CSS Contract Job Trends in the South East

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 84 115
Rank change year-on-year -81 +31 +10
Contract jobs citing CSS 39 71 94
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.70% 2.38% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 14.29% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 67
10th Percentile £204 £250 £250
25th Percentile £204 £385 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year -40.53% +22.58% -8.82%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £500
90th Percentile £594 £600 £595
England median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile - £28.37 £49.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.06 £56.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.41% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £62.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £54.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.33% -4.57% -11.54%

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 874 497 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.71% 16.66% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 325 468
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £415 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +0.10% -6.85%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £27.73 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £54.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -5.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.50 £74.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CSS job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS

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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 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS

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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 4 April 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
Thames Valley -58 16 £575 +21.05% 26
Surrey -1 15 £208 +18.57% 6
Buckinghamshire -17 11 £575 +17.95% 11
Berkshire -47 5 £525 +13.51% 9
Hampshire -50 5 £475 +2.32% 10
West Sussex - 2 £470 - 7
Sussex - 1 £400 -
CSS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (10.26%) CMS
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (5.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) SaaS
2 8 (20.51%) Sauce Labs
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Figma
6 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) MySQL
2 12 (30.77%) Relational Database
3 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.56%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.56%) GIS
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Browser DevTools
2 8 (20.51%) Android Studio
2 8 (20.51%) Eclipse
2 8 (20.51%) Xcode
3 5 (12.82%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.26%) JUnit
4 4 (10.26%) Storybook
5 3 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Firebug
6 1 (2.56%) Git
6 1 (2.56%) Gradle
6 1 (2.56%) JMeter
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Marketing
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Finance
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Electronics
6 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Technical Support
3 9 (23.08%) Technical Support Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) UX Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Coordinator
6 3 (7.69%) Resource Coordinator
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Informatica Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.56%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.56%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.56%) SEO Executive
8 1 (2.56%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (64.10%) React
2 22 (56.41%) HTML
3 15 (38.46%) AngularJS
4 10 (25.64%) RESTful
5 8 (20.51%) Ajax
5 8 (20.51%) GraphQL
6 7 (17.95%) Spring
6 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
7 6 (15.38%) .NET
7 6 (15.38%) .NET Framework
7 6 (15.38%) Entity Framework
8 5 (12.82%) CSS3
8 5 (12.82%) HTML5
8 5 (12.82%) Material-UI
9 4 (10.26%) REST
9 4 (10.26%) Vitest
10 3 (7.69%) JSON
10 3 (7.69%) Vue
11 2 (5.13%) JSR 170
11 2 (5.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Android
2 9 (23.08%) Linux
3 8 (20.51%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) User Experience
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (25.64%) Microservices
5 9 (23.08%) OO
6 8 (20.51%) AI
6 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 8 (20.51%) Mobile Application Development
7 7 (17.95%) Analytics
7 7 (17.95%) Customer Service
7 7 (17.95%) Front End Development
8 6 (15.38%) Unit Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.82%) Web Development
10 4 (10.26%) Backlog Management
10 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
10 4 (10.26%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
10 4 (10.26%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (79.49%) JavaScript
2 19 (48.72%) Java
3 12 (30.77%) Python
4 11 (28.21%) SQL
5 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
6 8 (20.51%) Perl
7 6 (15.38%) C#
8 2 (5.13%) C++
8 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.69%) PMP
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) Oracle
3 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 8 (20.51%) Splunk
5 3 (7.69%) SAP
6 2 (5.13%) Adobe
6 2 (5.13%) Informatica
7 1 (2.56%) Braze
7 1 (2.56%) ESRI
7 1 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (2.56%) Solace