CSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 112 134 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 -32
Contract jobs citing CSS 281 346 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 1.66% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.85% 10.47% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 241 408
10th Percentile £313 £275 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 9
10th Percentile £26.25 £29.75 £19.40
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.76 £21.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £61.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +25.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.38 £71.50 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £42.91 £50.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -14.19% -14.89% +6.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,371 3,305 4,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 15.90% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,159 3,300
10th Percentile £350 £323 £357
25th Percentile £406 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 197 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.54 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +32 70 £400 -5.33% 215
South East +22 67 £500 +29.03% 128
Scotland -16 43 £475 -1.04% 29
Midlands +29 42 £407 -4.18% 110
North West +10 42 £400 -5.88% 145
South West +48 41 £375 -28.23% 63
West Midlands +28 31 £443 -11.50% 69
North East +15 17 £380 -16.07% 16
Yorkshire +8 14 £470 +15.34% 56
East of England +15 13 £450 -5.26% 71
Wales +8 10 £370 -15.43% 28
East Midlands +3 10 £326 +44.89% 38
Northern Ireland -14 1 £600 - 6
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (7.12%) Confluence
1 20 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.56%) CMS
3 7 (2.49%) Apache
4 5 (1.78%) WordPress
5 4 (1.42%) Drupal
6 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.07%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.07%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Camunda
8 1 (0.36%) IIS
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.14%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.14%) InfoPath
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.42%) Sketch
4 3 (1.07%) Maya
4 3 (1.07%) NUKE
5 2 (0.71%) InVision
5 2 (0.71%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.07%) iTrent
3 2 (0.71%) Magento
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.98%) Azure
2 44 (15.66%) AWS
3 25 (8.90%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.47%) Power Automate
5 19 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.76%) GCP
5 19 (6.76%) PowerApps
6 18 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.34%) SaaS
8 13 (4.63%) Figma
9 12 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.85%) Serverless
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.14%) npm
12 5 (1.78%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.42%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) HTTP
2 9 (3.20%) SNMP
2 9 (3.20%) Software-Defined Radio
3 7 (2.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.34%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.34%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.27%) MySQL
3 12 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.49%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.78%) Power BI
6 4 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.71%) Redis
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 82 (29.18%) Git
2 28 (9.96%) JIRA
3 16 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.63%) webpack
5 11 (3.91%) Selenium
6 10 (3.56%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.20%) GoogleTest
7 9 (3.20%) Robot Framework
8 8 (2.85%) JUnit
8 8 (2.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (2.49%) Eclipse
9 7 (2.49%) SpecFlow
9 7 (2.49%) Subversion
9 7 (2.49%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.14%) Babel
10 6 (2.14%) Jasmine
10 6 (2.14%) Maven
10 6 (2.14%) Mocha
11 5 (1.78%) GitLab
11 5 (1.78%) gulp
General
1 79 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.15%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.47%) Finance
5 16 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.34%) Marketing
7 14 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.56%) Electronics
9 7 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.78%) Back Office
10 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.78%) Retail
11 4 (1.42%) Banking
11 4 (1.42%) Games
11 4 (1.42%) Legal
11 4 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.07%) Automotive
12 3 (1.07%) French Language
12 3 (1.07%) Local Government
12 3 (1.07%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 185 (65.84%) Developer
2 48 (17.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 27 (9.61%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (9.25%) Senior
5 19 (6.76%) Software Developer
5 19 (6.76%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) React Developer
6 17 (6.05%) ServiceNow Developer
7 16 (5.69%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.34%) Architect
9 13 (4.63%) C# Developer
10 12 (4.27%) Lead
10 12 (4.27%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 11 (3.91%) .NET Developer
11 11 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.56%) Applications Developer
12 10 (3.56%) JavaScript Developer
12 10 (3.56%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Applications Support
13 8 (2.85%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (90.04%) HTML
2 77 (27.40%) React
3 65 (23.13%) AngularJS
4 58 (20.64%) HTML5
4 58 (20.64%) Node.js
5 54 (19.22%) .NET
6 46 (16.37%) RESTful
7 33 (11.74%) REST
8 32 (11.39%) jQuery
9 31 (11.03%) CSS3
10 23 (8.19%) Web Services
11 22 (7.83%) Ajax
12 19 (6.76%) XML
13 16 (5.69%) SOAP
14 15 (5.34%) Jest
14 15 (5.34%) Sass
15 14 (4.98%) JSON
15 14 (4.98%) Spring
16 13 (4.63%) Spring Boot
17 12 (4.27%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.85%) CMDB
2 8 (2.85%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (1.78%) NHS
6 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.42%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.07%) Animation
7 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.71%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.19%) Linux
2 8 (2.85%) Unix
3 3 (1.07%) Android
3 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.07%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.71%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (46.62%) Agile
2 69 (24.56%) CI/CD
3 67 (23.84%) Front End Development
3 67 (23.84%) User Experience
4 60 (21.35%) Web Development
5 56 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (19.22%) Software Engineering
7 49 (17.44%) Test Automation
8 43 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (14.59%) Scrum
10 40 (14.23%) TDD
11 39 (13.88%) DevOps
12 32 (11.39%) Design Patterns
12 32 (11.39%) Microservices
13 27 (9.61%) Computer Science
14 26 (9.25%) UX Design
15 25 (8.90%) MVC
16 23 (8.19%) SDLC
16 23 (8.19%) Service Management
17 21 (7.47%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 223 (79.36%) JavaScript
2 57 (20.28%) TypeScript
3 51 (18.15%) C#
3 51 (18.15%) SQL
4 46 (16.37%) Java
5 36 (12.81%) Python
6 17 (6.05%) PHP
7 14 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.56%) C++
9 6 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.78%) ABAP
10 5 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.78%) COBOL
10 5 (1.78%) Ruby
11 4 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.07%) Bash
12 3 (1.07%) Tcl
12 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.07%) VBA
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.03%) Degree
3 21 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) MCP
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.46%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.98%) WCAG
3 10 (3.56%) QA
4 8 (2.85%) GRC
5 7 (2.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) PERC
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Terraform
3 4 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.07%) Grafana
4 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.07%) Puppet
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
6 1 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.36%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 24 (8.54%) Google
4 18 (6.41%) SAP
5 16 (5.69%) Adobe
6 14 (4.98%) Oracle
7 7 (2.49%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.78%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.78%) Snow
10 4 (1.42%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.42%) Zend
11 3 (1.07%) Apple
11 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.07%) Splunk
12 2 (0.71%) New Relic
12 2 (0.71%) Veracode
12 2 (0.71%) VMware
13 1 (0.36%) Hotjar