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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 75 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 401 786 1,914
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.63% 3.08% 4.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.00% 12.18% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 594 1,380
10th Percentile £313 £313 £356
25th Percentile £413 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.94% +12.22%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £600
90th Percentile £706 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £493 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
10th Percentile £37.63 £26.10 £22.05
25th Percentile £38.81 £45.00 £29.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £58.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +9.30% +37.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £85.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £65.00 - £67.80
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £55.25
% change year-on-year -14.04% +6.33% +38.13%

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 3,644 6,455 13,199
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.93% 25.28% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,559 4,801 9,749
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £427 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £727
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 121
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 £61.50 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

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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 6 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 6 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 (8.48%) CMS
2 16 (3.99%) nginx
3 10 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.49%) WordPress
4 9 (2.24%) Confluence
5 8 (2.00%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.50%) Kentico
7 4 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.00%) Apache
7 4 (1.00%) Drupal
7 4 (1.00%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.75%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) Appian
10 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.25%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.25%) Moodle
10 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 6 (1.50%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Blender
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) InDesign
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Shopify
2 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
2 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (18.70%) AWS
2 71 (17.71%) Azure
3 31 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (6.48%) GCP
5 19 (4.74%) GitHub
6 17 (4.24%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.99%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 16 (3.99%) Serverless
8 15 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (3.24%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.49%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.49%) SaaS
13 9 (2.24%) Figma
13 9 (2.24%) npm
14 8 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.74%) Intranet
2 11 (2.74%) Firewall
2 11 (2.74%) HTTP
3 10 (2.49%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.75%) DNS
6 2 (0.50%) SNMP
6 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.49%) MySQL
4 15 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (3.74%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.49%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.24%) Power BI
8 8 (2.00%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.25%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.00%) Looker
10 4 (1.00%) Metadata
10 4 (1.00%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 3 (0.75%) GIS
11 3 (0.75%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (16.71%) Git
2 34 (8.48%) JIRA
3 21 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.99%) webpack
5 12 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.99%) Storybook
6 10 (2.49%) git-flow
6 10 (2.49%) GitLab
7 9 (2.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.50%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (1.00%) Babel
9 4 (1.00%) Postman
9 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.75%) rollup.js
10 3 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.75%) Vite
11 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
General
1 66 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.71%) Finance
3 46 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.73%) Banking
5 28 (6.98%) Marketing
6 26 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.99%) Retail
8 8 (2.00%) Publishing
8 8 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.75%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.50%) Front Office
11 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 5 (1.25%) Back Office
11 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.75%) Automotive
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Law
14 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 273 (68.08%) Developer
2 62 (15.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 54 (13.47%) Senior
4 53 (13.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 39 (9.73%) React Developer
6 32 (7.98%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.49%) .NET Developer
7 22 (5.49%) JavaScript Developer
8 20 (4.99%) Lead
9 16 (3.99%) Designer
9 16 (3.99%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.99%) Technical Writer
10 14 (3.49%) JavaScript Engineer
10 14 (3.49%) Software Developer
11 13 (3.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 12 (2.99%) Full Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) Java Developer
12 12 (2.99%) Technical Leader
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Developer
13 11 (2.74%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (87.78%) HTML
2 167 (41.65%) React
3 83 (20.70%) Node.js
4 68 (16.96%) .NET
5 63 (15.71%) AngularJS
6 61 (15.21%) REST
7 47 (11.72%) HTML5
8 45 (11.22%) Sass
9 41 (10.22%) jQuery
10 38 (9.48%) Vue
11 37 (9.23%) ASP.NET
12 34 (8.48%) CSS3
12 34 (8.48%) Web Services
13 31 (7.73%) RESTful
14 30 (7.48%) Laravel
15 29 (7.23%) Tailwind CSS
16 24 (5.99%) GraphQL
17 23 (5.74%) Jest
17 23 (5.74%) JSON
18 21 (5.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.24%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.24%) Fixed Income
2 13 (3.24%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.24%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.75%) Animation
7 6 (1.50%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.25%) CMDB
8 5 (1.25%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.00%) Derivative
10 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.50%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.98%) Linux
2 18 (4.49%) Unix
3 11 (2.74%) Android
3 11 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.00%) Windows
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.68%) Agile
2 92 (22.94%) Full Stack Development
3 88 (21.95%) User Experience
4 82 (20.45%) Front End Development
5 70 (17.46%) DevOps
6 69 (17.21%) Web Development
7 63 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 63 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (15.21%) Software Engineering
9 48 (11.97%) Test Automation
10 47 (11.72%) MVC
11 45 (11.22%) TDD
12 37 (9.23%) Microservices
13 33 (8.23%) UX Design
14 29 (7.23%) Computer Science
14 29 (7.23%) Scrum
15 27 (6.73%) Clean Code
16 25 (6.23%) Code Quality
16 25 (6.23%) E-Commerce
16 25 (6.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 306 (76.31%) JavaScript
2 133 (33.17%) TypeScript
3 65 (16.21%) Java
4 57 (14.21%) C#
5 55 (13.72%) SQL
6 44 (10.97%) Python
7 40 (9.98%) PHP
8 15 (3.74%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.99%) Bicep
10 7 (1.75%) Ruby
11 5 (1.25%) Bash
11 5 (1.25%) C++
11 5 (1.25%) Go
12 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.50%) ABAP
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) Perl
14 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.73%) Degree
4 19 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.71%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.23%) QA
3 15 (3.74%) WCAG
4 4 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) HL7
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (4.99%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.00%) Terraform
3 7 (1.75%) Grafana
4 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.50%) Kibana
6 2 (0.50%) logstash
6 2 (0.50%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.49%) Adobe
3 17 (4.24%) Google
4 11 (2.74%) SAP
5 10 (2.49%) Oracle
5 10 (2.49%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.50%) dotdigital
7 6 (1.50%) Optimizely
8 5 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.00%) Ensighten
9 4 (1.00%) Monetate
9 4 (1.00%) Omniture
9 4 (1.00%) Tealium
9 4 (1.00%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.75%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.75%) Splunk
10 3 (0.75%) VMware