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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 131 102
Rank change year-on-year -143 -29 -6
Contract jobs citing CSS 399 586 778
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 2.15% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 9.66% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 406 567
10th Percentile £313 £281 £313
25th Percentile £404 £358 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £492
% change year-on-year - -8.54% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 18
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.50 £48.85
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 £62.19
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +93.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £65.60 £66.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +55.56%

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 8,467 6,064 7,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.21% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,557 4,172 5,262
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 135 243
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -94 237 £475 - 105
North of England -94 48 £460 +19.79% 71
South East -84 46 £475 - 76
South West -52 25 £413 +10.00% 32
Yorkshire -42 24 £538 +30.30% 22
North West -70 21 £394 +3.62% 37
Midlands -88 21 £445 +18.67% 42
West Midlands -68 14 £475 +7.34% 18
East of England -25 13 £588 +30.56% 28
East Midlands -32 7 £425 +17.24% 24
North East -39 3 £375 -21.88% 15
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 38 (9.52%) CMS
2 20 (5.01%) Confluence
3 19 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (2.51%) WordPress
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (1.00%) Kentico
9 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.75%) IIS
9 3 (0.75%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Sketch
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Shopify
2 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 99 (24.81%) Azure
2 80 (20.05%) AWS
3 36 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.27%) Figma
5 31 (7.77%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.52%) GitHub
7 25 (6.27%) GCP
8 24 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (6.02%) Serverless
9 20 (5.01%) Power Automate
10 18 (4.51%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.76%) SaaS
13 8 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.75%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.01%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) DNS
2 5 (1.25%) Intranet
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) BGP
3 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.00%) SSL
4 3 (0.75%) Firewall
4 3 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) MQTT
5 1 (0.25%) Skype
5 1 (0.25%) SMS
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 42 (10.53%) MySQL
3 40 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.01%) Power BI
8 9 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (2.01%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.75%) Big Data
10 7 (1.75%) Couchbase
10 7 (1.75%) Redis
10 7 (1.75%) Tableau
11 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.25%) Metadata
12 5 (1.25%) Presto
13 4 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 84 (21.05%) Git
2 35 (8.77%) JIRA
3 32 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.27%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.01%) GitLab
6 15 (3.76%) JUnit
7 14 (3.51%) Maven
7 14 (3.51%) Storybook
8 12 (3.01%) Vite
9 9 (2.26%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (2.01%) MSI
10 8 (2.01%) MSTest
11 7 (1.75%) Mockito
11 7 (1.75%) webpack
12 6 (1.50%) Gradle
12 6 (1.50%) Mocha
12 6 (1.50%) tSQLt
13 5 (1.25%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.79%) Finance
3 51 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 40 (10.03%) Banking
6 27 (6.77%) Marketing
7 16 (4.01%) Retail
8 15 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.51%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.26%) Publishing
12 7 (1.75%) Front Office
13 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.25%) Legal
14 5 (1.25%) Local Government
14 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.00%) Games
16 3 (0.75%) Military
17 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 217 (54.39%) Developer
2 58 (14.54%) Senior
3 44 (11.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (9.02%) Senior Developer
5 35 (8.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 34 (8.52%) React Developer
7 30 (7.52%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.01%) Architect
9 20 (5.01%) Designer
10 16 (4.01%) Angular Developer
10 16 (4.01%) Consultant
11 14 (3.51%) Lead
12 12 (3.01%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 12 (3.01%) Web Developer
13 11 (2.76%) UI Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (85.21%) HTML
2 170 (42.61%) React
3 116 (29.07%) REST
4 94 (23.56%) HTML5
5 85 (21.30%) AngularJS
6 84 (21.05%) RESTful
7 78 (19.55%) CSS3
8 76 (19.05%) .NET
9 52 (13.03%) Node.js
10 50 (12.53%) Redux
11 42 (10.53%) Spring
12 40 (10.03%) Spring Boot
13 35 (8.77%) Jest
14 32 (8.02%) .NET Framework
15 30 (7.52%) OAuth
16 29 (7.27%) jQuery
16 29 (7.27%) Vue
17 27 (6.77%) ASP.NET
17 27 (6.77%) Sass
18 25 (6.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.00%) CMDB
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.00%) Graphic Design
11 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.76%) Windows
2 16 (4.01%) Unix
3 14 (3.51%) Linux
4 5 (1.25%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (48.12%) Agile
2 148 (37.09%) CI/CD
3 103 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (25.56%) User Experience
5 92 (23.06%) DevOps
6 85 (21.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 85 (21.30%) Microservices
7 77 (19.30%) Front End Development
8 73 (18.30%) Test Automation
9 57 (14.29%) Scrum
10 53 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (12.78%) AI
12 50 (12.53%) UX Design
13 49 (12.28%) Code Quality
14 47 (11.78%) Software Engineering
15 43 (10.78%) MVC
16 42 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
17 40 (10.03%) Analytics
17 40 (10.03%) Design Patterns
18 36 (9.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 296 (74.19%) JavaScript
2 122 (30.58%) SQL
3 118 (29.57%) TypeScript
4 79 (19.80%) Java
5 74 (18.55%) Python
6 66 (16.54%) C#
7 17 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.51%) PHP
10 9 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.01%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
12 6 (1.50%) Scala
12 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) F#
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 67 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.27%) Degree
4 14 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCA
8 1 (0.25%) CCNA
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (22.31%) Accessibility
2 57 (14.29%) QA
3 55 (13.78%) WCAG
4 8 (2.01%) GDPR
4 8 (2.01%) NCSC
5 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WAI
9 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 62 (15.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.77%) Terraform
3 17 (4.26%) Grafana
4 7 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.50%) Kibana
6 5 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.00%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 54 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.28%) Oracle
3 31 (7.77%) ServiceNow
4 27 (6.77%) Adobe
5 17 (4.26%) Google
6 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.01%) Braze
7 8 (2.01%) OutSystems
7 8 (2.01%) Splunk
8 6 (1.50%) Optimizely
8 6 (1.50%) SAP
8 6 (1.50%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.25%) Workday
10 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.75%) ESRI
11 3 (0.75%) Marketo
11 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
11 3 (0.75%) Sybase
12 2 (0.50%) Amplitude