CSS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing CSS 45 54 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.50% 2.53% 3.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.74% 10.63% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 69
10th Percentile £413 £428 £328
25th Percentile £475 £469 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £666 £641 £663
90th Percentile £713 £745 £875
Central London median daily rate £525 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.24% -1.41%

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 462 508 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.71% 23.79% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 350 588
10th Percentile £404 £412 £425
25th Percentile £452 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £763 £788 £827
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CSS in the City of London

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (8.89%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.67%) npm
3 3 (6.67%) PaaS
3 3 (6.67%) Yarn
4 2 (4.44%) AppsFlyer
4 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.22%) Figma
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.44%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Power Query
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) webpack
3 3 (6.67%) Babel
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) Ant
4 2 (4.44%) Git
4 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (2.22%) JMeter
5 1 (2.22%) Selenium
5 1 (2.22%) Storybook
5 1 (2.22%) Vite
5 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Marketing
3 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Advertising
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (66.67%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (8.89%) React Developer
4 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) Django Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Email Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Python/Django Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (91.11%) HTML
2 14 (31.11%) React
3 10 (22.22%) .NET
3 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 9 (20.00%) REST
5 8 (17.78%) HTML5
5 8 (17.78%) jQuery
5 8 (17.78%) RESTful
6 5 (11.11%) Vue
6 5 (11.11%) Web Services
7 4 (8.89%) Next.js
7 4 (8.89%) Node.js
7 4 (8.89%) Redux
8 3 (6.67%) Django
8 3 (6.67%) Leaflet
8 3 (6.67%) Visualforce
9 2 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (4.44%) PySpark
9 2 (4.44%) Sass
9 2 (4.44%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
2 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.00%) Web Development
4 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
4 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (17.78%) User Experience
5 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.33%) Analytics
6 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.11%) DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) ITSM
7 5 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (11.11%) Scrum
7 5 (11.11%) Use Case
7 5 (11.11%) UX Design
8 4 (8.89%) Data Modelling
8 4 (8.89%) MVC
8 4 (8.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) Python
4 8 (17.78%) C#
5 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.89%) Java
7 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
8 2 (4.44%) C++
9 1 (2.22%) Elm
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) WCAG
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Foundry
5 2 (4.44%) Palantir
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe
6 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.22%) Talend