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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 116 122
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 -31
Contract jobs citing CSS 67 90 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.23% 1.62% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.62% 12.30% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 64 71
10th Percentile £250 £252 £263
25th Percentile £409 £305 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £526
90th Percentile £600 £609 £594
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 4
10th Percentile £30.25 £50.25 £15.77
25th Percentile £51.78 £61.25 £19.92
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £38.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +62.42% -43.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.00 £75.63
England median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.82% -6.38% +6.33%

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 492 732 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.41% 13.19% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 460 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £413 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £594 £619 £638
90th Percentile £662 £663 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +34 30 £494 +0.77% 39
Berkshire +30 27 £500 +4.17% 16
Hampshire +27 25 £499 +42.50% 27
Surrey +3 5 - - 11
East Sussex -1 5 £550 +76.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +12 2 £488 +54.76% 8
Kent +8 2 £475 +12.43% 12
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 25
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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 11 (16.42%) 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%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.43%) SaaS
4 5 (7.46%) Figma
5 4 (5.97%) AWS
5 4 (5.97%) GCP
6 3 (4.48%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.99%) npm
7 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.99%) Veeva
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.49%) dbt
8 1 (1.49%) IaaS
8 1 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) SNMP
1 9 (13.43%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (11.94%) HTTP
3 4 (5.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.96%) MySQL
3 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (49.25%) Git
2 14 (20.90%) JIRA
3 9 (13.43%) GoogleTest
3 9 (13.43%) Robot Framework
4 7 (10.45%) Bitbucket
4 7 (10.45%) Eclipse
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.97%) SpecFlow
5 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (5.97%) Vite
6 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.99%) Moq
7 2 (2.99%) Selenium
8 1 (1.49%) Maven
8 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.46%) Marketing
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
6 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.49%) Aviation
7 1 (1.49%) Electronics
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (59.70%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (13.43%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (10.45%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Software Test Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) React Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
7 4 (5.97%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.97%) PHP Software Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (4.48%) CRM Executive
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (94.03%) HTML
2 18 (26.87%) .NET
3 16 (23.88%) React
4 12 (17.91%) AngularJS
5 11 (16.42%) Web Services
6 8 (11.94%) Ajax
6 8 (11.94%) SOAP
7 7 (10.45%) .NET Core
7 7 (10.45%) Node.js
7 7 (10.45%) XML
8 6 (8.96%) REST
8 6 (8.96%) RESTful
9 5 (7.46%) jQuery
10 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
10 4 (5.97%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (5.97%) Framer.js
10 4 (5.97%) HTML5
10 4 (5.97%) LAMP
10 4 (5.97%) Next.js
10 4 (5.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) CMDB
1 4 (5.97%) Legacy Code
1 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.99%) Wiki
3 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) Agile
2 24 (35.82%) Scrum
3 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
4 16 (23.88%) DevOps
5 15 (22.39%) Software Testing
5 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
6 14 (20.90%) Front End Development
7 13 (19.40%) User Experience
8 12 (17.91%) Design Patterns
8 12 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.91%) Web Development
9 10 (14.93%) OO
9 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
9 10 (14.93%) Validation
10 9 (13.43%) Integration Testing
10 9 (13.43%) SysML
10 9 (13.43%) UML
10 9 (13.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (71.64%) JavaScript
2 21 (31.34%) C#
3 18 (26.87%) TypeScript
4 12 (17.91%) Python
4 12 (17.91%) SQL
5 7 (10.45%) C++
5 7 (10.45%) Java
6 5 (7.46%) PHP
7 3 (4.48%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.49%) RPG
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Firmware
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Google
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.96%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.97%) Adobe
4 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) Zend
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Rackspace
6 1 (1.49%) SAP
6 1 (1.49%) Snow
6 1 (1.49%) Twitter