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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 147 96
Rank change year-on-year -124 -51 +6
Contract jobs citing CSS 442 549 789
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.98% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 7.77% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 373 547
10th Percentile £347 £263 £260
25th Percentile £406 £356 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £600
90th Percentile £638 £674 £688
UK median daily rate £465 £443 £480
% change year-on-year +5.08% -7.81% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 13
10th Percentile - £33.25 £57.70
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.91 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.00 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £71.20 £66.65 -
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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -93 253 £488 +2.63% 399
North of England -80 58 £496 +26.53% 129
South East -81 46 £450 +20.00% 110
South West -22 35 £413 +6.45% 48
Yorkshire -40 32 £575 +19.48% 38
Midlands -76 29 £448 +12.00% 87
West Midlands -55 24 £463 +8.94% 39
North West -70 20 £478 +26.62% 73
East of England -28 15 £425 -10.53% 40
North East -38 6 £350 -27.08% 21
East Midlands -35 5 £425 +17.08% 48
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 40 (9.05%) CMS
2 32 (7.24%) Confluence
3 23 (5.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (3.85%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.94%) WordPress
6 8 (1.81%) Camunda
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.13%) OpenStack
8 5 (1.13%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.90%) Kentico
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.68%) Apache
11 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.45%) IIS
11 2 (0.45%) nginx
11 2 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.23%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.90%) Sketch
2 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.13%) Shopify
3 2 (0.45%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Postilion
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 103 (23.30%) Azure
2 98 (22.17%) AWS
3 35 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (7.92%) GitHub
4 32 (7.24%) Figma
4 32 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 31 (7.01%) GCP
5 31 (7.01%) Serverless
6 19 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.07%) PowerApps
8 17 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 16 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
10 14 (3.17%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.26%) SaaS
13 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.81%) Google Analytics
13 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.30%) HTTP
2 10 (2.26%) DNS
3 6 (1.36%) 5G
3 6 (1.36%) SSH
3 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.13%) 4G
5 4 (0.90%) BGP
5 4 (0.90%) Firewall
5 4 (0.90%) Intranet
5 4 (0.90%) Network Security
5 4 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.90%) SSL
5 4 (0.90%) VPN
6 2 (0.45%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
1 65 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 54 (12.22%) MySQL
3 35 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 31 (7.01%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.11%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.62%) Redis
7 14 (3.17%) Power BI
8 11 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.81%) Tableau
11 6 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.36%) Big Data
11 6 (1.36%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.13%) Presto
12 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (29.41%) Git
2 50 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.73%) JIRA
4 32 (7.24%) GitLab
5 26 (5.88%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.98%) JUnit
6 22 (4.98%) Maven
7 20 (4.52%) Storybook
8 18 (4.07%) SonarQube
9 15 (3.39%) Gradle
10 12 (2.71%) Mockito
11 11 (2.49%) MSI
12 10 (2.26%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.26%) Selenium
13 9 (2.04%) Vite
14 8 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
14 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 136 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 63 (14.25%) Finance
4 55 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (10.41%) Banking
6 40 (9.05%) Marketing
7 23 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.07%) Publishing
9 14 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.94%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.71%) Retail
12 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Front Office
13 5 (1.13%) Games
13 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Advertising
14 4 (0.90%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Local Government
15 3 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 257 (58.14%) Developer
2 59 (13.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 54 (12.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 54 (12.22%) Senior
4 38 (8.60%) React Developer
5 34 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.33%) Lead
7 26 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 17 (3.85%) Angular Developer
8 17 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.85%) Web Developer
9 16 (3.62%) Architect
9 16 (3.62%) Consultant
9 16 (3.62%) Designer
10 15 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 13 (2.94%) ServiceNow Developer
11 13 (2.94%) Technical Leader
12 12 (2.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (2.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (90.72%) HTML
2 185 (41.86%) React
3 135 (30.54%) REST
4 111 (25.11%) HTML5
5 98 (22.17%) RESTful
6 94 (21.27%) CSS3
7 78 (17.65%) AngularJS
8 77 (17.42%) .NET
9 64 (14.48%) Node.js
10 52 (11.76%) OAuth
11 49 (11.09%) Redux
11 49 (11.09%) Spring Boot
12 44 (9.95%) Spring
13 38 (8.60%) Jest
14 37 (8.37%) OAuth2
15 36 (8.14%) Kafka
15 36 (8.14%) Terraform
16 33 (7.47%) Playwright
16 33 (7.47%) Vue
17 30 (6.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.05%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.62%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.71%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.04%) Replication
8 8 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.36%) CMDB
9 6 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.13%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.13%) NHS
10 5 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.90%) Equities
11 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.75%) Linux
2 19 (4.30%) Windows
3 17 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.23%) Tizen
5 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (53.62%) Agile
2 194 (43.89%) CI/CD
3 116 (26.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 114 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (25.34%) DevOps
6 111 (25.11%) Test Automation
7 100 (22.62%) Front End Development
8 98 (22.17%) User Experience
9 97 (21.95%) Microservices
10 76 (17.19%) Scrum
11 61 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (13.35%) AI
13 57 (12.90%) Code Quality
13 57 (12.90%) UX Design
14 55 (12.44%) Software Engineering
15 52 (11.76%) Computer Science
16 50 (11.31%) Analytics
16 50 (11.31%) Performance Optimisation
17 45 (10.18%) Containerisation
18 44 (9.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 357 (80.77%) JavaScript
2 159 (35.97%) SQL
3 133 (30.09%) TypeScript
4 87 (19.68%) Java
5 86 (19.46%) Python
6 63 (14.25%) C#
7 18 (4.07%) PHP
8 15 (3.39%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.94%) Bicep
9 13 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.49%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.26%) Bash
12 9 (2.04%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.36%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.68%) Perl
14 3 (0.68%) Ruby
14 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 87 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.22%) Degree
4 44 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (21.72%) Accessibility
2 73 (16.52%) QA
3 60 (13.57%) WCAG
4 11 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.49%) NCSC
5 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.90%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.23%) WAI
8 1 (0.23%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 85 (19.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.66%) Grafana
3 11 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.58%) Kibana
4 7 (1.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.05%) Adobe
3 36 (8.14%) Oracle
4 34 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.52%) Google
6 14 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.26%) IBM
7 10 (2.26%) Splunk
8 9 (2.04%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.81%) Optimizely
9 8 (1.81%) Veracode
10 7 (1.58%) Braze
10 7 (1.58%) Databricks
11 5 (1.13%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.90%) Apple
12 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.90%) Tealium
12 4 (0.90%) Workday