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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 105 115
Rank change year-on-year -93 +10 -32
Contract jobs citing CSS 462 641 777
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 2.44% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.42% 10.92% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 361 552
10th Percentile £289 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £477
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -0.42% -9.14%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £706
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% -8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 29
10th Percentile £27.50 £26.25 £26.86
25th Percentile £31.25 £38.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +0.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.88 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £59.13 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.66% +2.83% -14.81%

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 7,201 5,869 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.94% 22.37% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 3,720 5,665
10th Percentile £358 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £658 £663
90th Percentile £737 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 184
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.38 £26.06
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.51 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.38 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.03 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -61 261 £525 +5.00% 183
South East -51 55 £213 -52.09% 151
North of England -67 54 £450 -4.26% 142
Midlands -64 37 £545 +14.74% 78
North West -38 30 £400 -4.19% 67
West Midlands -57 26 £419 -22.92% 31
South West -28 20 £400 +6.67% 67
Yorkshire -54 20 £475 -15.41% 55
East of England -25 15 £500 +37.93% 74
East Midlands -15 11 £573 +57.71% 47
North East -24 5 £475 +25.00% 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 29 (6.28%) CMS
2 23 (4.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.60%) Sitecore CMS
5 11 (2.38%) Confluence
6 6 (1.30%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.08%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.65%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.43%) Camunda
9 2 (0.43%) IIS
9 2 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) Kentico
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.22%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (3.25%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.60%) Sketch
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.87%) Trello
5 3 (0.65%) InVision
5 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.43%) Maya
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.43%) NUKE
7 1 (0.22%) Blender
7 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 119 (25.76%) AWS
2 118 (25.54%) Azure
3 61 (13.20%) GitHub
4 35 (7.58%) Figma
4 35 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.71%) GCP
6 28 (6.06%) Serverless
7 25 (5.41%) SaaS
8 22 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.33%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.46%) Sauce Labs
12 13 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.38%) npm
13 11 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.38%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.16%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.52%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.81%) Wireless
2 6 (1.30%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) Internet
3 3 (0.65%) SMS
4 2 (0.43%) BGP
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) OSPF
4 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.43%) RTMP
4 2 (0.43%) SSL
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DKIM
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.61%) Relational Database
2 48 (10.39%) MySQL
3 44 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (8.01%) SQL Server
5 33 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.38%) Redis
8 10 (2.16%) Power BI
9 7 (1.52%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
12 3 (0.65%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 118 (25.54%) Git
2 40 (8.66%) JIRA
3 34 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.19%) Cypress.io
5 23 (4.98%) Browser DevTools
6 22 (4.76%) Eclipse
7 21 (4.55%) Xcode
8 20 (4.33%) GitLab
8 20 (4.33%) JUnit
9 16 (3.46%) Android Studio
9 16 (3.46%) webpack
10 14 (3.03%) Mockito
11 13 (2.81%) Maven
12 11 (2.38%) Postman
13 10 (2.16%) Storybook
14 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
14 9 (1.95%) Gradle
15 8 (1.73%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.73%) Selenium
15 8 (1.73%) SonarQube
General
1 136 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.29%) Finance
3 63 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.23%) Banking
6 29 (6.28%) Marketing
7 11 (2.38%) Front Office
8 10 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.73%) Military
10 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.30%) Legal
12 5 (1.08%) Automotive
12 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.08%) Publishing
12 5 (1.08%) Retail
13 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.65%) Electronics
14 3 (0.65%) Games
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 281 (60.82%) Developer
2 74 (16.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 61 (13.20%) Senior
4 51 (11.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 39 (8.44%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.71%) React Developer
7 28 (6.06%) Lead
8 27 (5.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 22 (4.76%) Designer
9 22 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 21 (4.55%) Technical Support
10 21 (4.55%) Technical Support Engineer
10 21 (4.55%) UX Engineer
11 20 (4.33%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.11%) Java Developer
13 14 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.03%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.81%) Consultant
15 11 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (86.15%) HTML
2 229 (49.57%) React
3 144 (31.17%) AngularJS
4 92 (19.91%) REST
5 91 (19.70%) HTML5
6 82 (17.75%) RESTful
7 78 (16.88%) Node.js
8 68 (14.72%) CSS3
9 53 (11.47%) .NET
10 52 (11.26%) Spring
11 47 (10.17%) Jest
11 47 (10.17%) Vue
12 37 (8.01%) JSON
13 36 (7.79%) Redux
13 36 (7.79%) Sass
13 36 (7.79%) Spring Boot
14 30 (6.49%) SOAP
15 29 (6.28%) GraphQL
16 27 (5.84%) Next.js
17 26 (5.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.96%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.81%) CMDB
5 11 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.95%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.30%) Derivative
9 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.87%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.06%) Linux
2 25 (5.41%) Unix
3 24 (5.19%) Windows
4 23 (4.98%) Android
5 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.21%) Agile
2 154 (33.33%) User Experience
3 145 (31.39%) CI/CD
4 112 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 106 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (21.86%) Front End Development
7 89 (19.26%) DevOps
8 67 (14.50%) UX Design
9 65 (14.07%) Microservices
10 53 (11.47%) Containerisation
11 52 (11.26%) Scrum
12 46 (9.96%) Software Engineering
13 45 (9.74%) Test Automation
14 44 (9.52%) Code Quality
15 43 (9.31%) Analytics
16 41 (8.87%) AI
17 40 (8.66%) Design Patterns
17 40 (8.66%) TDD
18 39 (8.44%) Responsive Web Design
19 38 (8.23%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 343 (74.24%) JavaScript
2 125 (27.06%) Java
3 123 (26.62%) TypeScript
4 118 (25.54%) SQL
5 90 (19.48%) Python
6 48 (10.39%) C#
7 20 (4.33%) Perl
7 20 (4.33%) PHP
8 17 (3.68%) Ruby
9 14 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.81%) C++
11 9 (1.95%) ABAP
12 8 (1.73%) C
13 7 (1.52%) JSX
14 6 (1.30%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.08%) Go
15 5 (1.08%) Groovy
15 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.09%) Degree
4 25 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.43%) CCNP
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.87%) WCAG
3 29 (6.28%) QA
4 13 (2.81%) GDPR
5 5 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) NCSC
6 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 69 (14.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 48 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.38%) Argo
2 11 (2.38%) Terraform
3 8 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.39%) Adobe
3 42 (9.09%) Oracle
4 32 (6.93%) ServiceNow
5 27 (5.84%) Google
6 21 (4.55%) Splunk
7 20 (4.33%) Salesforce
8 19 (4.11%) SAP
9 16 (3.46%) Red Hat
10 14 (3.03%) Sitecore
11 9 (1.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.08%) Amplitude
13 5 (1.08%) mParticle
14 4 (0.87%) OutSystems
15 3 (0.65%) Blue Prism
15 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
15 3 (0.65%) ForgeRock
15 3 (0.65%) Hotjar
15 3 (0.65%) IBM