CSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 113 84
Rank change year-on-year -16 -29 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 340 540 917
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 2.30% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.46% 12.58% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 399 641
10th Percentile £262 £313 £325
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £600 £596 £625
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 23
10th Percentile £30.75 £19.40 £26.50
25th Percentile £44.04 £21.00 £40.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% -6.67% +31.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £61.18
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.00 £66.97
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +6.82% +37.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -1 91 £380 -10.59% 114
North of England -47 69 £425 -5.56% 187
Scotland +28 62 £478 +0.53% 40
North West -32 43 £450 -2.70% 114
South West +15 39 £500 +11.11% 91
Midlands -28 35 £425 - 151
East of England +9 31 £475 +5.56% 62
Yorkshire -9 23 £408 -7.39% 56
West Midlands -2 20 £500 +9.17% 89
East Midlands -14 15 £225 -45.78% 61
Northern Ireland +13 7 - - 12
Wales +12 6 £450 +7.46% 22
North East +3 3 £405 -19.00% 18
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.06%) Confluence
3 13 (3.82%) CMS
4 8 (2.35%) Drupal
5 7 (2.06%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (2.06%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (2.06%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.47%) IIS
7 4 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.88%) Apache
8 3 (0.88%) Kentico
8 3 (0.88%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.59%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.59%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.29%) MetaMask
Applications
1 12 (3.53%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (1.76%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.18%) InVision
6 2 (0.59%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.88%) Magento
2 3 (0.88%) Maximo
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.35%) AWS
2 44 (12.94%) Azure
3 21 (6.18%) Serverless
4 19 (5.59%) Power Automate
5 18 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.71%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.53%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.35%) Figma
13 7 (2.06%) GitHub
14 6 (1.76%) GCP
14 6 (1.76%) npm
15 5 (1.47%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.47%) SaaS
16 4 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.71%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (4.41%) SNMP
3 14 (4.12%) Firewall
3 14 (4.12%) VPN
4 8 (2.35%) HTTP
5 5 (1.47%) DNS
5 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.88%) Skype
7 2 (0.59%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) Intranet
8 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.47%) MySQL
2 22 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.41%) Oracle Database
4 14 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (2.94%) Metadata
7 9 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.06%) MariaDB
8 7 (2.06%) PowerPivot
8 7 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Power View
10 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.18%) Power BI
11 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.88%) GIS
11 3 (0.88%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 54 (15.88%) Git
2 31 (9.12%) JIRA
3 19 (5.59%) Bitbucket
4 16 (4.71%) Eclipse
5 15 (4.41%) GoogleTest
5 15 (4.41%) Robot Framework
6 14 (4.12%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.35%) webpack
9 6 (1.76%) Dreamweaver
10 5 (1.47%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.47%) Postman
11 4 (1.18%) Axure RP
11 4 (1.18%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.88%) Selenium
13 2 (0.59%) git-flow
13 2 (0.59%) GitLab
13 2 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.59%) VersionOne
General
1 56 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 28 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.35%) Finance
5 18 (5.29%) Marketing
6 12 (3.53%) Publishing
7 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.47%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.18%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (1.18%) Electronics
11 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.18%) Retail
12 2 (0.59%) Automotive
12 2 (0.59%) Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Billing
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 211 (62.06%) Developer
2 35 (10.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 34 (10.00%) Senior
4 28 (8.24%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.65%) Software Developer
6 23 (6.76%) Java Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Designer
7 22 (6.47%) Full Stack Engineer
8 21 (6.18%) React Developer
9 20 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.41%) .NET Developer
12 14 (4.12%) ServiceNow Developer
13 13 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Angular Developer
15 10 (2.94%) Lead
16 9 (2.65%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (2.65%) JavaScript Developer
17 8 (2.35%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (90.29%) HTML
2 110 (32.35%) React
3 77 (22.65%) AngularJS
3 77 (22.65%) Node.js
4 62 (18.24%) REST
5 49 (14.41%) .NET
6 35 (10.29%) HTML5
7 28 (8.24%) Spring
8 26 (7.65%) CSS3
8 26 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 21 (6.18%) ASP.NET
10 18 (5.29%) Vue
10 18 (5.29%) XML
11 16 (4.71%) RESTful
12 15 (4.41%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.41%) GraphQL
13 13 (3.82%) Jest
13 13 (3.82%) JSON
14 12 (3.53%) ASP.NET MVC
14 12 (3.53%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.53%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.06%) CMDB
5 6 (1.76%) Animation
5 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.88%) NHS
9 2 (0.59%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.59%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.59%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.29%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.47%) Linux
2 12 (3.53%) Windows
3 5 (1.47%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Android
4 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (40.29%) Agile
2 79 (23.24%) Full Stack Development
3 64 (18.82%) Software Engineering
4 57 (16.76%) CI/CD
5 56 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (15.00%) DevOps
7 42 (12.35%) Scrum
8 39 (11.47%) Front End Development
9 38 (11.18%) User Experience
10 35 (10.29%) Web Development
11 34 (10.00%) MVC
12 33 (9.71%) Microservices
13 32 (9.41%) TDD
14 31 (9.12%) Prototyping
15 30 (8.82%) Test Automation
16 22 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (6.47%) Unit Testing
17 21 (6.18%) ITIL
18 17 (5.00%) E-Commerce
19 16 (4.71%) UML
Programming Languages
1 245 (72.06%) JavaScript
2 97 (28.53%) TypeScript
3 76 (22.35%) Java
4 58 (17.06%) SQL
5 47 (13.82%) C#
6 31 (9.12%) Python
7 25 (7.35%) PHP
8 18 (5.29%) C++
9 15 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.53%) Bash
11 11 (3.24%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.18%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.88%) C
13 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.88%) Perl
13 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.88%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.29%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
14 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.24%) Degree
3 24 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.59%) MCSD
8 2 (0.59%) MCSE
8 2 (0.59%) PMP
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) CEH
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.12%) QA
3 8 (2.35%) GDPR
4 7 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (5.00%) Firmware
2 16 (4.71%) Docker
3 9 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.59%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (1.76%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.47%) Grafana
2 5 (1.47%) Kibana
3 3 (0.88%) Terraform
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 25 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.06%) ServiceNow
3 21 (6.18%) Google
4 18 (5.29%) Oracle
5 17 (5.00%) Adobe
6 16 (4.71%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.65%) VMware
8 7 (2.06%) SAP
9 6 (1.76%) dotdigital
9 6 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.18%) IBM
11 3 (0.88%) Nintex
11 3 (0.88%) Pega
11 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.59%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.29%) Citrix
13 1 (0.29%) Compaq
13 1 (0.29%) Dell
13 1 (0.29%) Optimizely