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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -91 +10 -32
Contract jobs citing CSS 465 657 766
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.45% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.49% 11.05% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 379 548
10th Percentile £287 £279 £300
25th Percentile £391 £382 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £488 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £592 £591 £584
90th Percentile £650 £700 £691
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 26
10th Percentile £27.50 £26.25 £26.83
25th Percentile £31.25 £38.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +2.98% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.88 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.49% +2.98% -12.96%

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 7,167 5,947 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.08% 22.19% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,807 3,801 5,641
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £657 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £758
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 77 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -63 263 £525 +4.74% 158
South East -52 56 £208 -49.27% 254
North of England -69 55 £450 -4.26% 184
Midlands -60 37 £535 +12.63% 123
North West -44 26 £400 -13.04% 76
West Midlands -62 26 £413 -24.07% 40
Yorkshire -42 25 £488 -13.18% 81
South West -16 20 £400 +6.67% 112
East of England -30 14 £500 +66.67% 133
East Midlands -20 11 £573 +57.71% 83
North East -21 5 £475 +25.00% 29
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 28 (6.02%) CMS
2 23 (4.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.58%) Confluence
5 11 (2.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.29%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.29%) 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
9 2 (0.43%) WordPress
10 1 (0.22%) Apache
10 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) Mendix
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.23%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.58%) Sketch
3 4 (0.86%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.86%) Trello
4 3 (0.65%) InVision
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.43%) Maya
5 2 (0.43%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Blender
6 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.22%) InDesign
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.22%) Moqups
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 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
1 118 (25.38%) AWS
2 115 (24.73%) Azure
3 58 (12.47%) GitHub
4 35 (7.53%) Figma
5 32 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (6.67%) GCP
7 28 (6.02%) Serverless
8 27 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (5.16%) SaaS
10 22 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 20 (4.30%) Power Platform
12 17 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (3.66%) Sauce Labs
13 13 (2.80%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.37%) npm
14 11 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.15%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.51%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.01%) Wireless
2 6 (1.29%) 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 55 (11.83%) Relational Database
2 52 (11.18%) MySQL
3 46 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 31 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.58%) Redis
8 11 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.15%) Power BI
10 7 (1.51%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.29%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.65%) DB2
13 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
13 3 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 125 (26.88%) Git
2 39 (8.39%) JIRA
3 35 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.59%) Browser DevTools
5 24 (5.16%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.95%) Eclipse
7 22 (4.73%) Xcode
8 19 (4.09%) GitLab
9 18 (3.87%) JUnit
10 17 (3.66%) Android Studio
10 17 (3.66%) webpack
11 13 (2.80%) Maven
11 13 (2.80%) Mockito
12 12 (2.58%) Postman
12 12 (2.58%) Storybook
13 10 (2.15%) Cucumber
14 9 (1.94%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.94%) Gradle
14 9 (1.94%) Selenium
14 9 (1.94%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 68 (14.62%) Finance
3 64 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.46%) Banking
5 42 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (6.24%) Marketing
7 11 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.15%) Front Office
9 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.72%) Military
9 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Automotive
10 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.08%) Publishing
10 5 (1.08%) Retail
11 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.86%) Legal
12 3 (0.65%) Advertising
12 3 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 282 (60.65%) Developer
2 74 (15.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 56 (12.04%) Senior
4 52 (11.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 37 (7.96%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.67%) React Developer
7 27 (5.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 27 (5.81%) Lead
8 24 (5.16%) Support Engineer
8 24 (5.16%) Technical Engineer
8 24 (5.16%) Technical Support
8 24 (5.16%) Technical Support Engineer
9 22 (4.73%) Designer
9 22 (4.73%) UX Engineer
10 20 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (3.66%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.23%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.80%) Consultant
15 12 (2.58%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (86.88%) HTML
2 228 (49.03%) React
3 148 (31.83%) AngularJS
4 97 (20.86%) HTML5
5 91 (19.57%) REST
6 86 (18.49%) RESTful
7 77 (16.56%) Node.js
8 72 (15.48%) CSS3
9 55 (11.83%) .NET
10 52 (11.18%) Spring
11 49 (10.54%) Jest
12 46 (9.89%) Vue
13 39 (8.39%) JSON
14 36 (7.74%) Spring Boot
15 35 (7.53%) Sass
16 33 (7.10%) Redux
17 30 (6.45%) GraphQL
17 30 (6.45%) jQuery
18 29 (6.24%) SOAP
19 26 (5.59%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.32%) Mobile App
2 28 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.58%) CMDB
5 10 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.15%) Low-Code
6 9 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.29%) Derivative
9 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.24%) Linux
2 26 (5.59%) Unix
3 25 (5.38%) Android
4 24 (5.16%) Windows
5 6 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (43.23%) Agile
2 158 (33.98%) User Experience
3 147 (31.61%) CI/CD
4 117 (25.16%) Full-Stack Development
5 110 (23.66%) Front End Development
6 100 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (18.92%) DevOps
8 69 (14.84%) UX Design
9 66 (14.19%) Microservices
10 54 (11.61%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.40%) Scrum
12 47 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 44 (9.46%) Code Quality
13 44 (9.46%) Software Engineering
14 42 (9.03%) TDD
15 41 (8.82%) Analytics
15 41 (8.82%) MVC
16 38 (8.17%) API Integration
17 37 (7.96%) Design Patterns
17 37 (7.96%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 357 (76.77%) JavaScript
2 127 (27.31%) Java
3 120 (25.81%) SQL
4 117 (25.16%) TypeScript
5 89 (19.14%) Python
6 47 (10.11%) C#
7 21 (4.52%) Perl
7 21 (4.52%) PHP
8 19 (4.09%) Ruby
9 14 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.80%) C++
11 9 (1.94%) ABAP
12 8 (1.72%) C
13 7 (1.51%) JSX
14 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.08%) Apex Code
15 5 (1.08%) Go
15 5 (1.08%) Groovy
16 4 (0.86%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 93 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.46%) Degree
4 27 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.29%) MCP
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
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 69 (14.84%) Accessibility
2 40 (8.60%) WCAG
3 33 (7.10%) QA
4 13 (2.80%) 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 71 (15.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 49 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.37%) Argo
2 11 (2.37%) Terraform
3 8 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.54%) Adobe
3 46 (9.89%) Oracle
4 31 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 28 (6.02%) Google
6 22 (4.73%) Splunk
7 19 (4.09%) Salesforce
8 17 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 17 (3.66%) SAP
9 13 (2.80%) Sitecore
10 9 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (1.51%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.08%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.08%) mParticle
12 5 (1.08%) OutSystems
13 4 (0.86%) GoldenSource
14 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.65%) Blue Prism
14 3 (0.65%) IBM
14 3 (0.65%) Perforce