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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 128 108
Rank change year-on-year -119 -20 -15
Contract jobs citing CSS 426 531 753
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 2.22% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.30% 9.91% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 356 544
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £385 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £586 £598
90th Percentile £658 £703 £713
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £498
% change year-on-year -2.11% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 22
10th Percentile - £29.11 £29.42
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £33.75 £42.82 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% -31.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.82 £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.89% -37.75% +19.05%

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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -69 251 £500 -0.50% 121
North of England -88 48 £450 +12.50% 88
South East -66 44 £438 -8.85% 80
Midlands -69 33 £475 +18.45% 58
North West -45 30 £394 -1.56% 48
West Midlands -62 24 £475 +11.76% 21
South West -49 22 £409 +9.07% 36
East of England -22 19 £575 +27.78% 49
Yorkshire -50 16 £575 +43.75% 25
East Midlands -34 9 £495 +44.74% 37
North East -34 2 £475 +25.00% 15
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 32 (7.51%) CMS
2 19 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (3.05%) Confluence
5 8 (1.88%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.17%) Kentico
7 5 (1.17%) WordPress
8 4 (0.94%) IIS
8 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.70%) Camunda
9 3 (0.70%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.70%) nginx
9 3 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.47%) Apache
10 2 (0.47%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.35%) Sketch
3 5 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.47%) Trello
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 90 (21.13%) AWS
2 89 (20.89%) Azure
3 37 (8.69%) Figma
4 30 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.81%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.34%) Serverless
7 24 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (5.40%) GitHub
9 18 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.23%) PowerApps
10 16 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.29%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.82%) GCP
13 12 (2.82%) SaaS
14 8 (1.88%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.88%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.64%) OneDrive
16 6 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) Firewall
1 5 (1.17%) Network Security
2 4 (0.94%) BGP
2 4 (0.94%) HTTP
2 4 (0.94%) Intranet
2 4 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.94%) SMS
2 4 (0.94%) SSL
3 3 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) LAN
4 2 (0.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.47%) RTMP
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 36 (8.45%) MySQL
4 31 (7.28%) NoSQL
5 29 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.58%) Power BI
8 9 (2.11%) Big Data
9 8 (1.88%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.64%) Tableau
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.17%) Presto
13 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.94%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (15.02%) Git
2 31 (7.28%) JIRA
3 26 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.23%) GitLab
5 12 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
5 12 (2.82%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.82%) JUnit
6 11 (2.58%) Maven
7 10 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.35%) Vite
8 9 (2.11%) Mockito
9 7 (1.64%) MSTest
9 7 (1.64%) webpack
10 6 (1.41%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.41%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.41%) Gradle
10 6 (1.41%) Postman
10 6 (1.41%) Storybook
10 6 (1.41%) Xcode
11 5 (1.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.32%) Finance
3 51 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 46 (10.80%) Banking
6 28 (6.57%) Marketing
7 15 (3.52%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.82%) Retail
9 11 (2.58%) Front Office
9 11 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Legal
11 4 (0.94%) Local Government
11 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Publishing
12 3 (0.70%) Games
12 3 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Automotive
13 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (56.57%) Developer
2 55 (12.91%) Senior
3 53 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (8.22%) Senior Developer
5 34 (7.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 32 (7.51%) React Developer
7 26 (6.10%) Java Developer
8 22 (5.16%) Designer
8 22 (5.16%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.69%) Architect
10 17 (3.99%) Lead
11 15 (3.52%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.05%) Consultant
13 12 (2.82%) Angular Developer
13 12 (2.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 12 (2.82%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.82%) Web Developer
14 11 (2.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 11 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (2.58%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (83.80%) HTML
2 192 (45.07%) React
3 122 (28.64%) AngularJS
4 98 (23.00%) REST
5 79 (18.54%) HTML5
6 74 (17.37%) .NET
7 70 (16.43%) RESTful
8 63 (14.79%) CSS3
9 48 (11.27%) Redux
10 47 (11.03%) Node.js
11 42 (9.86%) Spring
12 36 (8.45%) Spring Boot
13 31 (7.28%) ASP.NET
13 31 (7.28%) JSON
14 30 (7.04%) Vue
15 29 (6.81%) jQuery
16 28 (6.57%) OAuth
17 27 (6.34%) .NET Framework
17 27 (6.34%) Jest
18 26 (6.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.76%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.11%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.41%) CMDB
10 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.17%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.94%) Derivative
11 4 (0.94%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.69%) Linux
2 19 (4.46%) Windows
3 15 (3.52%) Unix
4 9 (2.11%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (44.84%) Agile
2 121 (28.40%) User Experience
3 117 (27.46%) CI/CD
4 101 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (21.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 85 (19.95%) DevOps
7 81 (19.01%) Front End Development
8 61 (14.32%) Microservices
9 55 (12.91%) Scrum
10 54 (12.68%) Test Automation
11 53 (12.44%) UX Design
12 47 (11.03%) Software Engineering
13 46 (10.80%) Analytics
13 46 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (10.56%) AI
14 45 (10.56%) Code Quality
15 40 (9.39%) MVC
16 37 (8.69%) Responsive Web Design
17 36 (8.45%) Containerisation
18 32 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 300 (70.42%) JavaScript
2 126 (29.58%) SQL
3 101 (23.71%) TypeScript
4 87 (20.42%) Java
5 83 (19.48%) Python
6 63 (14.79%) C#
7 15 (3.52%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.82%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.88%) PHP
10 8 (1.88%) Ruby
11 6 (1.41%) Perl
11 6 (1.41%) Scala
12 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 54 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.51%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.28%) Degree
4 12 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.70%) CCNP
7 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.70%) PMP
8 2 (0.47%) CCA
8 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (15.49%) Accessibility
2 42 (9.86%) QA
3 40 (9.39%) WCAG
4 16 (3.76%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) WAI
9 1 (0.23%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 50 (11.74%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.46%) Terraform
3 11 (2.58%) Grafana
4 10 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.94%) Argo
7 3 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 43 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.86%) Adobe
3 40 (9.39%) Oracle
4 29 (6.81%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.05%) Splunk
7 11 (2.58%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.35%) Google
9 8 (1.88%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.88%) OutSystems
10 7 (1.64%) Braze
10 7 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.41%) Workday
12 5 (1.17%) Qualtrics
12 5 (1.17%) SAP
13 3 (0.70%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.70%) mParticle
13 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.70%) Symantec