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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 99 114
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing CSS 67 85 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.95% 1.86% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.61% 12.09% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 51 64
10th Percentile £166 - £263
25th Percentile £204 £203 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £350 £405
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -13.58% -14.74%
75th Percentile £491 £500 £504
90th Percentile £538 £588 £648
England median daily rate £435 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £53.25 - £35.92
25th Percentile £54.38 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -4.00%

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 577 703 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.76% 15.39% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 469 578
10th Percentile £290 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 43
10th Percentile £22.78 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £49.06 £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.13 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

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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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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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +12 28 £475 -15.93% 65
Surrey 0 19 £208 +1.22% 20
Berkshire +7 17 £521 -7.79% 38
Hampshire 0 13 £475 +35.71% 30
Buckinghamshire +15 11 £450 -14.29% 23
Kent - 4 £553 - 29
East Sussex -1 3 £300 -21.05% 20
CSS
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 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) SaaS
3 10 (14.93%) Sauce Labs
4 7 (10.45%) AWS
5 6 (8.96%) Figma
6 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.48%) GCP
6 3 (4.48%) npm
6 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.99%) Google Play
8 1 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.49%) dbt
8 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) Wireless
2 6 (8.96%) HTTP
3 3 (4.48%) Firewall
3 3 (4.48%) SNMP
3 3 (4.48%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.34%) Relational Database
2 20 (29.85%) MySQL
3 6 (8.96%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) DB2
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Browser DevTools
2 16 (23.88%) Git
3 11 (16.42%) Eclipse
4 10 (14.93%) Android Studio
4 10 (14.93%) Xcode
5 6 (8.96%) Firebug
6 3 (4.48%) GoogleTest
6 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.48%) JIRA
6 3 (4.48%) Robot Framework
6 3 (4.48%) Vite
7 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.99%) Gradle
7 2 (2.99%) Maven
7 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.99%) UI Automator
8 1 (1.49%) GitLab
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.48%) Marketing
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (46.27%) Developer
2 18 (26.87%) Support Engineer
2 18 (26.87%) Technical Engineer
2 18 (26.87%) Technical Support
2 18 (26.87%) Technical Support Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (16.42%) UX Engineer
5 10 (14.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 8 (11.94%) React Developer
7 6 (8.96%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Software Test Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) UI Developer
9 3 (4.48%) UI/UX Developer
9 3 (4.48%) UX Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (74.63%) HTML
2 30 (44.78%) React
3 15 (22.39%) Ajax
4 14 (20.90%) AngularJS
5 11 (16.42%) GraphQL
6 10 (14.93%) .NET
7 9 (13.43%) XML
8 8 (11.94%) Node.js
9 6 (8.96%) Next.js
10 5 (7.46%) .NET Framework
10 5 (7.46%) Jest
10 5 (7.46%) Web Services
11 4 (5.97%) CSS3
11 4 (5.97%) HTML5
11 4 (5.97%) RESTful
12 3 (4.48%) Blazor
12 3 (4.48%) Framer.js
12 3 (4.48%) Material-UI
12 3 (4.48%) REST
12 3 (4.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.49%) AS400
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
4 1 (1.49%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.88%) Linux
2 12 (17.91%) Android
2 12 (17.91%) Unix
3 11 (16.42%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) OO
2 19 (28.36%) User Experience
3 18 (26.87%) Agile
4 15 (22.39%) Front End Development
5 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.42%) Mobile Application Development
7 9 (13.43%) Test Automation
7 9 (13.43%) Web Development
8 8 (11.94%) DevOps
9 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.45%) Scrum
10 5 (7.46%) Code Quality
10 5 (7.46%) Design Patterns
10 5 (7.46%) Validation
11 4 (5.97%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.97%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.97%) Performance Engineering
11 4 (5.97%) SOLID
11 4 (5.97%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (73.13%) JavaScript
2 20 (29.85%) Python
3 16 (23.88%) Java
4 14 (20.90%) C#
5 12 (17.91%) TypeScript
6 11 (16.42%) Perl
7 10 (14.93%) SQL
8 3 (4.48%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) PHP
10 1 (1.49%) RPG
10 1 (1.49%) RPG IV
10 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 3 (4.48%) CCNA
3 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.48%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Firmware
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Oracle
2 15 (22.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.91%) ServiceNow
4 10 (14.93%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Google
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) Adobe
6 2 (2.99%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Nintex