CSS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 79 86
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 30 26
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.47% 1.81% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.50% 9.15% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 13
10th Percentile £204 £321 £280
25th Percentile £284 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.95% +36.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £488
90th Percentile £538 £662 £640
South East median daily rate £363 £375 £425
% change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

CSS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 277 328 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.59% 19.79% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 212 154
10th Percentile £317 £364 £309
25th Percentile £405 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +10.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £652 £695
South East median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £50.87 £24.38
25th Percentile - - £35.70
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +12.90% -20.50%
75th Percentile - - £55.31
90th Percentile - £64.25 £55.76
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -5.14%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CSS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in Berkshire

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +27 12 £521 -9.39% 22
Bracknell - 3 £208 -
Windsor -10 1 - -
CSS
South East

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Figma
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) npm
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (16.67%) Firebug
2 3 (16.67%) Vite
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) Gradle
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
3 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) React Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Support
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Web Developer
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Java Web Developer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (5.56%) HTML Developer
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.56%) JSP Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) React
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) Framer.js
3 3 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) Jest
4 2 (11.11%) Material-UI
4 2 (11.11%) Next.js
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) Playwright
4 2 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) Ajax
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) Blazor
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
1 1 (5.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) OO
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Web Development
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) UX Design
6 2 (11.11%) API Testing
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle