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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 80 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 -18 +19
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.68% 1.16% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 6.30% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 26
10th Percentile £353 £397 £213
25th Percentile £389 £453 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £578 £497 £430
90th Percentile £591 £513 £469
England median daily rate £475 £427 £500
% change year-on-year +11.31% -14.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - £63.63 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £65.88 -
Median hourly rate £18.25 £67.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.76% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 280 238 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.65% 18.46% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 119 122
10th Percentile £345 £340 £300
25th Percentile £413 £431 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £563
90th Percentile £649 £676 £636
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 53 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £22.81 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +47.67% -25.22%
75th Percentile £73.73 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £79.81 -
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%

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

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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 31 August 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 31 August 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
Essex - 10 £550 - 16
Suffolk -9 4 £425 -15.00% 2
Hertfordshire -30 1 - - 15
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 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) npm
1 2 (13.33%) Yarn
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) 5G
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
1 4 (26.67%) SSH
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) 4G
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) Support Officer
3 4 (26.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Angular Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (13.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
3 4 (26.67%) Flask
3 4 (26.67%) Jinja
3 4 (26.67%) Pandas
4 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (20.00%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) Playwright
4 3 (20.00%) pytest
4 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (20.00%) React
4 3 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) RxJS
6 1 (6.67%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) EMV
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) API Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Application Packaging
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) Process Management
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Grafana
1 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft