CSS3 Contracts

CSS 3
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CSS3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS3 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 449 521 520
Rank change year-on-year +72 -1 -114
Contract jobs citing CSS3 70 79 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.88% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 56 147
10th Percentile £354 £325 £320
25th Percentile £384 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £527 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -5.98% +6.16%
75th Percentile £583 £578 £650
90th Percentile £738 £669 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -21.30% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

CSS3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CSS3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS3.

Daily rate trend for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS3 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS3.

Hourly rate trend for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the UK 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
England +53 57 £475 -10.04% 125
UK excluding London +59 31 £394 -21.30% 89
London +18 27 £563 +4.36% 40
Work from Home +34 19 £443 -23.04% 115
South West +50 10 £355 -40.83% 6
Midlands +27 8 £609 +21.70% 14
West Midlands +22 7 £850 +88.89% 13
North of England +28 6 £358 -20.44% 40
Scotland +12 6 £438 -8.85% 4
North West +12 5 £358 -22.59% 20
South East +41 2 £475 -1.30% 15
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 +22.22% 15
East Midlands +7 1 £367 -26.60% 1
East of England - 1 - - 10

CSS3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) CMS
2 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Camunda
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.29%) Adobe XD
2 3 (4.29%) Sketch
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Magento
1 2 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.29%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.00%) npm
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.14%) Yarn
5 3 (4.29%) Figma
6 2 (2.86%) BigCommerce
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub
6 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) POP3
1 10 (14.29%) SMTP
2 6 (8.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Relational Database
2 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.71%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 25 (35.71%) Git
2 15 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.14%) webpack
4 10 (14.29%) JIRA
5 7 (10.00%) Postman
5 7 (10.00%) TeamCity
6 5 (7.14%) Babel
7 4 (5.71%) Cypress.io
8 3 (4.29%) Ant
8 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (4.29%) Grunt
8 3 (4.29%) Maven
8 3 (4.29%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.86%) ESLint
9 2 (2.86%) JUnit
9 2 (2.86%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.86%) Subversion
9 2 (2.86%) Xcode
9 2 (2.86%) XCTest
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Back Office
7 2 (2.86%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (80.00%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (17.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.86%) ServiceNow Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Angular Developer
7 6 (8.57%) React Developer
8 5 (7.14%) UI Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Architect
9 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.29%) .NET Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Applications Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Lead
10 3 (4.29%) PHP Developer
10 3 (4.29%) SAP Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (100.00%) CSS
2 68 (97.14%) HTML
3 61 (87.14%) HTML5
4 31 (44.29%) React
5 30 (42.86%) AngularJS
6 27 (38.57%) RESTful
7 20 (28.57%) Web Services
8 18 (25.71%) Node.js
9 15 (21.43%) Bootstrap
10 14 (20.00%) REST
11 13 (18.57%) Redux
12 10 (14.29%) LDAP
13 9 (12.86%) jQuery
13 9 (12.86%) SOAP
14 8 (11.43%) Jest
14 8 (11.43%) JSON
14 8 (11.43%) Sass
14 8 (11.43%) Spring
14 8 (11.43%) Vue
15 7 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.29%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.86%) Derivative
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.86%) NHS
3 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.86%) Wiki
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.43%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Agile
2 26 (37.14%) User Experience
3 23 (32.86%) Front End Development
4 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
6 18 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (24.29%) Microservices
8 15 (21.43%) Workflow
9 14 (20.00%) Design Patterns
9 14 (20.00%) MVC
10 13 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (17.14%) Code Quality
12 11 (15.71%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (15.71%) Scrum
12 11 (15.71%) TDD
12 11 (15.71%) UX Design
13 10 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
13 10 (14.29%) Unit Testing
13 10 (14.29%) Wireframes
14 9 (12.86%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 62 (88.57%) JavaScript
2 28 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 18 (25.71%) Java
4 14 (20.00%) SQL
5 10 (14.29%) C#
5 10 (14.29%) Python
6 7 (10.00%) PHP
7 6 (8.57%) COBOL
8 5 (7.14%) ABAP
9 3 (4.29%) Scala
9 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.86%) Groovy
10 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.43%) Bash
11 1 (1.43%) JCL
11 1 (1.43%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.43%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.43%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 8 (11.43%) Adobe
3 7 (10.00%) SAP
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 4 (5.71%) Splunk
5 2 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Okta
6 1 (1.43%) Perforce
6 1 (1.43%) Snow
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO