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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 -32
Permanent jobs citing CSS 154 318 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.78% 3.58% 3.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.92% 23.28% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 78 127 179
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,900 £34,750
25th Percentile £30,688 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £68,125 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £69,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.76% +0.43%

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 672 1,366 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.13% 15.36% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 459 755 863
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,694
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £78,750
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

CSS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 October 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 26 October 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 -24 90 £47,500 +5.56% 55
West Midlands -28 65 £34,500 -34.29% 79
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 47 (30.52%) Confluence
2 10 (6.49%) CMS
3 5 (3.25%) IIS
3 5 (3.25%) WordPress
4 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.95%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.30%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Sprinklr
2 3 (1.95%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (55.19%) Azure
2 77 (50.00%) AWS
3 47 (30.52%) GCP
4 10 (6.49%) GitHub
5 7 (4.55%) SaaS
6 5 (3.25%) Figma
7 3 (1.95%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.95%) Firebase
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.30%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.30%) Sage Pay
8 2 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.19%) Internet
2 3 (1.95%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.95%) Intranet
2 3 (1.95%) Modbus
2 3 (1.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (51.95%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.39%) MySQL
3 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.30%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.30%) Power BI
5 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (44.16%) JIRA
2 65 (42.21%) GitLab
3 63 (40.91%) Bitbucket
3 63 (40.91%) Cucumber
3 63 (40.91%) Maven
3 63 (40.91%) Selenium
3 63 (40.91%) SonarQube
3 63 (40.91%) Sonatype Nexus
4 21 (13.64%) Git
5 4 (2.60%) webpack
6 3 (1.95%) Babel
7 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Mockito
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 76 (49.35%) Finance
2 68 (44.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (40.91%) Banking
4 30 (19.48%) Retail
5 22 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (10.39%) Corporate Banking
7 16 (10.39%) Investment Banking
8 10 (6.49%) Law
9 8 (5.19%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.95%) Marketing
10 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.30%) iGaming
11 2 (1.30%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (44.16%) Software Engineer
2 54 (35.06%) Developer
3 17 (11.04%) Senior
4 13 (8.44%) Consultant
4 13 (8.44%) Implementation Consultant
4 13 (8.44%) PHP Developer
5 11 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 9 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (5.84%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 9 (5.84%) Symfony Developer
7 8 (5.19%) Junior
7 8 (5.19%) Trainee
8 7 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 7 (4.55%) React Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Web Developer
9 6 (3.90%) C# Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (92.86%) HTML
2 88 (57.14%) React
3 67 (43.51%) Spring
4 66 (42.86%) Redux
4 66 (42.86%) Spring Boot
5 64 (41.56%) JPA
6 63 (40.91%) Kafka
7 49 (31.82%) Hibernate
8 27 (17.53%) HTML5
9 26 (16.88%) RESTful
10 23 (14.94%) .NET
11 22 (14.29%) CSS3
12 21 (13.64%) REST
13 18 (11.69%) Jest
13 18 (11.69%) Sass
14 13 (8.44%) Laravel
15 11 (7.14%) ASP.NET
16 10 (6.49%) jQuery
17 9 (5.84%) Node.js
17 9 (5.84%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (40.91%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (40.91%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.60%) Legacy Code
3 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.95%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.95%) Industry 4.0
4 3 (1.95%) IoT
4 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.95%) SCADA
4 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.95%) W3C
5 2 (1.30%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.95%) Windows
1 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (61.04%) Agile
2 83 (53.90%) Front End Development
3 77 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 73 (47.40%) CI/CD
5 71 (46.10%) DevOps
5 71 (46.10%) Software Engineering
6 68 (44.16%) Test Automation
7 66 (42.86%) Containerisation
7 66 (42.86%) Microservices
8 65 (42.21%) SDLC
9 64 (41.56%) Performance Optimisation
10 58 (37.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (37.01%) Clean Code
12 47 (30.52%) TDD
13 37 (24.03%) Mentoring
14 31 (20.13%) User Experience
15 24 (15.58%) Responsive Web Design
16 23 (14.94%) MVC
17 22 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (12.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (92.21%) JavaScript
2 93 (60.39%) SQL
3 71 (46.10%) Java
4 29 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 26 (16.88%) C#
6 21 (13.64%) PHP
7 14 (9.09%) Python
8 5 (3.25%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.60%) R
10 2 (1.30%) C
10 2 (1.30%) C++
10 2 (1.30%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (12.34%) Degree
2 11 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.25%) HND
6 3 (1.95%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (1.95%) HNC
7 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (41.56%) QA
2 27 (17.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.30%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (42.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (43.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.95%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 63 (40.91%) Solace
2 14 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.44%) Adobe
4 6 (3.90%) Guidewire
5 5 (3.25%) Siemens
6 3 (1.95%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.95%) Oracle
6 3 (1.95%) Rockwell
6 3 (1.95%) SAP
6 3 (1.95%) VMware
7 2 (1.30%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (1.30%) Google
7 2 (1.30%) Toshiba
8 1 (0.65%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.65%) HubSpot