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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 119 128
Rank change year-on-year -116 +9 -38
Contract jobs citing CSS 437 569 717
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 2.35% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.51% 10.44% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 369 514
10th Percentile £300 £339 £300
25th Percentile £402 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -1.55% -3.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £598
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.86% -3.20%
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% -16.98%
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% -21.54%

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 7,928 5,449 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.48% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,311 3,760 5,406
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 168
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -73 264 £513 - 154
North of England -91 49 £450 +12.50% 113
South East -84 39 £283 -38.92% 102
Midlands -73 34 £535 +33.08% 59
North West -54 31 £426 +6.50% 57
South West -40 26 £402 +7.27% 51
West Midlands -63 21 £475 +2.98% 29
Yorkshire -53 14 £500 +6.38% 34
East Midlands -28 13 £561 +55.26% 30
East of England -29 13 £531 +18.06% 72
North East -25 5 £475 +25.00% 22
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 (7.09%) CMS
2 23 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 17 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.97%) Sitecore CMS
5 10 (2.29%) Confluence
6 5 (1.14%) IIS
6 5 (1.14%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.69%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Drupal
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) Kentico
10 1 (0.23%) Mendix
10 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (3.89%) Adobe XD
2 15 (3.43%) Sketch
3 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.92%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.92%) Trello
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.69%) InVision
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Shopify
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 118 (27.00%) AWS
2 117 (26.77%) Azure
3 45 (10.30%) GitHub
4 37 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.47%) Figma
5 31 (7.09%) Serverless
6 29 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (5.95%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.03%) GCP
9 18 (4.12%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.66%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.66%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.52%) SaaS
13 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.83%) npm
13 8 (1.83%) Sauce Labs
14 6 (1.37%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) Wireless
2 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 4 (0.92%) SMS
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) BGP
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) OSPF
4 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.46%) RTMP
4 2 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) FTP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) Intranet
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.92%) MySQL
3 37 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 37 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.75%) Power BI
7 10 (2.29%) Redis
8 9 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.83%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.92%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.92%) Tableau
13 3 (0.69%) Big Data
13 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.46%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 89 (20.37%) Git
2 37 (8.47%) JIRA
3 31 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.03%) Cypress.io
4 22 (5.03%) GitLab
5 18 (4.12%) JUnit
6 14 (3.20%) Vite
7 13 (2.97%) Maven
7 13 (2.97%) webpack
8 12 (2.75%) Mockito
9 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.06%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (2.06%) Mocha
10 9 (2.06%) Postman
11 8 (1.83%) Android Studio
11 8 (1.83%) Eclipse
11 8 (1.83%) Jasmine
11 8 (1.83%) Xcode
12 7 (1.60%) Storybook
13 6 (1.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 118 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 63 (14.42%) Finance
4 45 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (9.84%) Banking
6 28 (6.41%) Marketing
7 14 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.75%) Front Office
9 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Retail
10 6 (1.37%) Military
10 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.37%) Publishing
11 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Electronics
13 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 260 (59.50%) Developer
2 64 (14.65%) Senior
3 63 (14.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 42 (9.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 42 (9.61%) Senior Developer
5 31 (7.09%) Java Developer
5 31 (7.09%) React Developer
6 25 (5.72%) Designer
6 25 (5.72%) Software Engineer
7 19 (4.35%) Architect
8 18 (4.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 18 (4.12%) Lead
9 13 (2.97%) C# Developer
9 13 (2.97%) Python Developer
9 13 (2.97%) Software Developer
10 12 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) UX Engineer
11 11 (2.52%) ServiceNow Developer
11 11 (2.52%) UX Designer
12 10 (2.29%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (85.35%) HTML
2 218 (49.89%) React
3 134 (30.66%) AngularJS
4 95 (21.74%) HTML5
5 92 (21.05%) REST
6 83 (18.99%) RESTful
7 75 (17.16%) CSS3
8 67 (15.33%) Node.js
9 65 (14.87%) .NET
10 55 (12.59%) Spring
11 47 (10.76%) Jest
11 47 (10.76%) Spring Boot
12 46 (10.53%) Redux
13 36 (8.24%) Vue
14 35 (8.01%) Sass
15 31 (7.09%) JSON
16 30 (6.86%) ASP.NET
17 27 (6.18%) jQuery
18 26 (5.95%) .NET Framework
19 24 (5.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.95%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.75%) CMDB
4 11 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.14%) Derivative
8 5 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.26%) Windows
2 18 (4.12%) Linux
3 12 (2.75%) Unix
4 11 (2.52%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.48%) Agile
2 136 (31.12%) User Experience
3 133 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 102 (23.34%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (21.51%) DevOps
6 90 (20.59%) Front End Development
7 88 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (16.70%) Microservices
9 50 (11.44%) AI
10 49 (11.21%) Scrum
10 49 (11.21%) UX Design
11 48 (10.98%) Software Engineering
12 47 (10.76%) Test Automation
13 46 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (9.84%) Containerisation
15 41 (9.38%) Analytics
16 39 (8.92%) MVC
17 37 (8.47%) Code Quality
18 36 (8.24%) Responsive Web Design
18 36 (8.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 309 (70.71%) JavaScript
2 127 (29.06%) TypeScript
3 122 (27.92%) SQL
4 104 (23.80%) Java
5 78 (17.85%) Python
6 57 (13.04%) C#
7 12 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.06%) ABAP
8 9 (2.06%) Ruby
9 8 (1.83%) Perl
9 8 (1.83%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.60%) PHP
11 6 (1.37%) JSX
12 5 (1.14%) C++
13 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.69%) Go
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) Bash
16 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.64%) Degree
4 11 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.69%) CCNP
7 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.69%) PMP
8 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (16.93%) Accessibility
2 50 (11.44%) WCAG
3 35 (8.01%) QA
4 15 (3.43%) GDPR
5 5 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.92%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.46%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (13.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.97%) Terraform
3 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 52 (11.90%) Adobe
1 52 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.41%) Oracle
3 27 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.12%) SAP
5 17 (3.89%) Google
5 17 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.66%) Sitecore
7 11 (2.52%) Splunk
8 9 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 8 (1.83%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.92%) Qualtrics
10 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.69%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.69%) mParticle
11 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.69%) Symantec
11 3 (0.69%) Workday
12 2 (0.46%) Screaming Frog