CSS3 Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CSS 3
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CSS3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 119 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing CSS3 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.28% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £362 £194 -
25th Percentile £370 £214 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £395 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% - -
75th Percentile £420 £573 -
90th Percentile £431 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £395 £453
% change year-on-year +20.25% -12.71% +13.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

CSS3 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 323 404 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.07% 18.63% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 266 277
10th Percentile £309 £375 £308
25th Percentile £390 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £656 £680
South East median daily rate £462 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -12.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile - £50.87 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £81.70
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -4.70%

CSS3
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CSS3 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CSS3
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS3

CSS3
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS3

CSS3
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £394 - 4
CSS3
South East

CSS3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP