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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -94 +18 -38
Contract jobs citing CSS 458 595 707
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 2.41% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.85% 10.68% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 359 505
10th Percentile £300 £326 £300
25th Percentile £400 £391 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 25
10th Percentile £25.25 £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 £43.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £65.50 £70.00
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 7,826 5,573 7,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 22.59% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,752 5,399
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 86 200
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £82.53 £75.00
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -61 272 £525 +5.00% 167
South East -84 49 £218 -52.09% 124
North of England -86 46 £450 +12.50% 130
Midlands -69 36 £545 +32.12% 85
North West -51 27 £426 +5.97% 62
South West -44 22 £390 +3.93% 62
West Midlands -68 22 £469 -0.27% 39
Yorkshire -51 15 £500 +6.38% 43
East of England -25 14 £531 +18.06% 73
East Midlands -28 14 £561 +55.26% 46
North East -24 5 £475 +25.00% 27
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 (6.77%) CMS
2 26 (5.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.06%) Sitecore CMS
4 12 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.40%) Confluence
6 6 (1.31%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.09%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.66%) IIS
9 3 (0.66%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.44%) Camunda
10 2 (0.44%) Drupal
10 2 (0.44%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.22%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.49%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.06%) Sketch
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.87%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.87%) Trello
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.66%) InVision
6 2 (0.44%) 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 4 (0.87%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 127 (27.73%) Azure
2 125 (27.29%) AWS
3 60 (13.10%) GitHub
4 37 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.08%) Figma
5 34 (7.42%) Serverless
6 31 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (6.33%) GCP
8 22 (4.80%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.71%) Power Platform
11 14 (3.06%) OpenShift
11 14 (3.06%) SaaS
12 12 (2.62%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.62%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.40%) Sauce Labs
14 9 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.75%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.75%) Wireless
2 5 (1.09%) HTTP
3 4 (0.87%) SMS
4 3 (0.66%) Firewall
4 3 (0.66%) Network Security
5 2 (0.44%) BGP
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) LAN
5 2 (0.44%) OSPF
5 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.44%) RTMP
5 2 (0.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.44%) WAN
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.22%) FTP
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 46 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 41 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (8.73%) Relational Database
4 38 (8.30%) MySQL
5 35 (7.64%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.18%) Redis
9 8 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.75%) Power BI
10 7 (1.53%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.53%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.31%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.87%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.66%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.44%) Metadata
14 2 (0.44%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 102 (22.27%) Git
2 36 (7.86%) JIRA
3 32 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.02%) GitLab
5 22 (4.80%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.37%) JUnit
7 15 (3.28%) Browser DevTools
7 15 (3.28%) Maven
8 14 (3.06%) Mockito
8 14 (3.06%) webpack
9 12 (2.62%) Xcode
10 11 (2.40%) Android Studio
10 11 (2.40%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.40%) Eclipse
10 11 (2.40%) Postman
11 9 (1.97%) Jasmine
11 9 (1.97%) Mocha
11 9 (1.97%) Vite
12 8 (1.75%) Selenium
13 7 (1.53%) Storybook
General
1 134 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 68 (14.85%) Finance
4 48 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.30%) Banking
6 25 (5.46%) Marketing
7 12 (2.62%) Front Office
7 12 (2.62%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.75%) Military
9 7 (1.53%) Retail
10 6 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.31%) Publishing
11 5 (1.09%) Legal
11 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Advertising
13 3 (0.66%) Electronics
13 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 279 (60.92%) Developer
2 73 (15.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 66 (14.41%) Senior
4 49 (10.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 43 (9.39%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.99%) React Developer
7 25 (5.46%) Designer
8 24 (5.24%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.80%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 21 (4.59%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.15%) Lead
12 17 (3.71%) Architect
13 16 (3.49%) Technical Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) C# Developer
14 15 (3.28%) Support Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) Technical Support
14 15 (3.28%) Technical Support Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) UX Engineer
15 14 (3.06%) Python Developer
16 13 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (84.72%) HTML
2 224 (48.91%) React
3 154 (33.62%) AngularJS
4 91 (19.87%) REST
5 87 (19.00%) HTML5
5 87 (19.00%) RESTful
6 74 (16.16%) Node.js
7 68 (14.85%) CSS3
8 67 (14.63%) .NET
9 56 (12.23%) Spring
10 51 (11.14%) Vue
11 41 (8.95%) Jest
12 39 (8.52%) Spring Boot
13 37 (8.08%) Sass
14 36 (7.86%) JSON
15 33 (7.21%) Redux
16 31 (6.77%) ASP.NET
17 29 (6.33%) .NET Framework
18 25 (5.46%) jQuery
19 23 (5.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.64%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.84%) CMDB
5 12 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.53%) Derivative
9 6 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.46%) Windows
2 22 (4.80%) Linux
3 20 (4.37%) Unix
4 16 (3.49%) Android
5 5 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (43.67%) Agile
2 150 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 140 (30.57%) User Experience
4 112 (24.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 109 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (22.05%) DevOps
7 96 (20.96%) Front End Development
8 81 (17.69%) Microservices
9 57 (12.45%) Containerisation
10 52 (11.35%) Scrum
10 52 (11.35%) Test Automation
10 52 (11.35%) UX Design
11 49 (10.70%) AI
11 49 (10.70%) Software Engineering
12 42 (9.17%) Design Patterns
13 41 (8.95%) MVC
14 39 (8.52%) Analytics
15 38 (8.30%) Unit Testing
16 37 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (8.08%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 330 (72.05%) JavaScript
2 136 (29.69%) TypeScript
3 113 (24.67%) Java
3 113 (24.67%) SQL
4 88 (19.21%) Python
5 59 (12.88%) C#
6 15 (3.28%) Ruby
7 12 (2.62%) Perl
8 11 (2.40%) PHP
8 11 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.97%) ABAP
10 7 (1.53%) JSX
10 7 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.31%) C++
12 4 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.87%) Go
13 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.44%) Bash
14 2 (0.44%) C
14 2 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 90 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.73%) Degree
4 20 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) CCNP
8 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.66%) PMP
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CCA
10 1 (0.22%) CCNA
10 1 (0.22%) ISEB
10 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.28%) Accessibility
2 45 (9.83%) WCAG
3 33 (7.21%) QA
4 13 (2.84%) GDPR
5 5 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.09%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (15.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 54 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.06%) Terraform
3 11 (2.40%) Argo
4 7 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.70%) Adobe
3 33 (7.21%) Oracle
4 29 (6.33%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.02%) Google
6 17 (3.71%) SAP
6 17 (3.71%) Sitecore
7 15 (3.28%) Splunk
8 14 (3.06%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.84%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.75%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) mParticle
12 3 (0.66%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.66%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.66%) Symantec
13 2 (0.44%) CheckPoint
13 2 (0.44%) Cisco
13 2 (0.44%) Informatica