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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 141 96
Rank change year-on-year -136 -45 +5
Contract jobs citing CSS 441 539 778
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.97% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 7.71% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 365 539
10th Percentile £350 £263 £261
25th Percentile £406 £358 £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 £671 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £445 £485
% change year-on-year +5.62% -8.25% -3.00%
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 9,845 6,989 8,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.49% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,472 4,751 5,384
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £442 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 168 180
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £53.90 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% +0.68%
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% +2.67%

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 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 22 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 22 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 -87 253 £488 +2.63% 295
North of England -84 57 £496 +26.53% 144
South East -81 46 £450 +19.28% 124
South West -23 35 £413 +3.13% 56
Yorkshire -39 32 £575 +19.48% 48
Midlands -74 29 £448 +12.00% 89
West Midlands -55 24 £463 +8.94% 40
North West -75 19 £478 +26.62% 78
East of England -33 15 £425 -10.53% 45
North East -31 6 £350 -27.08% 21
East Midlands -31 5 £425 +17.08% 49
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 (9.07%) CMS
2 32 (7.26%) Confluence
3 24 (5.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (3.85%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.95%) 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 (0.91%) Kentico
9 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.68%) Apache
11 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.45%) nginx
11 2 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.23%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.91%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) 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
1 104 (23.58%) Azure
2 99 (22.45%) AWS
3 35 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (7.94%) GitHub
4 32 (7.26%) Figma
4 32 (7.26%) GCP
4 32 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 31 (7.03%) Serverless
6 19 (4.31%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.08%) Adobe Analytics
7 18 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.08%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (3.17%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.27%) SaaS
12 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.81%) Google Analytics
12 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.31%) HTTP
2 10 (2.27%) DNS
3 6 (1.36%) 5G
3 6 (1.36%) SSH
3 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.13%) 4G
5 4 (0.91%) BGP
5 4 (0.91%) Firewall
5 4 (0.91%) Intranet
5 4 (0.91%) Network Security
5 4 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.91%) SSL
5 4 (0.91%) 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 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (14.51%) SQL Server
3 54 (12.24%) MySQL
4 36 (8.16%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.80%) NoSQL
6 28 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.63%) Redis
8 14 (3.17%) Power BI
9 11 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.81%) Tableau
12 6 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.36%) Big Data
12 6 (1.36%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.13%) Presto
13 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 129 (29.25%) Git
2 51 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.52%) JIRA
4 32 (7.26%) GitLab
5 26 (5.90%) Cypress.io
6 23 (5.22%) JUnit
6 23 (5.22%) Maven
7 20 (4.54%) Storybook
8 19 (4.31%) SonarQube
9 16 (3.63%) Gradle
10 13 (2.95%) Mockito
11 11 (2.49%) MSI
12 10 (2.27%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.27%) Selenium
13 9 (2.04%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
14 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.81%) Vite
15 4 (0.91%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 135 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.74%) Public Sector
3 63 (14.29%) Finance
4 54 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.20%) Banking
6 40 (9.07%) Marketing
7 23 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.08%) Publishing
9 15 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.72%) Retail
12 11 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.13%) Advertising
14 5 (1.13%) Games
14 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.91%) Front Office
15 4 (0.91%) Legal
16 3 (0.68%) Local Government
16 3 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 256 (58.05%) Developer
2 59 (13.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 54 (12.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 53 (12.02%) Senior
5 37 (8.39%) React Developer
6 34 (7.71%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.48%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.35%) Lead
9 26 (5.90%) Python Developer
10 17 (3.85%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.85%) Web Developer
11 16 (3.63%) Angular Developer
11 16 (3.63%) Architect
11 16 (3.63%) Consultant
11 16 (3.63%) Designer
12 15 (3.40%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.95%) ServiceNow Developer
13 13 (2.95%) Technical Leader
14 12 (2.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 12 (2.72%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (90.70%) HTML
2 184 (41.72%) React
3 135 (30.61%) REST
4 110 (24.94%) HTML5
5 98 (22.22%) RESTful
6 94 (21.32%) CSS3
7 78 (17.69%) AngularJS
8 76 (17.23%) .NET
9 64 (14.51%) Node.js
10 52 (11.79%) OAuth
11 49 (11.11%) Spring Boot
12 48 (10.88%) Redux
13 44 (9.98%) Spring
14 38 (8.62%) Jest
15 37 (8.39%) Kafka
15 37 (8.39%) OAuth2
16 36 (8.16%) Terraform
17 33 (7.48%) Playwright
17 33 (7.48%) Vue
18 31 (7.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.63%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.72%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.27%) 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 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.91%) Equities
11 4 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.99%) Linux
2 18 (4.08%) Unix
2 18 (4.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.68%) Android
4 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.23%) Tizen
5 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (53.51%) Agile
2 194 (43.99%) CI/CD
3 115 (26.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 114 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (25.40%) DevOps
5 112 (25.40%) Test Automation
6 99 (22.45%) Front End Development
7 97 (22.00%) Microservices
7 97 (22.00%) User Experience
8 75 (17.01%) Scrum
9 61 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (13.61%) AI
11 57 (12.93%) Code Quality
11 57 (12.93%) UX Design
12 54 (12.24%) Software Engineering
13 53 (12.02%) Computer Science
14 51 (11.56%) Analytics
15 50 (11.34%) Performance Optimisation
16 46 (10.43%) Containerisation
17 44 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 356 (80.73%) JavaScript
2 157 (35.60%) SQL
3 132 (29.93%) TypeScript
4 87 (19.73%) Java
5 86 (19.50%) Python
6 62 (14.06%) C#
7 18 (4.08%) PHP
8 15 (3.40%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.95%) Bicep
9 13 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.27%) Bash
10 10 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.04%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.36%) Scala
13 3 (0.68%) Go
13 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.68%) Perl
13 3 (0.68%) Ruby
13 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 88 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 55 (12.47%) Degree
4 45 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.91%) 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 (21.77%) Accessibility
2 71 (16.10%) QA
3 60 (13.61%) WCAG
4 11 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.49%) NCSC
5 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.91%) 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 86 (19.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.67%) Grafana
3 11 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.59%) Kibana
4 7 (1.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.07%) Adobe
3 36 (8.16%) Oracle
4 34 (7.71%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.76%) Google
6 14 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.27%) IBM
7 10 (2.27%) Splunk
8 9 (2.04%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.81%) Veracode
10 7 (1.59%) Braze
10 7 (1.59%) Databricks
10 7 (1.59%) Optimizely
11 5 (1.13%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.13%) Apple
12 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.91%) Tealium
12 4 (0.91%) Workday