CSS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 75 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing CSS 49 54 70
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.77% 2.52% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.78% 10.36% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 42
10th Percentile £413 £348 £263
25th Percentile £455 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £675 £865 £834
Central London median daily rate £521 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.36% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.22 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 416 521 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.48% 24.33% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 313 447
10th Percentile £363 £413 £403
25th Percentile £436 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £738 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.08%) Confluence
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.04%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) GCP
3 4 (8.16%) GitHub
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.08%) Firebase
5 2 (4.08%) Google Gemini
5 2 (4.08%) npm
5 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DKIM
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Tableau
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Hive
3 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.08%) Mixpanel
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) MySQL
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.04%) GIS
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) Cypress.io
2 5 (10.20%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.12%) JMeter
3 3 (6.12%) Selenium
3 3 (6.12%) WebDriver
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Mockito
4 2 (4.08%) Snyk
4 2 (4.08%) Storybook
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (4.08%) webpack
5 1 (2.04%) Ant
5 1 (2.04%) Babel
5 1 (2.04%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (2.04%) jMock
5 1 (2.04%) Maven
5 1 (2.04%) Vite
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Advertising
5 2 (4.08%) Front Office
5 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (59.18%) Developer
2 5 (10.20%) React Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (6.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (6.12%) Lead
4 3 (6.12%) Senior
4 3 (6.12%) Software Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Applications Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Conversion Specialist
5 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Developer in Test
5 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.04%) Dashboard Developer
6 1 (2.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (2.04%) Electronic Trading Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (95.92%) HTML
2 21 (42.86%) React
3 16 (32.65%) HTML5
4 11 (22.45%) REST
5 10 (20.41%) AngularJS
6 8 (16.33%) .NET
7 7 (14.29%) jQuery
8 6 (12.24%) CSS3
8 6 (12.24%) RESTful
9 5 (10.20%) Jest
9 5 (10.20%) Playwright
10 4 (8.16%) JSON
10 4 (8.16%) Node.js
10 4 (8.16%) Sass
10 4 (8.16%) Vue
10 4 (8.16%) Web Services
11 3 (6.12%) Flask
11 3 (6.12%) Pandas
11 3 (6.12%) SOAP
11 3 (6.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Data Structures
1 4 (8.16%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) User Experience
3 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.49%) DevOps
6 11 (22.45%) UX Design
7 8 (16.33%) Front End Development
7 8 (16.33%) Scrum
7 8 (16.33%) Web Development
8 6 (12.24%) AI
8 6 (12.24%) Analytics
8 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (10.20%) Kanban
9 5 (10.20%) Microservices
9 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (89.80%) JavaScript
2 16 (32.65%) SQL
3 12 (24.49%) TypeScript
4 10 (20.41%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (10.20%) Apex Code
6 5 (10.20%) Java
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Elm
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
7 1 (2.04%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.12%) WCAG
4 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) Grafana
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Google
2 5 (10.20%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.12%) Bloomberg
3 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) OutSystems
4 2 (4.08%) Amplitude
4 2 (4.08%) Foundry
4 2 (4.08%) Hotjar
4 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.08%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Palantir
5 1 (2.04%) Adobe
5 1 (2.04%) Planview
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow