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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 125 102
Rank change year-on-year -150 -23 -11
Contract jobs citing CSS 395 586 821
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 2.16% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.66% 9.72% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 405 597
10th Percentile £310 £289 £310
25th Percentile £404 £358 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £545 £594
90th Percentile £640 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £455 £458 £490
% change year-on-year -0.55% -6.63% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 41 23
10th Percentile £17.12 £30.75 £46.18
25th Percentile £19.14 £33.91 £55.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +51.88%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.69 -
90th Percentile £65.60 £67.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -25.00% -24.53% +44.02%

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 8,481 6,028 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.22% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,150 5,457
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 141 259
10th Percentile £30.25 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in England over the 6 months to 15 July 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 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in England

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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 15 July 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 -92 226 £475 - 115
South East -83 51 £475 - 115
North of England -94 44 £470 +22.40% 133
South West -48 24 £413 +10.00% 60
North West -68 23 £394 +3.62% 65
Midlands -87 22 £450 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire -46 20 £575 +39.39% 49
East of England -22 19 £575 +27.78% 67
West Midlands -76 15 £475 +7.34% 40
East Midlands -32 7 £425 +17.24% 50
North East -45 1 £375 -21.88% 21
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 43 (10.89%) CMS
2 21 (5.32%) Confluence
3 18 (4.56%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (2.28%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (2.03%) WordPress
7 6 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.27%) Kentico
8 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (1.01%) IIS
10 3 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.76%) nginx
10 3 (0.76%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.51%) Apache
11 2 (0.51%) Drupal
12 1 (0.25%) Liferay
12 1 (0.25%) Moodle
12 1 (0.25%) Mule
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Photoshop
1 4 (1.01%) Sketch
2 3 (0.76%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Shopify
2 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) 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 96 (24.30%) Azure
2 82 (20.76%) AWS
3 36 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (7.85%) Power Platform
5 28 (7.09%) Figma
6 26 (6.58%) GitHub
7 24 (6.08%) Serverless
8 23 (5.82%) GCP
8 23 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (4.81%) Power Automate
10 18 (4.56%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.78%) SaaS
14 8 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.77%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.77%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.77%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.53%) HTTP
2 5 (1.27%) DNS
2 5 (1.27%) Intranet
2 5 (1.27%) Network Security
3 4 (1.01%) BGP
3 4 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.01%) SSL
4 3 (0.76%) Firewall
4 3 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) RTMP
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) Skype
6 1 (0.25%) SMS
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.70%) SQL Server
2 40 (10.13%) MySQL
3 39 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (7.59%) NoSQL
4 30 (7.59%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.04%) Power BI
7 9 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (2.03%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.77%) Big Data
9 7 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.77%) Tableau
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.52%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.52%) Redis
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
11 5 (1.27%) Presto
12 4 (1.01%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 81 (20.51%) Git
2 36 (9.11%) JIRA
3 30 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.32%) Cypress.io
5 15 (3.80%) GitLab
5 15 (3.80%) JUnit
6 13 (3.29%) Maven
6 13 (3.29%) Vite
7 11 (2.78%) Storybook
8 8 (2.03%) Browser DevTools
8 8 (2.03%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.03%) MSI
8 8 (2.03%) MSTest
9 7 (1.77%) Mockito
9 7 (1.77%) webpack
10 6 (1.52%) Mocha
10 6 (1.52%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.27%) Gradle
11 5 (1.27%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.19%) Finance
3 49 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.38%) Banking
6 26 (6.58%) Marketing
7 15 (3.80%) Retail
8 14 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.04%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.03%) Front Office
12 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.52%) Publishing
13 4 (1.01%) Legal
13 4 (1.01%) Local Government
14 3 (0.76%) Games
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.51%) Law
15 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (55.95%) Developer
2 53 (13.42%) Senior
3 46 (11.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (8.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 34 (8.61%) React Developer
5 33 (8.35%) Senior Developer
6 30 (7.59%) Java Developer
7 23 (5.82%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.06%) Architect
9 18 (4.56%) Designer
10 16 (4.05%) Angular Developer
10 16 (4.05%) Consultant
11 15 (3.80%) Lead
12 13 (3.29%) Web Developer
13 11 (2.78%) .NET Developer
13 11 (2.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 11 (2.78%) Software Developer
13 11 (2.78%) UI Developer
14 10 (2.53%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (84.56%) HTML
2 171 (43.29%) React
3 113 (28.61%) REST
4 91 (23.04%) AngularJS
5 88 (22.28%) HTML5
6 86 (21.77%) .NET
7 83 (21.01%) RESTful
8 72 (18.23%) CSS3
9 53 (13.42%) Node.js
10 49 (12.41%) Redux
11 42 (10.63%) Spring
12 39 (9.87%) Spring Boot
13 35 (8.86%) .NET Framework
14 34 (8.61%) Jest
14 34 (8.61%) jQuery
15 33 (8.35%) ASP.NET
16 28 (7.09%) OAuth
17 27 (6.84%) .NET Core
17 27 (6.84%) Vue
18 26 (6.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.08%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.28%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.03%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.27%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.01%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.82%) Windows
2 16 (4.05%) Unix
3 15 (3.80%) Linux
4 5 (1.27%) Android
5 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Tizen
7 1 (0.25%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (48.61%) Agile
2 142 (35.95%) CI/CD
3 101 (25.57%) User Experience
4 99 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (23.54%) DevOps
6 88 (22.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (21.52%) Microservices
8 79 (20.00%) Front End Development
9 68 (17.22%) Test Automation
10 60 (15.19%) Scrum
11 50 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (12.41%) Code Quality
12 49 (12.41%) UX Design
13 48 (12.15%) AI
14 46 (11.65%) Software Engineering
15 44 (11.14%) MVC
16 42 (10.63%) Design Patterns
17 40 (10.13%) Analytics
17 40 (10.13%) Performance Optimisation
18 37 (9.37%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 290 (73.42%) JavaScript
2 123 (31.14%) SQL
3 117 (29.62%) TypeScript
4 81 (20.51%) Java
5 74 (18.73%) C#
6 72 (18.23%) Python
7 17 (4.30%) PL/SQL
8 16 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.03%) Bicep
9 8 (2.03%) PHP
9 8 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.52%) Scala
10 6 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.27%) Ruby
12 3 (0.76%) Perl
12 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.51%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.82%) Degree
4 15 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.76%) PMP
7 2 (0.51%) 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%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (20.76%) Accessibility
2 57 (14.43%) QA
3 49 (12.41%) WCAG
4 9 (2.28%) GDPR
5 8 (2.03%) NCSC
6 6 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.01%) SLA
8 3 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) WAI
10 1 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 59 (14.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (9.37%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.09%) Terraform
3 15 (3.80%) Grafana
4 7 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (1.52%) Kibana
6 4 (1.01%) Argo
7 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 52 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.38%) Oracle
3 29 (7.34%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.08%) Adobe
5 15 (3.80%) Google
6 10 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.53%) Sitecore
7 9 (2.28%) Braze
8 8 (2.03%) OutSystems
8 8 (2.03%) Splunk
9 6 (1.52%) SAP
10 5 (1.27%) Workday
11 4 (1.01%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.76%) ESRI
12 3 (0.76%) Marketo
12 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.76%) Qualtrics
12 3 (0.76%) Sybase
13 2 (0.51%) Solace
542 CSS jobs in England