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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 57 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 30 40
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.06% 2.25% 2.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 14.35% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 26
10th Percentile £465 £213 £363
25th Percentile £469 £273 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -32.95% -5.16%
75th Percentile £513 £430 £600
90th Percentile £520 £440 £675
England median daily rate £425 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -14.14% -1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - £72.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -28.57% +19.15% -9.62%

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 265 209 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.66% 15.66% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 103 131
10th Percentile £357 £292 £313
25th Percentile £413 £314 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £600
90th Percentile £710 £600 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 10
10th Percentile £40.75 £38.00 £15.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £57.63 £44.47
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £63.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.60
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%

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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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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 29 October 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 +4 11 £488 +21.88% 19
Bedfordshire -9 2 - - 9
Cambridgeshire -24 1 - - 26
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 7
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) npm
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
1 10 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 9 (60.00%) Artifactory
2 9 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) HTML
2 11 (73.33%) .NET
2 11 (73.33%) .NET Framework
2 11 (73.33%) AngularJS
3 10 (66.67%) React
3 10 (66.67%) Vue
4 9 (60.00%) Node.js
4 9 (60.00%) Svelte
5 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.67%) CSS3
6 1 (6.67%) Express.js
6 1 (6.67%) HTML5
6 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (6.67%) NgRx
6 1 (6.67%) Redux
6 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (6.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (60.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (73.33%) Microservices
2 11 (73.33%) SDLC
3 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 10 (66.67%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (60.00%) Design Patterns
4 9 (60.00%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) OOP
4 9 (60.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) People Management
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (6.67%) Generative AI
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 1 (6.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (73.33%) C#
3 9 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (46.67%) C++
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) VB
6 1 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cognos
1 2 (13.33%) IBM
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft