CSS Contract Job Trends in the South West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 103 105
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing CSS 16 23 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.69% 1.09% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.73% 5.64% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 36
10th Percentile £210 £350 £269
25th Percentile £268 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -21.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £568 £494 £538
90th Percentile £650 £655 £648
England median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.04
25th Percentile - - £46.09
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
75th Percentile - - £51.22
90th Percentile - - £54.24
England median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% -7.69%

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 338 408 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.59% 19.32% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 240 378
10th Percentile £335 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 44
10th Percentile £61.55 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.40 £75.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

CSS job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CSS

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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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CSS

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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 18 December 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 -3 7 £648 +83.05% 26
Devon +11 3 £220 - 8
Gloucestershire -8 3 £388 +10.71% 6
Somerset -5 2 £353 +0.71% 7
Wiltshire -18 1 - - 5
CSS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Low-Code Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.25%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) HTML
2 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
3 4 (25.00%) REST
3 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (18.75%) Bootstrap
4 3 (18.75%) JSON
4 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) React
4 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 3 (18.75%) Vue
5 2 (12.50%) CSS3
5 2 (12.50%) HTML5
5 2 (12.50%) XML
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
6 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) CMDB
1 3 (18.75%) Low-Code
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) CAD
4 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (25.00%) Web Development
5 3 (18.75%) API Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Ruby
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) Degree
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Argo
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (18.75%) Blue Prism
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (6.25%) Hotjar