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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 114 123
Rank change year-on-year -100 +9 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 463 613 714
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 2.43% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.96% 10.75% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 511
10th Percentile £300 £335 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -2.36% -4.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £599
90th Percentile £650 £687 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 25
10th Percentile £24.80 £26.05 £26.50
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +0.43% -14.81%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £65.50 £72.19
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £51.75
% change year-on-year -46.73% +8.82% -23.33%

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 7,767 5,703 7,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.49% 22.64% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,788 5,434
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £427 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 85 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.26 £20.99
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £81.80 £75.92
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -55 276 £520 +3.48% 162
South East -71 49 £218 -52.97% 142
North of England -87 45 £450 -2.17% 145
Midlands -78 38 £535 +14.75% 92
North West -50 27 £426 +2.04% 65
West Midlands -71 24 £444 -20.97% 39
South West -36 21 £390 +3.93% 79
East of England -25 15 £531 +18.06% 80
East Midlands -23 14 £561 +57.65% 53
Yorkshire -64 14 £488 -8.15% 58
North East -19 5 £475 +25.00% 26
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 (6.70%) CMS
2 26 (5.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.02%) Sitecore CMS
4 12 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.38%) Confluence
6 6 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.08%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.08%) SugarCRM
8 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.65%) IIS
9 3 (0.65%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.43%) Camunda
10 2 (0.43%) Drupal
10 2 (0.43%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Kentico
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (3.46%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.81%) Sketch
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.86%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.86%) Trello
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.65%) InVision
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) 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 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 131 (28.29%) Azure
2 130 (28.08%) AWS
3 63 (13.61%) GitHub
4 37 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (7.34%) Figma
5 34 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (7.13%) GCP
7 31 (6.70%) Serverless
8 22 (4.75%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.67%) SaaS
11 16 (3.46%) Power Platform
12 14 (3.02%) OpenShift
13 12 (2.59%) Sauce Labs
14 11 (2.38%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.38%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.94%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (1.73%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) Wireless
2 5 (1.08%) HTTP
3 4 (0.86%) SMS
4 3 (0.65%) Firewall
4 3 (0.65%) 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 (0.22%) DKIM
6 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.22%) Intranet
6 1 (0.22%) Skype
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.50%) MySQL
1 44 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (8.86%) Relational Database
4 37 (7.99%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (1.94%) Redis
8 8 (1.73%) Power BI
9 7 (1.51%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.51%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.30%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.86%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.86%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.65%) Big Data
12 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
13 2 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 106 (22.89%) Git
2 40 (8.64%) JIRA
3 32 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.18%) GitLab
5 22 (4.75%) Cypress.io
6 21 (4.54%) JUnit
7 16 (3.46%) Browser DevTools
8 15 (3.24%) Maven
8 15 (3.24%) Mockito
9 14 (3.02%) webpack
10 13 (2.81%) Xcode
11 12 (2.59%) Android Studio
11 12 (2.59%) Eclipse
12 11 (2.38%) Cucumber
12 11 (2.38%) Postman
13 9 (1.94%) Mocha
14 8 (1.73%) Jasmine
14 8 (1.73%) Selenium
14 8 (1.73%) Vite
15 7 (1.51%) Storybook
General
1 143 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.12%) Finance
3 69 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 50 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.99%) Banking
6 31 (6.70%) Marketing
7 13 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.59%) Front Office
9 8 (1.73%) Military
10 7 (1.51%) Retail
11 6 (1.30%) Legal
11 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.30%) Publishing
12 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Advertising
14 3 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 282 (60.91%) Developer
2 70 (15.12%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (14.69%) Senior
4 49 (10.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 44 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.91%) React Developer
7 24 (5.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 24 (5.18%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.97%) Designer
9 21 (4.54%) Java Developer
10 20 (4.32%) Lead
11 17 (3.67%) Architect
11 17 (3.67%) Technical Engineer
12 16 (3.46%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.46%) Technical Support
12 16 (3.46%) Technical Support Engineer
12 16 (3.46%) UX Engineer
13 14 (3.02%) C# Developer
13 14 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (85.31%) HTML
2 225 (48.60%) React
3 154 (33.26%) AngularJS
4 94 (20.30%) REST
5 87 (18.79%) HTML5
6 85 (18.36%) RESTful
7 75 (16.20%) Node.js
8 67 (14.47%) CSS3
9 64 (13.82%) .NET
10 57 (12.31%) Spring
11 52 (11.23%) Vue
12 41 (8.86%) Jest
13 40 (8.64%) Spring Boot
14 36 (7.78%) JSON
15 35 (7.56%) Sass
16 34 (7.34%) Redux
17 32 (6.91%) ASP.NET
18 27 (5.83%) .NET Framework
18 27 (5.83%) SOAP
19 24 (5.18%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.78%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.81%) CMDB
5 12 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.51%) Derivative
10 6 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.62%) Windows
2 24 (5.18%) Linux
3 22 (4.75%) Unix
4 17 (3.67%) Android
5 6 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (43.84%) Agile
2 154 (33.26%) CI/CD
3 143 (30.89%) User Experience
4 113 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (24.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 101 (21.81%) DevOps
7 93 (20.09%) Front End Development
8 78 (16.85%) Microservices
9 57 (12.31%) Containerisation
10 55 (11.88%) UX Design
11 52 (11.23%) Scrum
11 52 (11.23%) Test Automation
12 50 (10.80%) AI
12 50 (10.80%) Software Engineering
13 44 (9.50%) MVC
14 41 (8.86%) Design Patterns
15 40 (8.64%) Analytics
16 38 (8.21%) API Integration
17 37 (7.99%) Code Quality
18 36 (7.78%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 337 (72.79%) JavaScript
2 133 (28.73%) TypeScript
3 117 (25.27%) Java
4 115 (24.84%) SQL
5 86 (18.57%) Python
6 57 (12.31%) C#
7 17 (3.67%) PHP
8 14 (3.02%) Perl
8 14 (3.02%) Ruby
9 11 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.94%) ABAP
11 7 (1.51%) JSX
11 7 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.30%) C++
13 5 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.86%) Go
15 3 (0.65%) Bash
15 3 (0.65%) C
15 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.42%) Degree
4 20 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.65%) CCNP
7 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.65%) PMP
8 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) CCNA
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (14.69%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.50%) WCAG
3 36 (7.78%) QA
4 14 (3.02%) GDPR
5 5 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.08%) SLA
6 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.43%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (15.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 53 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.81%) Terraform
3 11 (2.38%) Argo
4 8 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.58%) Adobe
3 34 (7.34%) Oracle
4 30 (6.48%) ServiceNow
5 26 (5.62%) Google
6 17 (3.67%) SAP
6 17 (3.67%) Sitecore
7 16 (3.46%) Splunk
8 15 (3.24%) Red Hat
8 15 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.73%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.08%) mParticle
12 4 (0.86%) Amplitude
13 3 (0.65%) Blue Prism
13 3 (0.65%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.65%) Hotjar
13 3 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.65%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.65%) Symantec