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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 63 83
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 20 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.86% 1.86% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.58% 10.58% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 21
10th Percentile £463 £213 £350
25th Percentile £488 £300 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £363 £534
Median % change year-on-year +41.38% -32.12% +1.71%
75th Percentile £600 £463 £598
90th Percentile - £520 £675
England median daily rate £480 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +1.11% -0.84% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +185.71% +11.36%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.49% +0.83% -11.11%

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 228 189 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.12% 17.55% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 112 140
10th Percentile £400 £306 £300
25th Percentile £452 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £554
90th Percentile £750 £675 £639
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 6 14
10th Percentile £40.95 £63.13 £28.02
25th Percentile £46.63 £65.00 £44.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +21.56% -15.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.13 £66.60
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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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

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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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -2 12 £550 +18.92% 8
Cambridgeshire -5 2 £375 +25.00% 18
Hertfordshire -21 1 £475 +11.76% 15
CSS
England

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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 7 (46.67%) CMS
1 7 (46.67%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Author
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) HTML
2 8 (53.33%) React
2 8 (53.33%) REST
3 7 (46.67%) .NET
3 7 (46.67%) AngularJS
3 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET
3 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 7 (46.67%) jQuery
3 7 (46.67%) Node.js
4 3 (20.00%) JSON
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (13.33%) Express.js
5 2 (13.33%) FreeMarker
5 2 (13.33%) NestJS
5 2 (13.33%) OAuth
5 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) Redux
6 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Microservices
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Personalization
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) People Management
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) VB
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Sitecore
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe
2 3 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) mParticle
3 2 (13.33%) Cognos
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) OneTrust
4 1 (6.67%) SAP