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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 119 125
Rank change year-on-year -100 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing CSS 449 580 706
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 2.37% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.75% 10.49% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 355 507
10th Percentile £300 £347 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -3.92%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 23
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.05 £26.70
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +0.43% -14.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £50.63 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £51.75
% change year-on-year -46.73% +8.82% -20.38%

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 7,804 5,531 7,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.01% 22.63% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,764 5,391
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 84 187
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.22 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.14 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -57 266 £513 +0.99% 149
South East -91 47 £275 -40.54% 105
North of England -97 46 £450 +12.50% 112
Midlands -62 38 £545 +32.12% 69
North West -51 27 £426 +5.97% 59
West Midlands -66 23 £475 +1.06% 36
South West -44 22 £390 +3.93% 51
East Midlands -30 15 £561 +55.26% 33
Yorkshire -56 15 £488 +3.72% 31
East of England -19 14 £531 +18.06% 69
North East -26 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 32 (7.13%) CMS
2 26 (5.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 15 (3.34%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.12%) Sitecore CMS
5 10 (2.23%) Confluence
6 6 (1.34%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.11%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.67%) IIS
9 3 (0.67%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) Drupal
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.56%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.12%) Sketch
3 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.89%) Trello
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.67%) InVision
5 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (28.06%) Azure
2 124 (27.62%) AWS
3 58 (12.92%) GitHub
4 37 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.24%) Figma
5 34 (7.57%) Serverless
6 32 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.24%) GCP
8 22 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.23%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.12%) OpenShift
11 14 (3.12%) Power Automate
11 14 (3.12%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.90%) SaaS
13 10 (2.23%) Sauce Labs
14 8 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.56%) Wireless
2 4 (0.89%) HTTP
2 4 (0.89%) SMS
3 3 (0.67%) Firewall
3 3 (0.67%) Network Security
4 2 (0.45%) BGP
4 2 (0.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.45%) OSPF
4 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.45%) RTMP
4 2 (0.45%) SSL
4 2 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Intranet
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.69%) Relational Database
3 38 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (8.02%) NoSQL
5 35 (7.80%) MySQL
6 14 (3.12%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.23%) Redis
9 9 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (1.78%) Power BI
10 8 (1.78%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.56%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.89%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.89%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.67%) Big Data
14 3 (0.67%) CockroachDB
15 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.45%) DB2
15 2 (0.45%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 100 (22.27%) Git
2 36 (8.02%) JIRA
3 32 (7.13%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.12%) Cypress.io
4 23 (5.12%) GitLab
5 20 (4.45%) JUnit
6 15 (3.34%) Maven
7 14 (3.12%) Mockito
7 14 (3.12%) webpack
8 13 (2.90%) Browser DevTools
9 11 (2.45%) Vite
9 11 (2.45%) Xcode
10 10 (2.23%) Android Studio
10 10 (2.23%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.23%) Eclipse
10 10 (2.23%) Postman
11 9 (2.00%) Jasmine
11 9 (2.00%) Mocha
12 7 (1.56%) Selenium
12 7 (1.56%) Storybook
General
1 129 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.14%) Public Sector
3 66 (14.70%) Finance
4 43 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.69%) Banking
6 24 (5.35%) Marketing
7 12 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.45%) Front Office
9 7 (1.56%) Military
9 7 (1.56%) Retail
10 6 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.34%) Publishing
11 5 (1.11%) Legal
11 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.67%) Advertising
13 3 (0.67%) Electronics
13 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 272 (60.58%) Developer
2 73 (16.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 65 (14.48%) Senior
4 48 (10.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (9.35%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.90%) React Developer
7 26 (5.79%) Software Engineer
8 24 (5.35%) Designer
9 21 (4.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 21 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 17 (3.79%) Architect
11 16 (3.56%) Lead
12 15 (3.34%) C# Developer
13 14 (3.12%) Python Developer
13 14 (3.12%) Technical Engineer
13 14 (3.12%) UX Engineer
14 13 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (2.90%) Support Engineer
14 13 (2.90%) Technical Support
14 13 (2.90%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (84.63%) HTML
2 227 (50.56%) React
3 150 (33.41%) AngularJS
4 96 (21.38%) REST
5 89 (19.82%) HTML5
6 85 (18.93%) RESTful
7 74 (16.48%) Node.js
8 71 (15.81%) CSS3
9 66 (14.70%) .NET
10 56 (12.47%) Spring
11 49 (10.91%) Vue
12 42 (9.35%) Jest
13 40 (8.91%) Spring Boot
14 38 (8.46%) Sass
15 35 (7.80%) Redux
16 33 (7.35%) ASP.NET
17 30 (6.68%) .NET Framework
17 30 (6.68%) JSON
18 24 (5.35%) jQuery
19 23 (5.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.13%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.68%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.90%) CMDB
5 10 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.11%) Derivative
9 5 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.89%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.12%) Windows
2 20 (4.45%) Linux
3 17 (3.79%) Unix
4 14 (3.12%) Android
5 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (43.43%) Agile
2 150 (33.41%) CI/CD
3 140 (31.18%) User Experience
4 111 (24.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 102 (22.72%) DevOps
5 102 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (21.38%) Front End Development
7 81 (18.04%) Microservices
8 55 (12.25%) Containerisation
9 51 (11.36%) AI
9 51 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 50 (11.14%) Test Automation
10 50 (11.14%) UX Design
11 48 (10.69%) Scrum
12 40 (8.91%) Analytics
12 40 (8.91%) Design Patterns
13 39 (8.69%) MVC
14 37 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (8.24%) TDD
14 37 (8.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 324 (72.16%) JavaScript
2 138 (30.73%) TypeScript
3 112 (24.94%) SQL
4 108 (24.05%) Java
5 86 (19.15%) Python
6 59 (13.14%) C#
7 16 (3.56%) Ruby
8 11 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.23%) Perl
10 9 (2.00%) ABAP
10 9 (2.00%) PHP
11 8 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.56%) JSX
13 5 (1.11%) C++
14 4 (0.89%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.89%) Go
15 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) Bash
16 2 (0.45%) Groovy
16 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.02%) Degree
4 17 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.67%) CCNP
7 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.67%) PMP
8 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) CCNA
9 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (16.26%) Accessibility
2 48 (10.69%) WCAG
3 31 (6.90%) QA
4 13 (2.90%) GDPR
5 5 (1.11%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (16.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 54 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.34%) Terraform
3 11 (2.45%) Argo
4 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 52 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.69%) Adobe
3 33 (7.35%) Oracle
4 27 (6.01%) ServiceNow
5 22 (4.90%) Google
6 17 (3.79%) SAP
6 17 (3.79%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.12%) Splunk
8 13 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.78%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.67%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.67%) mParticle
11 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.67%) Symantec
12 2 (0.45%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco
12 2 (0.45%) Informatica