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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 106 118
Rank change year-on-year -94 +12 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 472 635 748
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 2.44% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 10.80% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 364 539
10th Percentile £301 £311 £300
25th Percentile £400 £390 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -1.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 28
10th Percentile £25.70 £26.25 £26.85
25th Percentile £27.50 £37.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +2.50% -12.73%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £55.50 £68.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £60.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -25.62% +2.98% -16.07%

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 7,481 5,882 7,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.92% 22.57% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 3,808 5,553
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 74 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.56 £45.44
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.60% +13.64% -15.38%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -56 272 £525 +4.48% 137
South East -61 54 £218 -52.09% 139
North of England -74 53 £450 -3.23% 136
Midlands -69 36 £535 +13.23% 73
North West -42 30 £414 -0.96% 62
West Midlands -66 25 £425 -24.31% 25
South West -26 21 £390 -0.57% 71
Yorkshire -61 19 £488 -13.18% 53
East of England -22 16 £531 +32.81% 73
East Midlands -24 11 £573 +55.99% 48
North East -24 5 £475 +25.00% 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 32 (6.78%) CMS
2 22 (4.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.97%) Sitecore CMS
4 13 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.33%) Confluence
6 6 (1.27%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.27%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.06%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.64%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.42%) Camunda
9 2 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.39%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.54%) Sketch
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.85%) Trello
5 3 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.64%) InVision
5 3 (0.64%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.42%) Maya
6 2 (0.42%) NUKE
7 1 (0.21%) InDesign
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Maximo
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 130 (27.54%) AWS
2 129 (27.33%) Azure
3 62 (13.14%) GitHub
4 35 (7.42%) Figma
5 34 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (6.99%) GCP
7 32 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (6.14%) Serverless
9 24 (5.08%) SaaS
10 22 (4.66%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.03%) Power Platform
12 18 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.18%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (2.75%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.33%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.33%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.33%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.12%) npm
17 8 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.54%) Wireless
2 6 (1.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) Firewall
3 3 (0.64%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) SMS
4 2 (0.42%) BGP
4 2 (0.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) OSPF
4 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.42%) RTMP
4 2 (0.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VLAN
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.96%) MySQL
1 47 (9.96%) Relational Database
2 44 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (8.47%) SQL Server
4 35 (7.42%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.91%) Power BI
7 9 (1.91%) Redis
8 7 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.48%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.85%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.64%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.64%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.64%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.42%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 115 (24.36%) Git
2 41 (8.69%) JIRA
3 30 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.08%) Cypress.io
5 21 (4.45%) Browser DevTools
5 21 (4.45%) Eclipse
5 21 (4.45%) GitLab
6 20 (4.24%) JUnit
7 17 (3.60%) Xcode
8 15 (3.18%) Android Studio
8 15 (3.18%) webpack
9 14 (2.97%) Mockito
10 12 (2.54%) Maven
11 11 (2.33%) Storybook
12 10 (2.12%) Postman
13 9 (1.91%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.69%) Mocha
14 8 (1.69%) SonarQube
15 7 (1.48%) Jasmine
15 7 (1.48%) Selenium
General
1 140 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 69 (14.62%) Finance
3 66 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 52 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.20%) Banking
6 29 (6.14%) Marketing
7 12 (2.54%) Front Office
8 11 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.69%) Military
10 7 (1.48%) Legal
10 7 (1.48%) Retail
11 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.06%) Publishing
13 4 (0.85%) Automotive
14 3 (0.64%) Advertising
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 285 (60.38%) Developer
2 75 (15.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 66 (13.98%) Senior
4 51 (10.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 43 (9.11%) Senior Developer
6 33 (6.99%) React Developer
7 27 (5.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 26 (5.51%) Lead
9 22 (4.66%) Designer
9 22 (4.66%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.45%) Technical Engineer
11 20 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.24%) Technical Support
11 20 (4.24%) Technical Support Engineer
11 20 (4.24%) UX Engineer
12 18 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.18%) Architect
14 14 (2.97%) Python Developer
15 13 (2.75%) Consultant
15 13 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (86.23%) HTML
2 230 (48.73%) React
3 149 (31.57%) AngularJS
4 96 (20.34%) REST
5 94 (19.92%) HTML5
6 84 (17.80%) Node.js
6 84 (17.80%) RESTful
7 73 (15.47%) CSS3
8 59 (12.50%) .NET
9 53 (11.23%) Spring
10 50 (10.59%) Vue
11 46 (9.75%) Jest
12 39 (8.26%) Spring Boot
13 38 (8.05%) JSON
13 38 (8.05%) Redux
14 35 (7.42%) Sass
15 32 (6.78%) SOAP
16 31 (6.57%) ASP.NET
17 26 (5.51%) GraphQL
17 26 (5.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.90%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.75%) CMDB
5 12 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.69%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.27%) Derivative
11 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.72%) Linux
2 25 (5.30%) Windows
3 24 (5.08%) Unix
4 19 (4.03%) Android
5 6 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) CentOS
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (42.37%) Agile
2 155 (32.84%) CI/CD
3 151 (31.99%) User Experience
4 114 (24.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 111 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (20.97%) Front End Development
7 95 (20.13%) DevOps
8 69 (14.62%) Microservices
9 65 (13.77%) UX Design
10 57 (12.08%) Containerisation
11 52 (11.02%) Scrum
12 49 (10.38%) Test Automation
13 47 (9.96%) Software Engineering
14 45 (9.53%) AI
14 45 (9.53%) Code Quality
15 44 (9.32%) Analytics
16 41 (8.69%) MVC
17 40 (8.47%) Design Patterns
18 38 (8.05%) Responsive Web Design
18 38 (8.05%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 346 (73.31%) JavaScript
2 127 (26.91%) TypeScript
3 124 (26.27%) Java
4 117 (24.79%) SQL
5 92 (19.49%) Python
6 53 (11.23%) C#
7 19 (4.03%) Perl
7 19 (4.03%) PHP
8 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.75%) Ruby
10 10 (2.12%) C++
11 9 (1.91%) ABAP
12 7 (1.48%) JSX
13 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.27%) Groovy
13 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.06%) C
14 5 (1.06%) Go
15 4 (0.85%) COBOL
15 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.90%) Degree
4 24 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) CCNP
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.64%) PMP
9 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.21%) CCNA
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (14.62%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.90%) WCAG
3 32 (6.78%) QA
4 13 (2.75%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
6 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (15.47%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 51 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.75%) Terraform
3 11 (2.33%) Argo
4 8 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 65 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.17%) Adobe
3 42 (8.90%) Oracle
4 33 (6.99%) ServiceNow
5 28 (5.93%) Google
6 20 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.24%) SAP
6 20 (4.24%) Splunk
7 17 (3.60%) Sitecore
8 16 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.06%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.06%) mParticle
12 4 (0.85%) OutSystems
13 3 (0.64%) Blue Prism
13 3 (0.64%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.64%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.64%) Hotjar
13 3 (0.64%) IBM