CSS Contracts in Scotland

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing CSS 42 55 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.57% 2.61% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.17% 12.97% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 43 60
10th Percentile £404 £413 £360
25th Percentile £425 £424 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £618 £548 £545
UK median daily rate £463 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -6.57% -1.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 376 424 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.00% 20.09% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 287 476
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -6.39% -0.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £549
90th Percentile £600 £662 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +12.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +23.81%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for CSS in Scotland

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for CSS in Scotland

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in Scotland

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for CSS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Glasgow -11 25 £525 +8.70% 76
Edinburgh +4 16 £475 +5.56% 61
Dundee - 1 £200 - 9
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) IIS
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Acrobat
1 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (21.43%) Serverless
3 8 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
3 8 (19.05%) BlazeMeter
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.29%) Azure
5 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.14%) Firebase
6 2 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (4.76%) CloudFront
6 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 2 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (19.05%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (19.05%) MongoDB
4 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JUnit
1 9 (21.43%) Storybook
2 7 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) webpack
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Mockito
5 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Back Office
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing
4 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (73.81%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) ServiceNow Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.67%) React Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.38%) Email Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Email Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Senior
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (2.38%) Service Designer
7 1 (2.38%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) HTML
2 23 (54.76%) React
3 17 (40.48%) AngularJS
4 10 (23.81%) Spring
5 9 (21.43%) HTML5
5 9 (21.43%) Jest
5 9 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
6 8 (19.05%) REST
6 8 (19.05%) RESTful
7 7 (16.67%) AWS CDK
8 6 (14.29%) SOAP
9 5 (11.90%) jQuery
10 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
10 4 (9.52%) JSON
10 4 (9.52%) Node.js
10 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (7.14%) AWS Amplify
11 3 (7.14%) CSS3
11 3 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) CMDB
4 2 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.38%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) PDA
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) AIX
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.38%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (45.24%) Agile
3 17 (40.48%) Microservices
4 14 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 14 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (23.81%) Unit Testing
6 9 (21.43%) SDLC
6 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Web Development
7 8 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (19.05%) Community of Practice
7 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (19.05%) DevSecOps
7 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
7 8 (19.05%) Micro Frontends
7 8 (19.05%) OWASP
7 8 (19.05%) Performance Testing
7 8 (19.05%) Visualisation
8 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (76.19%) JavaScript
2 22 (52.38%) TypeScript
3 13 (30.95%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Python
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) VB
7 1 (2.38%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.38%) MCP
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) GRC
2 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (7.14%) NCSC
4 1 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Grafana
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (2.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 8 (19.05%) Dynatrace
2 8 (19.05%) Splunk
3 6 (14.29%) Oracle
4 4 (9.52%) Adobe
4 4 (9.52%) Snow
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.14%) VMware
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco
6 2 (4.76%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) Bomgar
7 1 (2.38%) dotdigital
7 1 (2.38%) HP
7 1 (2.38%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) Peregrine
7 1 (2.38%) Remedy
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce