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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 119 114
Rank change year-on-year -121 -5 -22
Contract jobs citing CSS 421 552 739
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 2.26% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 10.10% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 375 528
10th Percentile £300 £335 £304
25th Percentile £404 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £588 £598
90th Percentile £650 £717 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 21
10th Percentile £17.12 £26.25 £28.51
25th Percentile £21.53 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% -28.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £55.56 £60.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.60 £63.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £42.91 £50.50
% change year-on-year -30.08% -15.03% -14.04%

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 7,879 5,468 7,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.56% 22.43% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,784 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £422 £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 £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 102 223
10th Percentile £33.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -55 256 £513 -2.38% 131
North of England -91 42 £450 +11.94% 67
South East -83 40 £290 -40.51% 89
North West -50 31 £426 +6.23% 33
Midlands -81 31 £475 +15.15% 32
South West -54 21 £409 +9.07% 26
West Midlands -70 21 £475 +3.26% 16
East of England -30 18 £550 +22.22% 52
East Midlands -32 10 £545 +67.18% 16
Yorkshire -53 9 £470 - 23
North East -35 2 £475 +25.00% 11
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 (7.36%) CMS
2 20 (4.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 17 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.85%) Confluence
5 10 (2.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.43%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.95%) IIS
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.71%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.71%) Kentico
8 3 (0.71%) nginx
8 3 (0.71%) WordPress
9 2 (0.48%) Apache
9 2 (0.48%) Camunda
9 2 (0.48%) Drupal
9 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.24%) Mendix
Applications
1 13 (3.09%) Adobe XD
2 11 (2.61%) Sketch
3 5 (1.19%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.95%) Trello
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) InVision
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Shopify
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 95 (22.57%) AWS
2 94 (22.33%) Azure
3 36 (8.55%) Figma
4 32 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.18%) Serverless
6 24 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (5.46%) GitHub
8 18 (4.28%) Power Automate
9 17 (4.04%) PowerApps
10 16 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.80%) GCP
11 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.61%) SaaS
14 10 (2.38%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.43%) npm
16 6 (1.43%) Sauce Labs
16 6 (1.43%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) Firewall
2 4 (0.95%) SMS
3 3 (0.71%) Intranet
3 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.71%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) LAN
4 2 (0.48%) OSPF
4 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.48%) RTMP
4 2 (0.48%) SSL
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) Skype
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 38 (9.03%) Relational Database
3 37 (8.79%) MySQL
4 34 (8.08%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.28%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.14%) Big Data
7 9 (2.14%) Power BI
8 8 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.19%) Presto
10 5 (1.19%) Tableau
11 4 (0.95%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.95%) Metadata
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (15.20%) Git
2 36 (8.55%) JIRA
3 26 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.28%) GitLab
5 14 (3.33%) JUnit
6 12 (2.85%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.85%) Mockito
7 11 (2.61%) Vite
8 10 (2.38%) Maven
9 9 (2.14%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (2.14%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.14%) webpack
10 7 (1.66%) Postman
11 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.43%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.43%) Jasmine
11 6 (1.43%) Selenium
11 6 (1.43%) Xcode
12 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.01%) Finance
3 51 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 48 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.69%) Banking
6 25 (5.94%) Marketing
7 15 (3.56%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.85%) Front Office
9 9 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.14%) Retail
10 6 (1.43%) Publishing
11 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Legal
12 4 (0.95%) Local Government
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 244 (57.96%) Developer
2 52 (12.35%) Senior
3 51 (12.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (8.55%) Senior Developer
5 32 (7.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 31 (7.36%) Java Developer
7 30 (7.13%) React Developer
8 22 (5.23%) Designer
9 20 (4.75%) Architect
10 19 (4.51%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.28%) Lead
12 15 (3.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 14 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.61%) .NET Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Angular Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Python Developer
14 11 (2.61%) ServiceNow Developer
15 10 (2.38%) C# Developer
15 10 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (2.38%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (85.75%) HTML
2 190 (45.13%) React
3 126 (29.93%) AngularJS
4 94 (22.33%) REST
5 84 (19.95%) HTML5
6 71 (16.86%) RESTful
7 67 (15.91%) .NET
7 67 (15.91%) CSS3
8 51 (12.11%) Node.js
9 47 (11.16%) Spring
10 45 (10.69%) Redux
11 39 (9.26%) Spring Boot
12 30 (7.13%) JSON
12 30 (7.13%) Vue
13 29 (6.89%) ASP.NET
13 29 (6.89%) jQuery
14 27 (6.41%) Jest
14 27 (6.41%) SOAP
15 25 (5.94%) .NET Framework
16 23 (5.46%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.80%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.66%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.66%) CMDB
5 7 (1.66%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.19%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.19%) Derivative
6 5 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 4 (0.95%) Graphic Design
7 4 (0.95%) Legacy Code
7 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.75%) Linux
2 19 (4.51%) Windows
3 15 (3.56%) Unix
4 9 (2.14%) Android
5 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (44.89%) Agile
2 120 (28.50%) User Experience
3 117 (27.79%) CI/CD
4 98 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (22.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 91 (21.62%) DevOps
7 74 (17.58%) Front End Development
8 63 (14.96%) Microservices
9 58 (13.78%) Scrum
10 53 (12.59%) Test Automation
11 52 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (11.64%) UX Design
13 48 (11.40%) AI
14 46 (10.93%) Software Engineering
15 45 (10.69%) Analytics
16 41 (9.74%) Code Quality
16 41 (9.74%) MVC
17 36 (8.55%) Containerisation
17 36 (8.55%) SDLC
18 32 (7.60%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 300 (71.26%) JavaScript
2 113 (26.84%) SQL
3 102 (24.23%) TypeScript
4 95 (22.57%) Java
5 77 (18.29%) Python
6 56 (13.30%) C#
7 12 (2.85%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.14%) ABAP
9 9 (2.14%) Ruby
10 7 (1.66%) PHP
11 6 (1.43%) Perl
11 6 (1.43%) Scala
12 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.71%) C++
13 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.48%) Bash
14 2 (0.48%) Go
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.41%) Degree
4 12 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.71%) CCNP
7 3 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.71%) PMP
8 2 (0.48%) CCA
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCNA
9 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.96%) Accessibility
2 38 (9.03%) WCAG
3 37 (8.79%) QA
4 15 (3.56%) GDPR
5 5 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.95%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.48%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) WAI
9 1 (0.24%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 52 (12.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.28%) Terraform
3 10 (2.38%) Grafana
4 8 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 46 (10.93%) Adobe
2 42 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.03%) Oracle
4 27 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.80%) Google
7 14 (3.33%) SAP
7 14 (3.33%) Splunk
8 13 (3.09%) Sitecore
9 9 (2.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.43%) Workday
12 5 (1.19%) Qualtrics
13 4 (0.95%) Braze
13 4 (0.95%) OutSystems
13 4 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.71%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.71%) mParticle
14 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.71%) Symantec