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

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 133 104
Rank change year-on-year -137 -29 -7
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 4.72% 9.66% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 406 567
10th Percentile £316 £284 £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 £579 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £458 £490
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.63% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 18
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.75 £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 £58.09 -
90th Percentile £65.60 £66.60 £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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -96 234 £484 +1.84% 103
North of England -91 49 £449 +14.41% 71
South East -92 46 £475 - 75
South West -53 25 £413 +10.00% 34
Yorkshire -47 23 £538 +26.47% 23
North West -69 23 £394 +3.62% 36
Midlands -79 22 £445 +18.67% 42
West Midlands -65 15 £475 +7.34% 18
East of England -26 14 £600 +33.33% 28
East Midlands -32 7 £425 +17.24% 24
North East -45 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 22 (5.51%) Confluence
3 18 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (2.01%) WordPress
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.00%) Kentico
9 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.75%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.25%) Mule
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
1 100 (25.06%) Azure
2 82 (20.55%) 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%) Serverless
9 23 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 18 (4.51%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.76%) SaaS
14 8 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.75%) Azure Functions
16 6 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (1.50%) OneDrive
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 60 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 40 (10.03%) MySQL
2 40 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (7.52%) Relational Database
4 27 (6.77%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.01%) Power BI
7 9 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (2.01%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.75%) Big Data
9 7 (1.75%) Couchbase
9 7 (1.75%) Tableau
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.50%) Redis
10 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Presto
12 4 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 83 (20.80%) Git
2 37 (9.27%) JIRA
3 31 (7.77%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.27%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.01%) GitLab
5 16 (4.01%) JUnit
6 14 (3.51%) Maven
6 14 (3.51%) Storybook
7 12 (3.01%) Vite
8 9 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (2.01%) Mockito
9 8 (2.01%) MSI
9 8 (2.01%) MSTest
10 7 (1.75%) webpack
11 6 (1.50%) Gradle
11 6 (1.50%) Mocha
11 6 (1.50%) tSQLt
12 5 (1.25%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 118 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.79%) Finance
3 53 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.28%) Banking
6 26 (6.52%) 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 8 (2.01%) 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
1 218 (54.64%) Developer
2 58 (14.54%) Senior
3 46 (11.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (9.02%) Senior Developer
5 35 (8.77%) React Developer
6 34 (8.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 30 (7.52%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.26%) Architect
9 21 (5.26%) 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
2 171 (42.86%) React
3 118 (29.57%) REST
4 95 (23.81%) HTML5
5 86 (21.55%) RESTful
6 85 (21.30%) AngularJS
7 79 (19.80%) CSS3
8 78 (19.55%) .NET
9 52 (13.03%) Node.js
10 51 (12.78%) Redux
11 42 (10.53%) Spring
12 40 (10.03%) Spring Boot
13 36 (9.02%) Jest
14 33 (8.27%) .NET Framework
15 30 (7.52%) OAuth
16 29 (7.27%) ASP.NET
16 29 (7.27%) jQuery
16 29 (7.27%) Vue
17 26 (6.52%) SOAP
18 25 (6.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.03%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
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 22 (5.51%) 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
1 196 (49.12%) Agile
2 149 (37.34%) CI/CD
3 106 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (26.07%) User Experience
5 94 (23.56%) DevOps
6 87 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (21.55%) Microservices
8 77 (19.30%) Front End Development
9 74 (18.55%) Test Automation
10 58 (14.54%) Scrum
11 53 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (13.03%) UX Design
13 51 (12.78%) AI
14 50 (12.53%) Code Quality
15 47 (11.78%) Software Engineering
16 43 (10.78%) MVC
16 43 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
17 40 (10.03%) Analytics
17 40 (10.03%) Design Patterns
18 36 (9.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 295 (73.93%) JavaScript
2 122 (30.58%) SQL
3 118 (29.57%) TypeScript
4 80 (20.05%) Java
5 74 (18.55%) Python
6 67 (16.79%) C#
7 17 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.01%) Bicep
9 8 (2.01%) PHP
9 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.50%) Ruby
10 6 (1.50%) Scala
10 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.75%) Perl
11 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) F#
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.27%) Degree
4 15 (3.76%) 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 88 (22.06%) Accessibility
2 58 (14.54%) QA
3 54 (13.53%) 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 63 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.02%) 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 53 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.28%) Oracle
3 31 (7.77%) ServiceNow
4 27 (6.77%) Adobe
5 17 (4.26%) Google
6 10 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.01%) Braze
7 8 (2.01%) OutSystems
7 8 (2.01%) Splunk
8 7 (1.75%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.50%) Optimizely
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) Workday
11 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.75%) ESRI
12 3 (0.75%) Marketo
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
12 3 (0.75%) Sybase
13 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
322 CSS jobs in England