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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 77 114
Rank change year-on-year -44 +37 -11
Contract jobs citing CSS 56 94 90
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.27% 2.63% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.24% 16.55% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 61
10th Percentile £171 - £300
25th Percentile £204 £203 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £411 £416
Median % change year-on-year -49.48% -1.26% -18.63%
75th Percentile £388 £576 £515
90th Percentile £556 £600 £588
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 12
10th Percentile - £57.55 £51.63
25th Percentile £27.50 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £58.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.16% -1.88% -7.69%

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 680 568 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.43% 15.87% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 362 441
10th Percentile £281 £326 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.25 £51.90
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.97 £78.00
England median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -5.60% +19.74% -19.70%

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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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Surrey +3 31 £208 +1.22% 14
Thames Valley -30 20 £438 -12.50% 23
Buckinghamshire +13 13 £450 -11.11% 11
Berkshire -33 7 £208 -58.50% 8
Kent -1 3 £338 -15.63% 13
Hampshire -37 2 - - 17
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 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) SaaS
2 20 (35.71%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (7.14%) Azure
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) GitHub
4 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.79%) Figma
6 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.79%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (53.57%) MySQL
2 27 (48.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.93%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (51.79%) Browser DevTools
2 20 (35.71%) Android Studio
2 20 (35.71%) Eclipse
2 20 (35.71%) Xcode
3 8 (14.29%) Firebug
4 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.36%) JUnit
4 3 (5.36%) Storybook
5 2 (3.57%) Git
5 2 (3.57%) Gradle
5 2 (3.57%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 34 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Marketing
2 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.36%) Electronics
3 3 (5.36%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (51.79%) Support Engineer
1 29 (51.79%) Technical Engineer
1 29 (51.79%) Technical Support
1 29 (51.79%) Technical Support Engineer
2 21 (37.50%) UX Engineer
3 17 (30.36%) Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (8.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (8.93%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.36%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Senior
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Web Developer
7 1 (1.79%) C# Web Application Developer
7 1 (1.79%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 1 (1.79%) UI Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) UI/UX Designer
7 1 (1.79%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (60.71%) HTML
2 32 (57.14%) React
3 26 (46.43%) AngularJS
4 21 (37.50%) Ajax
4 21 (37.50%) GraphQL
5 8 (14.29%) XML
6 6 (10.71%) RESTful
7 5 (8.93%) Spring
8 4 (7.14%) .NET
8 4 (7.14%) CSS3
8 4 (7.14%) HTML5
8 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.36%) REST
9 3 (5.36%) Vitest
10 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.57%) Blazor
10 2 (3.57%) SPFx
10 2 (3.57%) Vue
11 1 (1.79%) Jest
11 1 (1.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.86%) Unix
2 21 (37.50%) Linux
2 21 (37.50%) Windows
3 20 (35.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (51.79%) User Experience
2 28 (50.00%) OO
3 21 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 11 (19.64%) Customer Service
5 9 (16.07%) Agile
5 9 (16.07%) Front End Development
6 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.93%) DevOps
7 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.14%) AI
8 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 4 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 4 (7.14%) Microservices
9 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (5.36%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (5.36%) Performance Testing
9 3 (5.36%) Software Testing
9 3 (5.36%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) JavaScript
2 32 (57.14%) Java
3 26 (46.43%) Python
4 21 (37.50%) Perl
5 6 (10.71%) C#
6 5 (8.93%) SQL
6 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.57%) C++
7 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (46.43%) Oracle
2 21 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (35.71%) Splunk
4 19 (33.93%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.36%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) Adobe
6 1 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (1.79%) Nintex