CSS Contract Job Trends in Wales

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring CSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing CSS 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.49% 0.92% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.86% 4.49% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £305 £407 £343
25th Percentile £310 £417 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £447 £496 £470
90th Percentile £479 £528 £473
UK median daily rate £445 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -2.50% -7.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 70 89 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 19.39% 20.46% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 54 78
10th Percentile £306 £212 £217
25th Percentile £405 £403 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +18.24% -22.73%
75th Percentile £508 £550 £538
90th Percentile £644 £575 £616
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £21.12 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £59.03
% change year-on-year -10.71% +4.35% -6.67%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in Wales

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in Wales over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in Wales

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
South Wales +14 9 £378 -13.58% 42
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) OVHcloud
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
1 5 (55.56%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Blazor
2 3 (33.33%) GWT
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) Flutter
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) Drush
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Learning Management System
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Coaching
1 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
1 5 (55.56%) Open Source
1 5 (55.56%) Product Management
1 5 (55.56%) Product Requirements
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
1 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) API Design
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree