CSS Contract Job Trends in Surrey

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring CSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 32 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 -18
Contract jobs citing CSS 22 27 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 6.18% 5.08% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.92% 29.67% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 13
10th Percentile - - £259
25th Percentile £163 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -48.75% +15.11%
75th Percentile £211 £230 £494
90th Percentile £415 £255 £511
South East median daily rate £375 £375 £422
% change year-on-year - -11.03% -11.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 96 91 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 26.97% 17.11% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 65 99
10th Percentile - - £242
25th Percentile £204 £203 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -5.13%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £581 £628 £680
South East median daily rate £463 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £62.00 £50.54
25th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £58.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - £76.92
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in Surrey

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in Surrey over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in Surrey

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Staines +4 7 £175 -14.63% 1
Camberley -1 1 £600 - 1
Guildford - 1 £415 - 7
CSS
South East

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) SaaS
2 12 (54.55%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (86.36%) MySQL
1 19 (86.36%) Relational Database
2 6 (27.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Browser DevTools
2 12 (54.55%) Android Studio
2 12 (54.55%) Eclipse
2 12 (54.55%) Xcode
3 6 (27.27%) Firebug
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 21 (95.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Support Engineer
1 19 (86.36%) Technical Engineer
1 19 (86.36%) Technical Support
1 19 (86.36%) Technical Support Engineer
2 13 (59.09%) UX Engineer
3 12 (54.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 6 (27.27%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.55%) Senior
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (4.55%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) AngularJS
1 15 (68.18%) React
2 13 (59.09%) Ajax
2 13 (59.09%) GraphQL
3 8 (36.36%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) XML
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) Sass
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Kendo UI
6 1 (4.55%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
1 13 (59.09%) Unix
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) OO
2 13 (59.09%) Mobile Application Development
2 13 (59.09%) User Experience
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.55%) Case Management
5 1 (4.55%) Code Quality
5 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
5 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
5 1 (4.55%) Migration
5 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (59.09%) Java
2 13 (59.09%) Perl
2 13 (59.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Oracle
2 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (59.09%) ServiceNow
3 12 (54.55%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Nintex