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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 113 123
Rank change year-on-year -113 +10 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 445 572 710
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 2.36% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 10.44% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 356 510
10th Percentile £300 £343 £300
25th Percentile £403 £399 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -2.81% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 22
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.05 £26.48
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £37.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +5.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £50.63 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £51.00
% change year-on-year -46.73% +10.42% -20.00%

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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -64 265 £513 +1.99% 145
North of England -90 48 £450 +12.50% 103
South East -80 42 £246 -46.76% 100
Midlands -65 37 £545 +40.65% 55
North West -52 29 £426 +6.50% 53
South West -34 26 £407 +8.47% 45
West Midlands -55 22 £475 +1.88% 29
East Midlands -26 15 £561 +57.65% 26
Yorkshire -56 15 £488 +3.72% 31
East of England -33 13 £531 +18.06% 63
North East -22 5 £475 +25.00% 19
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 33 (7.42%) CMS
2 24 (5.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 16 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.15%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (2.02%) Confluence
6 6 (1.35%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.12%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.90%) IIS
8 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.67%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) Drupal
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.60%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.15%) Sketch
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.90%) Trello
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.67%) InVision
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 124 (27.87%) AWS
1 124 (27.87%) Azure
2 54 (12.13%) GitHub
3 37 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (7.87%) Figma
5 32 (7.19%) Serverless
6 30 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.29%) GCP
8 22 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 15 (3.37%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (2.92%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.47%) SaaS
15 9 (2.02%) Sauce Labs
16 8 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.80%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.80%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.35%) Wireless
2 4 (0.90%) HTTP
2 4 (0.90%) SMS
3 3 (0.67%) Firewall
3 3 (0.67%) Network Security
4 2 (0.45%) BGP
4 2 (0.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.45%) OSPF
4 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.45%) RTMP
4 2 (0.45%) SSL
4 2 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Intranet
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 37 (8.31%) MySQL
4 36 (8.09%) NoSQL
4 36 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.25%) Power BI
8 9 (2.02%) Redis
9 8 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.80%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.35%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.90%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.67%) Big Data
12 3 (0.67%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.45%) DB2
13 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (22.02%) Git
2 35 (7.87%) JIRA
3 30 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.39%) Cypress.io
5 21 (4.72%) GitLab
6 18 (4.04%) JUnit
7 13 (2.92%) Maven
7 13 (2.92%) Vite
7 13 (2.92%) webpack
8 12 (2.70%) Mockito
9 11 (2.47%) Browser DevTools
10 10 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.02%) Android Studio
11 9 (2.02%) Eclipse
11 9 (2.02%) Mocha
11 9 (2.02%) Postman
11 9 (2.02%) Xcode
12 8 (1.80%) Jasmine
13 7 (1.57%) Selenium
13 7 (1.57%) Storybook
General
1 126 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.51%) Public Sector
3 64 (14.38%) Finance
4 46 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (8.99%) Banking
6 27 (6.07%) Marketing
7 13 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.70%) Front Office
9 7 (1.57%) Military
9 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.57%) Retail
10 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Publishing
11 5 (1.12%) Legal
11 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.67%) Advertising
13 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Electronics
13 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 269 (60.45%) Developer
2 72 (16.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 65 (14.61%) Senior
4 45 (10.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (9.44%) Senior Developer
6 34 (7.64%) React Developer
7 26 (5.84%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 24 (5.39%) Designer
10 20 (4.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 17 (3.82%) Architect
12 15 (3.37%) Lead
13 14 (3.15%) C# Developer
14 13 (2.92%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.92%) Software Developer
14 13 (2.92%) UX Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
16 11 (2.47%) Technical Support
16 11 (2.47%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (84.94%) HTML
2 227 (51.01%) React
3 143 (32.13%) AngularJS
4 92 (20.67%) HTML5
5 89 (20.00%) REST
5 89 (20.00%) RESTful
6 74 (16.63%) Node.js
7 73 (16.40%) CSS3
8 66 (14.83%) .NET
9 58 (13.03%) Spring
10 46 (10.34%) Jest
11 44 (9.89%) Vue
12 43 (9.66%) Spring Boot
13 41 (9.21%) Redux
14 36 (8.09%) Sass
15 33 (7.42%) ASP.NET
16 30 (6.74%) JSON
17 29 (6.52%) .NET Framework
18 24 (5.39%) jQuery
18 24 (5.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 17 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.92%) CMDB
5 10 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.12%) Derivative
9 5 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.90%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.67%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.17%) Windows
2 19 (4.27%) Linux
3 14 (3.15%) Unix
4 13 (2.92%) Android
5 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (44.04%) Agile
2 146 (32.81%) CI/CD
3 137 (30.79%) User Experience
4 109 (24.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 101 (22.70%) DevOps
6 97 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (20.90%) Front End Development
8 80 (17.98%) Microservices
9 52 (11.69%) Containerisation
10 50 (11.24%) AI
11 49 (11.01%) Scrum
11 49 (11.01%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.01%) Test Automation
11 49 (11.01%) UX Design
12 41 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (8.99%) Analytics
14 38 (8.54%) Code Quality
14 38 (8.54%) Design Patterns
14 38 (8.54%) MVC
15 36 (8.09%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 320 (71.91%) JavaScript
2 136 (30.56%) TypeScript
3 117 (26.29%) SQL
4 108 (24.27%) Java
5 84 (18.88%) Python
6 59 (13.26%) C#
7 15 (3.37%) Ruby
8 12 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.02%) ABAP
9 9 (2.02%) Perl
9 9 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.80%) PHP
11 7 (1.57%) JSX
12 5 (1.12%) C++
13 4 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.90%) Go
13 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.45%) Bash
14 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.87%) Degree
4 16 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.67%) CCNP
7 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.67%) PMP
8 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) CCNA
9 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (16.40%) Accessibility
2 49 (11.01%) WCAG
3 34 (7.64%) QA
4 15 (3.37%) GDPR
5 5 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.12%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (15.28%) Docker
2 5 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 48 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.15%) Terraform
3 10 (2.25%) Argo
4 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.01%) Adobe
3 30 (6.74%) Oracle
4 26 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.17%) Google
6 17 (3.82%) SAP
6 17 (3.82%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.70%) Splunk
9 9 (2.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.67%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.67%) mParticle
11 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.67%) Symantec
12 2 (0.45%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco
12 2 (0.45%) Informatica