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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 135 102
Rank change year-on-year -141 -33 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS 400 584 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 2.11% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.73% 9.47% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 413 547
10th Percentile £345 £268 £278
25th Percentile £404 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £708
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 15
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.50 £54.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.91 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +93.10%
75th Percentile £51.25 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £66.53 £66.65 £73.00
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 8,465 6,169 7,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.59% 22.33% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,244 5,071
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £823
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 150 229
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £49.20 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.10 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -96 234 £488 +2.63% 186
North of England -88 52 £470 +19.90% 98
South East -82 44 £475 +5.85% 98
Yorkshire -41 31 £575 +35.29% 34
South West -53 29 £413 +10.00% 44
North West -76 18 £375 - 50
Midlands -91 17 £425 +13.33% 68
East of England -23 14 £488 +8.33% 41
West Midlands -73 10 £431 +1.47% 32
East Midlands -27 7 £425 +17.24% 36
North East -41 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 39 (9.75%) CMS
2 23 (5.75%) Confluence
3 20 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 16 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (3.00%) WordPress
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (1.00%) Kentico
8 4 (1.00%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.75%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Camunda
10 2 (0.50%) Drupal
10 2 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Sketch
2 3 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) 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 97 (24.25%) Azure
2 85 (21.25%) AWS
3 34 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.25%) Figma
5 32 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 28 (7.00%) Serverless
7 27 (6.75%) GCP
8 25 (6.25%) GitHub
9 24 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (5.25%) Power Automate
11 19 (4.75%) PowerApps
12 12 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.50%) Google Analytics
13 10 (2.50%) SaaS
14 8 (2.00%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
15 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.75%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.00%) HTTP
2 8 (2.00%) DNS
3 5 (1.25%) Firewall
3 5 (1.25%) Intranet
3 5 (1.25%) Network Security
3 5 (1.25%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) BGP
4 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.00%) SSL
4 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.75%) 5G
5 3 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) Skype
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 44 (11.00%) MySQL
3 43 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.50%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.50%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.25%) Power BI
8 11 (2.75%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (2.50%) Redis
10 9 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.75%) Big Data
11 7 (1.75%) Couchbase
11 7 (1.75%) Tableau
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.25%) Metadata
13 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.25%) Presto
14 4 (1.00%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 95 (23.75%) Git
2 36 (9.00%) Jenkins
3 35 (8.75%) JIRA
4 24 (6.00%) Cypress.io
5 20 (5.00%) GitLab
6 15 (3.75%) Maven
7 14 (3.50%) Storybook
8 13 (3.25%) JUnit
9 11 (2.75%) MSI
9 11 (2.75%) Vite
10 8 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
11 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.75%) MSTest
11 7 (1.75%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.50%) Gradle
12 6 (1.50%) Mockito
12 6 (1.50%) Selenium
13 5 (1.25%) Jasmine
13 5 (1.25%) Mocha
13 5 (1.25%) tSQLt
General
1 120 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.00%) Finance
4 47 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (10.00%) Banking
6 31 (7.75%) Marketing
7 17 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.75%) Retail
10 13 (3.25%) Publishing
11 10 (2.50%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.50%) Front Office
15 5 (1.25%) Games
16 4 (1.00%) Legal
16 4 (1.00%) Local Government
17 3 (0.75%) Military
18 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
18 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 222 (55.50%) Developer
2 58 (14.50%) Senior
3 46 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 39 (9.75%) Senior Developer
5 35 (8.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 34 (8.50%) React Developer
7 28 (7.00%) Java Developer
8 20 (5.00%) Designer
9 19 (4.75%) Lead
9 19 (4.75%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.25%) Architect
10 17 (4.25%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.00%) Angular Developer
11 16 (4.00%) Consultant
12 15 (3.75%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.50%) Web Developer
14 11 (2.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 10 (2.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 10 (2.50%) Lead Developer
15 10 (2.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (86.75%) HTML
2 163 (40.75%) React
3 118 (29.50%) REST
4 98 (24.50%) HTML5
5 88 (22.00%) RESTful
6 83 (20.75%) CSS3
7 75 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 73 (18.25%) .NET
9 48 (12.00%) Node.js
10 45 (11.25%) Redux
11 40 (10.00%) Spring
12 37 (9.25%) Spring Boot
13 36 (9.00%) OAuth
14 35 (8.75%) Jest
15 31 (7.75%) .NET Framework
15 31 (7.75%) Vue
16 27 (6.75%) .NET Core
16 27 (6.75%) jQuery
16 27 (6.75%) Sass
17 25 (6.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
9 4 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.00%) CMDB
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.00%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.50%) Windows
2 17 (4.25%) Linux
3 16 (4.00%) Unix
4 5 (1.25%) 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 (49.50%) Agile
2 157 (39.25%) CI/CD
3 102 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (24.00%) DevOps
5 94 (23.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (23.50%) User Experience
6 87 (21.75%) Microservices
7 78 (19.50%) Test Automation
8 74 (18.50%) Front End Development
9 55 (13.75%) Scrum
10 52 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (12.25%) Code Quality
12 46 (11.50%) UX Design
13 45 (11.25%) AI
14 44 (11.00%) Software Engineering
15 43 (10.75%) MVC
16 42 (10.50%) Analytics
16 42 (10.50%) Containerisation
17 39 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
18 37 (9.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 304 (76.00%) JavaScript
2 127 (31.75%) SQL
3 110 (27.50%) TypeScript
4 84 (21.00%) Python
5 72 (18.00%) Java
6 63 (15.75%) C#
7 16 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.25%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.00%) PHP
10 11 (2.75%) Bicep
11 10 (2.50%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.25%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 6 (1.50%) Scala
14 5 (1.25%) Bash
15 3 (0.75%) Perl
15 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.25%) CFML
16 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.25%) Degree
4 17 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCA
8 1 (0.25%) CCNA
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) PhD
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.50%) Accessibility
2 60 (15.00%) QA
3 55 (13.75%) WCAG
4 11 (2.75%) NCSC
5 9 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.00%) GDPR
7 5 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.00%) SLA
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 74 (18.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.00%) Terraform
3 20 (5.00%) Grafana
4 8 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (1.50%) Kibana
7 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.00%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.25%) Oracle
3 28 (7.00%) Adobe
3 28 (7.00%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.25%) Google
5 11 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.00%) Braze
6 8 (2.00%) Optimizely
6 8 (2.00%) OutSystems
6 8 (2.00%) Splunk
7 6 (1.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.00%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.00%) SAP
8 4 (1.00%) Tealium
8 4 (1.00%) Workday
9 3 (0.75%) ESRI
9 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
9 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud