CSS Contracts in Reading

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 76 70
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 1.26% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.24% 7.50% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 15
10th Percentile £273 £270 £318
25th Percentile £376 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -8.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £519
90th Percentile - - £579
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +4.17% +12.94% -6.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for CSS in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Figma
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.11%) Veeva
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) Vite
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (27.78%) React Developer
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Developer
5 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) HTML Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UI/UX Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) React
4 4 (22.22%) Framer.js
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) Playwright
6 1 (5.56%) ADO
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) Blazor
6 1 (5.56%) Express.js
6 1 (5.56%) Material-UI
6 1 (5.56%) Next.js
6 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 1 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) Swagger
6 1 (5.56%) TanStack
6 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 6 (33.33%) LLM
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) SDLC
3 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 6 (33.33%) System Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 6 (33.33%) User Experience
4 4 (22.22%) Channel Management
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) UX Design
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) API Development
6 2 (11.11%) API Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 11 (61.11%) C#
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) Python
5 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft