CSS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 45 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing CSS 12 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.06% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.51% 3.03% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £365 £260
25th Percentile £463 £369 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £300
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +33.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £506 £444 £325
90th Percentile £518 £455 £340
East of England median daily rate £475 £363 £550
% change year-on-year +31.03% -34.09% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 141 66 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 24.19% 14.38% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 31
10th Percentile £448 £306 £350
25th Percentile £475 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £736 £575 £675
90th Percentile £825 £600 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 2
10th Percentile £43.00 £62.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £44.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.38%
75th Percentile £65.56 £66.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.13 £67.50 £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +20.37% -16.92%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

CSS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Stevenage - 10 £475 - 1
Hemel Hempstead +1 1 £500 +25.00% 1
Hertford - 1 £475 -
CSS
East of England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
1 9 (75.00%) JIRA
1 9 (75.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 10 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 10 (83.33%) Vue
3 9 (75.00%) Node.js
3 9 (75.00%) React
3 9 (75.00%) Svelte
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (8.33%) Blazor
4 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
4 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 10 (83.33%) Microservices
1 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 9 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) OOP
2 9 (75.00%) SDLC
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) B2C
4 1 (8.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.33%) MVVM
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) C#
3 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (58.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) SAP