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

 6 months to
13 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 138 98
Rank change year-on-year -143 -40 +6
Contract jobs citing CSS 398 567 771
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 2.05% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 9.32% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 397 552
10th Percentile £343 £269 £276
25th Percentile £405 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +2.22% -8.91% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 16
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.50 £52.31
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.91 £67.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +52.17%
75th Percentile £51.25 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £66.53 £66.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +53.85%

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 8,445 6,082 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.53% 22.00% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,525 4,168 5,030
10th Percentile £365 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 155 228
10th Percentile £28.65 £31.25 £24.13
25th Percentile £46.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -102 235 £488 +2.63% 210
North of England -84 51 £496 +29.17% 104
South East -88 44 £475 +5.85% 98
Yorkshire -32 32 £575 +27.78% 33
South West -45 28 £413 +10.00% 49
Midlands -89 18 £425 +13.33% 71
North West -73 16 £375 - 58
East of England -24 13 £425 -8.11% 41
West Midlands -60 11 £431 +1.47% 30
East Midlands -35 7 £425 +18.72% 41
North East -43 3 £375 -21.88% 17
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 39 (9.80%) CMS
2 22 (5.53%) Confluence
3 19 (4.77%) SharePoint
4 16 (4.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (3.02%) WordPress
6 6 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.26%) Umbraco
8 4 (1.01%) Kentico
8 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.75%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Sketch
2 3 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Shopify
2 5 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.61%) Azure
2 82 (20.60%) AWS
3 33 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (8.29%) Figma
3 33 (8.29%) Power Platform
4 30 (7.54%) Serverless
5 26 (6.53%) GCP
5 26 (6.53%) GitHub
6 22 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (5.03%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.52%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.51%) Google Analytics
10 10 (2.51%) SaaS
11 9 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.76%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.02%) HTTP
2 7 (1.76%) DNS
3 5 (1.26%) Intranet
4 4 (1.01%) BGP
4 4 (1.01%) Firewall
4 4 (1.01%) Network Security
4 4 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.01%) SSL
4 4 (1.01%) VPN
5 3 (0.75%) 5G
5 3 (0.75%) SSH
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) Skype
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 44 (11.06%) MySQL
3 43 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.28%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.52%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.52%) Power BI
8 11 (2.76%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (2.51%) Redis
10 9 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.01%) Tableau
12 7 (1.76%) Big Data
12 7 (1.76%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.26%) Metadata
14 5 (1.26%) Presto
15 4 (1.01%) Apache Hudi
15 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 98 (24.62%) Git
2 36 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.04%) JIRA
4 26 (6.53%) Cypress.io
5 21 (5.28%) GitLab
6 15 (3.77%) JUnit
6 15 (3.77%) Maven
7 14 (3.52%) Storybook
8 11 (2.76%) MSI
8 11 (2.76%) Vite
9 8 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.76%) MSTest
10 7 (1.76%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.51%) Gradle
11 6 (1.51%) Mockito
11 6 (1.51%) Selenium
12 5 (1.26%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.26%) Mocha
12 5 (1.26%) tSQLt
General
1 118 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 52 (13.07%) Finance
4 45 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.80%) Banking
6 32 (8.04%) Marketing
7 18 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.52%) Publishing
9 14 (3.52%) Retail
10 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Front Office
12 5 (1.26%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
14 3 (0.75%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 220 (55.28%) Developer
2 54 (13.57%) Senior
3 47 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (9.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 35 (8.79%) Senior Developer
6 32 (8.04%) React Developer
7 29 (7.29%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.78%) Lead
9 20 (5.03%) Designer
10 19 (4.77%) Python Developer
10 19 (4.77%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.02%) Angular Developer
11 16 (4.02%) Consultant
12 15 (3.77%) Architect
13 14 (3.52%) Web Developer
14 13 (3.27%) .NET Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Lead Developer
15 12 (3.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 10 (2.51%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 10 (2.51%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (86.93%) HTML
2 162 (40.70%) React
3 120 (30.15%) REST
4 95 (23.87%) HTML5
5 89 (22.36%) RESTful
6 80 (20.10%) CSS3
7 76 (19.10%) AngularJS
8 68 (17.09%) .NET
9 45 (11.31%) Node.js
10 42 (10.55%) Redux
11 41 (10.30%) Spring
12 38 (9.55%) Spring Boot
13 35 (8.79%) OAuth
14 34 (8.54%) Jest
15 32 (8.04%) Vue
16 30 (7.54%) .NET Framework
17 27 (6.78%) Sass
18 26 (6.53%) jQuery
19 25 (6.28%) .NET Core
19 25 (6.28%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.05%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.78%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.26%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.26%) NHS
9 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.01%) CMDB
9 4 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.01%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.03%) Windows
2 19 (4.77%) Linux
3 18 (4.52%) Unix
4 5 (1.26%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) Tizen
6 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (50.25%) Agile
2 155 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 102 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (24.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (23.87%) DevOps
6 93 (23.37%) User Experience
7 86 (21.61%) Microservices
8 79 (19.85%) Test Automation
9 75 (18.84%) Front End Development
10 55 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (13.82%) Scrum
11 49 (12.31%) Code Quality
12 46 (11.56%) UX Design
13 45 (11.31%) AI
14 44 (11.06%) Software Engineering
15 43 (10.80%) Analytics
16 41 (10.30%) Containerisation
17 40 (10.05%) MVC
18 39 (9.80%) Performance Optimisation
19 38 (9.55%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 303 (76.13%) JavaScript
2 130 (32.66%) SQL
3 111 (27.89%) TypeScript
4 82 (20.60%) Python
5 72 (18.09%) Java
6 60 (15.08%) C#
7 16 (4.02%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.27%) PHP
8 13 (3.27%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.76%) Bicep
10 10 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.51%) Ruby
12 6 (1.51%) Scala
13 4 (1.01%) Bash
14 3 (0.75%) Perl
14 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.25%) CFML
16 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 76 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.29%) Degree
4 18 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCA
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.62%) Accessibility
2 61 (15.33%) QA
3 55 (13.82%) WCAG
4 11 (2.76%) NCSC
5 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.01%) GDPR
7 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.01%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) WAI
10 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 74 (18.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.05%) Terraform
3 20 (5.03%) Grafana
4 8 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (1.51%) Kibana
7 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.01%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 52 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.30%) Oracle
3 30 (7.54%) ServiceNow
4 28 (7.04%) Adobe
5 20 (5.03%) Google
6 11 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.01%) Braze
7 8 (2.01%) Optimizely
7 8 (2.01%) OutSystems
7 8 (2.01%) Splunk
8 4 (1.01%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.01%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.01%) Tealium
8 4 (1.01%) Workday
9 3 (0.75%) Marketo
9 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
9 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) SAP
536 CSS jobs in England