The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 June 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 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
23,578
19,546
12,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
26.92%
30.55%
30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted
17,282
13,887
8,971
10th Percentile
£400
£350
£331
25th Percentile
£463
£413
£413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£550
£500
£500
Median % change year-on-year
+10.00%
-
+2.56%
75th Percentile
£672
£600
£588
90th Percentile
£763
£688
£675
UK excluding London median daily rate
£500
£450
£450
% change year-on-year
+11.11%
-
-
Number of hourly rates quoted
229
197
111
10th Percentile
£20.25
£20.30
£19.25
25th Percentile
£35.00
£27.73
£31.03
Median hourly rate
£50.00
£45.00
£46.00
Median % change year-on-year
+11.11%
-2.17%
+2.42%
75th Percentile
£65.76
£56.50
£57.50
90th Percentile
£76.00
£66.00
£66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£55.00
£40.50
£45.00
% change year-on-year
+35.80%
-10.00%
+2.48%
CSS Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
CSS Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS.
CSS Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS over the 6 months to 25 June 2022.
CSS Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS.
CSS Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS over the 6 months to 25 June 2022.
CSS Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 25 June 2022. 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
For the 6 months to 25 June 2022, IT contractor jobs citing CSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for CSS.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
