CSS Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing CSS 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.16% 3.87% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.35% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £288 -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - £356 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £375 £300 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% -55.56% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 46 48 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.59% 30.97% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 26
10th Percentile £363 £300 £380
25th Percentile £400 £340 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -18.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £475 £550
90th Percentile £642 £546 £675
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £486 £430 £550
% change year-on-year +12.91% -21.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £42.48 - £28.49
25th Percentile £44.33 - £47.94
Median hourly rate £48.60 - £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.90%
75th Percentile £52.83 - £73.81
90th Percentile £54.64 - £86.53
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 - £64.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

CSS job vacancy trend in Cambridge

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing CSS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing CSS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Author
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft