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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 126 107
Rank change year-on-year -122 -19 -14
Contract jobs citing CSS 427 538 756
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 2.22% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.31% 9.84% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 356 546
10th Percentile £301 £324 £310
25th Percentile £404 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £576 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £722
UK median daily rate £473 £475 £498
% change year-on-year -0.53% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 22
10th Percentile - £30.25 £29.42
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £33.75 £42.82 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% -31.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.09 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.82 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.89% -37.75% +19.05%

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 8,043 5,467 7,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.55% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 3,783 5,413
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £661 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £538
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 242
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £74.95
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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -68 251 £500 - 175
North of England -89 48 £450 +12.50% 99
South East -70 46 £475 - 92
Midlands -71 32 £463 +15.63% 62
North West -57 30 £394 -1.56% 54
South West -45 22 £409 +9.07% 46
West Midlands -62 22 £475 +11.76% 24
East of England -26 19 £575 +27.78% 61
Yorkshire -55 16 £575 +43.75% 31
East Midlands -37 10 £445 +24.30% 38
North East -33 2 £475 +25.00% 14
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 34 (7.96%) CMS
2 19 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (3.04%) Confluence
5 8 (1.87%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.17%) Kentico
7 5 (1.17%) WordPress
8 4 (0.94%) IIS
8 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.70%) Camunda
9 3 (0.70%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.70%) nginx
9 3 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.47%) Apache
10 2 (0.47%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (2.81%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.34%) Sketch
3 5 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.47%) Trello
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.31%) AWS
2 90 (21.08%) Azure
3 37 (8.67%) Figma
4 30 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.79%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.32%) Serverless
7 24 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (5.15%) GitHub
9 18 (4.22%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.22%) PowerApps
10 16 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.04%) GCP
13 12 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.81%) SaaS
14 8 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.87%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.64%) OneDrive
16 6 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) Firewall
1 5 (1.17%) Network Security
2 4 (0.94%) BGP
2 4 (0.94%) HTTP
2 4 (0.94%) Intranet
2 4 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.94%) SMS
2 4 (0.94%) SSL
3 3 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) LAN
4 2 (0.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.47%) RTMP
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Skype
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 40 (9.37%) Relational Database
3 36 (8.43%) MySQL
4 30 (7.03%) NoSQL
5 29 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.58%) Power BI
8 9 (2.11%) Big Data
9 8 (1.87%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.64%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.64%) Tableau
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.17%) Presto
13 4 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.94%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (15.22%) Git
2 31 (7.26%) JIRA
3 25 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.98%) GitLab
5 14 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.81%) Browser DevTools
7 11 (2.58%) Maven
7 11 (2.58%) Vite
8 10 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.34%) JUnit
9 8 (1.87%) Mockito
9 8 (1.87%) webpack
10 7 (1.64%) MSTest
10 7 (1.64%) Storybook
11 6 (1.41%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.41%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.41%) Gradle
11 6 (1.41%) Postman
11 6 (1.41%) Xcode
12 5 (1.17%) tSQLt
General
1 113 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.29%) Finance
3 51 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 45 (10.54%) Banking
6 29 (6.79%) Marketing
7 14 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.04%) Retail
9 11 (2.58%) Front Office
9 11 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Legal
11 4 (0.94%) Local Government
11 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Publishing
12 3 (0.70%) Games
12 3 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Automotive
13 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (56.44%) Developer
2 55 (12.88%) Senior
3 53 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (8.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 35 (8.20%) Senior Developer
5 33 (7.73%) React Developer
6 24 (5.62%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.15%) Designer
8 21 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.68%) Architect
10 18 (4.22%) Lead
11 15 (3.51%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.04%) Consultant
13 12 (2.81%) Angular Developer
13 12 (2.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 12 (2.81%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.81%) Web Developer
14 11 (2.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 11 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (2.58%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (84.07%) HTML
2 192 (44.96%) React
3 120 (28.10%) AngularJS
4 99 (23.19%) REST
5 80 (18.74%) HTML5
6 74 (17.33%) .NET
7 70 (16.39%) RESTful
8 64 (14.99%) CSS3
9 50 (11.71%) Redux
10 46 (10.77%) Node.js
11 40 (9.37%) Spring
12 35 (8.20%) Spring Boot
13 31 (7.26%) ASP.NET
13 31 (7.26%) JSON
14 29 (6.79%) Jest
14 29 (6.79%) jQuery
14 29 (6.79%) OAuth
14 29 (6.79%) Vue
15 27 (6.32%) .NET Framework
16 26 (6.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.60%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.11%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.41%) CMDB
10 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.17%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.94%) Derivative
11 4 (0.94%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.22%) Linux
2 17 (3.98%) Windows
3 15 (3.51%) Unix
4 9 (2.11%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Tizen
6 1 (0.23%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (44.73%) Agile
2 121 (28.34%) User Experience
3 118 (27.63%) CI/CD
4 102 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (20.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 86 (20.14%) DevOps
7 82 (19.20%) Front End Development
8 59 (13.82%) Microservices
9 55 (12.88%) Scrum
9 55 (12.88%) Test Automation
10 53 (12.41%) UX Design
11 47 (11.01%) Analytics
12 46 (10.77%) Code Quality
13 45 (10.54%) AI
13 45 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.30%) Software Engineering
15 40 (9.37%) MVC
16 39 (9.13%) Responsive Web Design
17 37 (8.67%) Containerisation
18 33 (7.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 303 (70.96%) JavaScript
2 124 (29.04%) SQL
3 100 (23.42%) TypeScript
4 85 (19.91%) Java
5 83 (19.44%) Python
6 64 (14.99%) C#
7 15 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.81%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.87%) PHP
10 8 (1.87%) Ruby
11 6 (1.41%) Perl
11 6 (1.41%) Scala
12 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) F#
14 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.49%) Degree
4 12 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.70%) CCNP
6 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.70%) PMP
7 2 (0.47%) CCA
7 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CCNA
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.93%) Accessibility
2 44 (10.30%) QA
3 41 (9.60%) WCAG
4 16 (3.75%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) WAI
9 1 (0.23%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 50 (11.71%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.45%) Terraform
3 11 (2.58%) Grafana
4 10 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.94%) Argo
6 4 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 43 (10.07%) Adobe
1 43 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.13%) Oracle
3 30 (7.03%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.04%) Splunk
6 11 (2.58%) Sitecore
7 10 (2.34%) Google
8 8 (1.87%) Braze
8 8 (1.87%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.87%) OutSystems
9 7 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.41%) Workday
11 5 (1.17%) Qualtrics
11 5 (1.17%) SAP
12 3 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.70%) mParticle
12 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.70%) Symantec