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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 154 94
Rank change year-on-year -132 -60 +16
Contract jobs citing CSS 437 525 793
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.87% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.38% 7.32% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 341 516
10th Percentile £332 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £356 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £601
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 15
10th Percentile £16.09 £33.25 £57.78
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.91 £66.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £42.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.90 £66.85 -
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 9,971 7,176 7,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.51% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,559 4,849 5,151
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £54.37 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -92 254 £495 +4.21% 327
North of England -90 57 £500 +25.00% 85
South East -78 47 £438 +45.83% 79
South West -26 30 £469 +7.76% 37
Yorkshire -36 30 £575 +17.95% 24
Midlands -75 28 £450 +12.50% 47
West Midlands -49 25 £463 +10.57% 32
North West -71 21 £506 +33.16% 51
East of England -30 14 £400 -17.95% 25
North East -38 6 £350 - 12
East Midlands -37 3 £380 +1.33% 15
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 41 (9.38%) CMS
2 29 (6.64%) Confluence
3 26 (5.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 14 (3.20%) WordPress
5 13 (2.97%) SharePoint
6 10 (2.29%) Camunda
7 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.14%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.92%) Kentico
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.46%) Apache
9 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.46%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.23%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.69%) Sketch
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Postilion
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 110 (25.17%) Azure
2 101 (23.11%) AWS
3 41 (9.38%) GitHub
4 37 (8.47%) GCP
5 36 (8.24%) Figma
6 35 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (6.86%) Serverless
8 22 (5.03%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.89%) Adobe Analytics
9 17 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 17 (3.89%) OpenShift
10 15 (3.43%) Power Automate
11 14 (3.20%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.83%) Google Analytics
15 8 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.89%) HTTP
2 10 (2.29%) DNS
3 6 (1.37%) 5G
3 6 (1.37%) SSH
3 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.14%) 4G
5 4 (0.92%) BGP
5 4 (0.92%) Intranet
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 4 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.92%) SSL
6 2 (0.46%) Firewall
6 2 (0.46%) Skype
6 2 (0.46%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (15.10%) SQL Server
3 48 (10.98%) MySQL
4 43 (9.84%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.86%) MongoDB
6 28 (6.41%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.12%) Redis
8 11 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (2.06%) Power BI
10 8 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.37%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.14%) Big Data
12 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.92%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.92%) EDRMS
13 4 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 136 (31.12%) Git
2 54 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 38 (8.70%) JIRA
4 32 (7.32%) GitLab
5 27 (6.18%) JUnit
5 27 (6.18%) Maven
6 25 (5.72%) Cypress.io
7 21 (4.81%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.58%) Gradle
8 20 (4.58%) Storybook
9 17 (3.89%) Mockito
10 12 (2.75%) REST Assured
11 11 (2.52%) MSI
12 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.29%) Selenium
13 9 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.83%) Browser DevTools
15 6 (1.37%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.37%) Vite
General
1 136 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.02%) Finance
3 64 (14.65%) Public Sector
4 56 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.76%) Banking
6 38 (8.70%) Marketing
7 23 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.81%) Publishing
9 16 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.52%) Retail
12 10 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.37%) Advertising
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.69%) Front Office
17 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.69%) Legal
17 3 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 248 (56.75%) Developer
2 62 (14.19%) Full-Stack Developer
3 56 (12.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 50 (11.44%) Senior
5 34 (7.78%) React Developer
6 31 (7.09%) Python Developer
6 31 (7.09%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.72%) Lead
9 17 (3.89%) Designer
10 16 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 16 (3.66%) Web Developer
11 15 (3.43%) Lead Developer
12 14 (3.20%) Web Specialist
13 13 (2.97%) Architect
13 13 (2.97%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 12 (2.75%) Angular Developer
14 12 (2.75%) Consultant
14 12 (2.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 12 (2.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (90.16%) HTML
2 183 (41.88%) React
3 139 (31.81%) REST
4 115 (26.32%) HTML5
5 107 (24.49%) RESTful
6 100 (22.88%) CSS3
7 76 (17.39%) .NET
8 74 (16.93%) AngularJS
9 65 (14.87%) Node.js
10 52 (11.90%) OAuth
11 48 (10.98%) Spring Boot
12 44 (10.07%) Kafka
13 41 (9.38%) Spring
14 39 (8.92%) Redux
15 37 (8.47%) OAuth2
15 37 (8.47%) Vue
16 36 (8.24%) Terraform
17 33 (7.55%) Playwright
18 31 (7.09%) Web Services
19 30 (6.86%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 38 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.12%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.20%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.52%) Replication
8 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.60%) CMDB
9 7 (1.60%) NHS
10 6 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.14%) Equities
11 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.18%) Linux
2 20 (4.58%) Unix
3 17 (3.89%) Windows
4 3 (0.69%) Android
4 3 (0.69%) macOS
5 1 (0.23%) Tizen
5 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (52.86%) Agile
2 200 (45.77%) CI/CD
3 119 (27.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 117 (26.77%) Test Automation
5 114 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (25.86%) DevOps
7 111 (25.40%) Front End Development
8 105 (24.03%) Microservices
9 98 (22.43%) User Experience
10 74 (16.93%) Scrum
11 64 (14.65%) AI
12 60 (13.73%) UX Design
13 59 (13.50%) Computer Science
14 57 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (12.81%) Software Engineering
16 51 (11.67%) Code Quality
17 50 (11.44%) Containerisation
18 48 (10.98%) Mentoring
18 48 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
19 46 (10.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 353 (80.78%) JavaScript
2 144 (32.95%) SQL
3 140 (32.04%) TypeScript
4 84 (19.22%) Python
5 82 (18.76%) Java
6 63 (14.42%) C#
7 18 (4.12%) PHP
8 17 (3.89%) Shell Script
9 15 (3.43%) Bash
10 13 (2.97%) Bicep
11 12 (2.75%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.14%) Scala
14 3 (0.69%) Go
14 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) Perl
14 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.46%) C
15 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 92 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 71 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 61 (13.96%) Degree
4 50 (11.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (22.65%) Accessibility
2 76 (17.39%) QA
3 63 (14.42%) WCAG
4 11 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.52%) NCSC
5 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) WAI
6 2 (0.46%) WAI-ARIA
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 96 (21.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.95%) Grafana
3 11 (2.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.37%) Kibana
5 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 65 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.47%) Oracle
3 36 (8.24%) Adobe
4 28 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.58%) Google
6 11 (2.52%) IBM
6 11 (2.52%) Splunk
7 10 (2.29%) OutSystems
7 10 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.06%) Veracode
9 7 (1.60%) Braze
9 7 (1.60%) Databricks
9 7 (1.60%) Optimizely
10 6 (1.37%) Apple
11 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.92%) Tealium
13 3 (0.69%) Marketo