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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -87 +6 -30
Contract jobs citing CSS 465 635 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 2.42% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.36% 10.82% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 358 549
10th Percentile £299 £312 £300
25th Percentile £400 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +0.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £708
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 29
10th Percentile £25.70 £26.25 £26.86
25th Percentile £27.50 £38.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +0.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.50 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £59.13 £57.50
% change year-on-year -23.89% +2.83% -16.36%

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 7,311 5,867 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.33% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,751 5,599
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £657
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 76 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.31 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -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 6 February 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 February 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 February 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 -61 265 £525 +5.00% 175
South East -58 54 £218 -51.53% 144
North of England -69 54 £450 -4.26% 136
Midlands -66 37 £535 +12.63% 71
North West -36 31 £400 -4.19% 67
West Midlands -61 26 £425 -21.77% 26
South West -27 20 £400 +4.30% 72
Yorkshire -54 19 £488 -13.18% 53
East of England -28 15 £513 +36.67% 76
East Midlands -19 11 £573 +57.71% 45
North East -24 5 £475 +25.00% 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 31 (6.67%) CMS
2 22 (4.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.80%) Sitecore CMS
4 12 (2.58%) Confluence
5 6 (1.29%) Headless CMS
5 6 (1.29%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.08%) SugarCRM
7 3 (0.65%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.43%) Camunda
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
8 2 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Mule
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.44%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.58%) Sketch
3 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.86%) Trello
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.65%) InVision
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.43%) Maya
6 2 (0.43%) NUKE
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 123 (26.45%) AWS
2 120 (25.81%) Azure
3 61 (13.12%) GitHub
4 37 (7.96%) Figma
5 35 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (6.67%) GCP
7 29 (6.24%) Serverless
8 24 (5.16%) SaaS
9 22 (4.73%) Amazon S3
10 19 (4.09%) Power Platform
11 18 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
13 13 (2.80%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.15%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.15%) npm
16 8 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.51%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.58%) Wireless
2 6 (1.29%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) Internet
3 3 (0.65%) SMS
4 2 (0.43%) BGP
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) OSPF
4 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.43%) RTMP
4 2 (0.43%) SSL
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DKIM
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.11%) Relational Database
2 46 (9.89%) MySQL
3 45 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (8.60%) SQL Server
5 34 (7.31%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.15%) Power BI
9 9 (1.94%) Redis
10 7 (1.51%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.86%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.65%) DB2
13 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
13 3 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 117 (25.16%) Git
2 40 (8.60%) JIRA
3 35 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.16%) Cypress.io
5 21 (4.52%) Browser DevTools
5 21 (4.52%) Eclipse
5 21 (4.52%) GitLab
6 20 (4.30%) JUnit
6 20 (4.30%) Xcode
7 15 (3.23%) Android Studio
7 15 (3.23%) webpack
8 14 (3.01%) Mockito
9 12 (2.58%) Maven
10 11 (2.37%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.37%) Storybook
11 10 (2.15%) Postman
12 9 (1.94%) Selenium
13 8 (1.72%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.72%) Gradle
13 8 (1.72%) Mocha
General
1 136 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.19%) Finance
3 65 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.96%) Banking
6 29 (6.24%) Marketing
7 11 (2.37%) Front Office
8 10 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.72%) Military
10 6 (1.29%) Legal
10 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.29%) Retail
11 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.08%) Publishing
12 4 (0.86%) Automotive
12 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.65%) Advertising
13 3 (0.65%) Electronics
13 3 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 281 (60.43%) Developer
2 75 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 62 (13.33%) Senior
4 52 (11.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 39 (8.39%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.67%) React Developer
7 26 (5.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 26 (5.59%) Lead
8 23 (4.95%) Designer
9 22 (4.73%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.52%) Technical Engineer
11 20 (4.30%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.30%) Technical Support
11 20 (4.30%) Technical Support Engineer
11 20 (4.30%) UX Engineer
12 19 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 14 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.80%) Consultant
14 13 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (2.58%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (86.02%) HTML
2 228 (49.03%) React
3 149 (32.04%) AngularJS
4 95 (20.43%) REST
5 89 (19.14%) HTML5
6 85 (18.28%) RESTful
7 83 (17.85%) Node.js
8 68 (14.62%) CSS3
9 54 (11.61%) .NET
10 52 (11.18%) Spring
11 49 (10.54%) Vue
12 46 (9.89%) Jest
13 38 (8.17%) Spring Boot
14 37 (7.96%) JSON
15 36 (7.74%) Sass
16 35 (7.53%) Redux
17 32 (6.88%) SOAP
18 28 (6.02%) GraphQL
19 27 (5.81%) ASP.NET
20 26 (5.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.68%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.80%) CMDB
5 12 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.29%) Derivative
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.81%) Linux
2 24 (5.16%) Unix
3 23 (4.95%) Windows
4 22 (4.73%) Android
5 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (43.01%) Agile
2 154 (33.12%) User Experience
3 151 (32.47%) CI/CD
4 113 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 107 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (22.15%) Front End Development
7 92 (19.78%) DevOps
8 69 (14.84%) Microservices
9 68 (14.62%) UX Design
10 55 (11.83%) Scrum
11 54 (11.61%) Containerisation
12 48 (10.32%) Software Engineering
13 46 (9.89%) Test Automation
14 44 (9.46%) Analytics
15 43 (9.25%) AI
15 43 (9.25%) Code Quality
16 42 (9.03%) Design Patterns
17 39 (8.39%) TDD
18 38 (8.17%) MVC
18 38 (8.17%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 344 (73.98%) JavaScript
2 126 (27.10%) Java
3 125 (26.88%) TypeScript
4 118 (25.38%) SQL
5 91 (19.57%) Python
6 50 (10.75%) C#
7 19 (4.09%) Perl
7 19 (4.09%) PHP
8 17 (3.66%) Ruby
9 14 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.80%) C++
11 9 (1.94%) ABAP
12 8 (1.72%) C
13 7 (1.51%) JSX
14 6 (1.29%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.29%) Groovy
14 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.08%) Go
15 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.25%) Degree
4 25 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.65%) PMP
8 2 (0.43%) CCNP
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (14.84%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.46%) WCAG
3 31 (6.67%) QA
4 13 (2.80%) GDPR
5 5 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) NCSC
6 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (15.48%) Docker
2 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 51 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.37%) Argo
2 11 (2.37%) Terraform
3 8 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.32%) Adobe
3 41 (8.82%) Oracle
4 33 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 27 (5.81%) Google
6 20 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.30%) Splunk
7 19 (4.09%) SAP
8 16 (3.44%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.23%) Sitecore
10 9 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (1.72%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.08%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.08%) mParticle
13 4 (0.86%) OutSystems
14 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.65%) Blue Prism
14 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.65%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.65%) Hotjar