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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 104 115
Rank change year-on-year -102 +11 -32
Contract jobs citing CSS 461 649 774
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.44% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.32% 10.93% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 367 553
10th Percentile £301 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £384 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.52% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 28
10th Percentile £27.50 £26.25 £26.85
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% -12.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £56.88 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £59.13 £56.25
% change year-on-year -19.66% +5.11% -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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +5.00% 161
South East -54 54 £208 -51.52% 165
North of England -80 52 £450 -4.26% 138
Midlands -64 37 £545 +14.74% 79
North West -34 28 £400 -4.19% 63
West Midlands -54 26 £419 -22.92% 30
South West -28 20 £400 +6.67% 68
Yorkshire -52 20 £475 -15.41% 54
East of England -23 15 £500 +37.93% 75
East Midlands -20 11 £573 +57.71% 49
North East -22 5 £475 +25.00% 23
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 (6.29%) CMS
2 23 (4.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.60%) Sitecore CMS
5 11 (2.39%) Confluence
6 6 (1.30%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.30%) 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
10 1 (0.22%) Drupal
10 1 (0.22%) Kentico
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (3.25%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.60%) Sketch
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.87%) Trello
5 3 (0.65%) InVision
5 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.43%) Maya
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.43%) NUKE
6 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Blender
7 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 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
1 121 (26.25%) AWS
2 120 (26.03%) Azure
3 60 (13.02%) GitHub
4 35 (7.59%) Figma
5 34 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (6.94%) GCP
7 30 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (6.07%) Serverless
9 24 (5.21%) SaaS
10 22 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 20 (4.34%) Power Platform
12 17 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.47%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (2.82%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.39%) npm
15 11 (2.39%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.39%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.17%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.82%) Wireless
2 6 (1.30%) 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 49 (10.63%) MySQL
1 49 (10.63%) Relational Database
2 45 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (7.81%) SQL Server
4 33 (7.16%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.39%) Redis
7 10 (2.17%) Power BI
8 7 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
12 3 (0.65%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.43%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 119 (25.81%) Git
2 39 (8.46%) JIRA
3 34 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.21%) Cypress.io
5 23 (4.99%) Browser DevTools
6 22 (4.77%) Eclipse
7 21 (4.56%) Xcode
8 20 (4.34%) GitLab
8 20 (4.34%) JUnit
9 16 (3.47%) Android Studio
9 16 (3.47%) webpack
10 14 (3.04%) Mockito
11 13 (2.82%) Maven
12 12 (2.60%) Storybook
13 11 (2.39%) Postman
14 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
14 9 (1.95%) Gradle
15 8 (1.74%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.74%) Selenium
15 8 (1.74%) SonarQube
General
1 137 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 67 (14.53%) Finance
3 63 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.89%) Banking
6 29 (6.29%) Marketing
7 11 (2.39%) Front Office
7 11 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.74%) Military
9 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Automotive
10 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.08%) Legal
10 5 (1.08%) Publishing
10 5 (1.08%) Retail
11 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.65%) Electronics
12 3 (0.65%) Games
12 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 282 (61.17%) Developer
2 76 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
3 60 (13.02%) Senior
4 52 (11.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 39 (8.46%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.72%) React Developer
7 28 (6.07%) Lead
8 26 (5.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 22 (4.77%) Designer
9 22 (4.77%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (4.56%) Support Engineer
10 21 (4.56%) Technical Support
10 21 (4.56%) Technical Support Engineer
10 21 (4.56%) UX Engineer
11 20 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 18 (3.90%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (3.04%) Python Developer
15 13 (2.82%) Consultant
16 11 (2.39%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (86.55%) HTML
2 231 (50.11%) React
3 147 (31.89%) AngularJS
4 92 (19.96%) HTML5
4 92 (19.96%) REST
5 84 (18.22%) RESTful
6 78 (16.92%) Node.js
7 69 (14.97%) CSS3
8 54 (11.71%) Spring
9 53 (11.50%) .NET
10 48 (10.41%) Jest
11 47 (10.20%) Vue
12 38 (8.24%) JSON
12 38 (8.24%) Spring Boot
13 36 (7.81%) Sass
14 35 (7.59%) Redux
15 30 (6.51%) SOAP
16 29 (6.29%) GraphQL
17 26 (5.64%) ASP.NET
17 26 (5.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.98%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.82%) CMDB
5 11 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.95%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.30%) Derivative
10 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.87%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.65%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.07%) Linux
2 25 (5.42%) Unix
3 24 (5.21%) Windows
4 23 (4.99%) Android
5 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.30%) Agile
2 153 (33.19%) User Experience
3 148 (32.10%) CI/CD
4 115 (24.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 104 (22.56%) Front End Development
6 103 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (19.52%) DevOps
8 67 (14.53%) UX Design
9 66 (14.32%) Microservices
10 55 (11.93%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.50%) Scrum
12 44 (9.54%) Software Engineering
12 44 (9.54%) Test Automation
13 43 (9.33%) Code Quality
14 42 (9.11%) Analytics
15 41 (8.89%) TDD
16 39 (8.46%) AI
16 39 (8.46%) Design Patterns
17 38 (8.24%) API Integration
17 38 (8.24%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 346 (75.05%) JavaScript
2 128 (27.77%) Java
3 122 (26.46%) TypeScript
4 118 (25.60%) SQL
5 90 (19.52%) Python
6 46 (9.98%) C#
7 20 (4.34%) Perl
7 20 (4.34%) PHP
8 19 (4.12%) Ruby
9 14 (3.04%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.82%) C++
11 9 (1.95%) ABAP
12 8 (1.74%) C
13 7 (1.52%) JSX
14 6 (1.30%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.08%) Go
15 5 (1.08%) Groovy
15 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.87%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 91 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.33%) Degree
4 26 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
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
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.32%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.89%) WCAG
3 30 (6.51%) QA
4 13 (2.82%) 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 (15.40%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 48 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.39%) Argo
2 11 (2.39%) Terraform
3 8 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.41%) Adobe
3 43 (9.33%) Oracle
4 31 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 28 (6.07%) Google
6 21 (4.56%) Splunk
7 20 (4.34%) Salesforce
8 18 (3.90%) SAP
9 16 (3.47%) Red Hat
10 14 (3.04%) Sitecore
11 9 (1.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.08%) Amplitude
13 5 (1.08%) mParticle
14 4 (0.87%) OutSystems
15 3 (0.65%) Blue Prism
15 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
15 3 (0.65%) ForgeRock
15 3 (0.65%) Hotjar
15 3 (0.65%) IBM