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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -120 +3 -31
Contract jobs citing CSS 433 562 721
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 2.31% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.43% 10.24% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 371 514
10th Percentile £304 £341 £300
25th Percentile £404 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £706 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 21
10th Percentile £25.25 £25.85 £26.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £30.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £54.88 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% -4.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £50.63 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £48.94 £48.59
% change year-on-year -38.70% +0.72% -25.25%

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 7,975 5,487 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.51% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 3,797 5,356
10th Percentile £359 £363 £349
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 88 158
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.55
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.27 £72.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -60 263 £513 +0.99% 154
North of England -96 49 £450 +12.50% 113
South East -86 38 £290 -38.95% 102
Midlands -72 33 £525 +28.91% 59
North West -54 30 £450 +12.50% 57
South West -40 24 £407 +8.47% 51
West Midlands -62 21 £475 +3.26% 29
Yorkshire -51 15 £500 +6.38% 34
East of England -30 13 £531 +18.06% 72
East Midlands -30 12 £550 +49.25% 30
North East -27 5 £475 +25.00% 22
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 29 (6.70%) CMS
2 22 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 18 (4.16%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.00%) Confluence
5 12 (2.77%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.15%) IIS
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.92%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.69%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Drupal
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Kentico
10 1 (0.23%) Moodle
10 1 (0.23%) Mule
10 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.93%) Adobe XD
2 15 (3.46%) Sketch
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.92%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.92%) Trello
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.69%) InVision
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Shopify
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (26.33%) AWS
2 113 (26.10%) Azure
3 44 (10.16%) GitHub
4 37 (8.55%) Figma
5 33 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.16%) Serverless
7 29 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.24%) Power Platform
9 23 (5.31%) GCP
10 18 (4.16%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.93%) Power Automate
11 17 (3.93%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.77%) SaaS
15 8 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.85%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.85%) npm
16 7 (1.62%) Sauce Labs
17 6 (1.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) HTTP
2 4 (0.92%) SMS
2 4 (0.92%) Wireless
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) BGP
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) OSPF
4 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.46%) RTMP
4 2 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) FTP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Intranet
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.01%) MySQL
3 38 (8.78%) NoSQL
4 36 (8.31%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.77%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.77%) Power BI
7 10 (2.31%) Redis
8 9 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.92%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.92%) Tableau
13 3 (0.69%) Big Data
13 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.46%) DB2
14 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 84 (19.40%) Git
2 37 (8.55%) JIRA
3 27 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.08%) Cypress.io
5 21 (4.85%) GitLab
6 18 (4.16%) JUnit
7 14 (3.23%) Vite
8 13 (3.00%) Maven
8 13 (3.00%) webpack
9 12 (2.77%) Mockito
10 10 (2.31%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.08%) Mocha
11 9 (2.08%) Postman
12 8 (1.85%) Browser DevTools
12 8 (1.85%) Jasmine
13 7 (1.62%) Android Studio
13 7 (1.62%) Eclipse
13 7 (1.62%) Storybook
13 7 (1.62%) Xcode
14 6 (1.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 116 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.78%) Finance
3 63 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 45 (10.39%) Banking
5 43 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (6.47%) Marketing
7 14 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.77%) Front Office
9 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.39%) Publishing
12 5 (1.15%) Legal
12 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.15%) Military
13 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Electronics
14 3 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 259 (59.82%) Developer
2 66 (15.24%) Senior
3 60 (13.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 43 (9.93%) Senior Developer
5 40 (9.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 32 (7.39%) Java Developer
7 31 (7.16%) React Developer
8 25 (5.77%) Designer
8 25 (5.77%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.39%) Architect
10 18 (4.16%) Lead
11 17 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 14 (3.23%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.00%) Python Developer
14 12 (2.77%) C# Developer
14 12 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (2.77%) ServiceNow Developer
15 11 (2.54%) UX Designer
15 11 (2.54%) UX Engineer
16 10 (2.31%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (85.68%) HTML
2 217 (50.12%) React
3 131 (30.25%) AngularJS
4 95 (21.94%) HTML5
5 88 (20.32%) REST
6 83 (19.17%) RESTful
7 76 (17.55%) CSS3
8 66 (15.24%) Node.js
9 63 (14.55%) .NET
10 55 (12.70%) Spring
11 47 (10.85%) Jest
11 47 (10.85%) Redux
11 47 (10.85%) Spring Boot
12 35 (8.08%) Vue
13 34 (7.85%) Sass
14 29 (6.70%) ASP.NET
14 29 (6.70%) JSON
15 27 (6.24%) jQuery
16 25 (5.77%) .NET Framework
17 23 (5.31%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.54%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.85%) CMDB
5 8 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.15%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.15%) Derivative
7 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (0.92%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.08%) Windows
2 17 (3.93%) Linux
3 11 (2.54%) Unix
4 10 (2.31%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.88%) Agile
2 130 (30.02%) User Experience
3 128 (29.56%) CI/CD
4 101 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 91 (21.02%) DevOps
6 89 (20.55%) Front End Development
7 88 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (17.09%) Microservices
9 49 (11.32%) Software Engineering
9 49 (11.32%) UX Design
10 48 (11.09%) Scrum
11 47 (10.85%) AI
11 47 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (10.62%) Test Automation
13 42 (9.70%) Containerisation
14 41 (9.47%) Analytics
15 38 (8.78%) Code Quality
15 38 (8.78%) MVC
16 37 (8.55%) SDLC
17 35 (8.08%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 308 (71.13%) JavaScript
2 124 (28.64%) TypeScript
3 123 (28.41%) SQL
4 103 (23.79%) Java
5 73 (16.86%) Python
6 56 (12.93%) C#
7 9 (2.08%) ABAP
7 9 (2.08%) Ruby
7 9 (2.08%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.62%) Perl
9 7 (1.62%) PHP
10 6 (1.39%) JSX
11 5 (1.15%) C++
12 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.69%) Go
14 2 (0.46%) Bash
15 1 (0.23%) F#
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 73 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.70%) Degree
4 11 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.69%) CCNP
7 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.69%) PMP
8 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (16.86%) Accessibility
2 50 (11.55%) WCAG
3 36 (8.31%) QA
4 15 (3.46%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.92%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.46%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (13.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (11.78%) Adobe
2 47 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.47%) Oracle
4 24 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.16%) Google
5 18 (4.16%) SAP
6 17 (3.93%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.46%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.31%) Splunk
9 9 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.85%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.92%) Braze
11 4 (0.92%) Qualtrics
11 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.69%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.69%) mParticle
12 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.69%) Symantec
12 3 (0.69%) Workday