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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 133 103
Rank change year-on-year -146 -30 -5
Contract jobs citing CSS 403 587 761
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 2.13% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 9.58% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 411 551
10th Percentile £300 £270 £300
25th Percentile £404 £358 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 16
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.50 £55.63
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 £67.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +93.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £65.60 £66.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +55.56%

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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -92 238 £475 - 84
North of England -93 51 £460 +19.79% 77
South East -98 46 £469 -1.32% 73
Yorkshire -37 28 £538 +30.30% 26
South West -50 27 £413 +10.00% 36
North West -71 20 £375 -0.66% 38
Midlands -86 19 £425 +13.33% 42
East of England -30 13 £588 +30.56% 27
West Midlands -68 12 £450 +5.88% 20
East Midlands -33 7 £425 +17.24% 22
North East -45 3 £375 -21.88% 16
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 38 (9.43%) CMS
2 22 (5.46%) Confluence
3 20 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (2.73%) WordPress
6 6 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.24%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.99%) Kentico
9 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.74%) IIS
9 3 (0.74%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Sketch
2 4 (0.99%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Shopify
2 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.31%) Azure
2 84 (20.84%) AWS
3 36 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.44%) Figma
5 32 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.70%) Serverless
7 25 (6.20%) GCP
8 24 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (5.71%) GitHub
10 21 (5.21%) Power Automate
11 19 (4.71%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.48%) SaaS
14 8 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.99%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.74%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.74%) OneDrive
16 6 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.98%) HTTP
2 5 (1.24%) DNS
2 5 (1.24%) Intranet
2 5 (1.24%) Network Security
3 4 (0.99%) BGP
3 4 (0.99%) Firewall
3 4 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (0.99%) SSL
3 4 (0.99%) VPN
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) MQTT
4 1 (0.25%) Skype
4 1 (0.25%) SMS
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 42 (10.42%) MySQL
3 40 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.70%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.23%) Power BI
8 9 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (1.99%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.74%) Big Data
10 7 (1.74%) Couchbase
10 7 (1.74%) Redis
10 7 (1.74%) Tableau
11 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 5 (1.24%) Presto
13 4 (0.99%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 87 (21.59%) Git
2 37 (9.18%) JIRA
3 31 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.96%) Cypress.io
5 15 (3.72%) GitLab
6 14 (3.47%) Maven
7 13 (3.23%) JUnit
7 13 (3.23%) Storybook
8 12 (2.98%) Vite
9 9 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.23%) MSI
10 8 (1.99%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (1.99%) MSTest
11 7 (1.74%) webpack
12 6 (1.49%) Gradle
12 6 (1.49%) Mocha
12 6 (1.49%) Mockito
12 6 (1.49%) tSQLt
13 5 (1.24%) Jasmine
13 5 (1.24%) Selenium
General
1 121 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.64%) Finance
3 55 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 49 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (10.17%) Banking
6 27 (6.70%) Marketing
7 16 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.97%) Retail
8 15 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.48%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.23%) Publishing
11 7 (1.74%) Front Office
12 6 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Games
13 5 (1.24%) Legal
13 5 (1.24%) Local Government
13 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.74%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 219 (54.34%) Developer
2 59 (14.64%) Senior
3 45 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (9.43%) Senior Developer
5 34 (8.44%) React Developer
6 32 (7.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 30 (7.44%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.21%) Designer
10 20 (4.96%) Architect
11 16 (3.97%) Angular Developer
11 16 (3.97%) Consultant
11 16 (3.97%) Lead
12 14 (3.47%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.23%) Web Developer
14 12 (2.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 12 (2.98%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.73%) Software Developer
15 11 (2.73%) UI Developer
16 10 (2.48%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (85.61%) HTML
2 168 (41.69%) React
3 118 (29.28%) REST
4 95 (23.57%) HTML5
5 85 (21.09%) RESTful
6 83 (20.60%) AngularJS
7 80 (19.85%) CSS3
8 77 (19.11%) .NET
9 52 (12.90%) Node.js
10 48 (11.91%) Redux
11 41 (10.17%) Spring
12 39 (9.68%) Spring Boot
13 35 (8.68%) Jest
14 34 (8.44%) OAuth
15 33 (8.19%) .NET Framework
16 31 (7.69%) Vue
17 29 (7.20%) jQuery
18 27 (6.70%) .NET Core
18 27 (6.70%) ASP.NET
19 26 (6.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.99%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.24%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.99%) CMDB
12 4 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.99%) Graphic Design
12 4 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.99%) NHS
13 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.71%) Windows
2 16 (3.97%) Unix
3 13 (3.23%) Linux
4 5 (1.24%) Android
5 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (48.64%) Agile
2 152 (37.72%) CI/CD
3 106 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (24.07%) User Experience
5 94 (23.33%) DevOps
6 88 (21.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 88 (21.84%) Microservices
7 76 (18.86%) Test Automation
8 75 (18.61%) Front End Development
9 57 (14.14%) Scrum
10 53 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.41%) AI
12 49 (12.16%) UX Design
13 48 (11.91%) Code Quality
14 47 (11.66%) Software Engineering
15 43 (10.67%) MVC
16 40 (9.93%) Analytics
16 40 (9.93%) Design Patterns
16 40 (9.93%) Performance Optimisation
17 39 (9.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 300 (74.44%) JavaScript
2 127 (31.51%) SQL
3 116 (28.78%) TypeScript
4 80 (19.85%) Python
5 76 (18.86%) Java
6 68 (16.87%) C#
7 17 (4.22%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.72%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.73%) PHP
10 9 (2.23%) Bicep
10 9 (2.23%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.49%) Ruby
11 6 (1.49%) Scala
11 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.74%) Perl
12 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) F#
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.20%) Degree
4 13 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.74%) PMP
6 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.25%) CCA
7 1 (0.25%) CCNA
7 1 (0.25%) CCNP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (22.83%) Accessibility
2 57 (14.14%) QA
3 56 (13.90%) WCAG
4 9 (2.23%) NCSC
5 8 (1.99%) GDPR
6 7 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.99%) SLA
8 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) WAI
10 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 67 (16.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.69%) Terraform
3 17 (4.22%) Grafana
4 7 (1.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.49%) Kibana
6 5 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.99%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 57 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.17%) Oracle
3 31 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 27 (6.70%) Adobe
5 17 (4.22%) Google
6 8 (1.99%) Braze
6 8 (1.99%) OutSystems
6 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.99%) Splunk
7 6 (1.49%) Optimizely
7 6 (1.49%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.24%) SAP
8 5 (1.24%) Workday
9 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.74%) ESRI
10 3 (0.74%) Marketo
10 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.74%) Qualtrics
10 3 (0.74%) Sybase
11 2 (0.50%) Amplitude