CSS Contract Job Trends

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 120 99
Rank change year-on-year -120 -21 -9
Contract jobs citing CSS 522 688 958
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.34% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.40% 10.24% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 457 675
10th Percentile £320 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £644 £679 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 32 26
10th Percentile - £30.55 £33.07
25th Percentile £17.12 £33.75 £41.55
Median hourly rate £28.25 £46.41 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -25.75% +19.05%
75th Percentile £40.00 £51.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £57.37 £59.99 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.25 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -63.50% -20.00% +62.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,670 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,358 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 122 263
10th Percentile £30.77 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CSS job vacancy trend in the UK

CSS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 17 Contract Job 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 10 June 2026. 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
England -126 431 £500 +8.70% 381
London -83 254 £500 - 112
UK excluding London -127 211 £449 +5.53% 326
Work from Home -89 153 £500 +12.68% 198
South East -72 50 £475 - 84
North of England -97 46 £450 +17.19% 81
Scotland -19 39 £400 -15.79% 12
Midlands -88 28 £475 +26.67% 45
North West -59 27 £388 +0.91% 43
South West -43 24 £410 +9.33% 39
East of England -18 19 £575 +27.78% 51
West Midlands -63 18 £475 +11.76% 19
Yorkshire -50 17 £575 +43.75% 28
East Midlands -40 10 £445 +24.30% 26
Northern Ireland - 4 £190 - 11
Wales -21 2 £450 +21.62% 11
North East -30 2 £475 +25.00% 10

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 38 (7.28%) CMS
2 37 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 16 (3.07%) Confluence
4 15 (2.87%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (1.53%) WordPress
6 5 (0.96%) Kentico
6 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.77%) IIS
8 3 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.57%) Camunda
8 3 (0.57%) nginx
8 3 (0.57%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.38%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.38%) Moodle
9 2 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.96%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.77%) Sketch
4 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.96%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.38%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 118 (22.61%) Azure
2 114 (21.84%) AWS
3 51 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 42 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (7.09%) Power Automate
6 36 (6.90%) PowerApps
7 35 (6.70%) Figma
8 34 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (5.17%) Serverless
10 26 (4.98%) GitHub
11 23 (4.41%) Entra ID
12 22 (4.21%) GCP
13 19 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.68%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.92%) SaaS
17 9 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.72%) OneDrive
18 8 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
18 8 (1.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) HTTP
1 6 (1.15%) Network Security
2 5 (0.96%) BGP
2 5 (0.96%) Firewall
2 5 (0.96%) Intranet
2 5 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (0.96%) SMS
2 5 (0.96%) SSL
3 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 3 (0.57%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.38%) LAN
5 2 (0.38%) OSPF
5 2 (0.38%) RTMP
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.19%) MQTT
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 46 (8.81%) MySQL
3 42 (8.05%) Relational Database
4 36 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (6.32%) NoSQL
6 30 (5.75%) Power BI
7 18 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.11%) Big Data
9 8 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.53%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.53%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.34%) Presto
10 7 (1.34%) Tableau
11 6 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.15%) Metadata
11 6 (1.15%) Redis
11 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.96%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 90 (17.24%) Git
2 41 (7.85%) JIRA
3 37 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 20 (3.83%) GitLab
5 16 (3.07%) Cypress.io
6 14 (2.68%) JUnit
6 14 (2.68%) Maven
7 13 (2.49%) Vite
8 11 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.92%) webpack
10 9 (1.72%) Browser DevTools
11 8 (1.53%) Mockito
11 8 (1.53%) MSTest
11 8 (1.53%) Storybook
12 6 (1.15%) Gradle
12 6 (1.15%) Mocha
12 6 (1.15%) Postman
12 6 (1.15%) tSQLt
13 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 129 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.64%) Finance
3 55 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.58%) Banking
6 33 (6.32%) Marketing
7 20 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.87%) Retail
9 14 (2.68%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.92%) Front Office
11 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.77%) Legal
12 4 (0.77%) Local Government
12 4 (0.77%) Publishing
13 3 (0.57%) Games
13 3 (0.57%) Military
14 2 (0.38%) Automotive
14 2 (0.38%) Law
14 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 314 (60.15%) Developer
2 73 (13.98%) Senior
3 59 (11.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 57 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 48 (9.20%) Senior Developer
6 40 (7.66%) React Developer
7 31 (5.94%) Java Developer
8 26 (4.98%) Designer
9 24 (4.60%) Architect
9 24 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 22 (4.21%) SharePoint Developer
11 20 (3.83%) Angular Developer
12 19 (3.64%) Python Developer
13 15 (2.87%) Consultant
13 15 (2.87%) Lead
14 14 (2.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 14 (2.68%) Web Developer
15 13 (2.49%) .NET Developer
15 13 (2.49%) Software Developer
16 12 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (85.63%) HTML
2 237 (45.40%) React
3 139 (26.63%) REST
4 125 (23.95%) AngularJS
5 102 (19.54%) HTML5
6 86 (16.48%) .NET
7 83 (15.90%) CSS3
8 76 (14.56%) RESTful
9 62 (11.88%) Redux
10 54 (10.34%) Node.js
11 50 (9.58%) Spring
12 46 (8.81%) Spring Boot
13 38 (7.28%) ASP.NET
14 37 (7.09%) Jest
14 37 (7.09%) jQuery
15 36 (6.90%) JSON
16 35 (6.70%) .NET Framework
17 32 (6.13%) OAuth
17 32 (6.13%) Vue
18 31 (5.94%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.05%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.72%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.96%) CMDB
11 5 (0.96%) Graphic Design
12 4 (0.77%) Derivative
12 4 (0.77%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.77%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.64%) Windows
2 18 (3.45%) Linux
2 18 (3.45%) Unix
3 6 (1.15%) Android
4 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Tizen
6 1 (0.19%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (42.91%) Agile
2 161 (30.84%) CI/CD
3 128 (24.52%) User Experience
4 120 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (21.07%) Front End Development
6 100 (19.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (17.82%) DevOps
8 73 (13.98%) Microservices
9 63 (12.07%) Scrum
10 62 (11.88%) Test Automation
11 59 (11.30%) UX Design
12 56 (10.73%) Analytics
12 56 (10.73%) MVC
13 55 (10.54%) AI
14 54 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 53 (10.15%) Code Quality
16 51 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (8.62%) Performance Optimisation
18 44 (8.43%) Containerisation
19 42 (8.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 373 (71.46%) JavaScript
2 148 (28.35%) SQL
3 136 (26.05%) TypeScript
4 100 (19.16%) Java
5 99 (18.97%) Python
6 77 (14.75%) C#
7 18 (3.45%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.07%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.49%) PHP
10 12 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.72%) Ruby
12 8 (1.53%) Scala
12 8 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.77%) Perl
14 3 (0.57%) Bicep
14 3 (0.57%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.38%) Bash
15 2 (0.38%) F#
15 2 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 44 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (6.90%) Degree
5 13 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.57%) CCA
7 3 (0.57%) CCNP
7 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.57%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.57%) PMP
8 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) CCNA
9 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (18.39%) Accessibility
2 57 (10.92%) QA
3 56 (10.73%) WCAG
4 16 (3.07%) GDPR
5 6 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.96%) NCSC
7 4 (0.77%) SLA
8 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) WAI
10 1 (0.19%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 63 (12.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.98%) Terraform
3 14 (2.68%) Grafana
4 10 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.53%) Kibana
6 5 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (0.77%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 52 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.24%) Oracle
3 38 (7.28%) Adobe
4 36 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.02%) Google
6 14 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.49%) Sitecore
8 11 (2.11%) Splunk
9 9 (1.72%) Braze
10 8 (1.53%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.15%) SAP
12 6 (1.15%) Workday
13 5 (0.96%) Qualtrics
14 3 (0.57%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.57%) mParticle
14 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.57%) Sybase