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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 111 126
Rank change year-on-year -95 +15 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 466 612 701
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 2.41% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.94% 10.68% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 375 504
10th Percentile £300 £337 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £477 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -0.88% -6.33%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £687 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 25
10th Percentile £24.80 £26.25 £26.50
25th Percentile £27.50 £37.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% +6.96% -14.81%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £68.13 £72.19
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £60.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.41% +15.24% -22.22%

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 7,844 5,730 7,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.60% 22.59% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,271 3,792 5,388
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -58 277 £525 +4.48% 161
South East -72 49 £218 -52.97% 147
North of England -82 47 £450 -4.26% 162
Midlands -72 37 £535 +13.83% 95
North West -48 28 £425 -5.03% 75
West Midlands -68 24 £444 -14.38% 39
South West -46 21 £390 +3.93% 84
East of England -25 16 £531 +18.06% 93
Yorkshire -68 15 £500 -10.95% 61
East Midlands -23 13 £561 +55.26% 55
North East -20 5 £475 +25.00% 30
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 (6.65%) CMS
2 25 (5.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 12 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.36%) Confluence
6 6 (1.29%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.07%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.07%) SugarCRM
8 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.64%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.43%) Camunda
10 2 (0.43%) Drupal
10 2 (0.43%) IIS
10 2 (0.43%) Moodle
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.21%) nginx
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.43%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.58%) Sketch
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.86%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.86%) Trello
5 3 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.64%) InVision
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.21%) InDesign
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Shopify
2 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 130 (27.90%) AWS
2 128 (27.47%) Azure
3 63 (13.52%) GitHub
4 34 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (7.08%) GCP
6 32 (6.87%) Figma
7 29 (6.22%) Serverless
8 22 (4.72%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.86%) SaaS
11 16 (3.43%) Power Platform
12 14 (3.00%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.79%) Sauce Labs
14 11 (2.36%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.36%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.15%) npm
16 9 (1.93%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.15%) Wireless
2 5 (1.07%) HTTP
3 4 (0.86%) SMS
4 3 (0.64%) Firewall
4 3 (0.64%) Network Security
5 2 (0.43%) BGP
5 2 (0.43%) DNS
5 2 (0.43%) Internet
5 2 (0.43%) LAN
5 2 (0.43%) OSPF
5 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.43%) RTMP
5 2 (0.43%) SSL
5 2 (0.43%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) DHCP
6 1 (0.21%) FTP
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) Intranet
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.87%) MySQL
2 42 (9.01%) Relational Database
2 42 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 41 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (7.94%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (1.72%) Power BI
9 7 (1.50%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.50%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.50%) Redis
10 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.86%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.64%) Big Data
12 3 (0.64%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.64%) Mixpanel
12 3 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 109 (23.39%) Git
2 40 (8.58%) JIRA
3 30 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.15%) Cypress.io
4 24 (5.15%) GitLab
5 21 (4.51%) JUnit
6 17 (3.65%) Browser DevTools
7 15 (3.22%) Mockito
7 15 (3.22%) webpack
8 14 (3.00%) Maven
8 14 (3.00%) Xcode
9 13 (2.79%) Android Studio
9 13 (2.79%) Eclipse
10 11 (2.36%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.15%) Postman
12 9 (1.93%) Jasmine
12 9 (1.93%) Mocha
13 8 (1.72%) Selenium
14 7 (1.50%) Storybook
15 6 (1.29%) Vite
General
1 142 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 72 (15.45%) Finance
3 67 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 51 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.37%) Banking
6 31 (6.65%) Marketing
7 13 (2.79%) Front Office
7 13 (2.79%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.72%) Military
9 7 (1.50%) Legal
10 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.29%) Publishing
10 6 (1.29%) Retail
11 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.64%) Advertising
13 3 (0.64%) Electronics
13 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (61.80%) Developer
2 71 (15.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (14.59%) Senior
4 49 (10.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 45 (9.66%) Senior Developer
6 35 (7.51%) React Developer
7 25 (5.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 23 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.72%) Lead
10 21 (4.51%) Designer
10 21 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.86%) Technical Engineer
12 17 (3.65%) Architect
12 17 (3.65%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.65%) Technical Support
12 17 (3.65%) Technical Support Engineer
12 17 (3.65%) UX Engineer
13 14 (3.00%) C# Developer
13 14 (3.00%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (85.62%) HTML
2 229 (49.14%) React
3 152 (32.62%) AngularJS
4 95 (20.39%) REST
5 90 (19.31%) HTML5
6 85 (18.24%) RESTful
7 76 (16.31%) Node.js
8 70 (15.02%) CSS3
9 63 (13.52%) .NET
10 56 (12.02%) Spring
11 50 (10.73%) Vue
12 44 (9.44%) Jest
13 40 (8.58%) Spring Boot
14 37 (7.94%) JSON
15 36 (7.73%) Redux
15 36 (7.73%) Sass
16 32 (6.87%) ASP.NET
17 27 (5.79%) SOAP
18 26 (5.58%) .NET Framework
19 23 (4.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.79%) CMDB
4 13 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.72%) Derivative
8 8 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.86%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.58%) Windows
2 24 (5.15%) Linux
3 22 (4.72%) Unix
4 18 (3.86%) Android
5 6 (1.29%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (43.78%) Agile
2 157 (33.69%) CI/CD
3 143 (30.69%) User Experience
4 112 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 112 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (21.03%) DevOps
6 93 (19.96%) Front End Development
7 75 (16.09%) Microservices
8 56 (12.02%) Containerisation
9 55 (11.80%) UX Design
10 53 (11.37%) Test Automation
11 51 (10.94%) Scrum
12 49 (10.52%) Software Engineering
13 48 (10.30%) AI
14 43 (9.23%) MVC
15 42 (9.01%) Design Patterns
16 41 (8.80%) Code Quality
17 40 (8.58%) API Integration
18 39 (8.37%) Analytics
19 38 (8.15%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 341 (73.18%) JavaScript
2 132 (28.33%) TypeScript
3 118 (25.32%) Java
4 114 (24.46%) SQL
5 87 (18.67%) Python
6 56 (12.02%) C#
7 18 (3.86%) PHP
8 15 (3.22%) Perl
9 14 (3.00%) Ruby
10 11 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.93%) ABAP
12 7 (1.50%) JSX
13 6 (1.29%) C++
13 6 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.86%) Go
16 3 (0.64%) Bash
16 3 (0.64%) C
16 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.15%) Degree
4 20 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) CCNP
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.64%) PMP
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.21%) CCA
10 1 (0.21%) CCNA
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.02%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.44%) WCAG
3 35 (7.51%) QA
4 14 (3.00%) GDPR
5 5 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.86%) SLA
7 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.43%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (15.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 51 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.79%) Terraform
3 11 (2.36%) Argo
4 7 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 58 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.52%) Adobe
3 35 (7.51%) Oracle
4 31 (6.65%) ServiceNow
5 26 (5.58%) Google
6 17 (3.65%) SAP
6 17 (3.65%) Sitecore
6 17 (3.65%) Splunk
7 15 (3.22%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 8 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.07%) mParticle
11 4 (0.86%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.64%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.64%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.64%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.64%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.64%) Symantec
13 2 (0.43%) Perforce