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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 67 57
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 -18
Permanent jobs citing CSS 105 310 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.86% 3.51% 4.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.59% 23.07% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 88 128 179
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,925 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £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 £68,813 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £59,684
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.85% +3.80%

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 633 1,344 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.24% 15.21% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 474 745 863
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
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 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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 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 9 November 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 -32 58 £46,250 +5.71% 68
West Midlands -43 48 £34,000 -35.24% 101
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 10 (9.52%) CMS
2 7 (6.67%) WordPress
3 6 (5.71%) IIS
4 3 (2.86%) Apache
4 3 (2.86%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.90%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Sprinklr
2 3 (2.86%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.52%) Azure
2 24 (22.86%) AWS
3 15 (14.29%) GitHub
4 10 (9.52%) SaaS
5 6 (5.71%) Figma
6 3 (2.86%) ChatGPT
6 3 (2.86%) Firebase
6 3 (2.86%) Sage Pay
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.90%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) Internet
2 3 (2.86%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.86%) Intranet
2 3 (2.86%) Modbus
2 3 (2.86%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.90%) SQL Server
2 17 (16.19%) MySQL
3 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (23.81%) Git
2 10 (9.52%) JIRA
3 7 (6.67%) GitLab
4 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.76%) Maven
4 5 (4.76%) Selenium
4 5 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.81%) webpack
6 3 (2.86%) Babel
7 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Mockito
7 1 (0.95%) Subversion
7 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Finance
3 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.14%) Retail
5 13 (12.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (12.38%) Multimedia
6 10 (9.52%) Law
7 5 (4.76%) Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.81%) Marketing
9 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.90%) iGaming
10 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (54.29%) Developer
2 17 (16.19%) Senior
3 13 (12.38%) Consultant
3 13 (12.38%) Implementation Consultant
3 13 (12.38%) PHP Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Trainee
4 11 (10.48%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (8.57%) Junior
6 9 (8.57%) Lead
6 9 (8.57%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Symfony Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Software Developer
8 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 7 (6.67%) React Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Web Developer
9 6 (5.71%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (89.52%) HTML
2 32 (30.48%) React
3 23 (21.90%) .NET
4 16 (15.24%) HTML5
5 15 (14.29%) RESTful
6 14 (13.33%) Laravel
7 12 (11.43%) ASP.NET
7 12 (11.43%) Node.js
8 11 (10.48%) CSS3
9 9 (8.57%) jQuery
9 9 (8.57%) REST
9 9 (8.57%) Spring
9 9 (8.57%) Symfony
10 8 (7.62%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (7.62%) Redux
10 8 (7.62%) Spring Boot
11 7 (6.67%) CakePHP
11 7 (6.67%) CodeIgniter
11 7 (6.67%) Jest
11 7 (6.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.81%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.86%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.86%) Industry 4.0
4 3 (2.86%) IoT
4 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.86%) SCADA
4 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.86%) W3C
5 2 (1.90%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.95%) CMDB
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Windows
1 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.14%) Agile
2 29 (27.62%) Mentoring
3 27 (25.71%) Front End Development
4 24 (22.86%) MVC
5 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (18.10%) Project Management
7 19 (18.10%) User Experience
8 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
8 18 (17.14%) Web Development
9 16 (15.24%) DevOps
10 15 (14.29%) OO
11 14 (13.33%) Analytics
11 14 (13.33%) Computer Science
11 14 (13.33%) CRM
11 14 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (12.38%) Responsive Web Design
12 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
13 12 (11.43%) Customer Service
13 12 (11.43%) Digital Innovation
Programming Languages
1 94 (89.52%) JavaScript
2 36 (34.29%) SQL
3 26 (24.76%) C#
4 21 (20.00%) PHP
5 19 (18.10%) Python
5 19 (18.10%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.38%) Java
7 8 (7.62%) R
8 5 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.90%) C
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Perl
10 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Degree
2 15 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 13 (12.38%) AWS Certification
3 13 (12.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.76%) HND
6 3 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (2.86%) HNC
7 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.71%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) Adobe
3 9 (8.57%) Guidewire
4 5 (4.76%) Siemens
4 5 (4.76%) Solace
5 3 (2.86%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.86%) Oracle
5 3 (2.86%) Rockwell
5 3 (2.86%) SAP
5 3 (2.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.90%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) Toshiba
6 2 (1.90%) Zoho
7 1 (0.95%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.95%) HubSpot