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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 143 98
Rank change year-on-year -129 -45 +9
Contract jobs citing CSS 441 540 779
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.94% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 7.73% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 371 538
10th Percentile £324 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £525 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £463 £440 £488
% change year-on-year +5.30% -9.74% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 13
10th Percentile - £33.25 £57.70
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 £61.00 £52.16 -
90th Percentile £71.20 £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 9,810 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
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 269 163 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -90 256 £480 +1.59% 481
North of England -90 57 £500 +27.55% 134
South East -90 46 £450 +19.28% 114
South West -33 35 £413 +6.45% 62
Yorkshire -38 33 £575 +19.48% 39
Midlands -69 27 £447 +11.63% 92
West Midlands -60 22 £457 +7.41% 42
North West -68 19 £485 +28.48% 76
East of England -23 15 £425 -10.53% 53
East Midlands -27 5 £425 +17.08% 50
North East -36 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 40 (9.07%) CMS
2 32 (7.26%) Confluence
3 23 (5.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 19 (4.31%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.95%) WordPress
6 8 (1.81%) Camunda
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.13%) OpenStack
8 5 (1.13%) 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 (0.45%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.45%) IIS
11 2 (0.45%) nginx
11 2 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.23%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.91%) Sketch
2 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.13%) Shopify
3 2 (0.45%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Postilion
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 102 (23.13%) Azure
2 98 (22.22%) AWS
3 35 (7.94%) GitHub
4 34 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (7.71%) Power Platform
5 31 (7.03%) Figma
5 31 (7.03%) GCP
5 31 (7.03%) Serverless
6 21 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 20 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (4.54%) PowerApps
8 17 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 16 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
10 14 (3.17%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.27%) SaaS
13 9 (2.04%) Google Analytics
14 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.31%) HTTP
2 10 (2.27%) DNS
3 6 (1.36%) 5G
3 6 (1.36%) SSH
3 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.13%) 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 (0.45%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 65 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (12.24%) MySQL
4 36 (8.16%) Relational Database
5 32 (7.26%) NoSQL
6 28 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.63%) Redis
8 14 (3.17%) Power BI
9 11 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.81%) Tableau
12 7 (1.59%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.36%) Big Data
13 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.13%) Presto
14 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (29.25%) Git
2 50 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.98%) JIRA
4 32 (7.26%) GitLab
5 27 (6.12%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.99%) JUnit
6 22 (4.99%) Maven
7 18 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 18 (4.08%) Storybook
8 15 (3.40%) Gradle
9 12 (2.72%) Mockito
10 11 (2.49%) MSI
11 10 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 10 (2.27%) Selenium
11 10 (2.27%) Vite
12 8 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
12 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 138 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 61 (13.83%) Finance
4 54 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (10.43%) Banking
6 42 (9.52%) Marketing
7 22 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.08%) Publishing
9 14 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.49%) Retail
12 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Front Office
13 5 (1.13%) Games
13 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Advertising
14 4 (0.91%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Local Government
15 3 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 254 (57.60%) Developer
2 60 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 53 (12.02%) Senior
4 50 (11.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 35 (7.94%) React Developer
6 34 (7.71%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.48%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.35%) Lead
9 26 (5.90%) Python Developer
10 18 (4.08%) Software Engineer
11 17 (3.85%) Angular Developer
11 17 (3.85%) Consultant
11 17 (3.85%) Web Developer
12 16 (3.63%) Architect
12 16 (3.63%) Designer
13 15 (3.40%) Lead Developer
14 13 (2.95%) Technical Leader
15 12 (2.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 12 (2.72%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 12 (2.72%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (90.70%) HTML
2 185 (41.95%) React
3 136 (30.84%) REST
4 111 (25.17%) HTML5
5 96 (21.77%) RESTful
6 95 (21.54%) CSS3
7 78 (17.69%) AngularJS
8 77 (17.46%) .NET
9 60 (13.61%) Node.js
10 50 (11.34%) OAuth
10 50 (11.34%) Spring Boot
11 49 (11.11%) Redux
12 45 (10.20%) Spring
13 37 (8.39%) Jest
13 37 (8.39%) Kafka
14 36 (8.16%) Terraform
15 35 (7.94%) OAuth2
16 33 (7.48%) Vue
17 32 (7.26%) Playwright
18 30 (6.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.72%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.04%) Replication
7 8 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.13%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.13%) CMDB
9 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.13%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.13%) NHS
10 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.91%) Equities
10 4 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.99%) Linux
2 19 (4.31%) Windows
3 17 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.23%) Tizen
5 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (53.06%) Agile
2 192 (43.54%) CI/CD
3 115 (26.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 113 (25.62%) DevOps
5 112 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (24.26%) Test Automation
7 98 (22.22%) Microservices
7 98 (22.22%) User Experience
8 94 (21.32%) Front End Development
9 75 (17.01%) Scrum
10 60 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (13.15%) AI
12 56 (12.70%) Code Quality
13 55 (12.47%) UX Design
14 54 (12.24%) Software Engineering
15 52 (11.79%) Analytics
16 51 (11.56%) Computer Science
17 48 (10.88%) Performance Optimisation
18 45 (10.20%) Containerisation
19 44 (9.98%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 354 (80.27%) JavaScript
2 162 (36.73%) SQL
3 128 (29.02%) TypeScript
4 86 (19.50%) Java
4 86 (19.50%) Python
5 63 (14.29%) C#
6 18 (4.08%) PHP
7 16 (3.63%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.95%) Bicep
8 13 (2.95%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.49%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.27%) Bash
10 10 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.36%) Scala
12 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.68%) Perl
12 3 (0.68%) Ruby
12 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.45%) Go
14 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 53 (12.02%) Degree
4 43 (9.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (21.54%) Accessibility
2 72 (16.33%) QA
3 59 (13.38%) WCAG
4 11 (2.49%) NCSC
5 10 (2.27%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.36%) GDPR
7 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.23%) WAI
9 1 (0.23%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 85 (19.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.90%) Grafana
3 11 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.59%) Kibana
4 7 (1.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.07%) Adobe
3 38 (8.62%) Oracle
4 33 (7.48%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.76%) Google
6 15 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.27%) IBM
7 10 (2.27%) Splunk
8 9 (2.04%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.81%) Optimizely
9 8 (1.81%) Veracode
10 7 (1.59%) Braze
10 7 (1.59%) Databricks
11 5 (1.13%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.91%) Apple
12 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.91%) Tealium
12 4 (0.91%) Workday