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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 115 125
Rank change year-on-year -125 +10 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 436 566 717
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 2.33% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.51% 10.38% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 366 514
10th Percentile £300 £338 £300
25th Percentile £401 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -1.55% -4.46%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £598
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.86% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 22
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.05 £26.48
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +5.00% -16.98%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £50.63 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £51.00
% change year-on-year -46.73% +10.42% -21.54%

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 7,915 5,454 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.81% 22.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,765 5,406
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 169
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -64 263 £513 +0.99% 154
North of England -90 49 £450 +12.50% 113
South East -87 40 £283 -39.73% 102
Midlands -66 34 £535 +31.69% 59
North West -46 31 £426 +6.50% 57
South West -40 25 £400 +6.67% 51
West Midlands -60 21 £475 +2.98% 29
Yorkshire -53 14 £500 +6.38% 34
East Midlands -32 13 £561 +57.65% 30
East of England -36 13 £531 +18.06% 72
North East -23 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 31 (7.11%) CMS
2 23 (5.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 17 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.98%) Sitecore CMS
5 10 (2.29%) Confluence
6 5 (1.15%) IIS
6 5 (1.15%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.69%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) Mendix
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 17 (3.90%) Adobe XD
2 15 (3.44%) Sketch
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.92%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.92%) 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 (1.15%) Shopify
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 117 (26.83%) Azure
2 116 (26.61%) AWS
3 45 (10.32%) GitHub
4 37 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.49%) Figma
5 31 (7.11%) Serverless
6 29 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (5.96%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.05%) GCP
9 18 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.67%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.67%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.52%) SaaS
13 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.83%) npm
13 8 (1.83%) Sauce Labs
14 6 (1.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Wireless
2 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 4 (0.92%) SMS
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
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%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Intranet
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.49%) NoSQL
2 37 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 36 (8.26%) MySQL
4 29 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.98%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.75%) Power BI
7 9 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.06%) Redis
8 8 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (1.83%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.38%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.92%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.92%) Tableau
12 3 (0.69%) Big Data
12 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.46%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (20.18%) Git
2 37 (8.49%) JIRA
3 31 (7.11%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.05%) Cypress.io
4 22 (5.05%) GitLab
5 18 (4.13%) JUnit
6 14 (3.21%) Vite
7 13 (2.98%) Maven
7 13 (2.98%) webpack
8 12 (2.75%) Mockito
9 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.06%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (2.06%) Mocha
10 9 (2.06%) Postman
11 8 (1.83%) Android Studio
11 8 (1.83%) Eclipse
11 8 (1.83%) Jasmine
11 8 (1.83%) Xcode
12 7 (1.61%) Storybook
13 6 (1.38%) Selenium
General
1 119 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 63 (14.45%) Finance
4 45 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (9.86%) Banking
6 27 (6.19%) Marketing
7 14 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.75%) Front Office
9 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Retail
10 6 (1.38%) Military
10 6 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.38%) Publishing
11 5 (1.15%) Legal
11 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Electronics
13 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (59.40%) Developer
2 63 (14.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 62 (14.22%) Senior
4 44 (10.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 40 (9.17%) Senior Developer
6 32 (7.34%) React Developer
7 29 (6.65%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.73%) Designer
8 25 (5.73%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Architect
10 18 (4.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 18 (4.13%) Lead
11 13 (2.98%) C# Developer
11 13 (2.98%) Python Developer
11 13 (2.98%) Software Developer
12 12 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.75%) UX Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.52%) UX Designer
14 10 (2.29%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (85.32%) HTML
2 218 (50.00%) React
3 135 (30.96%) AngularJS
4 93 (21.33%) HTML5
5 91 (20.87%) REST
6 83 (19.04%) RESTful
7 73 (16.74%) CSS3
8 67 (15.37%) Node.js
9 65 (14.91%) .NET
10 53 (12.16%) Spring
11 46 (10.55%) Jest
11 46 (10.55%) Spring Boot
12 44 (10.09%) Redux
13 36 (8.26%) Vue
14 35 (8.03%) Sass
15 31 (7.11%) JSON
16 30 (6.88%) ASP.NET
17 26 (5.96%) .NET Framework
17 26 (5.96%) jQuery
18 24 (5.50%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.96%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.75%) CMDB
4 11 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.15%) Derivative
8 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.28%) Windows
2 18 (4.13%) Linux
3 13 (2.98%) Unix
4 11 (2.52%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (43.81%) Agile
2 136 (31.19%) User Experience
3 132 (30.28%) CI/CD
4 101 (23.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 93 (21.33%) DevOps
6 92 (21.10%) Front End Development
7 88 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (16.51%) Microservices
9 50 (11.47%) AI
10 49 (11.24%) Scrum
10 49 (11.24%) UX Design
11 48 (11.01%) Software Engineering
11 48 (11.01%) Test Automation
12 44 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (9.63%) Containerisation
14 41 (9.40%) Analytics
15 37 (8.49%) MVC
16 36 (8.26%) Responsive Web Design
17 35 (8.03%) Design Patterns
18 34 (7.80%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 309 (70.87%) JavaScript
2 127 (29.13%) TypeScript
3 119 (27.29%) SQL
4 102 (23.39%) Java
5 78 (17.89%) Python
6 57 (13.07%) C#
7 12 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.06%) ABAP
8 9 (2.06%) Ruby
9 8 (1.83%) Perl
9 8 (1.83%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.38%) JSX
10 6 (1.38%) PHP
11 5 (1.15%) C++
12 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.69%) Go
13 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Bash
15 1 (0.23%) F#
15 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.65%) Degree
4 11 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.92%) 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%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (16.97%) Accessibility
2 50 (11.47%) WCAG
3 34 (7.80%) QA
4 15 (3.44%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.92%) 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 57 (13.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 40 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.98%) Terraform
3 6 (1.38%) 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 52 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.70%) Adobe
3 28 (6.42%) Oracle
4 27 (6.19%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.13%) SAP
6 17 (3.90%) Google
6 17 (3.90%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.67%) Sitecore
8 11 (2.52%) Splunk
9 9 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.83%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.92%) Qualtrics
11 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.69%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.69%) mParticle
12 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.69%) Symantec
12 3 (0.69%) Workday
13 2 (0.46%) Screaming Frog