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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 97 94
Rank change year-on-year -91 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing CSS 46 67 98
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.68% 1.90% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 11.43% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 50 60
10th Percentile £204 £163 £203
25th Percentile £363 £204 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £378
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% +8.34% -5.63%
75th Percentile £638 £513 £500
90th Percentile - £546 £623
England median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 14
10th Percentile - £25.55 £63.88
25th Percentile - £35.45 -
Median hourly rate - £54.94 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.52% +186.18%
75th Percentile - £58.73 -
90th Percentile - £58.75 £73.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +51.88%

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 939 586 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.98% 16.58% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 401 494
10th Percentile £314 £300 £313
25th Percentile £426 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £625 £551 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £670
England median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 22 35
10th Percentile £30.91 £21.48 £27.30
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.68 £54.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +5.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.39 £58.74 £74.95
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%

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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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -23 13 £425 +104.82% 13
Thames Valley -56 12 £375 -21.05% 24
Hampshire -45 10 £625 +31.58% 16
Buckinghamshire -32 9 £375 -11.76% 10
West Sussex - 9 £463 - 2
Berkshire -37 3 £363 -29.88% 8
Kent -3 1 - - 10
Sussex - 1 £650 -
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 (8.70%) CMS
2 2 (4.35%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) Kentico
3 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) GCP
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) SaaS
5 3 (6.52%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.17%) Figma
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) Relational Database
2 13 (28.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (21.74%) MySQL
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (13.04%) Couchbase
6 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 4 (8.70%) Power BI
7 2 (4.35%) Db2
7 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
7 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) JUnit
3 3 (6.52%) Android Studio
3 3 (6.52%) Eclipse
3 3 (6.52%) Postman
3 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.52%) Xcode
4 2 (4.35%) Firebug
4 2 (4.35%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Gradle
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (2.17%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Lead
2 9 (19.57%) Technical Leader
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) UX Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.35%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Architect
7 1 (2.17%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.17%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (86.96%) HTML
2 24 (52.17%) React
3 17 (36.96%) REST
4 16 (34.78%) RESTful
5 14 (30.43%) .NET
6 12 (26.09%) Ajax
7 8 (17.39%) .NET Core
7 8 (17.39%) .NET Framework
7 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
7 8 (17.39%) Spring
8 7 (15.22%) Django
8 7 (15.22%) Entity Framework
8 7 (15.22%) JSON
8 7 (15.22%) OAuth
8 7 (15.22%) OAuth2
8 7 (15.22%) OpenID
8 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
9 6 (13.04%) Spring MVC
10 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
11 4 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Unix
2 4 (8.70%) Android
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Agile
2 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 18 (39.13%) Microservices
4 16 (34.78%) DevOps
5 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.09%) Analytics
7 11 (23.91%) Computer Science
7 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (23.91%) MVC
7 11 (23.91%) User Experience
8 10 (21.74%) Code Quality
8 10 (21.74%) CRM
8 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 10 (21.74%) Web Development
9 9 (19.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (19.57%) ERP
9 9 (19.57%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (19.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
9 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (89.13%) JavaScript
2 15 (32.61%) SQL
3 13 (28.26%) Java
4 12 (26.09%) C#
5 11 (23.91%) Python
6 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
7 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
8 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
9 3 (6.52%) Perl
10 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (23.91%) Degree
4 6 (13.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) QA
2 10 (21.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) WCAG
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle
2 9 (19.57%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.70%) Google
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.52%) Splunk
5 2 (4.35%) Solace
6 1 (2.17%) Adobe
6 1 (2.17%) Braze
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud