CSS Contracts in the Thames Valley

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 107 106
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -45
Contract jobs citing CSS 40 35 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.87% 1.32% 2.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.88% 8.22% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 68
10th Percentile £363 £107 £350
25th Percentile £409 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £594
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -32.63% +31.94%
75th Percentile £588 £474 £638
90th Percentile £664 £499 £788
South East median daily rate £400 £405 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% -19.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.21
25th Percentile - £16.84 £26.40
Median hourly rate - £17.34 £40.43
Median % change year-on-year - -57.11% +15.51%
75th Percentile - £17.84 £54.08
90th Percentile - - £62.05
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +16.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 405 426 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.93% 16.03% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 275 500
10th Percentile £383 £308 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £42.20 £46.68 £27.15
25th Percentile £57.89 £50.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £52.28 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% -18.86% -0.11%
75th Percentile - £81.70 £69.46
90th Percentile £68.23 £90.25 £73.23
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £59.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.41% -8.78% +4.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Berkshire +23 36 £525 +50.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +4 4 £525 +27.89% 9
CSS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.50%) CMS
1 1 (2.50%) IIS
1 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Sketch
2 7 (17.50%) InVision
3 4 (10.00%) OmniGraffle
3 4 (10.00%) UXPin
4 3 (7.50%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Figma
3 9 (22.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 8 (20.00%) Serverless
5 7 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
10 2 (5.00%) Azure API Management
10 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.50%) dbt
11 1 (2.50%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.50%) Intranet
1 1 (2.50%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (22.50%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) Selenium
3 6 (15.00%) Vite
4 5 (12.50%) Axure RP
5 4 (10.00%) Balsamiq
5 4 (10.00%) JIRA
6 3 (7.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (5.00%) MSBuild
7 2 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Designer
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 8 (20.00%) UX Designer
3 7 (17.50%) UI Designer
3 7 (17.50%) UI/UX Designer
4 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Lead DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) React Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior
6 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.50%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (85.00%) HTML
2 12 (30.00%) React
3 10 (25.00%) Framer.js
4 9 (22.50%) AngularJS
4 9 (22.50%) Node.js
5 8 (20.00%) .NET
5 8 (20.00%) JSON
6 6 (15.00%) OAuth
6 6 (15.00%) OAuth2
6 6 (15.00%) XML
7 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 5 (12.50%) CSS3
7 5 (12.50%) HTML5
7 5 (12.50%) OpenID
7 5 (12.50%) REST
8 4 (10.00%) ADO
8 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
8 4 (10.00%) Express.js
8 4 (10.00%) RESTful
9 3 (7.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Biopharmaceutical
1 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
1 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Wiki
3 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.50%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) User Experience
1 17 (42.50%) Wireframes
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) Web Development
4 11 (27.50%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) UX Design
5 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (22.50%) Validation
6 8 (20.00%) ETL
6 8 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 8 (20.00%) Prototyping
7 7 (17.50%) A/B Testing
7 7 (17.50%) MVC
7 7 (17.50%) Responsive Web Design
7 7 (17.50%) SDLC
8 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (15.00%) Microservices
8 6 (15.00%) User Stories
8 6 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
4 8 (20.00%) C#
5 7 (17.50%) PHP
6 5 (12.50%) Python
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
1 3 (7.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Adobe
2 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) SendGrid
4 1 (2.50%) Ciena