CSS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing CSS 10 22 37
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.67% 3.34% 3.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.81% 12.64% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 30
10th Percentile £419 £351 £388
25th Percentile £433 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.11% +5.39%
75th Percentile £529 £488 £506
90th Percentile £538 £529 £545
Scotland median daily rate £463 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +5.71% -7.89% +2.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 128 174 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.40% 26.40% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 103 180
10th Percentile £413 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -1.88% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £536 £569
90th Percentile £625 £670 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £461 £498
% change year-on-year +8.40% -7.29% +4.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

CSS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CSS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CSS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) Figma
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Axure RP
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Storybook
General
1 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) React
3 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (40.00%) REST
5 3 (30.00%) OAuth
6 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (20.00%) Express.js
6 2 (20.00%) Next.js
6 2 (20.00%) Node.js
6 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (20.00%) Spring
6 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
6 2 (20.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
7 1 (10.00%) Jest
7 1 (10.00%) JWT
7 1 (10.00%) Redux
7 1 (10.00%) RESTful
7 1 (10.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Product Management
4 3 (30.00%) Service Design
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe