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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 73 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 -18 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 393 755 1,877
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.66% 3.06% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.83% 12.13% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 1,351
10th Percentile £313 £313 £356
25th Percentile £415 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -6.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £700 £695
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 23
10th Percentile £36.49 £26.10 £22.10
25th Percentile £38.22 £45.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £45.13 £58.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.19% +6.82% +43.30%
75th Percentile £61.06 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £64.38 - £77.17
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -12.69% +15.56% +40.63%

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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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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 16 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 16 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 36 (9.16%) CMS
2 17 (4.33%) nginx
3 11 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.54%) Confluence
4 10 (2.54%) Headless CMS
5 9 (2.29%) WordPress
6 7 (1.78%) Apache
7 6 (1.53%) Kentico
8 4 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.02%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.76%) Drupal
9 3 (0.76%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.76%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.25%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.25%) Moodle
10 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.78%) Photoshop
2 6 (1.53%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.25%) Blender
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) InDesign
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Magento
1 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (18.32%) Azure
2 71 (18.07%) AWS
3 32 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (7.12%) GCP
5 19 (4.83%) GitHub
6 17 (4.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 15 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (3.31%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.80%) Figma
10 10 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.29%) npm
11 9 (2.29%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.29%) SaaS
11 9 (2.29%) Serverless
12 8 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
13 7 (1.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.34%) Intranet
2 14 (3.56%) HTTP
3 11 (2.80%) Firewall
4 10 (2.54%) VPN
5 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.76%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) SNMP
7 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.60%) MySQL
2 22 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.04%) Power BI
8 5 (1.27%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.27%) 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 (0.76%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.76%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 64 (16.28%) Git
2 36 (9.16%) JIRA
3 19 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.33%) webpack
5 13 (3.31%) GitLab
6 12 (3.05%) Storybook
7 10 (2.54%) git-flow
8 9 (2.29%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.53%) Dreamweaver
10 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.02%) Babel
11 4 (1.02%) Postman
11 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.76%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.76%) rollup.js
12 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.76%) Vite
13 2 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
General
1 69 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.52%) Finance
3 44 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.91%) Banking
5 27 (6.87%) Marketing
6 22 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.31%) Retail
8 10 (2.54%) Publishing
9 8 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.53%) Front Office
11 5 (1.27%) Advertising
11 5 (1.27%) Back Office
11 5 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.76%) Automotive
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 265 (67.43%) Developer
2 61 (15.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 55 (13.99%) Senior
4 49 (12.47%) Full Stack Developer
5 39 (9.92%) React Developer
6 32 (8.14%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.34%) .NET Developer
7 21 (5.34%) JavaScript Developer
8 18 (4.58%) Technical Writer
9 17 (4.33%) Designer
10 15 (3.82%) JavaScript Engineer
10 15 (3.82%) Lead
10 15 (3.82%) Software Developer
11 14 (3.56%) Full Stack Engineer
12 13 (3.31%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 13 (3.31%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.80%) Angular Developer
14 11 (2.80%) Azure Developer
14 11 (2.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (88.30%) HTML
2 164 (41.73%) React
3 81 (20.61%) Node.js
4 68 (17.30%) .NET
5 63 (16.03%) AngularJS
6 54 (13.74%) REST
7 48 (12.21%) HTML5
7 48 (12.21%) Sass
8 42 (10.69%) jQuery
9 38 (9.67%) Vue
10 36 (9.16%) ASP.NET
11 35 (8.91%) Web Services
12 34 (8.65%) CSS3
12 34 (8.65%) RESTful
13 29 (7.38%) Laravel
13 29 (7.38%) Tailwind CSS
14 27 (6.87%) GraphQL
15 24 (6.11%) .NET Core
15 24 (6.11%) Jest
16 23 (5.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.56%) Fixed Income
3 13 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.31%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.78%) Animation
6 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.27%) CMDB
8 5 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.02%) Derivative
9 4 (1.02%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.89%) Linux
2 19 (4.83%) Unix
3 9 (2.29%) Android
3 9 (2.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.97%) Agile
2 92 (23.41%) User Experience
3 89 (22.65%) Full Stack Development
4 81 (20.61%) Front End Development
5 70 (17.81%) DevOps
6 69 (17.56%) Web Development
7 62 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (15.01%) Software Engineering
9 58 (14.76%) CI/CD
10 43 (10.94%) TDD
11 42 (10.69%) MVC
11 42 (10.69%) Test Automation
12 36 (9.16%) UX Design
13 34 (8.65%) Microservices
14 29 (7.38%) Computer Science
15 28 (7.12%) Scrum
16 27 (6.87%) Clean Code
17 26 (6.62%) Responsive Web Design
18 25 (6.36%) E-Commerce
18 25 (6.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 296 (75.32%) JavaScript
2 128 (32.57%) TypeScript
3 59 (15.01%) Java
4 57 (14.50%) C#
5 51 (12.98%) SQL
6 34 (8.65%) PHP
6 34 (8.65%) Python
7 16 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.31%) Bicep
9 6 (1.53%) Ruby
10 5 (1.27%) Bash
10 5 (1.27%) C++
10 5 (1.27%) Go
11 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.76%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.51%) F#
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.63%) Degree
4 19 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.51%) OCP
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.49%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.36%) QA
3 15 (3.82%) WCAG
4 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) HL7
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (5.09%) Docker
2 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.04%) Terraform
3 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.76%) Ansible
4 3 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Kibana
5 2 (0.51%) logstash
5 2 (0.51%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.83%) Adobe
3 18 (4.58%) Google
4 11 (2.80%) SAP
5 10 (2.54%) Oracle
6 9 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.53%) dotdigital
8 6 (1.53%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.02%) 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
10 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.76%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.76%) Splunk
10 3 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.76%) Xamarin