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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -91 +8 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 474 626 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 2.42% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% 10.75% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 367 531
10th Percentile £301 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £389 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% - -9.09%
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 7,582 5,821 7,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.84% 22.47% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,089 3,797 5,450
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 74 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.88
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.56 £43.78
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.10 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -65 279 £525 +5.00% 174
South East -58 52 £218 -52.97% 133
North of England -90 49 £450 -3.23% 140
Midlands -80 37 £525 +11.70% 78
North West -36 30 £414 -0.96% 67
West Midlands -77 25 £425 -24.31% 28
South West -32 21 £390 +3.93% 75
East of England -23 16 £531 +25.00% 77
Yorkshire -59 15 £500 -10.95% 50
East Midlands -19 12 £561 +55.26% 50
North East -25 5 £475 +25.00% 24
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 (5.70%) CMS
2 22 (4.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.95%) Sitecore CMS
4 13 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.32%) Confluence
6 6 (1.27%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.05%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.05%) SugarCRM
8 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.63%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.42%) Camunda
10 2 (0.42%) IIS
10 2 (0.42%) Moodle
10 2 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.21%) Mendix
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.38%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.53%) Sketch
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.84%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.84%) Trello
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.63%) InVision
5 3 (0.63%) 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 (0.63%) 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
1 130 (27.43%) AWS
2 126 (26.58%) Azure
3 63 (13.29%) GitHub
4 35 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (6.96%) GCP
7 31 (6.54%) Figma
8 27 (5.70%) Serverless
9 23 (4.85%) SaaS
10 22 (4.64%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (4.01%) Power Platform
12 14 (2.95%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.95%) Sauce Labs
13 11 (2.32%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.32%) npm
13 11 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.32%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.32%) Wireless
2 6 (1.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.63%) DNS
3 3 (0.63%) Firewall
3 3 (0.63%) Network Security
3 3 (0.63%) 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%) DKIM
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.21%) Skype
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.13%) MySQL
2 46 (9.70%) Relational Database
3 44 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (9.07%) SQL Server
5 34 (7.17%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.90%) Power BI
9 8 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.48%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.48%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.48%) Redis
11 6 (1.27%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.84%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.63%) Big Data
13 3 (0.63%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.63%) Mixpanel
13 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 114 (24.05%) Git
2 41 (8.65%) JIRA
3 30 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.06%) Cypress.io
5 23 (4.85%) GitLab
6 20 (4.22%) Browser DevTools
6 20 (4.22%) Eclipse
6 20 (4.22%) JUnit
7 15 (3.16%) webpack
7 15 (3.16%) Xcode
8 14 (2.95%) Android Studio
8 14 (2.95%) Mockito
9 12 (2.53%) Maven
10 10 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.11%) Postman
11 8 (1.69%) Mocha
11 8 (1.69%) Selenium
12 7 (1.48%) Jasmine
12 7 (1.48%) Storybook
12 7 (1.48%) Vite
General
1 142 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 71 (14.98%) Finance
3 65 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.38%) Banking
6 29 (6.12%) Marketing
7 12 (2.53%) Front Office
7 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.69%) Military
9 7 (1.48%) Legal
10 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.05%) Publishing
12 4 (0.84%) Automotive
12 4 (0.84%) Retail
13 3 (0.63%) Advertising
13 3 (0.63%) Electronics
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 292 (61.60%) Developer
2 75 (15.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (14.35%) Senior
4 49 (10.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 44 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 33 (6.96%) React Developer
7 25 (5.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 23 (4.85%) Designer
8 23 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.64%) Lead
10 20 (4.22%) Java Developer
10 20 (4.22%) Technical Engineer
11 19 (4.01%) Support Engineer
11 19 (4.01%) Technical Support
11 19 (4.01%) Technical Support Engineer
11 19 (4.01%) UX Engineer
12 16 (3.38%) Architect
13 15 (3.16%) Python Developer
14 13 (2.74%) C# Developer
14 13 (2.74%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (85.86%) HTML
2 225 (47.47%) React
3 149 (31.43%) AngularJS
4 98 (20.68%) REST
5 88 (18.57%) HTML5
6 81 (17.09%) RESTful
7 78 (16.46%) Node.js
8 67 (14.14%) CSS3
9 62 (13.08%) .NET
10 55 (11.60%) Spring
11 51 (10.76%) Vue
12 44 (9.28%) Jest
13 39 (8.23%) Spring Boot
14 38 (8.02%) JSON
15 36 (7.59%) Sass
16 33 (6.96%) Redux
17 31 (6.54%) ASP.NET
17 31 (6.54%) SOAP
18 25 (5.27%) jQuery
19 24 (5.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.65%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.74%) CMDB
4 13 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.69%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.48%) Derivative
8 7 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.84%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.70%) Linux
2 26 (5.49%) Windows
3 23 (4.85%) Unix
4 18 (3.80%) Android
5 7 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.63%) CentOS
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (43.25%) Agile
2 159 (33.54%) CI/CD
3 150 (31.65%) User Experience
4 115 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 113 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (20.89%) DevOps
7 98 (20.68%) Front End Development
8 71 (14.98%) Microservices
9 65 (13.71%) UX Design
10 56 (11.81%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.18%) Scrum
12 50 (10.55%) Test Automation
13 48 (10.13%) Software Engineering
14 47 (9.92%) AI
15 41 (8.65%) Code Quality
15 41 (8.65%) Design Patterns
15 41 (8.65%) MVC
16 39 (8.23%) Analytics
16 39 (8.23%) API Integration
17 38 (8.02%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 351 (74.05%) JavaScript
2 130 (27.43%) TypeScript
3 124 (26.16%) Java
4 119 (25.11%) SQL
5 93 (19.62%) Python
6 56 (11.81%) C#
7 20 (4.22%) PHP
8 18 (3.80%) Perl
9 14 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.95%) Ruby
10 10 (2.11%) C++
11 9 (1.90%) ABAP
12 7 (1.48%) JSX
13 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.05%) C
14 5 (1.05%) Go
14 5 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.84%) COBOL
15 4 (0.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.65%) Degree
4 23 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.63%) CCNP
8 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.63%) PMP
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.21%) CCA
10 1 (0.21%) CCNA
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (14.14%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.65%) WCAG
3 33 (6.96%) QA
4 14 (2.95%) GDPR
5 5 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.63%) 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 73 (15.40%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 50 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.95%) Terraform
3 11 (2.32%) Argo
4 8 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.92%) Adobe
3 41 (8.65%) Oracle
4 32 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 28 (5.91%) Google
6 20 (4.22%) SAP
7 18 (3.80%) Splunk
8 17 (3.59%) Sitecore
9 16 (3.38%) Red Hat
9 16 (3.38%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (1.69%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.05%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.05%) mParticle
13 4 (0.84%) OutSystems
14 3 (0.63%) Blue Prism
14 3 (0.63%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.63%) Hotjar
14 3 (0.63%) IBM
14 3 (0.63%) Symantec