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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 126 104
Rank change year-on-year -112 -22 -10
Contract jobs citing CSS 430 535 755
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 2.22% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 9.86% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 351 547
10th Percentile £313 £322 £307
25th Percentile £404 £380 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £653 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £475 £471 £498
% change year-on-year +0.85% -5.33% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile - £29.97 £28.28
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.25 £44.04
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.66 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% -38.15% +2.04%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.10 £60.36 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -19.29% -31.37% -2.86%

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 8,051 5,428 7,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.54% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,310 3,752 5,401
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £635 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 106 239
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.13 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 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 5 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 5 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 -72 253 £500 - 155
South East -71 48 £475 - 94
North of England -94 47 £450 +12.50% 91
Midlands -72 32 £463 +23.33% 52
North West -52 28 £388 -3.13% 53
South West -48 22 £409 +9.07% 50
West Midlands -62 22 £475 +11.76% 25
East of England -22 19 £575 +27.78% 53
Yorkshire -46 17 £575 +43.75% 27
East Midlands -36 10 £445 +24.30% 27
North East -35 2 £475 +25.00% 11
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 34 (7.91%) CMS
2 21 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (3.02%) Confluence
5 8 (1.86%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.16%) Kentico
7 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.16%) WordPress
8 4 (0.93%) IIS
9 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.70%) Camunda
9 3 (0.70%) nginx
9 3 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.47%) Apache
10 2 (0.47%) Drupal
10 2 (0.47%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Adobe XD
2 9 (2.09%) Sketch
3 5 (1.16%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.93%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 92 (21.40%) Azure
2 90 (20.93%) AWS
3 36 (8.37%) Figma
4 34 (7.91%) Power Platform
5 30 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.05%) Serverless
7 22 (5.12%) GitHub
8 20 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 19 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 17 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.95%) GCP
11 12 (2.79%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.56%) SaaS
13 9 (2.09%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.86%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.40%) Network Security
2 5 (1.16%) BGP
2 5 (1.16%) Firewall
2 5 (1.16%) HTTP
2 5 (1.16%) Intranet
2 5 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (1.16%) SSL
3 4 (0.93%) DNS
3 4 (0.93%) SMS
4 3 (0.70%) VPN
5 2 (0.47%) LAN
5 2 (0.47%) OSPF
5 2 (0.47%) RTMP
5 2 (0.47%) WAN
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) MQTT
6 1 (0.23%) Skype
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.65%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.84%) MySQL
2 38 (8.84%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 30 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.49%) Power BI
5 13 (3.02%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.09%) Big Data
7 8 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.86%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.63%) Tableau
9 6 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.16%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.16%) Metadata
10 5 (1.16%) Presto
11 4 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (16.28%) Git
2 30 (6.98%) JIRA
3 29 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.95%) GitLab
5 14 (3.26%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.26%) JUnit
6 11 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.56%) Maven
6 11 (2.56%) Vite
7 10 (2.33%) Browser DevTools
8 8 (1.86%) Mockito
8 8 (1.86%) MSTest
9 7 (1.63%) Storybook
9 7 (1.63%) webpack
10 6 (1.40%) Gradle
10 6 (1.40%) Mocha
10 6 (1.40%) Postman
10 6 (1.40%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.16%) Selenium
11 5 (1.16%) Xcode
General
1 112 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.88%) Finance
3 51 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.40%) Banking
5 48 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.98%) Marketing
7 14 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.02%) Retail
9 11 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.33%) Front Office
11 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Legal
13 4 (0.93%) Local Government
13 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Publishing
14 3 (0.70%) Games
14 3 (0.70%) Military
15 2 (0.47%) Automotive
15 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (56.05%) Developer
2 58 (13.49%) Senior
3 53 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (8.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 35 (8.14%) Senior Developer
5 32 (7.44%) React Developer
6 24 (5.58%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.12%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.88%) Designer
9 20 (4.65%) Architect
10 18 (4.19%) Lead
11 15 (3.49%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.02%) Angular Developer
12 13 (3.02%) Consultant
12 13 (3.02%) Web Developer
13 12 (2.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 12 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.79%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 11 (2.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (83.95%) HTML
2 190 (44.19%) React
3 120 (27.91%) AngularJS
4 98 (22.79%) REST
5 77 (17.91%) .NET
5 77 (17.91%) HTML5
6 69 (16.05%) RESTful
7 61 (14.19%) CSS3
8 49 (11.40%) Redux
9 44 (10.23%) Node.js
10 42 (9.77%) Spring
11 38 (8.84%) Spring Boot
12 34 (7.91%) jQuery
13 32 (7.44%) ASP.NET
13 32 (7.44%) JSON
14 30 (6.98%) OAuth
15 29 (6.74%) Vue
16 28 (6.51%) Jest
17 27 (6.28%) .NET Framework
18 26 (6.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (3.26%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.09%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.40%) CMDB
9 5 (1.16%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.16%) Graphic Design
9 5 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.70%) Derivative
11 3 (0.70%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.19%) Unix
2 17 (3.95%) Linux
2 17 (3.95%) Windows
3 7 (1.63%) Android
4 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Tizen
6 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (44.42%) Agile
2 123 (28.60%) CI/CD
3 120 (27.91%) User Experience
4 102 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 84 (19.53%) DevOps
7 82 (19.07%) Front End Development
8 63 (14.65%) Microservices
9 56 (13.02%) Scrum
10 54 (12.56%) Test Automation
11 52 (12.09%) UX Design
12 51 (11.86%) AI
12 51 (11.86%) Analytics
13 47 (10.93%) Code Quality
14 46 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (10.70%) Software Engineering
15 42 (9.77%) MVC
16 39 (9.07%) Responsive Web Design
17 37 (8.60%) Containerisation
18 34 (7.91%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 307 (71.40%) JavaScript
2 133 (30.93%) SQL
3 99 (23.02%) TypeScript
4 86 (20.00%) Java
5 84 (19.53%) Python
6 67 (15.58%) C#
7 17 (3.95%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.72%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.86%) PHP
10 8 (1.86%) Ruby
11 6 (1.40%) Scala
11 6 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.16%) Perl
13 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.47%) Bash
14 2 (0.47%) Go
15 1 (0.23%) F#
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 57 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.91%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) Degree
4 12 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.70%) CCNP
6 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.70%) PMP
7 2 (0.47%) CCA
7 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CCNA
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (15.58%) Accessibility
2 46 (10.70%) QA
3 40 (9.30%) WCAG
4 16 (3.72%) GDPR
5 6 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.93%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.47%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) WAI
10 1 (0.23%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 51 (11.86%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.42%) Terraform
3 11 (2.56%) Grafana
4 10 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.40%) Kibana
6 4 (0.93%) Argo
6 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 44 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.53%) Adobe
2 41 (9.53%) Oracle
3 30 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.26%) Google
4 14 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.56%) Sitecore
5 11 (2.56%) Splunk
6 8 (1.86%) Braze
6 8 (1.86%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.86%) OutSystems
7 7 (1.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 6 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.40%) Workday
9 5 (1.16%) Qualtrics
9 5 (1.16%) SAP
10 3 (0.70%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.70%) mParticle
10 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.70%) Sybase