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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 104 121
Rank change year-on-year -97 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 471 630 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 2.44% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.23% 10.85% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 368 534
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £389 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £720
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 27
10th Percentile £25.70 £26.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £27.50 £37.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +2.50% -12.73%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.50 £68.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £60.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.62% +5.22% -17.86%

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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -66 276 £520 +4.00% 149
South East -55 53 £218 -52.97% 137
North of England -76 49 £450 -3.23% 142
Midlands -70 37 £525 +11.70% 77
North West -37 30 £414 -0.96% 68
West Midlands -67 25 £425 -24.31% 25
South West -34 21 £390 +3.93% 75
East of England -24 16 £531 +25.00% 73
Yorkshire -55 15 £500 -10.95% 52
East Midlands -17 12 £561 +55.26% 52
North East -23 5 £475 +25.00% 23
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 27 (5.73%) CMS
2 22 (4.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.97%) Sitecore CMS
4 13 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.34%) Confluence
6 6 (1.27%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.06%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.64%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.42%) Camunda
9 2 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.42%) Moodle
9 2 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Kentico
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.40%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.55%) Sketch
3 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.85%) Trello
5 3 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.64%) InVision
5 3 (0.64%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.42%) Maya
6 2 (0.42%) NUKE
7 1 (0.21%) InDesign
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Maximo
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 129 (27.39%) AWS
2 123 (26.11%) Azure
3 62 (13.16%) GitHub
4 34 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (6.79%) GCP
7 31 (6.58%) Figma
8 26 (5.52%) Serverless
9 24 (5.10%) SaaS
10 22 (4.67%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (4.03%) Power Platform
12 15 (3.18%) Sauce Labs
13 13 (2.76%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.34%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.34%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.34%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.12%) npm
16 8 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.55%) Wireless
2 6 (1.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) Firewall
3 3 (0.64%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) SMS
4 2 (0.42%) BGP
4 2 (0.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) OSPF
4 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.42%) RTMP
4 2 (0.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VLAN
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.40%) MySQL
2 47 (9.98%) Relational Database
3 43 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 34 (7.22%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.91%) Power BI
9 7 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.49%) Redis
10 6 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.85%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.64%) Big Data
12 3 (0.64%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.64%) Mixpanel
12 3 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 114 (24.20%) Git
2 40 (8.49%) JIRA
3 29 (6.16%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.10%) Cypress.io
5 22 (4.67%) GitLab
6 21 (4.46%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (4.46%) Eclipse
7 19 (4.03%) JUnit
8 16 (3.40%) Xcode
9 15 (3.18%) Android Studio
9 15 (3.18%) webpack
10 13 (2.76%) Mockito
11 12 (2.55%) Maven
12 10 (2.12%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.12%) Postman
13 8 (1.70%) Mocha
13 8 (1.70%) Selenium
14 7 (1.49%) Jasmine
14 7 (1.49%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.49%) Storybook
General
1 143 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 70 (14.86%) Finance
3 65 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 53 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (7.01%) Banking
6 29 (6.16%) Marketing
7 12 (2.55%) Front Office
8 11 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.70%) Military
10 7 (1.49%) Legal
11 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.06%) Publishing
13 4 (0.85%) Automotive
13 4 (0.85%) Retail
14 3 (0.64%) Advertising
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 287 (60.93%) Developer
2 75 (15.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 66 (14.01%) Senior
4 49 (10.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (8.92%) Senior Developer
6 33 (7.01%) React Developer
7 27 (5.73%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 23 (4.88%) Designer
8 23 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.67%) Lead
10 21 (4.46%) Technical Engineer
11 20 (4.25%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.25%) Technical Support
11 20 (4.25%) Technical Support Engineer
11 20 (4.25%) UX Engineer
12 18 (3.82%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.18%) Architect
14 14 (2.97%) Python Developer
15 13 (2.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (85.77%) HTML
2 224 (47.56%) React
3 149 (31.63%) AngularJS
4 97 (20.59%) REST
5 88 (18.68%) HTML5
6 81 (17.20%) RESTful
7 79 (16.77%) Node.js
8 67 (14.23%) CSS3
9 61 (12.95%) .NET
10 53 (11.25%) Spring
11 50 (10.62%) Vue
12 45 (9.55%) Jest
13 38 (8.07%) JSON
13 38 (8.07%) Spring Boot
14 36 (7.64%) Sass
15 34 (7.22%) Redux
16 31 (6.58%) ASP.NET
16 31 (6.58%) SOAP
17 25 (5.31%) GraphQL
17 25 (5.31%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.92%) Mobile App
2 32 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.76%) CMDB
5 12 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.70%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.27%) Derivative
11 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.94%) Linux
2 26 (5.52%) Windows
3 24 (5.10%) Unix
4 19 (4.03%) Android
5 6 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) CentOS
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (42.89%) Agile
2 158 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 152 (32.27%) User Experience
4 114 (24.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 112 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (20.81%) Front End Development
7 97 (20.59%) DevOps
8 68 (14.44%) Microservices
9 65 (13.80%) UX Design
10 56 (11.89%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.25%) Scrum
12 50 (10.62%) Test Automation
13 48 (10.19%) Software Engineering
14 46 (9.77%) AI
15 41 (8.70%) MVC
16 40 (8.49%) Code Quality
16 40 (8.49%) Design Patterns
17 39 (8.28%) Analytics
18 38 (8.07%) API Integration
18 38 (8.07%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 350 (74.31%) JavaScript
2 127 (26.96%) TypeScript
3 123 (26.11%) Java
4 118 (25.05%) SQL
5 91 (19.32%) Python
6 55 (11.68%) C#
7 20 (4.25%) PHP
8 19 (4.03%) Perl
9 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.97%) Ruby
10 10 (2.12%) C++
11 9 (1.91%) ABAP
12 7 (1.49%) JSX
13 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.06%) C
14 5 (1.06%) Go
14 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.85%) COBOL
15 4 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.70%) Degree
4 23 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) CCNP
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.64%) PMP
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.21%) CCNA
10 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (14.44%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.70%) WCAG
3 33 (7.01%) QA
4 14 (2.97%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (15.07%) Docker
2 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 49 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.76%) Terraform
3 11 (2.34%) Argo
4 8 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.98%) Adobe
3 41 (8.70%) Oracle
4 33 (7.01%) ServiceNow
5 28 (5.94%) Google
6 20 (4.25%) SAP
7 19 (4.03%) Splunk
8 17 (3.61%) Sitecore
9 16 (3.40%) Red Hat
9 16 (3.40%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (1.70%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.06%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.06%) mParticle
13 4 (0.85%) OutSystems
14 3 (0.64%) Blue Prism
14 3 (0.64%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.64%) Hotjar
14 3 (0.64%) IBM
14 3 (0.64%) Symantec