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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -101 +8 -34
Contract jobs citing CSS 455 599 711
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 2.44% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.81% 10.78% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 367 512
10th Percentile £313 £329 £300
25th Percentile £404 £389 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -3.92%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £693 £725
UK median daily rate £478 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 24
10th Percentile £25.70 £26.05 £26.44
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.75 £36.03
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +5.00% -18.52%
75th Percentile £50.63 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £56.31 £51.00
% change year-on-year -46.73% +10.42% -23.02%

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 7,829 5,557 7,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 22.62% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,775 5,401
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 193
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -55 272 £525 +5.00% 159
South East -77 46 £246 -46.26% 121
North of England -92 46 £450 +12.50% 119
Midlands -55 38 £545 +32.12% 82
North West -52 27 £426 +6.50% 59
West Midlands -68 23 £475 +1.06% 39
South West -43 22 £390 +3.93% 57
East Midlands -25 15 £561 +55.26% 43
Yorkshire -51 15 £500 +6.38% 35
East of England -27 14 £531 +18.06% 73
North East -23 5 £475 +25.00% 27
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 32 (7.03%) CMS
2 26 (5.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (3.08%) Sitecore CMS
4 13 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.20%) Confluence
6 6 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.10%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.66%) IIS
9 3 (0.66%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.44%) Camunda
10 2 (0.44%) Drupal
10 2 (0.44%) Moodle
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Mendix
11 1 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.52%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.08%) Sketch
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.88%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.88%) Trello
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.66%) InVision
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 126 (27.69%) Azure
2 124 (27.25%) AWS
3 59 (12.97%) GitHub
4 37 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.13%) Figma
5 34 (7.47%) Serverless
6 32 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.15%) GCP
8 22 (4.84%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 14 (3.08%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.86%) SaaS
13 12 (2.64%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.20%) Sauce Labs
16 8 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.76%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.76%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.54%) Wireless
2 4 (0.88%) HTTP
2 4 (0.88%) SMS
3 3 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) BGP
4 2 (0.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.44%) LAN
4 2 (0.44%) OSPF
4 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.44%) RTMP
4 2 (0.44%) SSL
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) Intranet
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 36 (7.91%) MySQL
5 35 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.20%) Redis
9 8 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.76%) Power BI
10 7 (1.54%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.32%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.88%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.88%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.66%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
14 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.44%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 100 (21.98%) Git
2 35 (7.69%) JIRA
3 32 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.05%) GitLab
5 22 (4.84%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.40%) JUnit
7 15 (3.30%) Maven
8 14 (3.08%) Mockito
8 14 (3.08%) webpack
9 13 (2.86%) Browser DevTools
10 11 (2.42%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.42%) Xcode
11 10 (2.20%) Android Studio
11 10 (2.20%) Eclipse
12 9 (1.98%) Jasmine
12 9 (1.98%) Mocha
12 9 (1.98%) Postman
12 9 (1.98%) Vite
13 8 (1.76%) Selenium
14 7 (1.54%) Storybook
General
1 131 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 68 (14.95%) Finance
4 47 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.35%) Banking
6 24 (5.27%) Marketing
7 12 (2.64%) Front Office
7 12 (2.64%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.76%) Military
9 7 (1.54%) Retail
10 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.32%) Publishing
11 5 (1.10%) Legal
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.66%) Advertising
13 3 (0.66%) Electronics
13 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 277 (60.88%) Developer
2 73 (16.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 65 (14.29%) Senior
4 49 (10.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 42 (9.23%) Senior Developer
6 33 (7.25%) React Developer
7 25 (5.49%) Designer
7 25 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 21 (4.62%) Java Developer
9 19 (4.18%) Lead
10 17 (3.74%) Architect
11 15 (3.30%) C# Developer
12 14 (3.08%) Python Developer
12 14 (3.08%) Technical Engineer
12 14 (3.08%) UX Engineer
13 13 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (2.86%) Support Engineer
13 13 (2.86%) Technical Support
13 13 (2.86%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (84.84%) HTML
2 224 (49.23%) React
3 151 (33.19%) AngularJS
4 93 (20.44%) REST
5 88 (19.34%) HTML5
5 88 (19.34%) RESTful
6 74 (16.26%) Node.js
7 70 (15.38%) CSS3
8 67 (14.73%) .NET
9 56 (12.31%) Spring
10 49 (10.77%) Vue
11 42 (9.23%) Jest
12 39 (8.57%) Spring Boot
13 38 (8.35%) Sass
14 34 (7.47%) Redux
15 32 (7.03%) ASP.NET
15 32 (7.03%) JSON
16 30 (6.59%) .NET Framework
17 24 (5.27%) jQuery
18 23 (5.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.86%) CMDB
5 12 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.54%) Derivative
9 6 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.10%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.27%) Windows
2 20 (4.40%) Linux
3 17 (3.74%) Unix
4 16 (3.52%) Android
5 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (43.30%) Agile
2 148 (32.53%) CI/CD
3 139 (30.55%) User Experience
4 111 (24.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 105 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (21.98%) DevOps
7 96 (21.10%) Front End Development
8 80 (17.58%) Microservices
9 55 (12.09%) Containerisation
10 51 (11.21%) AI
10 51 (11.21%) UX Design
11 50 (10.99%) Software Engineering
11 50 (10.99%) Test Automation
12 49 (10.77%) Scrum
13 42 (9.23%) Design Patterns
14 39 (8.57%) Analytics
14 39 (8.57%) MVC
15 38 (8.35%) Unit Testing
16 37 (8.13%) Responsive Web Design
17 36 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 327 (71.87%) JavaScript
2 138 (30.33%) TypeScript
3 111 (24.40%) Java
3 111 (24.40%) SQL
4 88 (19.34%) Python
5 59 (12.97%) C#
6 16 (3.52%) Ruby
7 11 (2.42%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.20%) Perl
9 9 (1.98%) ABAP
9 9 (1.98%) PHP
10 7 (1.54%) JSX
10 7 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.10%) C++
12 4 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.88%) Go
13 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.44%) Bash
14 2 (0.44%) Groovy
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.35%) Degree
4 19 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.66%) CCNP
7 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.66%) PMP
8 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) CCNA
9 1 (0.22%) ISEB
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.82%) Accessibility
2 47 (10.33%) WCAG
3 34 (7.47%) QA
4 13 (2.86%) GDPR
5 5 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.10%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (16.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 54 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.30%) Terraform
3 11 (2.42%) Argo
4 7 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.77%) Adobe
3 32 (7.03%) Oracle
4 28 (6.15%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.05%) Google
6 17 (3.74%) SAP
6 17 (3.74%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.08%) Splunk
8 13 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.86%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.10%) mParticle
11 3 (0.66%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.66%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.66%) Symantec
12 2 (0.44%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.44%) Cisco
12 2 (0.44%) Informatica