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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 120 114
Rank change year-on-year -118 -6 -21
Contract jobs citing CSS 427 552 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 2.27% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.37% 10.12% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 376 522
10th Percentile £300 £335 £301
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £716 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £498
% change year-on-year - -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 20
10th Percentile £17.12 £26.25 £28.28
25th Percentile £21.53 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% -21.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £55.56 £60.81 £64.06
90th Percentile £64.60 £63.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £42.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.08% -14.19% -14.89%

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 7,947 5,454 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.69% 22.40% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,781 5,342
10th Percentile £361 £368 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 218
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.13 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -50 262 £506 -3.57% 121
North of England -93 42 £450 +12.50% 69
South East -81 41 £333 -33.50% 97
North West -52 31 £426 +6.50% 33
Midlands -87 31 £475 +16.64% 33
West Midlands -72 21 £475 +7.34% 15
South West -51 20 £409 +9.07% 31
East of England -21 18 £550 +22.22% 57
East Midlands -30 10 £545 +67.18% 17
Yorkshire -57 9 £470 - 22
North East -34 2 £475 +25.00% 14
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 (7.26%) CMS
2 20 (4.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 18 (4.22%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.81%) Confluence
5 10 (2.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.94%) IIS
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.70%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.70%) Kentico
8 3 (0.70%) nginx
8 3 (0.70%) WordPress
9 2 (0.47%) Apache
9 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 2 (0.47%) Drupal
9 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.23%) Mendix
Applications
1 13 (3.04%) Adobe XD
2 11 (2.58%) Sketch
3 5 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.94%) Trello
5 3 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.47%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Shopify
2 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
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%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 101 (23.65%) AWS
2 96 (22.48%) Azure
3 35 (8.20%) Figma
4 32 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (7.03%) GitHub
5 30 (7.03%) Serverless
6 26 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 24 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.22%) GCP
10 18 (4.22%) Power Automate
11 17 (3.98%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.58%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.58%) SaaS
13 7 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.41%) npm
14 6 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
14 6 (1.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) Firewall
2 4 (0.94%) SMS
3 3 (0.70%) Intranet
3 3 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) BGP
4 2 (0.47%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) LAN
4 2 (0.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.47%) RTMP
4 2 (0.47%) SSL
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) FTP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.13%) MySQL
3 38 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.96%) NoSQL
5 33 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.22%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.11%) Big Data
7 9 (2.11%) Power BI
8 8 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (1.87%) Oracle Database
8 8 (1.87%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.17%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.17%) Presto
10 5 (1.17%) Tableau
11 4 (0.94%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.94%) Metadata
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (16.16%) Git
2 36 (8.43%) JIRA
3 28 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.22%) GitLab
5 16 (3.75%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.75%) JUnit
6 12 (2.81%) Mockito
6 12 (2.81%) Vite
7 10 (2.34%) Maven
7 10 (2.34%) webpack
8 9 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.64%) Postman
9 7 (1.64%) Storybook
10 6 (1.41%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.41%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.41%) Jasmine
10 6 (1.41%) Selenium
10 6 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 116 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.52%) Finance
3 52 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 49 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.54%) Banking
6 27 (6.32%) Marketing
7 15 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.81%) Front Office
9 9 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.11%) Retail
10 6 (1.41%) Publishing
11 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.94%) Local Government
13 3 (0.70%) Games
13 3 (0.70%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 246 (57.61%) Developer
2 53 (12.41%) Senior
3 52 (12.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (8.67%) Senior Developer
5 32 (7.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 31 (7.26%) Java Developer
6 31 (7.26%) React Developer
7 22 (5.15%) Designer
7 22 (5.15%) Software Engineer
8 20 (4.68%) Architect
9 18 (4.22%) Lead
10 15 (3.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 14 (3.28%) Software Developer
12 11 (2.58%) .NET Developer
12 11 (2.58%) Angular Developer
12 11 (2.58%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.58%) ServiceNow Developer
13 10 (2.34%) C# Developer
13 10 (2.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (2.34%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (84.78%) HTML
2 197 (46.14%) React
3 126 (29.51%) AngularJS
4 94 (22.01%) REST
5 85 (19.91%) HTML5
6 78 (18.27%) RESTful
7 68 (15.93%) CSS3
8 66 (15.46%) .NET
9 55 (12.88%) Node.js
10 49 (11.48%) Spring
11 45 (10.54%) Redux
12 41 (9.60%) Spring Boot
13 32 (7.49%) Jest
14 30 (7.03%) JSON
14 30 (7.03%) Vue
15 29 (6.79%) ASP.NET
15 29 (6.79%) jQuery
16 27 (6.32%) SOAP
17 25 (5.85%) .NET Framework
17 25 (5.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.37%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.64%) CMDB
5 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.17%) Derivative
6 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.94%) Graphic Design
7 4 (0.94%) Legacy Code
7 4 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.68%) Linux
2 19 (4.45%) Windows
3 15 (3.51%) Unix
4 9 (2.11%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (45.43%) Agile
2 123 (28.81%) User Experience
3 121 (28.34%) CI/CD
4 99 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (22.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (21.55%) DevOps
7 77 (18.03%) Front End Development
8 65 (15.22%) Microservices
9 58 (13.58%) Scrum
10 53 (12.41%) Test Automation
11 52 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (11.48%) AI
12 49 (11.48%) Software Engineering
12 49 (11.48%) UX Design
13 45 (10.54%) Analytics
14 41 (9.60%) MVC
15 40 (9.37%) Code Quality
16 36 (8.43%) SDLC
17 35 (8.20%) Containerisation
17 35 (8.20%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 305 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 118 (27.63%) SQL
3 110 (25.76%) TypeScript
4 97 (22.72%) Java
5 76 (17.80%) Python
6 56 (13.11%) C#
7 12 (2.81%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.11%) ABAP
9 9 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.11%) Ruby
10 7 (1.64%) PHP
11 6 (1.41%) Perl
11 6 (1.41%) Scala
12 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.70%) C++
13 3 (0.70%) JSX
13 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.47%) Bash
14 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.07%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.32%) Degree
4 12 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
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%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.99%) Accessibility
2 40 (9.37%) WCAG
3 36 (8.43%) QA
4 15 (3.51%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
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 51 (11.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.22%) Terraform
3 9 (2.11%) Grafana
4 7 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 46 (10.77%) Adobe
2 43 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 38 (8.90%) Oracle
4 26 (6.09%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.98%) SAP
7 16 (3.75%) Google
8 14 (3.28%) Splunk
9 13 (3.04%) Sitecore
10 9 (2.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (1.87%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.41%) Workday
13 5 (1.17%) Qualtrics
14 4 (0.94%) Braze
14 4 (0.94%) OutSystems
15 3 (0.70%) ForgeRock
15 3 (0.70%) mParticle
15 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.70%) Symantec