CSS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 39 29 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing CSS 2 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% 3.21% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 14.49% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile £363 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £675
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -55.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £388 £370 £705
90th Percentile - £459 £713
East of England median daily rate £475 £300 £538
% change year-on-year +58.33% -44.19% +2.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 57 69 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.01% 22.12% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 42
10th Percentile £363 £333 £356
25th Percentile £400 £344 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.91% -21.82% -
75th Percentile £580 £514 £613
90th Percentile £649 £538 £698
East of England median daily rate £500 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £30.40 - £28.49
25th Percentile £31.25 - £47.94
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £73.81
90th Percentile £51.01 - £86.53
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +20.37% -17.56%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

CSS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -12 2 £375 +25.00% 9
CSS
East of England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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