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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 104 109
Rank change year-on-year -85 +5 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 476 692 809
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 2.42% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.83% 11.03% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 421 587
10th Percentile £207 £250 £303
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £719
UK median daily rate £468 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -0.85% -5.70% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 23
10th Percentile £28.80 £27.65 £26.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £38.25 £38.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £66.75 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £63.50 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% -7.69%

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 6,974 6,271 8,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 21.89% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,659 4,004 5,845
10th Percentile £351 £358 £365
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 77 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £43.84 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +19.05% -19.23%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 -63 263 £513 +1.74% 230
South East -51 62 £208 -49.27% 154
North of England -45 59 £450 -4.76% 182
Midlands -54 34 £504 +6.05% 99
Yorkshire -31 32 £488 -12.28% 64
North West -35 25 £394 -16.22% 101
West Midlands -48 23 £400 -23.81% 58
South West -9 17 £400 +12.68% 57
East of England -24 16 £475 +58.33% 81
East Midlands -11 11 £550 +51.52% 41
North East -15 3 - - 20
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 23 (4.83%) CMS
2 21 (4.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.52%) Confluence
3 12 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.26%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.26%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.05%) SugarCRM
5 5 (1.05%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.63%) WordPress
7 2 (0.42%) Apache
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) CICS
8 1 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Moodle
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (2.73%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.52%) Sketch
3 4 (0.84%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (0.84%) Maya
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.84%) Trello
4 3 (0.63%) InVision
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.63%) NUKE
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.21%) Blender
6 1 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.21%) InDesign
6 1 (0.21%) Moqups
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Maximo
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (23.74%) Azure
2 101 (21.22%) AWS
3 53 (11.13%) GitHub
4 34 (7.14%) GCP
5 33 (6.93%) Figma
6 30 (6.30%) SaaS
7 28 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (5.25%) Serverless
9 23 (4.83%) npm
10 22 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (4.41%) Sauce Labs
12 17 (3.57%) Amazon S3
13 16 (3.36%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.31%) OpenShift
16 9 (1.89%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.89%) PowerApps
17 8 (1.68%) Entra ID
18 7 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
18 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.78%) Wireless
2 7 (1.47%) HTTP
3 3 (0.63%) DNS
3 3 (0.63%) Firewall
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
3 3 (0.63%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) BGP
4 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.21%) FTP
4 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) LAN
4 1 (0.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.21%) OSPF
4 1 (0.21%) POP3
4 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.21%) SMTP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.87%) Relational Database
2 59 (12.39%) MySQL
2 59 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (8.61%) SQL Server
4 30 (6.30%) NoSQL
5 25 (5.25%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.20%) Redis
7 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.89%) MariaDB
7 9 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.26%) Power BI
9 5 (1.05%) DB2
9 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.05%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.84%) Tableau
11 3 (0.63%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 139 (29.20%) Git
2 52 (10.92%) JIRA
3 40 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.35%) Browser DevTools
5 29 (6.09%) Xcode
6 28 (5.88%) Eclipse
7 27 (5.67%) webpack
8 25 (5.25%) GitLab
9 23 (4.83%) Cypress.io
10 21 (4.41%) Android Studio
11 20 (4.20%) JUnit
12 16 (3.36%) Maven
13 15 (3.15%) Mockito
13 15 (3.15%) Postman
13 15 (3.15%) SonarQube
14 13 (2.73%) Bitbucket
15 11 (2.31%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.31%) Selenium
16 10 (2.10%) Firebug
16 10 (2.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 163 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 80 (16.81%) Finance
3 59 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.24%) Banking
5 38 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.25%) Marketing
7 13 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.10%) Military
10 7 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.47%) Front Office
10 7 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.26%) Retail
12 5 (1.05%) Automotive
12 5 (1.05%) Games
12 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.05%) Publishing
13 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 271 (56.93%) Developer
2 72 (15.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 51 (10.71%) Senior
4 45 (9.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 32 (6.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 32 (6.72%) Senior Developer
5 32 (6.72%) Support Engineer
5 32 (6.72%) Technical Engineer
5 32 (6.72%) Technical Support
5 32 (6.72%) Technical Support Engineer
6 27 (5.67%) Java Developer
7 26 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 26 (5.46%) Lead
7 26 (5.46%) React Developer
8 24 (5.04%) UX Engineer
9 23 (4.83%) Designer
10 21 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 14 (2.94%) .NET Developer
11 14 (2.94%) Consultant
11 14 (2.94%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (86.34%) HTML
2 216 (45.38%) React
3 145 (30.46%) AngularJS
4 100 (21.01%) HTML5
5 91 (19.12%) REST
6 82 (17.23%) RESTful
7 81 (17.02%) Node.js
8 71 (14.92%) CSS3
9 68 (14.29%) .NET
10 54 (11.34%) Spring
11 51 (10.71%) Vue
12 50 (10.50%) Jest
13 40 (8.40%) JSON
13 40 (8.40%) Sass
14 39 (8.19%) Spring Boot
15 37 (7.77%) jQuery
16 36 (7.56%) Bootstrap
16 36 (7.56%) GraphQL
17 31 (6.51%) Ajax
17 31 (6.51%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.34%) Mobile App
2 26 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.99%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.10%) CMDB
9 10 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.89%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.68%) Derivative
11 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.68%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.05%) Animation
14 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.61%) Linux
2 33 (6.93%) Unix
3 30 (6.30%) Android
4 27 (5.67%) Windows
5 7 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.63%) CentOS
8 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (44.75%) Agile
2 151 (31.72%) User Experience
3 149 (31.30%) CI/CD
4 124 (26.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 106 (22.27%) Front End Development
6 99 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (17.86%) DevOps
8 80 (16.81%) Microservices
9 62 (13.03%) UX Design
10 58 (12.18%) TDD
11 56 (11.76%) Test Automation
12 50 (10.50%) MVC
12 50 (10.50%) Scrum
13 49 (10.29%) Containerisation
13 49 (10.29%) OO
14 44 (9.24%) Code Quality
14 44 (9.24%) Computer Science
15 42 (8.82%) Software Engineering
16 41 (8.61%) SDLC
17 40 (8.40%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 368 (77.31%) JavaScript
2 138 (28.99%) Java
3 127 (26.68%) SQL
4 123 (25.84%) TypeScript
5 89 (18.70%) Python
6 53 (11.13%) C#
7 25 (5.25%) C++
7 25 (5.25%) Perl
8 21 (4.41%) PHP
9 17 (3.57%) Ruby
10 12 (2.52%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.10%) ABAP
12 9 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.68%) C
13 8 (1.68%) Groovy
14 7 (1.47%) JSX
14 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.26%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.05%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 90 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.45%) Degree
4 30 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) CCNA
9 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MCP
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CCNP
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.81%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.82%) WCAG
3 39 (8.19%) QA
4 6 (1.26%) GDPR
5 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 76 (15.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 54 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.31%) Argo
3 10 (2.10%) Terraform
4 4 (0.84%) Grafana
4 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) Kibana
5 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 68 (14.29%) Oracle
2 66 (13.87%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.61%) Adobe
4 34 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.09%) Splunk
6 28 (5.88%) Google
7 18 (3.78%) SAP
8 17 (3.57%) Salesforce
9 16 (3.36%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.68%) GoldenSource
11 6 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (1.26%) Sitecore
12 5 (1.05%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (1.05%) OutSystems
13 4 (0.84%) IBM
13 4 (0.84%) TIBCO