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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 86 61
Rank change year-on-year -50 -25 -21
Permanent jobs citing CSS 110 173 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.11% 3.30% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.01% 20.33% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 104 117 291
10th Percentile £27,500 - £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £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 687 851 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.94% 16.25% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 563 604 1,525
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -20 66 £30,500 -44.55% 39
East Midlands -63 44 £53,750 +37.82% 46
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 18 (16.36%) WordPress
2 13 (11.82%) CMS
3 5 (4.55%) nginx
4 2 (1.82%) Apache
4 2 (1.82%) IIS
4 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.55%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.91%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Shopify
2 2 (1.82%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.09%) AWS
2 52 (47.27%) Azure
3 42 (38.18%) GitHub
4 12 (10.91%) Amazon S3
4 12 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (10.91%) Serverless
5 11 (10.00%) SaaS
6 10 (9.09%) Figma
7 3 (2.73%) Firebase
8 2 (1.82%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.91%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.91%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 36 (32.73%) Internet
2 4 (3.64%) Intranet
3 2 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.55%) MySQL
2 12 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (46.36%) Git
2 6 (5.45%) Vite
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) Storybook
4 2 (1.82%) webpack
5 1 (0.91%) Babel
5 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (32.73%) Multimedia
2 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.18%) Finance
5 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.45%) Marketing
7 4 (3.64%) Law
8 3 (2.73%) Legal
8 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Games
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 64 (58.18%) Developer
2 36 (32.73%) Trainee
3 21 (19.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (16.36%) Software Developer
5 15 (13.64%) Trainee Developer
5 15 (13.64%) Trainee Software Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Senior
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Web Developer
9 8 (7.27%) .NET Developer
9 8 (7.27%) Administrator
9 8 (7.27%) Designer
9 8 (7.27%) HTML CSS Designer
9 8 (7.27%) Lead
9 8 (7.27%) PHP Developer
9 8 (7.27%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (7.27%) Web Administrator
9 8 (7.27%) Web Designer
10 7 (6.36%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (98.18%) HTML
2 27 (24.55%) React
3 24 (21.82%) Node.js
4 18 (16.36%) Laravel
5 12 (10.91%) .NET
5 12 (10.91%) Vue
6 10 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 9 (8.18%) RESTful
8 8 (7.27%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (5.45%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.45%) .NET Framework
9 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (4.55%) Entity Framework
10 5 (4.55%) HTML5
10 5 (4.55%) jQuery
10 5 (4.55%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (4.55%) React Native
10 5 (4.55%) YAML
11 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (3.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.91%) CMDB
5 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.82%) Mentoring
2 30 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.00%) Agile
6 20 (18.18%) API Development
7 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
7 18 (16.36%) Web Development
8 17 (15.45%) MVC
8 17 (15.45%) User Experience
9 12 (10.91%) Software Engineering
10 8 (7.27%) AI
10 8 (7.27%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.27%) Front End Development
10 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
11 6 (5.45%) Decision-Making
11 6 (5.45%) OO
12 5 (4.55%) DevOps
12 5 (4.55%) E-Commerce
12 5 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 49 (44.55%) Python
3 35 (31.82%) SQL
4 33 (30.00%) PHP
5 21 (19.09%) R
6 15 (13.64%) C#
7 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.55%) Bash
9 3 (2.73%) Java
10 2 (1.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (32.73%) AWS Certification
1 36 (32.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 36 (32.73%) Azure Certification
1 36 (32.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (18.18%) Degree
3 17 (15.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.45%) QA
3 3 (2.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.73%) Guidewire
2 3 (2.73%) Zoho
3 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.82%) SAP
4 1 (0.91%) Adobe
4 1 (0.91%) Facebook