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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 66 81
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing CSS 17 13 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.80% 1.38% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 8.39% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 25
10th Percentile £468 £429 -
25th Percentile £500 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £551
90th Percentile - £540 £599
England median daily rate £476 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 £30.00 £54.94 £53.09
% change year-on-year -45.39% +3.48% -9.63%

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 210 155 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.91% 16.51% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 108 148
10th Percentile £413 £324 £312
25th Percentile £466 £415 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £489 £496
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% -1.51% -5.48%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 39
10th Percentile £28.37 £65.00 £37.05
25th Percentile £53.13 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -26.81%
75th Percentile £74.23 £81.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.10 £68.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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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

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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 19 April 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 19 April 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 - 8
Essex - 4 £575 - 21
Cambridgeshire +3 1 £375 -25.00% 13
Hertfordshire -27 1 £475 - 12
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 8 (47.06%) CMS
1 8 (47.06%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Author
4 1 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Officer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) HTML
2 11 (64.71%) React
3 9 (52.94%) REST
4 8 (47.06%) .NET
4 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
4 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
4 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (47.06%) jQuery
4 8 (47.06%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
6 2 (11.76%) Express.js
6 2 (11.76%) FreeMarker
6 2 (11.76%) NestJS
6 2 (11.76%) OAuth
6 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (52.94%) Scrum
4 8 (47.06%) Front End Development
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (35.29%) Personalization
6 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (17.65%) Consent Management
7 3 (17.65%) User Experience
8 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
8 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Sitecore
2 3 (17.65%) Adobe
2 3 (17.65%) Braze
2 3 (17.65%) ForgeRock
2 3 (17.65%) mParticle
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) OneTrust
4 1 (5.88%) SAP