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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 130 102
Rank change year-on-year -152 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing CSS 400 585 749
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 2.11% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 9.48% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 413 546
10th Percentile £305 £270 £280
25th Percentile £404 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 15
10th Percentile £17.12 £32.50 £54.50
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +93.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.17 -
90th Percentile £65.60 £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 8,476 6,174 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.69% 22.23% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,257 5,082
10th Percentile £363 £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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 148 231
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £46.80 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.09 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.32% +2.21% -10.42%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -88 237 £480 +1.05% 142
North of England -89 53 £470 +17.50% 95
South East -92 45 £475 - 101
Yorkshire -39 31 £575 +27.78% 38
South West -52 26 £413 +10.00% 45
North West -76 19 £375 - 45
Midlands -84 17 £425 +13.33% 66
East of England -21 12 £575 +27.78% 35
West Midlands -76 10 £431 +1.47% 34
East Midlands -35 7 £425 +17.24% 32
North East -39 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 40 (10.00%) CMS
2 22 (5.50%) Confluence
3 20 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 15 (3.75%) 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%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Sketch
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) 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 88 (22.00%) AWS
3 33 (8.25%) Figma
4 32 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.25%) Serverless
6 27 (6.75%) GCP
7 24 (6.00%) GitHub
7 24 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (5.25%) Power Automate
9 19 (4.75%) PowerApps
10 13 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.25%) SaaS
12 8 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.00%) Google Analytics
12 8 (2.00%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.75%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.25%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) DNS
2 5 (1.25%) Firewall
2 5 (1.25%) Intranet
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
2 5 (1.25%) VPN
3 4 (1.00%) BGP
3 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.00%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) MQTT
4 1 (0.25%) Skype
4 1 (0.25%) SMS
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 42 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (10.25%) MySQL
4 29 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 24 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.25%) Power BI
8 9 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.25%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.75%) Big Data
9 7 (1.75%) Couchbase
9 7 (1.75%) Redis
9 7 (1.75%) Tableau
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.25%) Presto
12 4 (1.00%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 90 (22.50%) Git
2 34 (8.50%) Jenkins
2 34 (8.50%) JIRA
3 23 (5.75%) Cypress.io
4 17 (4.25%) GitLab
5 14 (3.50%) Maven
6 13 (3.25%) JUnit
7 12 (3.00%) Storybook
8 11 (2.75%) Vite
9 9 (2.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.25%) MSI
10 8 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (2.00%) MSTest
11 6 (1.50%) Gradle
11 6 (1.50%) Mocha
11 6 (1.50%) Mockito
11 6 (1.50%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.50%) tSQLt
12 5 (1.25%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 121 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.25%) Finance
4 48 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (10.50%) Banking
6 30 (7.50%) Marketing
7 17 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (4.00%) Retail
9 12 (3.00%) Publishing
10 10 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Front Office
11 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.25%) Games
12 5 (1.25%) Local Government
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
14 3 (0.75%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 219 (54.75%) Developer
2 57 (14.25%) Senior
3 46 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (9.50%) Senior Developer
5 36 (9.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 34 (8.50%) React Developer
7 29 (7.25%) Java Developer
8 21 (5.25%) Designer
8 21 (5.25%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.50%) Lead
10 17 (4.25%) Architect
11 16 (4.00%) Angular Developer
11 16 (4.00%) Consultant
12 14 (3.50%) .NET Developer
12 14 (3.50%) Python Developer
12 14 (3.50%) Web Developer
13 10 (2.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 10 (2.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 10 (2.50%) UI Developer
14 9 (2.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (86.50%) HTML
2 165 (41.25%) React
3 116 (29.00%) REST
4 96 (24.00%) HTML5
5 85 (21.25%) RESTful
6 81 (20.25%) CSS3
7 80 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 73 (18.25%) .NET
9 52 (13.00%) Node.js
10 45 (11.25%) Redux
11 40 (10.00%) Spring
12 38 (9.50%) Spring Boot
13 35 (8.75%) OAuth
14 34 (8.50%) Jest
15 33 (8.25%) Vue
16 29 (7.25%) .NET Framework
17 28 (7.00%) jQuery
18 26 (6.50%) ASP.NET
18 26 (6.50%) Sass
19 25 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.50%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) NHS
11 4 (1.00%) CMDB
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.00%) Equities
11 4 (1.00%) Graphic Design
11 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.00%) Windows
2 16 (4.00%) Unix
3 14 (3.50%) Linux
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
1 197 (49.25%) Agile
2 156 (39.00%) CI/CD
3 104 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (24.25%) User Experience
5 93 (23.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (23.00%) DevOps
7 87 (21.75%) Microservices
8 76 (19.00%) Front End Development
9 74 (18.50%) Test Automation
10 56 (14.00%) Scrum
11 54 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (12.25%) Code Quality
13 48 (12.00%) UX Design
14 47 (11.75%) Software Engineering
15 44 (11.00%) AI
16 43 (10.75%) MVC
17 42 (10.50%) Analytics
18 40 (10.00%) Containerisation
19 39 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
20 37 (9.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 305 (76.25%) JavaScript
2 126 (31.50%) SQL
3 109 (27.25%) TypeScript
4 81 (20.25%) Python
5 75 (18.75%) Java
6 63 (15.75%) C#
7 17 (4.25%) PL/SQL
8 15 (3.75%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.00%) PHP
10 10 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.25%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
12 6 (1.50%) Scala
12 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.50%) Bash
15 1 (0.25%) F#
15 1 (0.25%) Groovy
15 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.75%) Degree
4 14 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.25%) CCA
7 1 (0.25%) CCNA
7 1 (0.25%) CCNP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.25%) PhD
7 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMP
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.50%) Accessibility
2 59 (14.75%) QA
3 55 (13.75%) WCAG
4 9 (2.25%) NCSC
5 8 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.00%) GDPR
6 4 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) WAI
8 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 71 (17.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.50%) Terraform
3 17 (4.25%) Grafana
4 7 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.50%) Kibana
6 5 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.00%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.50%) Oracle
3 29 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 28 (7.00%) Adobe
5 19 (4.75%) Google
6 10 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.00%) Braze
7 8 (2.00%) OutSystems
7 8 (2.00%) Splunk
8 7 (1.75%) Optimizely
9 6 (1.50%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.25%) Workday
11 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.00%) SAP
12 3 (0.75%) ESRI
12 3 (0.75%) Marketo
12 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
12 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.75%) Sybase
12 3 (0.75%) Tealium