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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing CSS 16 37 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.23% 2.43% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.77% 14.02% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 22
10th Percentile £391 £213 £364
25th Percentile £463 £295 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £518
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -27.54% -1.43%
75th Percentile £500 £430 £575
90th Percentile £515 £474 £600
England median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £63.63 - £26.10
25th Percentile £65.88 - £33.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £48.00
75th Percentile - - £62.75
90th Percentile - - £70.70
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -4.00%

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 206 264 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.82% 17.36% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 104 142
10th Percentile £353 £298 £363
25th Percentile £434 £338 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £528 £613
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 57 7
10th Percentile £40.75 - £18.80
25th Percentile £43.00 - £38.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -28.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £67.00 - £74.65
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for CSS 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +10 13 £475 +26.67% 11
Bedfordshire -11 2 - - 12
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 8
CSS
England

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) npm
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Visual Studio
2 9 (56.25%) Artifactory
2 9 (56.25%) GitLab
2 9 (56.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Development Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) HTML
2 12 (75.00%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) AngularJS
3 11 (68.75%) .NET Framework
4 10 (62.50%) Node.js
4 10 (62.50%) React
4 10 (62.50%) Vue
5 9 (56.25%) Svelte
6 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
6 2 (12.50%) jQuery
7 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.25%) Blazor
7 1 (6.25%) CSS3
7 1 (6.25%) Express.js
7 1 (6.25%) HTML5
7 1 (6.25%) NgRx
7 1 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
1 9 (56.25%) Data Structures
1 9 (56.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 10 (62.50%) Microservices
3 10 (62.50%) SDLC
3 10 (62.50%) TDD
4 9 (56.25%) Computer Science
4 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
4 9 (56.25%) OOP
4 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (12.50%) People Management
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) User Experience
7 1 (6.25%) Data Science
7 1 (6.25%) Minimum Viable Product
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) C#
3 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
4 7 (43.75%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) VB
6 1 (6.25%) PHP
6 1 (6.25%) Python
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Cognos
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce