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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 133 104
Rank change year-on-year -148 -29 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 402 584 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 2.13% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 9.57% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 411 548
10th Percentile £300 £270 £300
25th Percentile £404 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £539 £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 8,446 6,101 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.24% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,156
10th Percentile £363 £350 £361
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
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 £804
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +6.04% -13.75%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -95 238 £475 -0.73% 98
North of England -89 52 £470 +22.40% 93
South East -90 46 £469 +0.91% 89
Yorkshire -31 29 £575 +39.39% 32
South West -50 26 £413 +10.00% 41
North West -71 20 £375 -0.66% 46
Midlands -88 18 £425 +13.33% 60
East of England -25 13 £588 +30.56% 38
West Midlands -68 11 £450 +5.88% 29
East Midlands -32 7 £425 +17.24% 31
North East -43 3 £375 -21.88% 18
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 39 (9.70%) CMS
2 22 (5.47%) Confluence
3 20 (4.98%) SharePoint
4 15 (3.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (2.74%) WordPress
6 6 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.49%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (1.00%) Kentico
8 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.75%) IIS
8 3 (0.75%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.50%) Apache
9 2 (0.50%) Camunda
9 2 (0.50%) Drupal
9 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Sketch
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) 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 6 (1.49%) Shopify
2 4 (1.00%) 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
1 100 (24.88%) Azure
2 84 (20.90%) AWS
3 34 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (8.46%) Figma
4 32 (7.96%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.97%) Serverless
6 26 (6.47%) GCP
7 25 (6.22%) GitHub
8 24 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (5.22%) Power Automate
10 19 (4.73%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.49%) SaaS
13 8 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.99%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.74%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.74%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.74%) Google Analytics
14 7 (1.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.99%) HTTP
2 5 (1.24%) DNS
2 5 (1.24%) Intranet
2 5 (1.24%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) BGP
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.00%) SSL
3 4 (1.00%) 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 (14.93%) SQL Server
2 41 (10.20%) MySQL
2 41 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.97%) Relational Database
4 26 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.73%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.23%) Power BI
7 9 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.24%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.74%) Big Data
8 7 (1.74%) Couchbase
8 7 (1.74%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.74%) Redis
8 7 (1.74%) Tableau
9 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.24%) Metadata
10 5 (1.24%) Presto
11 4 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 87 (21.64%) Git
2 36 (8.96%) JIRA
3 32 (7.96%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.97%) Cypress.io
5 15 (3.73%) GitLab
6 14 (3.48%) Maven
7 13 (3.23%) JUnit
7 13 (3.23%) Storybook
8 12 (2.99%) Vite
9 9 (2.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.24%) MSI
10 8 (1.99%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (1.99%) MSTest
11 6 (1.49%) Gradle
11 6 (1.49%) Mocha
11 6 (1.49%) Mockito
11 6 (1.49%) tSQLt
11 6 (1.49%) webpack
12 5 (1.24%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.24%) SonarQube
General
1 122 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.43%) Finance
3 55 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 51 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (10.45%) Banking
6 27 (6.72%) Marketing
7 16 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.98%) Retail
8 15 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.49%) Publishing
10 6 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Front Office
11 5 (1.24%) Games
11 5 (1.24%) Legal
11 5 (1.24%) Local Government
11 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 217 (53.98%) Developer
2 57 (14.18%) Senior
3 46 (11.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 33 (8.21%) React Developer
6 32 (7.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 29 (7.21%) Java Developer
8 23 (5.72%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.22%) Designer
10 19 (4.73%) Architect
11 16 (3.98%) Angular Developer
11 16 (3.98%) Consultant
11 16 (3.98%) Lead
12 14 (3.48%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.23%) Python Developer
13 13 (3.23%) Web Developer
14 12 (2.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 11 (2.74%) Software Developer
16 10 (2.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 10 (2.49%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (85.57%) HTML
2 166 (41.29%) React
3 118 (29.35%) REST
4 94 (23.38%) HTML5
5 85 (21.14%) RESTful
6 83 (20.65%) AngularJS
7 79 (19.65%) CSS3
8 77 (19.15%) .NET
9 52 (12.94%) Node.js
10 46 (11.44%) Redux
11 40 (9.95%) Spring
12 38 (9.45%) Spring Boot
13 34 (8.46%) Jest
13 34 (8.46%) OAuth
14 32 (7.96%) .NET Framework
14 32 (7.96%) Vue
15 29 (7.21%) jQuery
16 28 (6.97%) ASP.NET
17 26 (6.47%) .NET Core
17 26 (6.47%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.99%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.24%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.00%) Equities
11 4 (1.00%) Graphic Design
11 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.00%) NHS
12 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.97%) Windows
2 16 (3.98%) Unix
3 14 (3.48%) Linux
4 5 (1.24%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (49.25%) Agile
2 152 (37.81%) CI/CD
3 106 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (24.13%) User Experience
5 93 (23.13%) DevOps
6 90 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 88 (21.89%) Microservices
8 75 (18.66%) Front End Development
8 75 (18.66%) Test Automation
9 56 (13.93%) Scrum
10 53 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (12.19%) AI
11 49 (12.19%) UX Design
12 48 (11.94%) Code Quality
13 47 (11.69%) Software Engineering
14 44 (10.95%) MVC
15 42 (10.45%) Analytics
16 40 (9.95%) Design Patterns
16 40 (9.95%) Performance Optimisation
17 39 (9.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 301 (74.88%) JavaScript
2 126 (31.34%) SQL
3 114 (28.36%) TypeScript
4 81 (20.15%) Python
5 75 (18.66%) Java
6 68 (16.92%) C#
7 17 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.73%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.74%) PHP
10 10 (2.49%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.24%) Bicep
12 6 (1.49%) Ruby
12 6 (1.49%) Scala
12 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.50%) Bash
15 1 (0.25%) F#
15 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.47%) Degree
4 13 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.75%) 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%) PhD
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (22.89%) Accessibility
2 58 (14.43%) QA
3 56 (13.93%) WCAG
4 9 (2.24%) NCSC
5 8 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.99%) GDPR
6 4 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) WAI
8 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 69 (17.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.21%) Terraform
3 17 (4.23%) 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 (1.00%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.95%) Oracle
3 30 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 28 (6.97%) Adobe
5 18 (4.48%) Google
6 8 (1.99%) Braze
6 8 (1.99%) OutSystems
6 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.99%) Splunk
7 7 (1.74%) Optimizely
7 7 (1.74%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.24%) SAP
8 5 (1.24%) Workday
9 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.75%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.75%) ESRI
10 3 (0.75%) Marketo
10 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.75%) Sybase
10 3 (0.75%) Tealium