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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 150 93
Rank change year-on-year -131 -57 +17
Contract jobs citing CSS 443 538 793
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.93% 2.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 7.55% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 358 527
10th Percentile £344 £260 £260
25th Percentile £406 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £536 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 15
10th Percentile - £33.25 £57.78
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.91 £66.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.69 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £70.90 £66.65 -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 9,888 7,127 7,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,506 4,804 5,199
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £448 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 174
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.08
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -83 256 £500 +5.26% 441
North of England -83 56 £500 +25.00% 127
South East -85 49 £438 +27.27% 127
Yorkshire -32 30 £575 +21.05% 37
Midlands -69 30 £449 +15.87% 79
South West -37 29 £463 +8.82% 55
West Midlands -53 25 £463 +9.01% 49
North West -62 20 £492 +29.47% 72
East of England -24 16 £425 -12.82% 52
North East - 6 £350 - 20
East Midlands -35 5 £425 +15.49% 30
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 42 (9.48%) CMS
2 29 (6.55%) Confluence
3 26 (5.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 14 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.16%) WordPress
5 10 (2.26%) Camunda
6 6 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.13%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.90%) Kentico
8 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.68%) Apache
10 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.23%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.68%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Postilion
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 111 (25.06%) Azure
2 102 (23.02%) AWS
3 39 (8.80%) GitHub
4 36 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.13%) GCP
5 35 (7.90%) Figma
6 30 (6.77%) Serverless
7 24 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.84%) Adobe Analytics
8 17 (3.84%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (3.84%) OpenShift
9 16 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (3.39%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.84%) HTTP
2 10 (2.26%) DNS
3 6 (1.35%) 5G
3 6 (1.35%) SSH
3 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.13%) 4G
5 4 (0.90%) BGP
5 4 (0.90%) Firewall
5 4 (0.90%) Intranet
5 4 (0.90%) Network Security
5 4 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.90%) SSL
5 4 (0.90%) VPN
6 2 (0.45%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) ATM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (15.12%) SQL Server
3 48 (10.84%) MySQL
4 42 (9.48%) Relational Database
5 31 (7.00%) MongoDB
6 29 (6.55%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.84%) Redis
8 11 (2.48%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (2.26%) Power BI
10 8 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.35%) Big Data
11 6 (1.35%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.13%) Presto
12 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (31.60%) Git
2 54 (12.19%) Jenkins
3 39 (8.80%) JIRA
4 32 (7.22%) GitLab
5 27 (6.09%) Maven
6 26 (5.87%) JUnit
7 25 (5.64%) Cypress.io
8 21 (4.74%) SonarQube
9 20 (4.51%) Gradle
9 20 (4.51%) Storybook
10 16 (3.61%) Mockito
11 12 (2.71%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.48%) MSI
13 10 (2.26%) Cucumber
13 10 (2.26%) Selenium
14 9 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
16 6 (1.35%) Claude Code
16 6 (1.35%) Vite
General
1 137 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.03%) Finance
3 63 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 55 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.84%) Banking
6 38 (8.58%) Marketing
7 23 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.29%) Publishing
9 16 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.48%) Retail
12 9 (2.03%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Advertising
14 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
16 3 (0.68%) Front Office
16 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 252 (56.88%) Developer
2 61 (13.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 58 (13.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 49 (11.06%) Senior
5 36 (8.13%) React Developer
6 31 (7.00%) Python Developer
7 30 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 26 (5.87%) Java Developer
9 25 (5.64%) Lead
10 17 (3.84%) Software Engineer
11 16 (3.61%) Designer
11 16 (3.61%) Web Developer
12 15 (3.39%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.16%) Architect
13 14 (3.16%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 13 (2.93%) Consultant
14 13 (2.93%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 12 (2.71%) Angular Developer
15 12 (2.71%) Technical Leader
15 12 (2.71%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (90.52%) HTML
2 187 (42.21%) React
3 141 (31.83%) REST
4 114 (25.73%) HTML5
5 108 (24.38%) RESTful
6 99 (22.35%) CSS3
7 77 (17.38%) .NET
7 77 (17.38%) AngularJS
8 65 (14.67%) Node.js
9 52 (11.74%) OAuth
10 46 (10.38%) Spring Boot
11 42 (9.48%) Kafka
12 40 (9.03%) Spring
13 39 (8.80%) Redux
14 37 (8.35%) OAuth2
14 37 (8.35%) Terraform
14 37 (8.35%) Vue
15 33 (7.45%) Playwright
16 30 (6.77%) Jest
16 30 (6.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 38 (8.58%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.84%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.16%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.48%) Replication
8 8 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.58%) NHS
10 6 (1.35%) CMDB
10 6 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.13%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.32%) Linux
2 21 (4.74%) Unix
3 17 (3.84%) Windows
4 3 (0.68%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.23%) Tizen
5 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (53.72%) Agile
2 206 (46.50%) CI/CD
3 119 (26.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 118 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (26.41%) Test Automation
6 116 (26.19%) DevOps
7 113 (25.51%) Front End Development
8 104 (23.48%) Microservices
9 100 (22.57%) User Experience
10 76 (17.16%) Scrum
11 65 (14.67%) AI
12 60 (13.54%) UX Design
13 59 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (13.09%) Computer Science
15 57 (12.87%) Software Engineering
16 52 (11.74%) Code Quality
17 50 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
18 49 (11.06%) Analytics
18 49 (11.06%) Containerisation
18 49 (11.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 358 (80.81%) JavaScript
2 149 (33.63%) SQL
3 140 (31.60%) TypeScript
4 85 (19.19%) Python
5 82 (18.51%) Java
6 64 (14.45%) C#
7 18 (4.06%) PHP
7 18 (4.06%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.39%) Bash
9 13 (2.93%) Bicep
9 13 (2.93%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.68%) Go
13 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.68%) Perl
13 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.45%) C
14 2 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 90 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 60 (13.54%) Degree
4 49 (11.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (22.35%) Accessibility
2 75 (16.93%) QA
3 61 (13.77%) WCAG
4 11 (2.48%) NCSC
5 10 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) WAI
7 2 (0.45%) WAI-ARIA
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 96 (21.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 56 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.09%) Grafana
3 11 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.58%) Kibana
4 7 (1.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.35%) Oracle
3 36 (8.13%) Adobe
4 29 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.51%) Google
6 12 (2.71%) Splunk
7 11 (2.48%) IBM
7 11 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.26%) OutSystems
9 9 (2.03%) Veracode
10 7 (1.58%) Braze
10 7 (1.58%) Databricks
10 7 (1.58%) Optimizely
11 6 (1.35%) Apple
12 5 (1.13%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.90%) Tealium
14 3 (0.68%) Marketo