CSS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 69 79
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing CSS 19 13 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.86% 1.34% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.26% 8.44% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 28
10th Percentile £500 £439 £363
25th Percentile £506 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £442
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +1.87% -1.83%
75th Percentile £600 £497 £551
90th Percentile - £533 £582
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.12 £67.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £18.25 £70.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.93% +185.71% +11.36%
75th Percentile £19.38 £72.50 £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.75 £42.82 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.17% -31.50% +2.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 230 154 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.37% 15.89% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 106 149
10th Percentile £410 £325 £325
25th Percentile £461 £415 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -1.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £582
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 56
10th Percentile £17.12 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.34 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +75.20% -18.10%
75th Percentile £73.84 £81.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.03 £65.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the East of England

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSS

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Bedfordshire - 11 £575 - 4
Essex - 8 £575 - 18
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (42.11%) CMS
1 8 (42.11%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Technical Architect
3 5 (26.32%) IT Support
3 5 (26.32%) Support Officer
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.53%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) HTML
2 11 (57.89%) React
3 8 (42.11%) .NET
3 8 (42.11%) AngularJS
3 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
3 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 8 (42.11%) jQuery
3 8 (42.11%) Node.js
3 8 (42.11%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) JSON
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 2 (10.53%) Express.js
5 2 (10.53%) FreeMarker
5 2 (10.53%) NestJS
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 11 (57.89%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Front End Development
3 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
4 6 (31.58%) Personalization
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (31.58%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) Consent Management
7 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
7 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
7 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Sitecore
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Adobe
3 3 (15.79%) Braze
3 3 (15.79%) ForgeRock
3 3 (15.79%) mParticle
4 2 (10.53%) OneTrust