CSS Contracts in the South West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 117 122
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing CSS 41 38 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.43% 1.19% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.90% 8.80% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 35
10th Percentile £269 £325 £318
25th Percentile £355 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +16.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £425 £603 £551
90th Percentile £576 £693 £621
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +24.88% -11.02%
England median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.82% -6.38% +6.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 295 432 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.52% 13.51% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 287 445
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £447 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £625
90th Percentile £725 £703 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 18
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the South West.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Bristol +29 20 £370 -17.78% 27
Dorset +9 7 £435 - 10
Wiltshire - 6 £375 - 1
Gloucestershire +8 3 £207 -63.13% 14
Somerset +5 3 - - 4
Devon +10 1 £425 -29.17% 11
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Adobe XD
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.32%) Sketch
2 1 (2.44%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 9 (21.95%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Figma
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Ant
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.44%) Storybook
2 1 (2.44%) Vite
2 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 23 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Manufacturing
3 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 7 (17.07%) Electronics
4 7 (17.07%) Marketing
4 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.32%) Legal
6 3 (7.32%) Local Government
7 1 (2.44%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Billing
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Applications Support
3 7 (17.07%) Applications Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (14.63%) C# Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Administrator
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) Designer
7 3 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (7.32%) PHP Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) UX Designer
8 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (97.56%) HTML
2 13 (31.71%) AngularJS
3 11 (26.83%) HTML5
4 10 (24.39%) CSS3
5 8 (19.51%) .NET
6 7 (17.07%) RESTful
7 6 (14.63%) jQuery
7 6 (14.63%) React
7 6 (14.63%) Web Services
8 4 (9.76%) Ajax
8 4 (9.76%) Laravel
8 4 (9.76%) LDAP
9 3 (7.32%) Redux
9 3 (7.32%) Yii
10 2 (4.88%) Django
10 2 (4.88%) Jest
10 2 (4.88%) Middleware
10 2 (4.88%) REST
10 2 (4.88%) RxJS
10 2 (4.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) User Experience
2 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) Service Management
5 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
5 13 (31.71%) Web Development
6 11 (26.83%) Computer Science
6 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Scrum
8 9 (21.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
9 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
9 8 (19.51%) ITSM
9 8 (19.51%) Service Delivery
9 8 (19.51%) Software Delivery
9 8 (19.51%) TDD
10 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (17.07%) Programme Management
10 7 (17.07%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (82.93%) JavaScript
2 9 (21.95%) C#
3 8 (19.51%) SQL
4 6 (14.63%) Python
5 4 (9.76%) PHP
6 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) VBA
7 2 (4.88%) Java
8 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Azure Certification
1 8 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) DBS Check
4 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.32%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.44%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Google
2 8 (19.51%) ServiceNow
3 7 (17.07%) SAP
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.32%) Adobe
5 3 (7.32%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Pardot
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce