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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 113 127
Rank change year-on-year -117 +14 -35
Contract jobs citing CSS 444 570 709
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 2.35% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 10.41% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 365 509
10th Percentile £300 £342 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% -4.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £486
% change year-on-year - -2.26% -2.80%
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 7,955 5,475 7,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.95% 22.57% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,324 3,773 5,392
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
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 239 88 171
10th Percentile £35.20 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £38.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.27 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -61 264 £500 -1.48% 154
North of England -85 51 £450 +12.50% 113
South East -85 42 £246 -47.47% 102
Midlands -73 37 £545 +34.15% 59
North West -51 31 £426 +6.50% 57
South West -39 24 £390 +4.00% 51
West Midlands -61 22 £475 +2.98% 29
Yorkshire -51 16 £500 +6.38% 34
East Midlands -26 15 £561 +57.65% 30
East of England -31 13 £531 +18.06% 72
North East -21 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 33 (7.43%) CMS
2 24 (5.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 17 (3.83%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.15%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (2.03%) Confluence
6 6 (1.35%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.13%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.90%) IIS
8 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.68%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.23%) Mendix
11 1 (0.23%) Moodle
11 1 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.23%) nginx
11 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.83%) Adobe XD
2 15 (3.38%) Sketch
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.90%) Trello
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.68%) 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 (1.13%) Shopify
2 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 120 (27.03%) Azure
2 119 (26.80%) AWS
3 45 (10.14%) GitHub
4 37 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.33%) Figma
5 32 (7.21%) Serverless
6 29 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.18%) GCP
9 19 (4.28%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.60%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.60%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.48%) SaaS
13 9 (2.03%) Sauce Labs
14 8 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.80%) npm
15 7 (1.58%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.35%) Wireless
2 4 (0.90%) SMS
3 3 (0.68%) Firewall
3 3 (0.68%) HTTP
3 3 (0.68%) 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 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) FTP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Intranet
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.78%) MySQL
2 39 (8.78%) Relational Database
3 38 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.93%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.25%) Power BI
7 9 (2.03%) Redis
8 8 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (1.80%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.90%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.68%) Big Data
11 3 (0.68%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.68%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.45%) DB2
12 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (20.72%) Git
2 36 (8.11%) JIRA
3 31 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.18%) Cypress.io
5 22 (4.95%) GitLab
6 18 (4.05%) JUnit
7 13 (2.93%) Maven
7 13 (2.93%) Vite
7 13 (2.93%) webpack
8 12 (2.70%) Mockito
9 11 (2.48%) Browser DevTools
10 10 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.03%) Android Studio
11 9 (2.03%) Eclipse
11 9 (2.03%) Mocha
11 9 (2.03%) Postman
11 9 (2.03%) Xcode
12 8 (1.80%) Jasmine
13 7 (1.58%) Storybook
14 6 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 121 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 65 (14.64%) Finance
4 45 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (9.46%) Banking
6 27 (6.08%) Marketing
7 13 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.70%) Front Office
9 8 (1.80%) Retail
10 7 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.35%) Military
11 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.35%) Publishing
12 5 (1.13%) Legal
12 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.68%) Advertising
14 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Electronics
14 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 266 (59.91%) Developer
2 66 (14.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 65 (14.64%) Senior
4 45 (10.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (9.46%) Senior Developer
6 35 (7.88%) React Developer
7 28 (6.31%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.63%) Designer
8 25 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 17 (3.83%) Architect
10 17 (3.83%) Lead
11 14 (3.15%) C# Developer
12 13 (2.93%) Python Developer
12 13 (2.93%) Software Developer
12 13 (2.93%) UX Engineer
13 12 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
14 11 (2.48%) Technical Support
14 11 (2.48%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (85.14%) HTML
2 224 (50.45%) React
3 138 (31.08%) AngularJS
4 96 (21.62%) HTML5
5 91 (20.50%) REST
6 90 (20.27%) RESTful
7 75 (16.89%) CSS3
8 67 (15.09%) .NET
9 66 (14.86%) Node.js
10 52 (11.71%) Spring
11 46 (10.36%) Jest
12 45 (10.14%) Spring Boot
13 42 (9.46%) Redux
14 37 (8.33%) Vue
15 35 (7.88%) Sass
16 33 (7.43%) ASP.NET
17 30 (6.76%) JSON
18 29 (6.53%) .NET Framework
19 26 (5.86%) jQuery
20 24 (5.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.53%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.93%) CMDB
4 11 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.13%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.13%) Derivative
9 5 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.90%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.68%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.18%) Windows
2 19 (4.28%) Linux
3 14 (3.15%) Unix
4 13 (2.93%) Android
5 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (43.47%) Agile
2 140 (31.53%) User Experience
3 139 (31.31%) CI/CD
4 104 (23.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (21.40%) DevOps
6 94 (21.17%) Front End Development
7 91 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (16.89%) Microservices
9 51 (11.49%) AI
9 51 (11.49%) UX Design
10 50 (11.26%) Scrum
11 49 (11.04%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.04%) Test Automation
12 46 (10.36%) Containerisation
13 43 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (9.01%) Analytics
15 39 (8.78%) MVC
16 37 (8.33%) Design Patterns
16 37 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
17 34 (7.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 318 (71.62%) JavaScript
2 128 (28.83%) TypeScript
3 120 (27.03%) SQL
4 104 (23.42%) Java
5 78 (17.57%) Python
6 59 (13.29%) C#
7 11 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.03%) ABAP
8 9 (2.03%) Perl
8 9 (2.03%) Ruby
8 9 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.80%) PHP
10 6 (1.35%) JSX
11 5 (1.13%) C++
12 4 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.90%) Go
12 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.45%) Bash
13 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.76%) Degree
4 11 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.68%) CCNP
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.68%) PMP
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CCA
10 1 (0.23%) CCNA
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) ISEB
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (16.89%) Accessibility
2 51 (11.49%) WCAG
3 34 (7.66%) QA
4 15 (3.38%) GDPR
5 5 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (13.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 41 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.15%) Terraform
3 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.68%) Grafana
5 2 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.26%) Adobe
3 30 (6.76%) Oracle
4 27 (6.08%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.05%) Google
6 17 (3.83%) SAP
6 17 (3.83%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.70%) Splunk
9 9 (2.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.68%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.68%) mParticle
12 3 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.68%) Symantec
12 3 (0.68%) Workday
13 2 (0.45%) Netskope
13 2 (0.45%) Screaming Frog