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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -123 +4 -27
Contract jobs citing CSS 432 569 720
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 2.34% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 10.39% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 382 513
10th Percentile £310 £346 £300
25th Percentile £404 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £712 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 21
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.05 £26.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £50.63 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £54.94 £48.59
% change year-on-year -45.39% +13.06% -25.25%

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 8,020 5,479 7,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.50% 22.50% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,365 3,800 5,372
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 162
10th Percentile £34.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -60 258 £513 -1.20% 154
North of England -92 49 £450 +12.50% 113
South East -86 37 £290 -40.21% 102
Midlands -66 34 £488 +16.42% 59
North West -45 30 £450 +12.50% 57
South West -43 24 £407 +9.19% 51
West Midlands -66 21 £475 +7.34% 29
East of England -32 16 £550 +22.22% 72
Yorkshire -52 15 £500 +6.38% 34
East Midlands -28 13 £545 +47.30% 30
North East -29 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 (6.71%) CMS
2 22 (5.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 18 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.01%) Confluence
5 12 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.16%) IIS
7 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.93%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.69%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.69%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Apache
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.23%) Moodle
10 1 (0.23%) Mule
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.24%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.78%) Sketch
3 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.93%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.93%) Trello
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.69%) InVision
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Shopify
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (26.16%) Azure
2 112 (25.93%) AWS
3 41 (9.49%) GitHub
4 34 (7.87%) Figma
5 33 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.71%) Serverless
7 26 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.09%) GCP
9 18 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (3.94%) Power Automate
10 17 (3.94%) PowerApps
11 16 (3.70%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.78%) SaaS
14 10 (2.31%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.62%) npm
16 7 (1.62%) Sauce Labs
17 6 (1.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.16%) Firewall
1 5 (1.16%) HTTP
2 4 (0.93%) SMS
2 4 (0.93%) Wireless
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.69%) VPN
4 2 (0.46%) BGP
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) OSPF
4 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.46%) RTMP
4 2 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) FTP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Intranet
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.03%) MySQL
3 38 (8.80%) NoSQL
4 36 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.01%) Power BI
7 12 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.31%) Redis
9 8 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.16%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.16%) Tableau
13 4 (0.93%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.69%) Big Data
14 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
15 2 (0.46%) DB2
15 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 84 (19.44%) Git
2 38 (8.80%) JIRA
3 27 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.86%) Cypress.io
4 21 (4.86%) GitLab
5 18 (4.17%) JUnit
6 14 (3.24%) Vite
7 13 (3.01%) Maven
7 13 (3.01%) webpack
8 12 (2.78%) Mockito
9 9 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.08%) Mocha
9 9 (2.08%) Postman
10 8 (1.85%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (1.85%) Jasmine
11 7 (1.62%) Android Studio
11 7 (1.62%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.62%) Selenium
11 7 (1.62%) Storybook
11 7 (1.62%) Xcode
General
1 116 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.28%) Finance
3 58 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 45 (10.42%) Banking
5 43 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (6.48%) Marketing
7 14 (3.24%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.78%) Front Office
9 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.39%) Publishing
12 5 (1.16%) Legal
13 4 (0.93%) Military
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Electronics
14 3 (0.69%) Games
14 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (59.95%) Developer
2 62 (14.35%) Senior
3 59 (13.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 43 (9.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (9.72%) Senior Developer
6 32 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 30 (6.94%) React Developer
8 24 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 22 (5.09%) Designer
10 20 (4.63%) Architect
11 19 (4.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 18 (4.17%) Lead
13 15 (3.47%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.01%) Python Developer
15 12 (2.78%) C# Developer
15 12 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (2.78%) ServiceNow Developer
16 11 (2.55%) UX Engineer
17 10 (2.31%) .NET Developer
17 10 (2.31%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (86.34%) HTML
2 213 (49.31%) React
3 132 (30.56%) AngularJS
4 91 (21.06%) HTML5
5 90 (20.83%) REST
6 80 (18.52%) RESTful
7 74 (17.13%) CSS3
8 62 (14.35%) .NET
8 62 (14.35%) Node.js
9 55 (12.73%) Spring
10 47 (10.88%) Spring Boot
11 46 (10.65%) Redux
12 44 (10.19%) Jest
13 34 (7.87%) Vue
14 30 (6.94%) Sass
15 29 (6.71%) JSON
16 28 (6.48%) ASP.NET
17 27 (6.25%) jQuery
18 24 (5.56%) .NET Framework
19 23 (5.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.32%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.85%) CMDB
5 8 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.16%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.16%) Derivative
7 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.93%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.09%) Windows
2 17 (3.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.55%) Unix
4 10 (2.31%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (44.68%) Agile
2 130 (30.09%) CI/CD
2 130 (30.09%) User Experience
3 100 (23.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 94 (21.76%) DevOps
5 93 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (20.83%) Front End Development
7 74 (17.13%) Microservices
8 50 (11.57%) Scrum
9 49 (11.34%) AI
9 49 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.11%) UX Design
11 47 (10.88%) Software Engineering
12 46 (10.65%) Test Automation
13 43 (9.95%) Analytics
14 42 (9.72%) Containerisation
15 38 (8.80%) Code Quality
16 37 (8.56%) MVC
16 37 (8.56%) Responsive Web Design
16 37 (8.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 307 (71.06%) JavaScript
2 122 (28.24%) SQL
3 121 (28.01%) TypeScript
4 102 (23.61%) Java
5 74 (17.13%) Python
6 55 (12.73%) C#
7 10 (2.31%) Ruby
8 9 (2.08%) ABAP
8 9 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.62%) Perl
10 7 (1.62%) PHP
11 5 (1.16%) C++
12 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.69%) Go
13 3 (0.69%) JSX
14 2 (0.46%) Bash
15 1 (0.23%) F#
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 67 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.71%) Degree
4 11 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.69%) CCNP
7 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.69%) PMP
8 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (17.36%) Accessibility
2 50 (11.57%) WCAG
3 36 (8.33%) QA
4 15 (3.47%) GDPR
5 5 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.93%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.46%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (13.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.01%) Terraform
3 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (11.11%) Adobe
2 46 (10.65%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.48%) Oracle
4 26 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.17%) SAP
6 17 (3.94%) Google
7 15 (3.47%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.31%) Splunk
9 9 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.85%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.16%) Qualtrics
11 5 (1.16%) Workday
12 4 (0.93%) Braze
12 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.69%) Blue Prism
13 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.69%) mParticle
13 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.69%) Symantec