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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 149 95
Rank change year-on-year -127 -54 +14
Contract jobs citing CSS 438 539 800
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.92% 2.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 7.52% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 360 538
10th Percentile £343 £262 £261
25th Percentile £406 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £529 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £691
UK median daily rate £475 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +5.91% -5.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 14
10th Percentile - £33.25 £56.99
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.91 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.69 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £70.90 £66.65 -
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 9,809 7,168 8,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.17% 25.53% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,842 5,285
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £795
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 175 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.60
25th Percentile £54.84 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £70.00 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -88 254 £494 +3.89% 398
North of England -82 54 £492 +23.00% 241
South East -82 49 £438 +20.69% 211
Yorkshire -37 31 £575 +21.05% 89
Midlands -67 30 £449 +15.87% 159
South West -27 29 £463 +8.82% 106
West Midlands -51 25 £463 +9.01% 81
North West -68 17 £478 +25.79% 108
East of England -20 16 £425 -12.82% 104
North East - 6 £350 - 49
East Midlands -26 5 £425 +17.08% 78
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 42 (9.59%) CMS
2 30 (6.85%) Confluence
3 26 (5.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (3.42%) SharePoint
5 14 (3.20%) WordPress
6 9 (2.05%) Camunda
7 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.14%) OpenStack
8 5 (1.14%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.91%) Kentico
9 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.68%) Apache
11 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.46%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.23%) Liferay
12 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.68%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Postilion
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 109 (24.89%) Azure
2 98 (22.37%) AWS
3 39 (8.90%) GitHub
4 36 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (7.99%) Figma
6 33 (7.53%) GCP
7 30 (6.85%) Serverless
8 25 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.88%) Adobe Analytics
9 17 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
9 17 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (3.65%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.42%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.83%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.88%) HTTP
2 10 (2.28%) DNS
3 6 (1.37%) 5G
3 6 (1.37%) SSH
3 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.14%) 4G
5 4 (0.91%) BGP
5 4 (0.91%) Firewall
5 4 (0.91%) Intranet
5 4 (0.91%) Network Security
5 4 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.91%) SSL
5 4 (0.91%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.30%) PostgreSQL
1 67 (15.30%) SQL Server
2 46 (10.50%) MySQL
3 40 (9.13%) Relational Database
4 30 (6.85%) MongoDB
5 29 (6.62%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.88%) Redis
7 11 (2.51%) Geospatial Data
8 10 (2.28%) Power BI
9 8 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.37%) Big Data
10 6 (1.37%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.14%) Presto
11 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (30.82%) Git
2 53 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 40 (9.13%) JIRA
4 32 (7.31%) GitLab
5 26 (5.94%) Maven
6 25 (5.71%) Cypress.io
7 24 (5.48%) JUnit
8 20 (4.57%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.57%) Storybook
9 19 (4.34%) Gradle
10 14 (3.20%) Mockito
11 11 (2.51%) MSI
11 11 (2.51%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.28%) Selenium
13 9 (2.05%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.05%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.83%) Browser DevTools
15 6 (1.37%) Vite
16 5 (1.14%) Claude Code
General
1 135 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.98%) Finance
3 63 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 56 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.96%) Banking
6 38 (8.68%) Marketing
7 23 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.34%) Publishing
9 16 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.51%) Retail
12 10 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.37%) Advertising
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.91%) Legal
17 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.68%) Front Office
17 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 250 (57.08%) Developer
2 58 (13.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 58 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 49 (11.19%) Senior
4 35 (7.99%) React Developer
5 30 (6.85%) Python Developer
5 30 (6.85%) Senior Developer
6 25 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 25 (5.71%) Lead
7 17 (3.88%) Software Engineer
8 16 (3.65%) Designer
8 16 (3.65%) Web Developer
9 15 (3.42%) Lead Developer
10 14 (3.20%) Architect
10 14 (3.20%) Consultant
11 12 (2.74%) Angular Developer
11 12 (2.74%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 12 (2.74%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 12 (2.74%) Technical Leader
11 12 (2.74%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (90.41%) HTML
2 181 (41.32%) React
3 137 (31.28%) REST
4 110 (25.11%) HTML5
5 106 (24.20%) RESTful
6 95 (21.69%) CSS3
7 76 (17.35%) .NET
7 76 (17.35%) AngularJS
8 62 (14.16%) Node.js
9 52 (11.87%) OAuth
10 44 (10.05%) Spring Boot
11 40 (9.13%) Kafka
12 39 (8.90%) Redux
13 37 (8.45%) OAuth2
13 37 (8.45%) Spring
13 37 (8.45%) Terraform
14 35 (7.99%) Vue
15 33 (7.53%) Playwright
16 30 (6.85%) Jest
16 30 (6.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 38 (8.68%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.20%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.51%) Replication
8 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.60%) NHS
10 6 (1.37%) CMDB
10 6 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.16%) Linux
2 20 (4.57%) Unix
3 17 (3.88%) Windows
4 3 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.23%) Tizen
6 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (53.65%) Agile
2 200 (45.66%) CI/CD
3 116 (26.48%) Full-Stack Development
3 116 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (26.26%) DevOps
4 115 (26.26%) Test Automation
5 109 (24.89%) Front End Development
6 101 (23.06%) Microservices
7 100 (22.83%) User Experience
8 74 (16.89%) Scrum
9 64 (14.61%) AI
10 60 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (13.70%) UX Design
11 57 (13.01%) Computer Science
11 57 (13.01%) Software Engineering
12 51 (11.64%) Performance Optimisation
13 50 (11.42%) Analytics
14 49 (11.19%) Code Quality
15 47 (10.73%) Containerisation
15 47 (10.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 353 (80.59%) JavaScript
2 148 (33.79%) SQL
3 137 (31.28%) TypeScript
4 84 (19.18%) Python
5 79 (18.04%) Java
6 63 (14.38%) C#
7 18 (4.11%) PHP
7 18 (4.11%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.42%) Bash
9 14 (3.20%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.97%) Bicep
11 11 (2.51%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.05%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.37%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.68%) Perl
14 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.46%) C
15 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 87 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.47%) Degree
4 48 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (22.83%) Accessibility
2 73 (16.67%) QA
3 62 (14.16%) WCAG
4 11 (2.51%) NCSC
5 10 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
7 2 (0.46%) WAI
7 2 (0.46%) WAI-ARIA
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 92 (21.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 54 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.16%) Grafana
3 11 (2.51%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.60%) Kibana
4 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.45%) Oracle
3 36 (8.22%) Adobe
4 29 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.34%) Google
6 12 (2.74%) Splunk
7 11 (2.51%) IBM
7 11 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.28%) OutSystems
9 9 (2.05%) Veracode
10 7 (1.60%) Braze
10 7 (1.60%) Databricks
10 7 (1.60%) Optimizely
11 6 (1.37%) Apple
12 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.91%) Tealium
14 3 (0.68%) Marketo