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 citing CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 164 97
Rank change year-on-year -123 -67 +21
Contract jobs citing CSS 454 533 750
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.79% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.40% 6.96% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 348 472
10th Percentile £325 £242 £251
25th Percentile £406 £354 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £438 £486
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -10.03% -2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £610
90th Percentile £640 £638 £686
UK median daily rate £475 £443 £472
% change year-on-year +7.34% -6.30% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 14
10th Percentile £13.69 £31.00 £56.99
25th Percentile £19.14 £34.34 £62.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.54 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.95 -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +19.15%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

6 months to
11 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,314 7,662 7,480
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 21.90% 25.79% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,835 5,201 4,837
10th Percentile £381 £355 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £727 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.34% -6.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 174 96
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £26.38
25th Percentile £52.19 £42.63 £43.25
Median hourly rate £65.24 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -15.38% +15.60%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.03 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +8.70%

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 11 November 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 for jobs citing CSS in England over the 6 months to 11 November 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 11 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -102 248 £494 +3.89% 284
North of England -60 78 £525 +31.25% 74
South East -88 42 £438 +110.84% 62
North West -49 38 £537 +42.25% 42
Yorkshire -23 34 £575 +16.46% 21
Midlands -60 34 £457 +11.34% 49
South West -20 32 £469 +17.19% 27
West Midlands -33 30 £464 +10.71% 38
East of England -31 12 £400 -15.79% 27
North East -32 6 £350 - 11
East Midlands -29 4 £375 -7.98% 11
CSS
UK

CSS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1HTML93.4%424
2React46.5%211
3REST34.1%155
4HTML529.5%134
5CSS325.3%115
6RESTful25.1%114
7AngularJS17.4%79
8.NET17.2%78
9Node.js15.4%70
10Spring Boot11.9%54
11Kafka11.5%52
11OAuth11.5%52
13Spring10.8%49
14Vue10.6%48
15Playwright10.4%47
16OAuth29.0%41
17GraphQL8.4%38
17Redux8.4%38
19Jest8.1%37
20Next.js7.9%36