2 5 (5.10%) Intranet
3 2 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) MySQL
2 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.06%) Power BI
6 2 (2.04%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.02%) Redis
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (45.92%) Git
2 5 (5.10%) JIRA
2 5 (5.10%) Vite
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
3 2 (2.04%) webpack
4 1 (1.02%) Babel
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) JUnit
4 1 (1.02%) Mockito
General
1 30 (30.61%) Multimedia
2 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Marketing
6 5 (5.10%) Finance
7 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Games
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) iGaming
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (64.29%) Developer
2 30 (30.61%) Trainee
3 17 (17.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (17.35%) Software Developer
4 14 (14.29%) Senior
4 14 (14.29%) Trainee Developer
4 14 (14.29%) Trainee Software Developer
5 12 (12.24%) PHP Developer
6 10 (10.20%) Senior Developer
6 10 (10.20%) Web Developer
7 8 (8.16%) .NET Developer
7 8 (8.16%) C# Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Lead
7 8 (8.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (7.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 7 (7.14%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Symfony Developer
9 6 (6.12%) .NET Web Developer
9 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (94.90%) HTML
2 25 (25.51%) React
3 22 (22.45%) Node.js
4 20 (20.41%) Laravel
5 13 (13.27%) .NET
6 11 (11.22%) ASP.NET
7 9 (9.18%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (9.18%) Vue
8 7 (7.14%) CakePHP
8 7 (7.14%) CodeIgniter
8 7 (7.14%) Symfony
8 7 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.12%) jQuery
10 5 (5.10%) .NET Core
10 5 (5.10%) HTML5
10 5 (5.10%) Next.js
10 5 (5.10%) REST
10 5 (5.10%) RESTful
11 4 (4.08%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.06%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.04%) W3C
4 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.02%) CMDB
4 1 (1.02%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.02%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.02%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 28 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (24.49%) MVC
4 23 (23.47%) Agile
5 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
6 17 (17.35%) Web Development
7 16 (16.33%) API Development
8 12 (12.24%) User Experience
9 11 (11.22%) OO
10 10 (10.20%) Front End Development
11 8 (8.16%) CI/CD
11 8 (8.16%) OO PHP
12 7 (7.14%) Content Management
12 7 (7.14%) Software Engineering
13 6 (6.12%) AI
13 6 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (6.12%) Project Management
14 5 (5.10%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 90 (91.84%) JavaScript
2 42 (42.86%) Python
3 29 (29.59%) SQL
4 23 (23.47%) PHP
5 16 (16.33%) R
6 15 (15.31%) C#
7 13 (13.27%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.10%) Java
9 4 (4.08%) Bash
10 2 (2.04%) C
10 2 (2.04%) Perl
11 1 (1.02%) C++
11 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Azure Certification
2 30 (30.61%) AWS Certification
2 30 (30.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 30 (30.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (21.43%) Degree
4 17 (17.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.04%) HND
5 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.10%) QA
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) WCAG
4 2 (2.04%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) Guidewire
2 3 (3.06%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.06%) SAP
2 3 (3.06%) Zoho
3 2 (2.04%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.04%) Google
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle
3 2 (2.04%) Siemens
3 2 (2.04%) Toshiba
4 1 (1.02%) Adobe
4 1 (1.02%) Ahrefs
4 1 (1.02%) HubSpot