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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 93 99
Rank change year-on-year -91 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing CSS 47 69 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.98% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 10.57% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 52
10th Percentile £204 £174 -
25th Percentile £320 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £377 £350
Median % change year-on-year +15.97% +7.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £500
90th Percentile - £538 £588
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +16.67%
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 990 653 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.86% 18.75% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 443 553
10th Percentile £320 £293 £325
25th Percentile £431 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £563 £624
90th Percentile £725 £625 £672
England median daily rate £533 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.40% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 17 29
10th Percentile £29.07 £24.69 £27.00
25th Percentile £55.00 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £68.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £58.75 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%

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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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -25 13 £425 +104.82% 10
Hampshire -33 13 £625 +31.58% 18
West Sussex - 11 £438 - 10
Thames Valley -62 7 £375 -18.92% 28
Buckinghamshire -38 5 £375 -16.67% 7
Berkshire -49 2 £250 -51.64% 15
Sussex - 2 £488 -
Kent -3 1 - - 10
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 (6.38%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.13%) Kentico
3 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) GCP
3 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) Cloudflare
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (6.38%) SaaS
4 3 (6.38%) Sauce Labs
4 3 (6.38%) Supabase
5 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.13%) Dialogflow
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (31.91%) Relational Database
3 10 (21.28%) MySQL
4 6 (12.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (12.77%) Couchbase
5 4 (8.51%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.51%) Power BI
5 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.26%) Db2
6 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.26%) Redis
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) JUnit
3 3 (6.38%) Android Studio
3 3 (6.38%) Eclipse
3 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (6.38%) Xcode
4 2 (4.26%) Firebug
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Maven
5 1 (2.13%) Mockito
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.77%) Finance
5 4 (8.51%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Lead
2 9 (19.15%) Technical Leader
3 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Technical Support
4 5 (10.64%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) UX Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.26%) React Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.13%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (93.62%) HTML
2 23 (48.94%) React
3 17 (36.17%) REST
4 15 (31.91%) RESTful
5 12 (25.53%) Ajax
6 11 (23.40%) .NET
7 9 (19.15%) JSON
8 8 (17.02%) .NET Core
8 8 (17.02%) Spring
9 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
9 7 (14.89%) Django
9 7 (14.89%) OAuth
9 7 (14.89%) OAuth2
9 7 (14.89%) OpenID
9 7 (14.89%) Spring Boot
10 6 (12.77%) Spring MVC
11 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
11 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET
11 5 (10.64%) CSS3
11 5 (10.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.38%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Unix
2 3 (6.38%) Android
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Agile
2 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.91%) Microservices
3 15 (31.91%) Test Automation
4 14 (29.79%) DevOps
5 13 (27.66%) Code Quality
5 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.40%) Analytics
6 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (23.40%) Mentoring
6 11 (23.40%) MVC
6 11 (23.40%) Performance Optimisation
6 11 (23.40%) User Experience
7 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
7 10 (21.28%) Web Development
8 9 (19.15%) AI
8 9 (19.15%) Change Management
8 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
8 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (95.74%) JavaScript
2 15 (31.91%) SQL
3 14 (29.79%) Java
4 11 (23.40%) Python
4 11 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (19.15%) C#
6 5 (10.64%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.51%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (21.28%) Degree
4 6 (12.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.17%) QA
2 9 (19.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Oracle
2 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.51%) Google
5 3 (6.38%) Splunk
6 2 (4.26%) Solace
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud