CSS Contracts with Work from Home Options

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 75 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 392 771 1,898
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.60% 3.07% 4.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.80% 12.17% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 583 1,367
10th Percentile £311 £313 £356
25th Percentile £413 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -6.86% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £600
90th Percentile £721 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 20
10th Percentile £37.63 £26.10 £21.80
25th Percentile £38.81 £45.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £58.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +11.90% +33.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £85.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.60
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +6.82% +37.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CSS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CSS.

CSS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CSS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

CSS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CSS.

CSS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CSS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

CSS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (8.67%) CMS
2 17 (4.34%) nginx
3 10 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.55%) WordPress
4 9 (2.30%) Confluence
5 8 (2.04%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.53%) Kentico
7 4 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.02%) Apache
7 4 (1.02%) Drupal
7 4 (1.02%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.77%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) Appian
9 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Photoshop
2 6 (1.53%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Blender
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.26%) InDesign
5 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (17.60%) AWS
1 69 (17.60%) Azure
2 32 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (6.63%) GCP
4 19 (4.85%) GitHub
5 17 (4.34%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 15 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (3.06%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.55%) SaaS
9 9 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.30%) Figma
9 9 (2.30%) npm
9 9 (2.30%) Serverless
10 8 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
11 7 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.10%) Intranet
2 11 (2.81%) Firewall
2 11 (2.81%) HTTP
3 10 (2.55%) VPN
4 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.77%) DNS
6 2 (0.51%) SNMP
6 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) FTP
7 1 (0.26%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) MQTT
7 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.61%) MySQL
2 22 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.32%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.04%) Power BI
8 5 (1.28%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.28%) Redis
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.02%) Looker
9 4 (1.02%) Metadata
9 4 (1.02%) Tableau
10 3 (0.77%) GIS
10 3 (0.77%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (16.58%) Git
2 35 (8.93%) JIRA
3 17 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.08%) webpack
5 12 (3.06%) Storybook
6 10 (2.55%) git-flow
6 10 (2.55%) GitLab
7 9 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.53%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (1.02%) Babel
9 4 (1.02%) Postman
9 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.77%) rollup.js
10 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.77%) Vite
11 2 (0.51%) MSTest
General
1 65 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.05%) Finance
3 40 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.16%) Banking
5 27 (6.89%) Marketing
6 24 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.32%) Retail
8 8 (2.04%) Publishing
8 8 (2.04%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.53%) Front Office
10 5 (1.28%) Advertising
10 5 (1.28%) Back Office
10 5 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.77%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Electronics
13 2 (0.51%) Law
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 270 (68.88%) Developer
2 62 (15.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 55 (14.03%) Senior
4 50 (12.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 38 (9.69%) React Developer
6 33 (8.42%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.61%) .NET Developer
7 22 (5.61%) JavaScript Developer
8 17 (4.34%) Technical Writer
9 16 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.83%) Designer
11 14 (3.57%) JavaScript Engineer
11 14 (3.57%) Lead
11 14 (3.57%) Software Developer
12 13 (3.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 12 (3.06%) Full Stack Engineer
13 12 (3.06%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.81%) Azure Developer
14 11 (2.81%) Consultant
15 10 (2.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (88.01%) HTML
2 160 (40.82%) React
3 81 (20.66%) Node.js
4 69 (17.60%) .NET
5 60 (15.31%) AngularJS
6 54 (13.78%) REST
7 49 (12.50%) HTML5
8 47 (11.99%) Sass
9 41 (10.46%) jQuery
10 39 (9.95%) Vue
11 38 (9.69%) ASP.NET
12 36 (9.18%) CSS3
13 33 (8.42%) Web Services
14 31 (7.91%) Laravel
14 31 (7.91%) RESTful
15 28 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
16 23 (5.87%) GraphQL
17 22 (5.61%) .NET Core
17 22 (5.61%) Jest
17 22 (5.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.34%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.32%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.79%) Animation
7 7 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.28%) CMDB
9 5 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.02%) Derivative
10 4 (1.02%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.51%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.40%) Linux
2 19 (4.85%) Unix
3 10 (2.55%) Android
3 10 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.04%) Agile
2 89 (22.70%) Full Stack Development
3 86 (21.94%) User Experience
4 83 (21.17%) Front End Development
5 71 (18.11%) Web Development
6 63 (16.07%) DevOps
6 63 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (15.31%) Software Engineering
8 57 (14.54%) CI/CD
9 43 (10.97%) MVC
9 43 (10.97%) TDD
10 42 (10.71%) Test Automation
11 33 (8.42%) UX Design
12 32 (8.16%) Microservices
13 30 (7.65%) Scrum
14 29 (7.40%) Computer Science
15 27 (6.89%) Clean Code
16 25 (6.38%) E-Commerce
16 25 (6.38%) OO
17 23 (5.87%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 298 (76.02%) JavaScript
2 125 (31.89%) TypeScript
3 60 (15.31%) Java
4 58 (14.80%) C#
5 51 (13.01%) SQL
6 40 (10.20%) Python
7 39 (9.95%) PHP
8 16 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.32%) Bicep
10 7 (1.79%) Ruby
11 5 (1.28%) Bash
11 5 (1.28%) C++
11 5 (1.28%) Go
12 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.77%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.51%) ABAP
14 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.51%) F#
14 2 (0.51%) Solidity
14 2 (0.51%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.40%) Degree
4 19 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.52%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.38%) QA
3 15 (3.83%) WCAG
4 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) HL7
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (4.34%) Docker
2 12 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.04%) Terraform
3 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.77%) Ansible
4 3 (0.77%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Kibana
5 2 (0.51%) logstash
5 2 (0.51%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.59%) Adobe
3 17 (4.34%) Google
4 11 (2.81%) SAP
5 10 (2.55%) Oracle
5 10 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.53%) dotdigital
7 6 (1.53%) Optimizely
8 5 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) Ensighten
9 4 (1.02%) Monetate
9 4 (1.02%) Omniture
9 4 (1.02%) Tealium
9 4 (1.02%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.77%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.77%) Splunk
10 3 (0.77%) VMware
10 3 (0.77%) Xamarin