CSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 108 87
Rank change year-on-year -22 -21 -39
Contract jobs citing CSS 343 550 905
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 2.35% 2.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.58% 12.84% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 405 627
10th Percentile £265 £313 £325
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £600 £595 £624
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 26
10th Percentile £30.75 £20.20 £26.88
25th Percentile £44.04 £21.31 £41.35
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.53 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.20% -9.95% +37.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.94 £64.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £76.90 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -21.54% +17.12% +38.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

CSS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,243 4,284 6,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.31% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,120 3,202 4,317
10th Percentile £325 £360 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 92 150
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.26 £20.70
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +25.24% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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
South East +8 90 £380 -10.06% 108
North of England -44 71 £450 - 182
Scotland +23 60 £475 - 37
South West +15 42 £533 +18.44% 87
North West -39 42 £450 -5.26% 114
Midlands -33 35 £425 - 149
East of England +15 32 £475 +5.56% 64
Yorkshire -13 26 £429 -2.56% 53
West Midlands -8 20 £500 +14.29% 82
East Midlands -13 15 £225 -45.78% 66
Northern Ireland +12 7 - - 12
Wales +10 6 £450 +7.46% 23
North East +3 3 £405 -19.00% 16
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 27 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.00%) Confluence
3 13 (3.79%) CMS
4 8 (2.33%) Apache
4 8 (2.33%) Drupal
5 7 (2.04%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (2.04%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (2.04%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.46%) IIS
7 4 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.87%) Kentico
8 3 (0.87%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.58%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.58%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.29%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (3.50%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (1.75%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.17%) InVision
6 2 (0.58%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.87%) Magento
2 3 (0.87%) Maximo
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 60 (17.49%) AWS
2 47 (13.70%) Azure
3 21 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 20 (5.83%) Power Automate
4 20 (5.83%) Serverless
5 18 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.37%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.79%) PowerApps
8 12 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.21%) GitHub
10 9 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.62%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.33%) Figma
12 6 (1.75%) GCP
12 6 (1.75%) npm
13 5 (1.46%) SaaS
14 4 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.66%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (4.37%) SNMP
3 14 (4.08%) Firewall
3 14 (4.08%) VPN
4 12 (3.50%) HTTP
5 5 (1.46%) DNS
5 5 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.87%) Skype
7 2 (0.58%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) Intranet
8 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 26 (7.58%) MySQL
3 22 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.37%) Oracle Database
5 12 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.92%) Metadata
7 7 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.04%) MariaDB
7 7 (2.04%) Power BI
7 7 (2.04%) PowerPivot
7 7 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Power View
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.17%) Triplestore
10 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.87%) GIS
10 3 (0.87%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 54 (15.74%) Git
2 31 (9.04%) JIRA
3 19 (5.54%) Bitbucket
4 16 (4.66%) Eclipse
5 15 (4.37%) GoogleTest
5 15 (4.37%) Robot Framework
6 14 (4.08%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.33%) webpack
8 6 (1.75%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (1.75%) GitLab
9 5 (1.46%) IntelliJ
9 5 (1.46%) Postman
10 4 (1.17%) Axure RP
10 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.87%) Selenium
12 2 (0.58%) git-flow
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.58%) VersionOne
General
1 60 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.95%) Public Sector
3 28 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.29%) Finance
5 18 (5.25%) Marketing
6 12 (3.50%) Publishing
7 9 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.17%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (1.17%) Electronics
11 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Retail
12 3 (0.87%) Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Automotive
13 2 (0.58%) Billing
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 210 (61.22%) Developer
2 35 (10.20%) Full Stack Developer
3 31 (9.04%) Senior
4 27 (7.87%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.58%) Software Developer
6 23 (6.71%) Java Engineer
7 22 (6.41%) Designer
7 22 (6.41%) Full Stack Engineer
8 19 (5.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 19 (5.54%) React Developer
9 16 (4.66%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.37%) .NET Developer
10 15 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.08%) ServiceNow Developer
12 13 (3.79%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (3.21%) Angular Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) JavaScript Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (90.38%) HTML
2 107 (31.20%) React
3 80 (23.32%) AngularJS
4 76 (22.16%) Node.js
5 65 (18.95%) REST
6 48 (13.99%) .NET
7 33 (9.62%) HTML5
8 28 (8.16%) Spring
9 26 (7.58%) Spring Boot
10 24 (7.00%) CSS3
11 21 (6.12%) ASP.NET
12 19 (5.54%) GraphQL
12 19 (5.54%) XML
13 18 (5.25%) Vue
14 16 (4.66%) RESTful
15 14 (4.08%) AWS CDK
16 13 (3.79%) Jest
16 13 (3.79%) JSON
17 12 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
17 12 (3.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.50%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.04%) CMDB
4 7 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.75%) Animation
6 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.87%) NHS
9 2 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.58%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.58%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.58%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.29%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.29%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.58%) Linux
2 12 (3.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.46%) Unix
4 4 (1.17%) Android
4 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (38.48%) Agile
2 78 (22.74%) Full Stack Development
3 61 (17.78%) Software Engineering
4 60 (17.49%) CI/CD
5 55 (16.03%) DevOps
5 55 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (13.12%) Scrum
7 38 (11.08%) Front End Development
7 38 (11.08%) User Experience
8 34 (9.91%) Web Development
9 33 (9.62%) MVC
10 32 (9.33%) Microservices
11 31 (9.04%) Prototyping
12 30 (8.75%) TDD
13 28 (8.16%) Test Automation
14 24 (7.00%) ITIL
15 22 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (5.83%) Unit Testing
17 17 (4.96%) E-Commerce
17 17 (4.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 250 (72.89%) JavaScript
2 94 (27.41%) TypeScript
3 76 (22.16%) Java
4 62 (18.08%) SQL
5 48 (13.99%) C#
6 32 (9.33%) Python
7 25 (7.29%) PHP
8 18 (5.25%) C++
9 15 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.50%) Bash
11 11 (3.21%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.17%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.17%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.87%) C
13 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.87%) Perl
13 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.87%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.29%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.75%) Degree
3 28 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.46%) PMP
7 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.58%) MCSD
9 2 (0.58%) MCSE
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CEH
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.71%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.08%) QA
3 8 (2.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (5.83%) Docker
2 17 (4.96%) Firmware
3 9 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.58%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 10 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.46%) Kibana
4 3 (0.87%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Terraform
5 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (7.87%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.12%) Google
4 18 (5.25%) Oracle
5 17 (4.96%) Adobe
6 16 (4.66%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.62%) VMware
8 7 (2.04%) SAP
9 6 (1.75%) dotdigital
9 6 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.17%) IBM
11 3 (0.87%) Nintex
11 3 (0.87%) Pega
11 3 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.58%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco
13 1 (0.29%) Citrix
13 1 (0.29%) Compaq
13 1 (0.29%) Dell