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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 141 94
Rank change year-on-year -130 -47 +10
Contract jobs citing CSS 446 547 783
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.97% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 7.84% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 377 546
10th Percentile £350 £268 £264
25th Percentile £406 £358 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £448 £488
% change year-on-year +3.91% -8.21% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 13
10th Percentile £17.12 £33.25 £57.70
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.91 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £59.19 £52.16 -
90th Percentile £70.90 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -80 261 £484 +2.38% 261
North of England -90 57 £500 +30.21% 94
South East -84 44 £469 +14.61% 84
South West -31 34 £413 +10.00% 50
Yorkshire -38 33 £575 +21.05% 33
Midlands -76 29 £448 +11.72% 70
West Midlands -57 23 £463 +8.94% 30
North West -71 19 £485 +29.33% 42
East of England -22 15 £425 -10.53% 45
East Midlands -34 6 £425 +15.49% 40
North East -44 5 £350 -27.08% 22
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 39 (8.74%) CMS
2 33 (7.40%) Confluence
3 22 (4.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 20 (4.48%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.91%) WordPress
6 8 (1.79%) Camunda
7 6 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.12%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.90%) Kentico
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.90%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.45%) Apache
10 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.45%) IIS
10 2 (0.45%) nginx
10 2 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.22%) Liferay
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Sketch
2 4 (0.90%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.35%) Shopify
3 2 (0.45%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Postilion
4 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 105 (23.54%) Azure
2 98 (21.97%) AWS
3 36 (8.07%) GitHub
4 35 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (7.85%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.40%) Figma
5 33 (7.40%) Serverless
6 31 (6.95%) GCP
7 21 (4.71%) Power Automate
8 20 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (4.48%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.59%) Adobe Analytics
10 15 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (3.14%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.24%) Google Analytics
13 10 (2.24%) SaaS
14 8 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.04%) HTTP
2 9 (2.02%) DNS
3 5 (1.12%) 5G
3 5 (1.12%) SSH
3 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.90%) 4G
4 4 (0.90%) BGP
4 4 (0.90%) Firewall
4 4 (0.90%) Intranet
4 4 (0.90%) Network Security
4 4 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.90%) SSL
4 4 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.45%) Skype
6 1 (0.22%) ATM
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 62 (13.90%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (11.88%) MySQL
4 36 (8.07%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.05%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.36%) Redis
8 14 (3.14%) Power BI
9 11 (2.47%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.79%) Tableau
12 7 (1.57%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.35%) Big Data
13 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.12%) Presto
14 5 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 127 (28.48%) Git
2 48 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.87%) JIRA
4 31 (6.95%) GitLab
5 27 (6.05%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.93%) JUnit
7 21 (4.71%) Maven
8 18 (4.04%) Storybook
9 17 (3.81%) SonarQube
10 15 (3.36%) Gradle
11 12 (2.69%) Mockito
12 11 (2.47%) MSI
13 10 (2.24%) REST Assured
14 9 (2.02%) Selenium
14 9 (2.02%) Vite
15 8 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (1.79%) Browser DevTools
15 8 (1.79%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 137 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.80%) Public Sector
3 61 (13.68%) Finance
4 52 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.09%) Banking
6 41 (9.19%) Marketing
7 22 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.81%) Publishing
9 14 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.47%) Retail
13 8 (1.79%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.12%) Front Office
14 5 (1.12%) Games
14 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
16 3 (0.67%) Advertising
16 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 258 (57.85%) Developer
2 62 (13.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 53 (11.88%) Senior
4 51 (11.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 36 (8.07%) React Developer
6 33 (7.40%) Java Developer
6 33 (7.40%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.28%) Lead
8 26 (5.83%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.26%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.81%) Angular Developer
10 17 (3.81%) Consultant
10 17 (3.81%) Designer
10 17 (3.81%) Web Developer
11 16 (3.59%) Architect
12 15 (3.36%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 13 (2.91%) Technical Leader
14 11 (2.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (2.47%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (91.03%) HTML
2 189 (42.38%) React
3 138 (30.94%) REST
4 112 (25.11%) HTML5
5 96 (21.52%) CSS3
6 94 (21.08%) RESTful
7 79 (17.71%) .NET
8 78 (17.49%) AngularJS
9 61 (13.68%) Node.js
10 51 (11.43%) OAuth
11 49 (10.99%) Redux
11 49 (10.99%) Spring Boot
12 44 (9.87%) Spring
13 39 (8.74%) Terraform
14 38 (8.52%) Jest
15 36 (8.07%) Kafka
16 35 (7.85%) OAuth2
17 33 (7.40%) Vue
18 32 (7.17%) Playwright
19 31 (6.95%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.16%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.04%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.47%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.79%) Replication
9 6 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.12%) CMDB
10 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.12%) NHS
11 4 (0.90%) Equities
11 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.71%) Linux
2 19 (4.26%) Windows
3 17 (3.81%) Unix
4 4 (0.90%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.22%) Tizen
5 1 (0.22%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (52.47%) Agile
2 192 (43.05%) CI/CD
3 115 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 113 (25.34%) DevOps
5 112 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (23.54%) Test Automation
7 102 (22.87%) User Experience
8 99 (22.20%) Microservices
9 98 (21.97%) Front End Development
10 72 (16.14%) Scrum
11 60 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (12.78%) AI
13 56 (12.56%) UX Design
14 55 (12.33%) Code Quality
15 54 (12.11%) Software Engineering
16 52 (11.66%) Analytics
17 49 (10.99%) Computer Science
18 46 (10.31%) Performance Optimisation
19 45 (10.09%) Containerisation
20 44 (9.87%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 358 (80.27%) JavaScript
2 161 (36.10%) SQL
3 129 (28.92%) TypeScript
4 90 (20.18%) Python
5 86 (19.28%) Java
6 65 (14.57%) C#
7 18 (4.04%) PHP
8 16 (3.59%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.91%) Bicep
10 12 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.47%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.02%) Bash
14 6 (1.35%) Scala
15 5 (1.12%) Ruby
16 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.67%) Perl
16 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.22%) C
17 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 87 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.43%) Degree
4 41 (9.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (21.97%) Accessibility
2 71 (15.92%) QA
3 62 (13.90%) WCAG
4 11 (2.47%) NCSC
5 10 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.35%) GDPR
7 5 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) WAI
9 1 (0.22%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 87 (19.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.61%) Grafana
3 10 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.57%) Kibana
4 7 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.74%) Adobe
3 38 (8.52%) Oracle
4 32 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 22 (4.93%) Google
6 15 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.24%) IBM
7 10 (2.24%) Splunk
8 9 (2.02%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.79%) Veracode
10 7 (1.57%) Braze
10 7 (1.57%) Databricks
10 7 (1.57%) Optimizely
11 5 (1.12%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.90%) Tealium
12 4 (0.90%) Workday
13 3 (0.67%) Qualtrics