CSS Contract Job Trends in England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -99 +12 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 455 605 716
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 2.45% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.84% 10.77% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 370 512
10th Percentile £300 £335 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -2.86% -4.39%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 26
10th Percentile £24.80 £26.05 £26.56
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% -1.70% -12.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £65.50 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.73% +7.26% -22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,793 5,618 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.47% 22.76% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,773 5,433
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 85 206
10th Percentile £35.18 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CSS job vacancy trend in England

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in England

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in England

CSS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
London -51 271 £515 +2.49% 166
South East -75 49 £218 -52.97% 125
North of England -94 46 £450 -2.17% 126
Midlands -77 36 £545 +17.84% 83
North West -52 28 £402 -3.71% 59
West Midlands -71 22 £469 -16.52% 39
South West -36 21 £390 +3.93% 67
East of England -23 14 £531 +18.06% 73
East Midlands -28 14 £561 +57.65% 44
Yorkshire -71 14 £488 -8.15% 45
North East -22 5 £475 +25.00% 24
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 31 (6.81%) CMS
2 26 (5.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.08%) Sitecore CMS
4 12 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.42%) Confluence
6 6 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.10%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.66%) IIS
9 3 (0.66%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.44%) Camunda
10 2 (0.44%) Drupal
10 2 (0.44%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.22%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.52%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.86%) Sketch
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.88%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.88%) Trello
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.66%) InVision
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Shopify
2 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 127 (27.91%) Azure
2 123 (27.03%) AWS
3 60 (13.19%) GitHub
4 37 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (7.69%) Figma
6 32 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (6.81%) Serverless
8 30 (6.59%) GCP
9 22 (4.84%) Amazon S3
10 18 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.52%) Power Platform
12 15 (3.30%) SaaS
13 14 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.42%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.42%) Sauce Labs
15 10 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.76%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.76%) Wireless
2 5 (1.10%) HTTP
3 4 (0.88%) SMS
4 3 (0.66%) Firewall
4 3 (0.66%) Network Security
5 2 (0.44%) BGP
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) LAN
5 2 (0.44%) OSPF
5 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.44%) RTMP
5 2 (0.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.44%) WAN
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.22%) FTP
6 1 (0.22%) Intranet
6 1 (0.22%) Skype
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 41 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (8.79%) Relational Database
4 39 (8.57%) MySQL
5 35 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.20%) Redis
9 8 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.76%) Power BI
10 7 (1.54%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.32%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.88%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.88%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.66%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
14 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.44%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 102 (22.42%) Git
2 36 (7.91%) JIRA
3 32 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.05%) GitLab
5 22 (4.84%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.40%) JUnit
7 15 (3.30%) Browser DevTools
7 15 (3.30%) Maven
8 14 (3.08%) Mockito
8 14 (3.08%) webpack
9 12 (2.64%) Xcode
10 11 (2.42%) Android Studio
10 11 (2.42%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.42%) Eclipse
10 11 (2.42%) Postman
11 9 (1.98%) Jasmine
11 9 (1.98%) Mocha
11 9 (1.98%) Vite
12 8 (1.76%) Selenium
13 7 (1.54%) Storybook
General
1 135 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 68 (14.95%) Finance
3 67 (14.73%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.57%) Banking
6 27 (5.93%) Marketing
7 13 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.64%) Front Office
9 8 (1.76%) Military
10 7 (1.54%) Retail
11 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.32%) Publishing
12 5 (1.10%) Legal
12 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Advertising
14 3 (0.66%) Electronics
14 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 277 (60.88%) Developer
2 71 (15.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (14.95%) Senior
4 48 (10.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 44 (9.67%) Senior Developer
6 32 (7.03%) React Developer
7 24 (5.27%) Designer
7 24 (5.27%) Software Engineer
8 23 (5.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 21 (4.62%) Java Developer
10 19 (4.18%) Lead
11 17 (3.74%) Architect
12 16 (3.52%) Technical Engineer
13 15 (3.30%) C# Developer
13 15 (3.30%) Support Engineer
13 15 (3.30%) Technical Support
13 15 (3.30%) Technical Support Engineer
13 15 (3.30%) UX Engineer
14 13 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (84.62%) HTML
2 222 (48.79%) React
3 153 (33.63%) AngularJS
4 90 (19.78%) REST
5 87 (19.12%) HTML5
5 87 (19.12%) RESTful
6 73 (16.04%) Node.js
7 67 (14.73%) .NET
7 67 (14.73%) CSS3
8 56 (12.31%) Spring
9 51 (11.21%) Vue
10 41 (9.01%) Jest
11 39 (8.57%) Spring Boot
12 36 (7.91%) JSON
12 36 (7.91%) Sass
13 34 (7.47%) Redux
14 32 (7.03%) ASP.NET
15 29 (6.37%) .NET Framework
16 25 (5.49%) jQuery
17 23 (5.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.86%) CMDB
5 12 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.54%) Derivative
8 7 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.10%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.49%) Windows
2 22 (4.84%) Linux
3 20 (4.40%) Unix
4 16 (3.52%) Android
5 5 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (43.74%) Agile
2 150 (32.97%) CI/CD
3 138 (30.33%) User Experience
4 113 (24.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 110 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (22.20%) DevOps
7 92 (20.22%) Front End Development
8 79 (17.36%) Microservices
9 56 (12.31%) Containerisation
10 53 (11.65%) UX Design
11 52 (11.43%) Scrum
11 52 (11.43%) Test Automation
12 50 (10.99%) AI
13 49 (10.77%) Software Engineering
14 41 (9.01%) Design Patterns
14 41 (9.01%) MVC
15 40 (8.79%) Analytics
16 38 (8.35%) Code Quality
17 37 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (8.13%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 326 (71.65%) JavaScript
2 135 (29.67%) TypeScript
3 114 (25.05%) SQL
4 113 (24.84%) Java
5 84 (18.46%) Python
6 59 (12.97%) C#
7 14 (3.08%) Ruby
8 12 (2.64%) Perl
8 12 (2.64%) PHP
9 11 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.98%) ABAP
11 7 (1.54%) JSX
11 7 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.32%) C++
13 4 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.88%) Go
14 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.44%) Bash
15 2 (0.44%) C
15 2 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.79%) Degree
4 20 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) CCNP
8 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.66%) PMP
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CCA
10 1 (0.22%) CCNA
10 1 (0.22%) ISEB
10 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (15.16%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.67%) WCAG
3 33 (7.25%) QA
4 14 (3.08%) GDPR
5 5 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.10%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (15.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 53 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.64%) Terraform
3 11 (2.42%) Argo
4 8 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.77%) Adobe
3 33 (7.25%) Oracle
4 29 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 25 (5.49%) Google
6 17 (3.74%) SAP
6 17 (3.74%) Sitecore
7 15 (3.30%) Splunk
8 14 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.10%) mParticle
12 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.66%) Amplitude
13 3 (0.66%) Blue Prism
13 3 (0.66%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.66%) Symantec
14 2 (0.44%) CheckPoint
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco