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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 60 57
Rank change year-on-year -72 -3 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 93 266 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.19% 3.99% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.95% 24.56% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 87 126 169
10th Percentile £26,250 - £34,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £53,875 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,519 £63,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +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 622 1,083 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.97% 16.25% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 515 601 859
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,916 £75,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 1 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 1 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 -51 51 £30,500 -44.55% 47
East Midlands -59 43 £45,000 +13.92% 40
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 (13.98%) CMS
2 6 (6.45%) WordPress
3 5 (5.38%) Umbraco
4 4 (4.30%) IIS
5 3 (3.23%) Apache
6 2 (2.15%) nginx
6 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.08%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.15%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.15%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.15%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (1.08%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.15%) Shopify
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) AWS
2 39 (41.94%) Azure
3 30 (32.26%) GitHub
4 9 (9.68%) SaaS
5 6 (6.45%) Figma
6 5 (5.38%) Serverless
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.23%) ChatGPT
8 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.23%) Firebase
8 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.15%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.15%) Sage Pay
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.96%) Internet
2 5 (5.38%) Intranet
3 2 (2.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) MySQL
2 15 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.23%) Power BI
6 2 (2.15%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (41.94%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 3 (3.23%) Vite
3 3 (3.23%) webpack
4 2 (2.15%) Babel
4 2 (2.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.08%) JUnit
5 1 (1.08%) Mockito
General
1 26 (27.96%) Multimedia
2 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Law
5 6 (6.45%) Finance
5 6 (6.45%) Marketing
6 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Games
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) iGaming
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (65.59%) Developer
2 26 (27.96%) Trainee
3 15 (16.13%) Software Developer
4 14 (15.05%) Senior
5 13 (13.98%) PHP Developer
6 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (12.90%) Trainee Developer
6 12 (12.90%) Trainee Software Developer
7 10 (10.75%) Web Developer
8 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.60%) .NET Developer
9 8 (8.60%) C# Developer
9 8 (8.60%) PHP Symfony Developer
9 8 (8.60%) Symfony Developer
10 7 (7.53%) ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (7.53%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (7.53%) Junior
10 7 (7.53%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 6 (6.45%) .NET Web Developer
11 6 (6.45%) C# Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (92.47%) HTML
2 22 (23.66%) React
3 19 (20.43%) Laravel
4 17 (18.28%) Node.js
5 16 (17.20%) .NET
6 12 (12.90%) ASP.NET
7 9 (9.68%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (8.60%) CakePHP
8 8 (8.60%) CodeIgniter
8 8 (8.60%) Symfony
9 7 (7.53%) HTML5
9 7 (7.53%) jQuery
9 7 (7.53%) RESTful
9 7 (7.53%) Vue
10 6 (6.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.45%) Next.js
10 6 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
11 5 (5.38%) CSS3
11 5 (5.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.23%) Legacy Code
2 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.23%) W3C
3 2 (2.15%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.08%) CMDB
4 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.08%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 27 (29.03%) MVC
3 26 (27.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (24.73%) Agile
6 19 (20.43%) Web Development
7 16 (17.20%) Computer Science
8 13 (13.98%) OO
9 12 (12.90%) Front End Development
10 11 (11.83%) API Development
10 11 (11.83%) User Experience
11 9 (9.68%) Content Management
11 9 (9.68%) OO PHP
12 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
12 8 (8.60%) Software Engineering
13 7 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (6.45%) AI
14 6 (6.45%) Clean Code
14 6 (6.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (89.25%) JavaScript
2 33 (35.48%) Python
3 25 (26.88%) SQL
4 23 (24.73%) PHP
5 18 (19.35%) C#
6 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
7 14 (15.05%) R
8 7 (7.53%) Java
9 2 (2.15%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) C
9 2 (2.15%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) Perl
10 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (29.03%) Azure Certification
2 26 (27.96%) AWS Certification
2 26 (27.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 26 (27.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (20.43%) Degree
4 13 (13.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.15%) HND
5 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (3.23%) WCAG
4 2 (2.15%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.23%) Guidewire
2 3 (3.23%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.23%) SAP
2 3 (3.23%) Zoho
3 2 (2.15%) Adobe
3 2 (2.15%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.15%) Google
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle
3 2 (2.15%) Siemens
3 2 (2.15%) Toshiba
4 1 (1.08%) Ahrefs
4 1 (1.08%) HubSpot