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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 126 101
Rank change year-on-year -133 -25 -8
Contract jobs citing CSS 407 563 806
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 2.25% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.91% 9.95% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 384 578
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £404 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £490
% change year-on-year -2.07% -6.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 36 24
10th Percentile £17.12 £31.75 £37.63
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 £46.18
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -24.53% +8.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.54 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.60 £59.44 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +19.05%

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 8,281 5,656 7,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,926 5,494
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 115 264
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -82 234 £481 -1.28% 107
South East -73 49 £475 - 90
North of England -101 46 £475 +18.75% 86
North West -71 26 £384 -1.95% 44
Midlands -81 25 £463 +24.50% 49
South West -52 24 £410 +9.33% 51
East of England -19 20 £563 +25.00% 55
Yorkshire -46 18 £575 +43.75% 25
West Midlands -65 17 £475 +11.76% 18
East Midlands -35 8 £425 +18.72% 31
North East -41 2 £475 +10.47% 18
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 37 (9.09%) CMS
2 20 (4.91%) Confluence
3 19 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.97%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.23%) Kentico
7 5 (1.23%) WordPress
8 4 (0.98%) IIS
8 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.74%) Camunda
9 3 (0.74%) nginx
9 3 (0.74%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.49%) Apache
10 2 (0.49%) Drupal
10 2 (0.49%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.25%) Mule
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.98%) Sketch
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.98%) Shopify
3 2 (0.49%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 93 (22.85%) Azure
2 86 (21.13%) AWS
3 36 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.63%) Figma
6 25 (6.14%) GitHub
7 24 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (5.90%) Serverless
8 20 (4.91%) Power Automate
8 20 (4.91%) PowerApps
9 17 (4.18%) GCP
10 15 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.70%) SaaS
13 9 (2.21%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.97%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.72%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.97%) HTTP
2 6 (1.47%) Network Security
3 5 (1.23%) BGP
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) Intranet
3 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (1.23%) SSL
4 4 (0.98%) Firewall
5 3 (0.74%) VPN
6 2 (0.49%) RTMP
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.97%) SQL Server
2 36 (8.85%) MySQL
3 32 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 29 (7.13%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.69%) Power BI
6 13 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.97%) Big Data
8 7 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.72%) Tableau
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.23%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.23%) Metadata
10 5 (1.23%) Presto
10 5 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (16.95%) Git
2 37 (9.09%) JIRA
3 30 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.93%) GitLab
5 15 (3.69%) Cypress.io
6 14 (3.44%) JUnit
7 13 (3.19%) Vite
8 11 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.70%) Maven
9 8 (1.97%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (1.97%) Mockito
9 8 (1.97%) MSTest
9 8 (1.97%) Storybook
10 7 (1.72%) webpack
11 6 (1.47%) Mocha
11 6 (1.47%) tSQLt
12 5 (1.23%) MSI
12 5 (1.23%) Postman
12 5 (1.23%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.98%) Ant
General
1 113 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.99%) Finance
3 48 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (11.79%) Banking
4 45 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.37%) Marketing
6 15 (3.69%) Retail
7 14 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.19%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.21%) Front Office
11 6 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Legal
12 4 (0.98%) Local Government
12 4 (0.98%) Publishing
13 3 (0.74%) Games
13 3 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 233 (57.25%) Developer
2 59 (14.50%) Senior
3 52 (12.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 35 (8.60%) React Developer
6 30 (7.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 24 (5.90%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.42%) Architect
10 16 (3.93%) Consultant
10 16 (3.93%) Designer
11 14 (3.44%) Lead
11 14 (3.44%) Web Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Angular Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Python Developer
13 12 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.95%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 10 (2.46%) .NET Developer
15 10 (2.46%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (84.03%) HTML
2 178 (43.73%) React
3 102 (25.06%) REST
4 100 (24.57%) AngularJS
5 84 (20.64%) .NET
6 79 (19.41%) HTML5
7 72 (17.69%) RESTful
8 61 (14.99%) CSS3
9 51 (12.53%) Redux
10 47 (11.55%) Node.js
11 41 (10.07%) Spring
12 37 (9.09%) Spring Boot
13 34 (8.35%) .NET Framework
13 34 (8.35%) ASP.NET
14 32 (7.86%) jQuery
15 30 (7.37%) JSON
16 28 (6.88%) Jest
16 28 (6.88%) OAuth
17 26 (6.39%) .NET Core
17 26 (6.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.46%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.21%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.23%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.98%) Graphic Design
13 4 (0.98%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.91%) Windows
2 16 (3.93%) Unix
3 15 (3.69%) Linux
4 5 (1.23%) Android
5 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (47.67%) Agile
2 126 (30.96%) CI/CD
3 98 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (24.08%) User Experience
4 91 (22.36%) DevOps
5 90 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (18.43%) Front End Development
7 70 (17.20%) Microservices
8 60 (14.74%) Scrum
9 59 (14.50%) Test Automation
10 53 (13.02%) AI
11 49 (12.04%) Code Quality
12 48 (11.79%) Software Engineering
13 47 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (11.30%) UX Design
15 42 (10.32%) MVC
16 39 (9.58%) Analytics
17 38 (9.34%) Containerisation
18 37 (9.09%) Web Development
19 36 (8.85%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 289 (71.01%) JavaScript
2 124 (30.47%) SQL
3 106 (26.04%) TypeScript
4 82 (20.15%) Python
5 79 (19.41%) Java
6 74 (18.18%) C#
7 17 (4.18%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.93%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.47%) PHP
10 6 (1.47%) Ruby
10 6 (1.47%) Scala
10 6 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.23%) Bicep
12 3 (0.74%) Perl
12 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.49%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) F#
Qualifications
1 61 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.90%) Degree
4 12 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.74%) PMP
7 2 (0.49%) CCA
7 2 (0.49%) CCNP
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCNA
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (17.69%) Accessibility
2 53 (13.02%) QA
3 42 (10.32%) WCAG
4 13 (3.19%) GDPR
5 7 (1.72%) NCSC
6 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.98%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) WAI
10 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 56 (13.76%) Docker
2 5 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 33 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.65%) Terraform
3 12 (2.95%) Grafana
4 8 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (1.47%) Kibana
7 4 (0.98%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 46 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.58%) Oracle
3 30 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 28 (6.88%) Adobe
5 14 (3.44%) Google
6 12 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.70%) Braze
7 11 (2.70%) Sitecore
8 8 (1.97%) OutSystems
8 8 (1.97%) Splunk
9 6 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.47%) SAP
9 6 (1.47%) Workday
10 4 (0.98%) Qualtrics
10 4 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) ESRI
11 3 (0.74%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.74%) mParticle
11 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.74%) Sybase