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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 145 93
Rank change year-on-year -136 -52 +14
Contract jobs citing CSS 437 535 798
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.92% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 7.51% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 356 534
10th Percentile £343 £262 £255
25th Percentile £406 £355 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £532 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 15
10th Percentile - £33.25 £57.78
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.91 £66.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.69 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £70.90 £66.65 -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +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 9,763 7,122 8,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.17% 25.50% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,416 4,807 5,269
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 175 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.60
25th Percentile £54.68 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -88 254 £494 +3.89% 390
North of England -87 53 £492 +23.00% 187
South East -78 49 £438 +25.00% 164
Yorkshire -32 30 £575 +21.05% 68
Midlands -65 30 £449 +19.73% 120
South West -32 29 £463 +8.82% 79
West Midlands -53 25 £463 +9.01% 62
North West -70 17 £478 +25.79% 91
East of England -23 16 £425 -12.82% 87
North East - 6 £350 - 32
East Midlands -27 5 £425 +17.08% 58
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 42 (9.61%) CMS
2 29 (6.64%) Confluence
3 26 (5.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 14 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.20%) WordPress
5 9 (2.06%) Camunda
6 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.14%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.92%) Kentico
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.69%) Apache
10 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.46%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.23%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.69%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Postilion
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 109 (24.94%) Azure
2 98 (22.43%) AWS
3 39 (8.92%) GitHub
4 36 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (8.01%) Figma
6 32 (7.32%) GCP
7 30 (6.86%) Serverless
8 24 (5.49%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.89%) Adobe Analytics
9 17 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
10 16 (3.66%) Power Automate
11 15 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.43%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.43%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.83%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.89%) HTTP
2 10 (2.29%) DNS
3 6 (1.37%) 5G
3 6 (1.37%) SSH
3 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.14%) 4G
5 4 (0.92%) BGP
5 4 (0.92%) Firewall
5 4 (0.92%) Intranet
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 4 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.92%) SSL
5 4 (0.92%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (15.10%) SQL Server
3 46 (10.53%) MySQL
4 40 (9.15%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.86%) MongoDB
6 29 (6.64%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.89%) Redis
8 11 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (2.29%) Power BI
10 8 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.37%) Big Data
11 6 (1.37%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.14%) Presto
12 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.92%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 135 (30.89%) Git
2 53 (12.13%) Jenkins
3 39 (8.92%) JIRA
4 32 (7.32%) GitLab
5 26 (5.95%) Maven
6 25 (5.72%) Cypress.io
7 24 (5.49%) JUnit
8 20 (4.58%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.58%) Storybook
9 19 (4.35%) Gradle
10 14 (3.20%) Mockito
11 11 (2.52%) MSI
11 11 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.29%) Selenium
13 9 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.06%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.83%) Browser DevTools
15 6 (1.37%) Vite
16 5 (1.14%) Claude Code
General
1 135 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.02%) Finance
3 63 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 55 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.76%) Banking
6 38 (8.70%) Marketing
7 23 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.35%) Publishing
9 16 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.52%) Retail
12 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.37%) Advertising
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.92%) Legal
17 3 (0.69%) Front Office
17 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 249 (56.98%) Developer
2 58 (13.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 58 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 49 (11.21%) Senior
4 35 (8.01%) React Developer
5 30 (6.86%) Python Developer
5 30 (6.86%) Senior Developer
6 25 (5.72%) Java Developer
6 25 (5.72%) Lead
7 17 (3.89%) Software Engineer
8 16 (3.66%) Designer
8 16 (3.66%) Web Developer
9 15 (3.43%) Lead Developer
10 14 (3.20%) Architect
11 13 (2.97%) Consultant
12 12 (2.75%) Angular Developer
12 12 (2.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 12 (2.75%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 12 (2.75%) Technical Leader
12 12 (2.75%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (90.62%) HTML
2 181 (41.42%) React
3 137 (31.35%) REST
4 110 (25.17%) HTML5
5 106 (24.26%) RESTful
6 95 (21.74%) CSS3
7 77 (17.62%) .NET
8 76 (17.39%) AngularJS
9 62 (14.19%) Node.js
10 52 (11.90%) OAuth
11 44 (10.07%) Spring Boot
12 40 (9.15%) Kafka
13 39 (8.92%) Redux
14 37 (8.47%) OAuth2
14 37 (8.47%) Spring
14 37 (8.47%) Terraform
15 35 (8.01%) Vue
16 33 (7.55%) Playwright
17 30 (6.86%) Jest
17 30 (6.86%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 38 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.20%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.52%) Replication
8 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.60%) NHS
10 6 (1.37%) CMDB
10 6 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.92%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.18%) Linux
2 20 (4.58%) Unix
3 17 (3.89%) Windows
4 3 (0.69%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.23%) Tizen
6 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (53.32%) Agile
2 200 (45.77%) CI/CD
3 116 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 115 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 114 (26.09%) DevOps
6 109 (24.94%) Front End Development
7 101 (23.11%) Microservices
8 100 (22.88%) User Experience
9 74 (16.93%) Scrum
10 65 (14.87%) AI
11 60 (13.73%) UX Design
12 59 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (13.04%) Computer Science
13 57 (13.04%) Software Engineering
14 51 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
15 49 (11.21%) Analytics
15 49 (11.21%) Code Quality
16 47 (10.76%) Containerisation
16 47 (10.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 352 (80.55%) JavaScript
2 148 (33.87%) SQL
3 137 (31.35%) TypeScript
4 83 (18.99%) Python
5 79 (18.08%) Java
6 64 (14.65%) C#
7 18 (4.12%) PHP
7 18 (4.12%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.43%) Bash
9 13 (2.97%) Bicep
9 13 (2.97%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.29%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.37%) Scala
13 3 (0.69%) Go
13 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) Perl
13 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.46%) C
14 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 87 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.50%) Degree
4 48 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (22.88%) Accessibility
2 73 (16.70%) QA
3 62 (14.19%) WCAG
4 11 (2.52%) NCSC
5 10 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
7 2 (0.46%) WAI
7 2 (0.46%) WAI-ARIA
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 91 (20.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 53 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.18%) Grafana
3 11 (2.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.60%) Kibana
4 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.47%) Oracle
3 36 (8.24%) Adobe
4 29 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.12%) Google
6 12 (2.75%) Splunk
7 11 (2.52%) IBM
7 11 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.29%) OutSystems
9 9 (2.06%) Veracode
10 7 (1.60%) Braze
10 7 (1.60%) Databricks
10 7 (1.60%) Optimizely
11 6 (1.37%) Apple
12 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.92%) Tealium
14 3 (0.69%) Marketo