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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 105 113
Rank change year-on-year -79 +8 -38
Contract jobs citing CSS 489 690 796
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 2.42% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 11.05% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 417 577
10th Percentile £210 £250 £300
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £581 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £693 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +0.58% -5.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 23
10th Percentile £28.15 £27.65 £26.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £38.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% -7.69%

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 7,059 6,242 7,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.88% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 3,999 5,799
10th Percentile £352 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -54 276 £518 +3.50% 223
North of England -46 62 £450 -5.26% 315
South East -51 59 £208 -49.27% 316
Midlands -55 33 £545 +14.74% 207
Yorkshire -27 32 £488 -13.18% 121
North West -25 27 £394 -15.32% 163
West Midlands -46 23 £400 -23.81% 113
South West -9 18 £400 +6.67% 128
East of England -25 16 £475 +58.33% 177
East Midlands -15 10 £575 +58.40% 86
North East -14 4 £475 +26.67% 34
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 23 (4.70%) CMS
2 22 (4.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.66%) Confluence
3 13 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.23%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.02%) SugarCRM
5 5 (1.02%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) Joomla!
7 2 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Moodle
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (2.66%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.45%) Sketch
3 4 (0.82%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Trello
4 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.61%) InVision
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Maya
5 2 (0.41%) NUKE
5 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.20%) InDesign
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.20%) Moqups
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.41%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (23.11%) Azure
2 109 (22.29%) AWS
3 55 (11.25%) GitHub
4 35 (7.16%) Figma
5 33 (6.75%) GCP
6 29 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (5.93%) SaaS
7 28 (5.73%) Serverless
8 23 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.70%) npm
9 21 (4.29%) Sauce Labs
10 20 (4.09%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.68%) Power Platform
12 15 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.45%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.04%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.04%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.84%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.68%) Wireless
2 7 (1.43%) HTTP
3 3 (0.61%) DNS
3 3 (0.61%) Internet
3 3 (0.61%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) BGP
4 1 (0.20%) DKIM
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.20%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) LAN
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) OSPF
4 1 (0.20%) POP3
4 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
4 1 (0.20%) SMTP
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (14.31%) Relational Database
2 60 (12.27%) MySQL
2 60 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (8.38%) SQL Server
4 30 (6.13%) NoSQL
5 23 (4.70%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.09%) Redis
7 10 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.84%) MariaDB
8 9 (1.84%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.64%) Power BI
10 6 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.82%) DB2
12 4 (0.82%) Tableau
13 3 (0.61%) Mixpanel
14 2 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 143 (29.24%) Git
2 54 (11.04%) JIRA
3 40 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.16%) Browser DevTools
5 29 (5.93%) Xcode
6 28 (5.73%) Eclipse
7 27 (5.52%) webpack
8 25 (5.11%) GitLab
9 24 (4.91%) Cypress.io
10 21 (4.29%) Android Studio
10 21 (4.29%) JUnit
11 17 (3.48%) Maven
12 16 (3.27%) Mockito
13 15 (3.07%) Postman
13 15 (3.07%) SonarQube
14 13 (2.66%) Bitbucket
15 11 (2.25%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.25%) Cucumber
15 11 (2.25%) Selenium
15 11 (2.25%) Storybook
General
1 165 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 82 (16.77%) Finance
3 64 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.20%) Banking
5 37 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.52%) Marketing
7 13 (2.66%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.04%) Military
10 7 (1.43%) Front Office
10 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.23%) Retail
12 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.02%) Publishing
13 4 (0.82%) Automotive
13 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.82%) Legal
14 3 (0.61%) Advertising
14 3 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 284 (58.08%) Developer
2 77 (15.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 55 (11.25%) Senior
4 46 (9.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 37 (7.57%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.54%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 32 (6.54%) Support Engineer
6 32 (6.54%) Technical Engineer
6 32 (6.54%) Technical Support
6 32 (6.54%) Technical Support Engineer
7 27 (5.52%) Java Developer
7 27 (5.52%) React Developer
8 26 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (5.11%) Lead
9 25 (5.11%) UX Engineer
10 23 (4.70%) Designer
11 21 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 14 (2.86%) Consultant
12 14 (2.86%) UX Designer
13 13 (2.66%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (86.30%) HTML
2 226 (46.22%) React
3 153 (31.29%) AngularJS
4 101 (20.65%) HTML5
5 94 (19.22%) REST
6 83 (16.97%) RESTful
7 80 (16.36%) Node.js
8 71 (14.52%) CSS3
9 68 (13.91%) .NET
10 55 (11.25%) Spring
11 53 (10.84%) Vue
12 49 (10.02%) Jest
13 43 (8.79%) JSON
14 40 (8.18%) Sass
14 40 (8.18%) Spring Boot
15 36 (7.36%) GraphQL
15 36 (7.36%) jQuery
16 35 (7.16%) Bootstrap
17 32 (6.54%) Redux
18 31 (6.34%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.04%) Mobile App
2 26 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.27%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.25%) CMDB
8 11 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.84%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.64%) Derivative
11 8 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.64%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.61%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.38%) Linux
2 33 (6.75%) Unix
3 29 (5.93%) Android
4 27 (5.52%) Windows
5 6 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.61%) CentOS
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (45.19%) Agile
2 159 (32.52%) User Experience
3 150 (30.67%) CI/CD
4 129 (26.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 111 (22.70%) Front End Development
6 101 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (17.59%) DevOps
8 79 (16.16%) Microservices
9 65 (13.29%) UX Design
10 58 (11.86%) TDD
11 57 (11.66%) Test Automation
12 56 (11.45%) Containerisation
13 51 (10.43%) MVC
13 51 (10.43%) Scrum
14 49 (10.02%) OO
15 46 (9.41%) Code Quality
16 44 (9.00%) Computer Science
16 44 (9.00%) SDLC
17 43 (8.79%) Software Engineering
18 41 (8.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 376 (76.89%) JavaScript
2 135 (27.61%) Java
3 127 (25.97%) SQL
4 126 (25.77%) TypeScript
5 93 (19.02%) Python
6 54 (11.04%) C#
7 25 (5.11%) Perl
8 23 (4.70%) C++
9 21 (4.29%) PHP
10 18 (3.68%) Ruby
11 13 (2.66%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.04%) ABAP
13 9 (1.84%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.64%) C
14 8 (1.64%) Groovy
15 7 (1.43%) JSX
15 7 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.23%) Apex Code
17 5 (1.02%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 95 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.20%) Degree
4 30 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.82%) MCP
8 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCA
10 1 (0.20%) CCNP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ISEB
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 43 (8.79%) WCAG
3 41 (8.38%) QA
4 8 (1.64%) GDPR
5 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 80 (16.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 57 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.25%) Argo
2 11 (2.25%) Terraform
3 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 67 (13.70%) Oracle
2 65 (13.29%) Microsoft
3 43 (8.79%) Adobe
4 35 (7.16%) ServiceNow
5 29 (5.93%) Splunk
6 28 (5.73%) Google
7 18 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.68%) SAP
8 17 (3.48%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.64%) GoldenSource
10 7 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 7 (1.43%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.23%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.23%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (1.02%) OutSystems
13 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg