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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 99 61
Rank change year-on-year -41 -38 -22
Permanent jobs citing CSS 120 128 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.00% 2.65% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.83% 17.90% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 110 104 300
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,250 £67,625 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 758 715 1,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.34% 14.82% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 607 579 1,642
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,510
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,770
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -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 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the Midlands

CSS
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 April 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 -14 72 £32,000 -36.00% 28
East Midlands -56 48 £51,250 +36.67% 36
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 23 (19.17%) WordPress
2 10 (8.33%) CMS
3 5 (4.17%) nginx
4 3 (2.50%) IIS
5 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.67%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.83%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Shopify
2 2 (1.67%) Line 50
2 2 (1.67%) Magento
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.67%) AWS
2 48 (40.00%) Azure
3 39 (32.50%) GitHub
4 14 (11.67%) Figma
5 12 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (10.00%) Serverless
6 10 (8.33%) SaaS
7 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.67%) Firebase
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.83%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.83%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.83%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 32 (26.67%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) Intranet
3 2 (1.67%) HTTP
3 2 (1.67%) Network Security
3 2 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.50%) MySQL
2 12 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.33%) Power BI
4 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.67%) FileMaker
5 2 (1.67%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (38.33%) Git
2 5 (4.17%) Vite
3 3 (2.50%) Storybook
4 2 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 32 (26.67%) Multimedia
2 23 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Finance
5 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.00%) Marketing
6 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.50%) Law
7 3 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.67%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 69 (57.50%) Developer
2 32 (26.67%) Trainee
3 21 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 14 (11.67%) PHP Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Trainee Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Trainee Software Developer
7 12 (10.00%) Designer
7 12 (10.00%) HTML CSS Designer
7 12 (10.00%) Senior
7 12 (10.00%) Web Designer
8 11 (9.17%) Senior Developer
8 11 (9.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.50%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.67%) Administrator
10 8 (6.67%) Trainee Administrator
10 8 (6.67%) Web Administrator
11 7 (5.83%) .NET Developer
11 7 (5.83%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 7 (5.83%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (95.83%) HTML
2 25 (20.83%) React
3 23 (19.17%) Node.js
4 22 (18.33%) Laravel
5 12 (10.00%) jQuery
6 11 (9.17%) Vue
7 10 (8.33%) .NET
7 10 (8.33%) RESTful
8 9 (7.50%) HTML5
9 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.83%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.00%) .NET Framework
12 5 (4.17%) CSS3
12 5 (4.17%) Entity Framework
12 5 (4.17%) LEMP Stack
12 5 (4.17%) YAML
13 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (3.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.67%) Social Media
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.83%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 30 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (18.33%) Agile
6 20 (16.67%) API Development
7 19 (15.83%) Computer Science
8 17 (14.17%) MVC
9 15 (12.50%) User Experience
9 15 (12.50%) Web Development
10 13 (10.83%) OO
11 10 (8.33%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.33%) Clean Code
12 9 (7.50%) E-Commerce
12 9 (7.50%) OO PHP
12 9 (7.50%) Software Engineering
13 8 (6.67%) Roadmaps
14 7 (5.83%) Front End Development
15 6 (5.00%) AI
15 6 (5.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 92 (76.67%) JavaScript
2 51 (42.50%) Python
3 49 (40.83%) PHP
4 47 (39.17%) SQL
5 19 (15.83%) R
6 15 (12.50%) C#
7 10 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.83%) Java
9 5 (4.17%) Bash
9 5 (4.17%) C++
10 2 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (26.67%) AWS Certification
1 32 (26.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 32 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 32 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (17.50%) Degree
3 19 (15.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (1.67%) GDPR
2 2 (1.67%) ISO 14001
2 2 (1.67%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) Adobe
3 3 (2.50%) Guidewire
3 3 (2.50%) Zoho
4 2 (1.67%) Apple
4 2 (1.67%) Sage
5 1 (0.83%) Facebook
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.83%) SAP