CSS Contracts in the South East

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 114 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 -30 -27
Contract jobs citing CSS 87 103 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.57% 1.83% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.20% 10.46% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 68 146
10th Percentile £250 £263 £300
25th Percentile £300 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £495 £538
90th Percentile £586 £579 £634
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +16.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £62.50 £15.77 £29.00
25th Percentile £63.75 £19.92 £31.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.91% +9.94% +37.25%
75th Percentile - £61.56 £51.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.63 £60.89
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +32.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 713 985 1,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.87% 17.48% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 696 969
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.34%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £558 £570
% change year-on-year -1.35% -2.19% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 36 39
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.63 £26.20
25th Percentile £56.65 £55.00 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.72 £67.49
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +10.82%

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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 26 May 2024.

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 26 May 2024.

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 26 May 2024. 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 32 £480 +15.66% 28
Hampshire +8 30 £350 -22.22% 26
Berkshire -14 22 £388 -9.61% 10
Surrey +24 16 £255 -36.25% 13
Buckinghamshire +14 6 £315 -21.25% 10
East Sussex +4 5 £313 -37.50% 22
Oxfordshire +8 4 £500 - 8
West Sussex +4 3 £500 +233.33% 6
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
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 18 (20.69%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) Drupal
3 3 (3.45%) CMS
4 2 (2.30%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.30%) Kentico
4 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.15%) Apache
5 1 (1.15%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Sketch
2 1 (1.15%) InVision
2 1 (1.15%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (1.15%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 12 (13.79%) AWS
3 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.60%) Figma
4 4 (4.60%) GCP
4 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.30%) Google App Engine
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.30%) npm
6 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
6 2 (2.30%) ShareGate
6 2 (2.30%) Stripe
7 1 (1.15%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.15%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.54%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (18.39%) SNMP
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.34%) MySQL
3 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.60%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.30%) CouchDB
6 2 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.30%) GIS
6 2 (2.30%) Power BI
6 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.15%) Metadata
7 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (37.93%) Git
2 22 (25.29%) JIRA
3 18 (20.69%) Bitbucket
4 17 (19.54%) Eclipse
5 16 (18.39%) GoogleTest
5 16 (18.39%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.30%) GitLab
7 2 (2.30%) VersionOne
7 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.15%) Axure RP
8 1 (1.15%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.15%) rollup.js
8 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Aerospace
3 4 (4.60%) Digital Healthcare
4 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.30%) Publishing
5 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) Aviation
6 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Finance
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (52.87%) Developer
2 16 (18.39%) Software Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) C++ Software Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (8.05%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Administrator
7 5 (5.75%) Drupal Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Designer
8 4 (4.60%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) React Developer
8 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (88.51%) HTML
2 34 (39.08%) AngularJS
3 23 (26.44%) Node.js
4 18 (20.69%) React
5 13 (14.94%) .NET
6 11 (12.64%) ASP.NET
7 8 (9.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (9.20%) Vue
8 7 (8.05%) REST
9 6 (6.90%) Sass
9 6 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (5.75%) jQuery
10 5 (5.75%) Next.js
11 4 (4.60%) CSS3
11 4 (4.60%) DOM
11 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.60%) HTML5
11 4 (4.60%) Ionic Framework
11 4 (4.60%) Laravel
11 4 (4.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.30%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
1 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (1.15%) Graphic Design
2 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
2 1 (1.15%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 13 (14.94%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.13%) Agile
2 24 (27.59%) Scrum
3 23 (26.44%) Software Engineering
4 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (19.54%) SysML
4 17 (19.54%) UML
5 16 (18.39%) Full Stack Development
6 14 (16.09%) Prototyping
6 14 (16.09%) Validation
6 14 (16.09%) Web Development
7 12 (13.79%) DevOps
7 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.79%) Verification and Validation
8 10 (11.49%) TDD
9 9 (10.34%) MVC
9 9 (10.34%) User Experience
10 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.05%) Data Architecture
11 7 (8.05%) Front End Development
11 7 (8.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (83.91%) JavaScript
2 17 (19.54%) C++
3 15 (17.24%) Java
4 13 (14.94%) C#
5 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.20%) PHP
7 6 (6.90%) Python
8 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) SQL
9 2 (2.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.15%) C
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) CISSP
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) CEH
5 1 (1.15%) CISM
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Firmware
2 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.30%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) Google
2 16 (18.39%) Atlassian
3 15 (17.24%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco
6 1 (1.15%) Citrix
6 1 (1.15%) Compaq
6 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.15%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce