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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 129 101
Rank change year-on-year -141 -28 -9
Contract jobs citing CSS 399 560 812
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 2.22% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 9.82% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 382 585
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £404 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -8.85% -
75th Percentile £587 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £490
% change year-on-year -2.07% -6.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 36 24
10th Percentile £17.12 £31.75 £37.63
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 £46.18
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -24.53% +8.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.54 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.60 £59.44 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +19.05%

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 8,278 5,701 7,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.62% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,466 3,955 5,502
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 118 263
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.95 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -78 229 £473 -4.30% 97
South East -70 52 £475 - 90
North of England -92 43 £475 +18.75% 85
North West -68 24 £384 -1.95% 46
South West -56 23 £410 +9.33% 44
Midlands -94 23 £463 +23.33% 45
East of England -22 19 £575 +27.78% 46
Yorkshire -41 18 £575 +43.75% 24
West Midlands -69 15 £475 +11.76% 17
East Midlands -28 8 £425 +17.24% 28
North East -38 1 £475 +10.47% 16
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 38 (9.52%) CMS
2 19 (4.76%) Confluence
3 18 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 12 (3.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (2.01%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.25%) Kentico
7 5 (1.25%) WordPress
8 4 (1.00%) IIS
8 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.75%) nginx
9 3 (0.75%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.00%) Sketch
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.00%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.06%) Azure
2 81 (20.30%) AWS
3 36 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.77%) Figma
6 24 (6.02%) GitHub
6 24 (6.02%) Serverless
7 23 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.76%) PowerApps
9 17 (4.26%) GCP
10 14 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.76%) SaaS
13 8 (2.01%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.50%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.01%) HTTP
2 6 (1.50%) Network Security
3 5 (1.25%) BGP
3 5 (1.25%) DNS
3 5 (1.25%) Intranet
3 5 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (1.25%) SSL
4 4 (1.00%) Firewall
5 3 (0.75%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) RTMP
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (16.04%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.02%) MySQL
3 34 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 31 (7.77%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.51%) Power BI
7 9 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.01%) Big Data
8 8 (2.01%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.75%) Tableau
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.50%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.50%) Redis
11 5 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Presto
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (17.04%) Git
2 35 (8.77%) JIRA
3 31 (7.77%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.01%) GitLab
5 15 (3.76%) JUnit
6 14 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.26%) Vite
8 10 (2.51%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.51%) Maven
9 8 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (2.01%) Mockito
9 8 (2.01%) MSTest
10 7 (1.75%) Storybook
10 7 (1.75%) webpack
11 6 (1.50%) Mocha
11 6 (1.50%) Postman
11 6 (1.50%) tSQLt
12 5 (1.25%) MSI
12 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 113 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.04%) Finance
3 47 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (11.78%) Banking
4 42 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.27%) Marketing
6 15 (3.76%) Retail
7 14 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.26%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.26%) Front Office
11 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Legal
12 4 (1.00%) Local Government
12 4 (1.00%) Publishing
13 3 (0.75%) Games
13 3 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.50%) Law
14 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 226 (56.64%) Developer
2 55 (13.78%) Senior
3 49 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (8.52%) React Developer
4 34 (8.52%) Senior Developer
5 29 (7.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 26 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.51%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.51%) Architect
9 16 (4.01%) Consultant
9 16 (4.01%) Designer
10 14 (3.51%) Angular Developer
10 14 (3.51%) Lead
10 14 (3.51%) Web Developer
11 12 (3.01%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.01%) Software Developer
12 11 (2.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 11 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.51%) .NET Developer
13 10 (2.51%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (84.21%) HTML
2 173 (43.36%) React
3 104 (26.07%) REST
4 95 (23.81%) AngularJS
5 84 (21.05%) .NET
6 79 (19.80%) HTML5
7 72 (18.05%) RESTful
8 62 (15.54%) CSS3
9 51 (12.78%) Redux
10 47 (11.78%) Node.js
11 43 (10.78%) Spring
12 39 (9.77%) Spring Boot
13 34 (8.52%) .NET Framework
13 34 (8.52%) ASP.NET
14 32 (8.02%) jQuery
15 29 (7.27%) JSON
16 28 (7.02%) Jest
17 27 (6.77%) OAuth
18 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
19 25 (6.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.28%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.26%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.00%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.00%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.01%) Windows
2 16 (4.01%) Unix
3 15 (3.76%) Linux
4 5 (1.25%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (47.62%) Agile
2 128 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 97 (24.31%) User Experience
4 96 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (22.31%) DevOps
5 89 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (18.30%) Microservices
7 72 (18.05%) Front End Development
8 60 (15.04%) Scrum
8 60 (15.04%) Test Automation
9 50 (12.53%) AI
10 48 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (12.03%) Software Engineering
11 47 (11.78%) Code Quality
12 46 (11.53%) UX Design
13 43 (10.78%) MVC
14 39 (9.77%) Analytics
15 38 (9.52%) Web Development
16 36 (9.02%) Design Patterns
17 35 (8.77%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 286 (71.68%) JavaScript
2 126 (31.58%) SQL
3 107 (26.82%) TypeScript
4 82 (20.55%) Java
5 78 (19.55%) Python
6 73 (18.30%) C#
7 17 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 16 (4.01%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.50%) PHP
10 6 (1.50%) Ruby
10 6 (1.50%) Scala
10 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.25%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) Perl
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.50%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) F#
14 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.02%) Degree
4 12 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.50%) CCNP
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCA
8 1 (0.25%) CCNA
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (18.05%) Accessibility
2 54 (13.53%) QA
3 41 (10.28%) WCAG
4 12 (3.01%) GDPR
5 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.50%) NCSC
6 4 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) WAI
8 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 56 (14.04%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 33 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.02%) Terraform
3 12 (3.01%) Grafana
4 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (1.50%) Kibana
7 4 (1.00%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 47 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.03%) Oracle
3 30 (7.52%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.52%) Adobe
5 13 (3.26%) Google
6 12 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.51%) Braze
7 10 (2.51%) Sitecore
8 8 (2.01%) OutSystems
8 8 (2.01%) Splunk
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
9 6 (1.50%) Workday
10 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.00%) Qualtrics
11 4 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.75%) ESRI
12 3 (0.75%) Marketo
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Sybase
13 2 (0.50%) Symantec