CSS Contracts in the South East

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 107 114
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -23
Contract jobs citing CSS 67 91 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.08% 1.59% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.92% 11.55% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 66
10th Percentile £201 £213 £223
25th Percentile £351 £255 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £405
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £521 £500 £488
90th Percentile £575 £588 £578
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 5
10th Percentile £27.43 £63.50 £14.54
25th Percentile £45.86 - £16.84
Median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +186.18% -55.53%
75th Percentile £59.09 - £53.75
90th Percentile £60.84 £75.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -5.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 562 788 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.43% 13.80% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 526 675
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £402 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £583 £619 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 42
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +33.16%
75th Percentile £58.70 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.79 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Thames Valley +24 27 £500 - 131
Hampshire +23 24 £475 +35.71% 65
Berkshire +29 23 £500 - 79
Surrey +14 6 £191 -23.50% 58
East Sussex -1 6 £444 +16.78% 48
Kent - 4 £553 - 31
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £475 -13.64% 31
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 21
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (11.94%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) Apache
2 5 (7.46%) CMS
3 4 (5.97%) Drupal
3 4 (5.97%) WordPress
4 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 10 (14.93%) SaaS
3 8 (11.94%) AWS
4 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.45%) Figma
5 4 (5.97%) GCP
6 3 (4.48%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (4.48%) npm
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.99%) Google Play
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.49%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.49%) dbt
8 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.49%) IaaS
8 1 (1.49%) PaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) HTTP
2 6 (8.96%) SNMP
2 6 (8.96%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (5.97%) Internet
4 3 (4.48%) Firewall
5 1 (1.49%) VoIP
5 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) Relational Database
2 10 (14.93%) MySQL
3 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.49%) DB2
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) Git
2 10 (14.93%) JIRA
3 6 (8.96%) Eclipse
3 6 (8.96%) GoogleTest
3 6 (8.96%) Robot Framework
4 5 (7.46%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (5.97%) Vite
6 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.99%) Firebug
7 2 (2.99%) Moq
7 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.99%) UI Automator
7 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.49%) GitLab
8 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.46%) Marketing
4 4 (5.97%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Games
6 1 (1.49%) Military
6 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (13.43%) React Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) .NET Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Lead
6 5 (7.46%) Salesforce Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
7 4 (5.97%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Support
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (91.04%) HTML
2 23 (34.33%) React
3 12 (17.91%) .NET
3 12 (17.91%) Ajax
3 12 (17.91%) Web Services
4 11 (16.42%) AngularJS
4 11 (16.42%) XML
5 9 (13.43%) Node.js
6 8 (11.94%) SOAP
7 6 (8.96%) jQuery
7 6 (8.96%) Next.js
7 6 (8.96%) REST
8 5 (7.46%) Jest
8 5 (7.46%) JSON
8 5 (7.46%) React Native
8 5 (7.46%) Redux
8 5 (7.46%) RESTful
9 4 (5.97%) .NET Framework
9 4 (5.97%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (5.97%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.97%) CMDB
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Wiki
5 1 (1.49%) AS400
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.90%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Android
4 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Agile
2 19 (28.36%) Scrum
3 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
4 15 (22.39%) OO
5 13 (19.40%) DevOps
5 13 (19.40%) Front End Development
6 12 (17.91%) Design Patterns
6 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
7 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 11 (16.42%) User Experience
8 10 (14.93%) Web Development
9 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (13.43%) Validation
10 8 (11.94%) OOP
11 7 (10.45%) MVC
12 6 (8.96%) Software Testing
12 6 (8.96%) SysML
12 6 (8.96%) TDD
12 6 (8.96%) UML
Programming Languages
1 43 (64.18%) JavaScript
2 18 (26.87%) TypeScript
3 15 (22.39%) C#
4 11 (16.42%) Java
5 10 (14.93%) SQL
6 7 (10.45%) Python
7 4 (5.97%) C++
7 4 (5.97%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.97%) PHP
8 3 (4.48%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.49%) Perl
10 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.49%) RPG
10 1 (1.49%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.48%) CCNA
2 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
3 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Docker
1 4 (5.97%) Firmware
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle
3 6 (8.96%) Google
4 5 (7.46%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.97%) Adobe
5 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.97%) Zend
6 2 (2.99%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Snow
7 1 (1.49%) Splunk