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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 81 111
Rank change year-on-year -50 +30 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS 54 85 94
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.21% 2.61% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.66% 16.31% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 63
10th Percentile £204 £203 £270
25th Percentile £204 £275 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £413 £413
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% - -17.50%
75th Percentile £450 £555 £500
90th Percentile £575 £600 £585
England median daily rate £488 £482 £475
% change year-on-year +1.09% +1.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 14
10th Percentile - £55.23 £52.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £62.75 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.49% +2.98% -11.32%

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 705 521 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.74% 16.03% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 317 453
10th Percentile £295 £349 £313
25th Percentile £408 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 44
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.38 £54.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £55.80
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.13 £74.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £77.85
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

CSS
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

CSS
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

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the South East

CSS
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

CSS
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 25 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 +6 25 £208 +1.22% 19
Thames Valley -34 19 £450 -2.70% 74
Buckinghamshire +2 12 £488 -3.70% 19
Berkshire -36 7 £208 -55.14% 43
Hampshire -33 5 £475 -6.73% 28
Kent -2 3 £338 -15.63% 18
Sussex -4 1 £400 -
West Sussex -14 1 £650 +36.84% 19
CSS
England

CSS
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 (5.56%) CMS
1 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) SaaS
2 17 (31.48%) Sauce Labs
3 7 (12.96%) Azure
4 5 (9.26%) AWS
5 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.85%) Figma
7 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (46.30%) MySQL
2 21 (38.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.56%) MariaDB
3 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (42.59%) Browser DevTools
2 17 (31.48%) Android Studio
2 17 (31.48%) Eclipse
2 17 (31.48%) Xcode
3 5 (9.26%) Firebug
4 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.56%) JUnit
4 3 (5.56%) Storybook
5 2 (3.70%) Git
5 2 (3.70%) Gradle
5 2 (3.70%) Maven
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) GitLab
6 1 (1.85%) Postman
6 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Marketing
3 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Electronics
4 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) Support Engineer
1 23 (42.59%) Technical Engineer
1 23 (42.59%) Technical Support
1 23 (42.59%) Technical Support Engineer
2 22 (40.74%) Developer
3 18 (33.33%) UX Engineer
4 14 (25.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 6 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Web Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Informatica Developer
8 2 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Web Developer
9 1 (1.85%) C# Web Application Developer
9 1 (1.85%) UI Engineer
9 1 (1.85%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (62.96%) React
2 33 (61.11%) HTML
3 26 (48.15%) AngularJS
4 18 (33.33%) Ajax
4 18 (33.33%) GraphQL
5 6 (11.11%) RESTful
5 6 (11.11%) Spring
6 5 (9.26%) Spring Boot
6 5 (9.26%) XML
7 4 (7.41%) .NET
7 4 (7.41%) CSS3
7 4 (7.41%) HTML5
7 4 (7.41%) REST
8 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.56%) Jest
8 3 (5.56%) jQuery
8 3 (5.56%) Vitest
9 2 (3.70%) SPFx
9 2 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.89%) Unix
2 19 (35.19%) Windows
3 18 (33.33%) Linux
4 17 (31.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) User Experience
2 22 (40.74%) OO
3 18 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
4 12 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 11 (20.37%) Agile
6 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.81%) Customer Service
6 8 (14.81%) DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.26%) Microservices
8 5 (9.26%) Web Development
9 4 (7.41%) AI
9 4 (7.41%) Backlog Management
9 4 (7.41%) Code Quality
9 4 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.41%) Data Modelling
9 4 (7.41%) MVC
9 4 (7.41%) Unit Testing
10 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (98.15%) JavaScript
2 30 (55.56%) Java
3 23 (42.59%) Python
4 18 (33.33%) Perl
5 7 (12.96%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) C#
6 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) C++
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) GDPR
1 1 (1.85%) QA
1 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Oracle
2 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (31.48%) Splunk
4 16 (29.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.56%) SAP
6 2 (3.70%) Informatica
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) Nintex