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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 74 127
Rank change year-on-year -84 +53 -2
Contract jobs citing CSS 47 82 90
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.87% 2.77% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 16.27% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 47 62
10th Percentile £204 £202 £250
25th Percentile £204 £338 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% +12.12% -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £500
90th Percentile £585 £600 £618
England median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 11
10th Percentile - £30.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £53.22 £58.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - -
75th Percentile £32.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -48.05% +0.43% -14.81%

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 861 504 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.97% 17.02% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 323 444
10th Percentile £330 £350 £318
25th Percentile £413 £411 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +2.50% -7.83%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £613
90th Percentile £684 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 37
10th Percentile £40.00 £28.36 £44.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £44.43 £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.81 £78.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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

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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 21 March 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 21 March 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
Thames Valley -50 19 £550 +18.92% 26
Surrey -4 18 £208 +1.22% 8
Buckinghamshire -14 12 £575 +17.95% 12
Berkshire -53 7 £341 -26.22% 7
Hampshire -45 5 £475 +12.43% 7
Kent -12 2 £338 -22.86% 12
West Sussex -13 2 £470 -1.05% 6
Sussex -2 1 £400 - 1
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 4 (8.51%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) SaaS
2 10 (21.28%) Sauce Labs
3 7 (14.89%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.13%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Wireless
2 1 (2.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) MySQL
2 14 (29.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.13%) DB2
6 1 (2.13%) GIS
6 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (21.28%) Android Studio
2 10 (21.28%) Eclipse
2 10 (21.28%) Xcode
3 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
4 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.51%) JUnit
4 4 (8.51%) Storybook
5 3 (6.38%) Firebug
5 3 (6.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.13%) Git
6 1 (2.13%) GitLab
6 1 (2.13%) Gradle
6 1 (2.13%) JMeter
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Marketing
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Electronics
6 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Support Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Technical Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Technical Support
2 13 (27.66%) Technical Support Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (21.28%) UX Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (10.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Coordinator
6 3 (6.38%) Resource Coordinator
6 3 (6.38%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Informatica Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Web Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (65.96%) React
2 28 (59.57%) HTML
3 19 (40.43%) AngularJS
4 10 (21.28%) Ajax
4 10 (21.28%) GraphQL
4 10 (21.28%) RESTful
5 7 (14.89%) .NET
5 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
5 7 (14.89%) Entity Framework
5 7 (14.89%) Spring
5 7 (14.89%) Spring Boot
6 6 (12.77%) CSS3
6 6 (12.77%) HTML5
7 5 (10.64%) Material-UI
7 5 (10.64%) REST
8 4 (8.51%) Vitest
8 4 (8.51%) XML
9 3 (6.38%) Jest
9 3 (6.38%) JSON
9 3 (6.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.13%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Unix
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 11 (23.40%) Android
2 11 (23.40%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) User Experience
2 14 (29.79%) Agile
3 13 (27.66%) OO
4 12 (25.53%) DevOps
5 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.28%) Front End Development
6 10 (21.28%) Microservices
6 10 (21.28%) Mobile Application Development
7 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
8 8 (17.02%) AI
9 7 (14.89%) Analytics
10 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) Unit Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.64%) MVC
11 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.64%) Web Development
12 4 (8.51%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) JavaScript
2 23 (48.94%) Java
3 14 (29.79%) Python
4 11 (23.40%) SQL
4 11 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 10 (21.28%) Perl
6 7 (14.89%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
3 3 (6.38%) PMP
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.53%) Oracle
3 11 (23.40%) ServiceNow
4 10 (21.28%) Splunk
5 3 (6.38%) SAP
6 2 (4.26%) Adobe
6 2 (4.26%) Informatica
7 1 (2.13%) ESRI
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Solace