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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 121 121
Rank change year-on-year -117 0 -27
Contract jobs citing CSS 424 564 712
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 2.31% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 10.28% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 386 508
10th Percentile £305 £336 £300
25th Percentile £404 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £498
% change year-on-year - -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 20
10th Percentile £25.70 £26.25 £25.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £33.25 £36.03
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £53.09
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +3.60% -15.06%
75th Percentile £50.63 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £56.65 £63.75 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £54.94 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.39% +18.96% -26.11%

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 7,963 5,488 7,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.38% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,325 3,809 5,299
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 90 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.46 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -75 255 £513 +0.99% 135
North of England -99 42 £450 +12.50% 98
South East -86 38 £345 -27.37% 102
Midlands -70 35 £488 +18.18% 65
North West -46 30 £450 +12.50% 51
South West -46 24 £407 +9.19% 55
West Midlands -68 22 £475 +7.34% 29
East of England -26 16 £550 +22.22% 63
East Midlands -29 13 £545 +47.90% 35
Yorkshire -62 10 £470 - 32
North East -33 2 £475 +25.00% 15
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 29 (6.84%) CMS
2 22 (5.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 18 (4.25%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.07%) Confluence
5 12 (2.83%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.18%) IIS
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.94%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.71%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.71%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.71%) nginx
9 2 (0.47%) Apache
9 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 2 (0.47%) Drupal
10 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.24%) Moodle
10 1 (0.24%) Mule
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.30%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.83%) Sketch
3 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.94%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.94%) Trello
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.71%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Shopify
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 104 (24.53%) Azure
2 103 (24.29%) AWS
3 36 (8.49%) GitHub
4 34 (8.02%) Figma
5 33 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.60%) Serverless
7 26 (6.13%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (4.72%) GCP
10 19 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (4.25%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.01%) PowerApps
13 16 (3.77%) Amazon S3
14 13 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.59%) SaaS
16 10 (2.36%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
18 6 (1.42%) npm
18 6 (1.42%) Sauce Labs
18 6 (1.42%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Firewall
1 5 (1.18%) HTTP
2 4 (0.94%) SMS
3 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.71%) VPN
3 3 (0.71%) Wireless
4 2 (0.47%) BGP
4 2 (0.47%) LAN
4 2 (0.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.47%) RTMP
4 2 (0.47%) SSL
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) Intranet
5 1 (0.24%) Skype
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.96%) MySQL
3 34 (8.02%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.07%) Power BI
7 8 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.89%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.42%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.18%) Tableau
10 4 (0.94%) Big Data
10 4 (0.94%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 3 (0.71%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.47%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.47%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 81 (19.10%) Git
2 38 (8.96%) JIRA
3 27 (6.37%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.72%) Cypress.io
4 20 (4.72%) GitLab
5 18 (4.25%) JUnit
6 14 (3.30%) Vite
7 13 (3.07%) Maven
8 12 (2.83%) Mockito
8 12 (2.83%) webpack
9 9 (2.12%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.12%) Postman
10 8 (1.89%) Jasmine
11 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
11 7 (1.65%) Selenium
11 7 (1.65%) Storybook
12 6 (1.42%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.42%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.42%) Xcode
General
1 114 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.57%) Finance
3 56 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 46 (10.85%) Banking
5 44 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (6.60%) Marketing
7 14 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.83%) Front Office
9 9 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.89%) Retail
11 6 (1.42%) Legal
11 6 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.42%) Publishing
12 4 (0.94%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Electronics
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 252 (59.43%) Developer
2 58 (13.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 56 (13.21%) Senior
4 37 (8.73%) Senior Developer
5 36 (8.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 33 (7.78%) Java Developer
7 30 (7.08%) React Developer
8 23 (5.42%) Designer
9 22 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.72%) Architect
11 18 (4.25%) Lead
12 17 (4.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 15 (3.54%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.07%) C# Developer
14 13 (3.07%) Python Developer
15 12 (2.83%) ServiceNow Developer
16 11 (2.59%) .NET Developer
16 11 (2.59%) Consultant
16 11 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 10 (2.36%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (86.32%) HTML
2 204 (48.11%) React
3 131 (30.90%) AngularJS
4 90 (21.23%) REST
5 87 (20.52%) HTML5
6 81 (19.10%) RESTful
7 71 (16.75%) CSS3
8 63 (14.86%) .NET
9 53 (12.50%) Spring
10 52 (12.26%) Node.js
11 46 (10.85%) Redux
12 45 (10.61%) Spring Boot
13 36 (8.49%) Jest
14 33 (7.78%) Vue
15 29 (6.84%) ASP.NET
15 29 (6.84%) JSON
16 27 (6.37%) jQuery
16 27 (6.37%) Sass
17 24 (5.66%) .NET Framework
18 23 (5.42%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.19%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.89%) CMDB
5 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.18%) Derivative
7 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.94%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.71%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.95%) Windows
2 17 (4.01%) Linux
3 11 (2.59%) Unix
4 9 (2.12%) Android
5 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (44.10%) Agile
2 127 (29.95%) CI/CD
3 126 (29.72%) User Experience
4 98 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 93 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (21.46%) DevOps
7 82 (19.34%) Front End Development
8 68 (16.04%) Microservices
9 50 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (11.79%) Scrum
10 49 (11.56%) AI
11 48 (11.32%) UX Design
12 47 (11.08%) Test Automation
13 44 (10.38%) Software Engineering
14 43 (10.14%) Analytics
15 41 (9.67%) Containerisation
16 39 (9.20%) Code Quality
16 39 (9.20%) MVC
17 37 (8.73%) SDLC
18 35 (8.25%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 300 (70.75%) JavaScript
2 119 (28.07%) SQL
3 113 (26.65%) TypeScript
4 100 (23.58%) Java
5 73 (17.22%) Python
6 56 (13.21%) C#
7 10 (2.36%) Ruby
7 10 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.12%) ABAP
9 8 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.65%) PHP
11 6 (1.42%) Perl
12 5 (1.18%) C++
12 5 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.71%) Go
14 3 (0.71%) JSX
15 2 (0.47%) Bash
16 1 (0.24%) F#
16 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.84%) Degree
4 11 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.71%) CCNP
7 3 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.71%) PMP
8 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCA
9 1 (0.24%) CCNA
9 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (16.04%) Accessibility
2 43 (10.14%) WCAG
3 35 (8.25%) QA
4 15 (3.54%) GDPR
5 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (12.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.07%) Terraform
3 6 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (11.32%) Adobe
2 43 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.60%) Oracle
4 25 (5.90%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.25%) SAP
6 17 (4.01%) Google
7 15 (3.54%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.36%) Splunk
9 9 (2.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (1.89%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.18%) Qualtrics
11 5 (1.18%) Workday
12 4 (0.94%) Braze
13 3 (0.71%) Blue Prism
13 3 (0.71%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.71%) mParticle
13 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.71%) Symantec
14 2 (0.47%) Red Hat