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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -86 +13 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 456 651 759
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.42% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.50% 10.95% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 378 544
10th Percentile £285 £279 £300
25th Percentile £380 £381 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -1.58% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 22
10th Percentile £27.50 £26.25 £26.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £37.00 £32.84
Median hourly rate £47.50 £59.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -1.46% -9.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £56.88 £68.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £59.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.66% -1.46% -11.11%

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 7,019 5,943 7,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.07% 22.12% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,796 5,638
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 77 173
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.75
25th Percentile £46.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.05 £74.61 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -55 263 £525 +4.74% 153
South East -47 55 £208 -49.27% 275
North of England -66 54 £450 -4.26% 200
Midlands -58 34 £545 +14.74% 126
Yorkshire -40 27 £481 -14.29% 85
North West -45 23 £400 -10.61% 87
West Midlands -55 23 £400 -26.37% 40
South West -11 20 £400 +6.67% 131
East Midlands -14 11 £573 +57.71% 83
East of England -26 9 £488 +62.50% 150
North East -22 5 £475 +25.00% 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 23 (5.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 22 (4.82%) CMS
3 14 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.41%) Confluence
5 6 (1.32%) Headless CMS
5 6 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (1.32%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.10%) SugarCRM
7 3 (0.66%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.44%) Apache
8 2 (0.44%) Camunda
8 2 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.44%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Moodle
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.29%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.63%) Sketch
3 4 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.88%) Trello
4 3 (0.66%) InVision
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.66%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.44%) Maya
5 2 (0.44%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Blender
6 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.22%) InDesign
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.22%) Moqups
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Shopify
3 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 114 (25.00%) AWS
2 111 (24.34%) Azure
3 55 (12.06%) GitHub
4 35 (7.68%) Figma
5 31 (6.80%) GCP
6 29 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.14%) Serverless
8 25 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.48%) SaaS
9 22 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.39%) Power Platform
11 18 (3.95%) Sauce Labs
12 17 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.85%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.63%) npm
15 11 (2.41%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.41%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.19%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (1.54%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.29%) Wireless
2 6 (1.32%) HTTP
3 3 (0.66%) Internet
3 3 (0.66%) SMS
4 2 (0.44%) BGP
4 2 (0.44%) DNS
4 2 (0.44%) Firewall
4 2 (0.44%) LAN
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) OSPF
4 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.44%) RTMP
4 2 (0.44%) SSL
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DKIM
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) POP3
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
5 1 (0.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 53 (11.62%) MySQL
3 48 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 27 (5.92%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.85%) Redis
8 11 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.19%) Power BI
10 7 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.32%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.10%) MariaDB
12 5 (1.10%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.66%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.66%) DB2
14 3 (0.66%) Mixpanel
14 3 (0.66%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 128 (28.07%) Git
2 39 (8.55%) JIRA
3 37 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.92%) Browser DevTools
5 24 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 24 (5.26%) Eclipse
6 23 (5.04%) Xcode
7 19 (4.17%) webpack
8 18 (3.95%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.95%) GitLab
9 17 (3.73%) JUnit
10 13 (2.85%) Maven
11 12 (2.63%) Mockito
11 12 (2.63%) Postman
11 12 (2.63%) Storybook
12 10 (2.19%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.19%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.97%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.97%) Gradle
13 9 (1.97%) Selenium
General
1 140 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.13%) Finance
3 62 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.65%) Banking
5 38 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (6.36%) Marketing
7 11 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.19%) Front Office
9 9 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.75%) Military
11 7 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.10%) Automotive
12 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.10%) Publishing
12 5 (1.10%) Retail
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Legal
14 3 (0.66%) Advertising
14 3 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 273 (59.87%) Developer
2 69 (15.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 57 (12.50%) Senior
4 47 (10.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 38 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 28 (6.14%) Lead
6 28 (6.14%) React Developer
7 25 (5.48%) Support Engineer
7 25 (5.48%) Technical Engineer
7 25 (5.48%) Technical Support
7 25 (5.48%) Technical Support Engineer
8 23 (5.04%) UX Engineer
9 21 (4.61%) Designer
9 21 (4.61%) Java Developer
10 19 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (3.73%) Software Engineer
12 15 (3.29%) Python Developer
13 13 (2.85%) Consultant
14 12 (2.63%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (86.62%) HTML
2 217 (47.59%) React
3 143 (31.36%) AngularJS
4 96 (21.05%) HTML5
5 85 (18.64%) REST
6 82 (17.98%) RESTful
7 71 (15.57%) CSS3
7 71 (15.57%) Node.js
8 54 (11.84%) Spring
9 48 (10.53%) Jest
10 47 (10.31%) .NET
11 45 (9.87%) Vue
12 39 (8.55%) JSON
13 37 (8.11%) Spring Boot
14 35 (7.68%) Sass
15 33 (7.24%) Redux
16 32 (7.02%) GraphQL
17 29 (6.36%) Bootstrap
18 28 (6.14%) jQuery
18 28 (6.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 27 (5.92%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.63%) CMDB
5 10 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.19%) Low-Code
6 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.32%) Derivative
8 6 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.88%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.80%) Linux
2 27 (5.92%) Unix
3 26 (5.70%) Android
4 24 (5.26%) Windows
5 6 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.66%) CentOS
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (43.20%) Agile
2 156 (34.21%) User Experience
3 140 (30.70%) CI/CD
4 113 (24.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 102 (22.37%) Front End Development
6 96 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (17.76%) DevOps
8 66 (14.47%) UX Design
9 61 (13.38%) Microservices
10 54 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 49 (10.75%) Scrum
12 48 (10.53%) Test Automation
13 44 (9.65%) Software Engineering
14 43 (9.43%) TDD
15 42 (9.21%) MVC
16 41 (8.99%) Code Quality
17 40 (8.77%) Analytics
18 38 (8.33%) API Integration
19 37 (8.11%) OO
20 36 (7.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 353 (77.41%) JavaScript
2 128 (28.07%) Java
3 117 (25.66%) SQL
4 110 (24.12%) TypeScript
5 92 (20.18%) Python
6 39 (8.55%) C#
7 22 (4.82%) Perl
8 20 (4.39%) PHP
9 19 (4.17%) Ruby
10 14 (3.07%) C++
10 14 (3.07%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.97%) ABAP
12 8 (1.75%) C
13 7 (1.54%) JSX
13 7 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.10%) Apex Code
15 5 (1.10%) Go
15 5 (1.10%) Groovy
16 4 (0.88%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 90 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.31%) Degree
4 30 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.32%) MCP
6 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.44%) CCNP
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
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 (15.13%) Accessibility
2 39 (8.55%) WCAG
3 34 (7.46%) QA
4 12 (2.63%) GDPR
5 5 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) NCSC
6 2 (0.44%) 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 70 (15.35%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 49 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.41%) Argo
3 10 (2.19%) Terraform
4 7 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.75%) Adobe
2 49 (10.75%) Oracle
3 33 (7.24%) ServiceNow
4 28 (6.14%) Google
5 23 (5.04%) Splunk
6 19 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.95%) Red Hat
8 17 (3.73%) SAP
9 9 (1.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.75%) Sitecore
11 7 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.10%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.10%) mParticle
12 5 (1.10%) OutSystems
13 4 (0.88%) GoldenSource
14 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.66%) Blue Prism
14 3 (0.66%) IBM
14 3 (0.66%) Perforce