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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 71 88
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing CSS 36 48 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 2.67% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.83% 9.88% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 26
10th Percentile £383 £364 £379
25th Percentile £469 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £666
90th Percentile £733 £728 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
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 £34.00 - -

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 460 486 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.32% 27.00% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 311 337
10th Percentile £363 £406 £384
25th Percentile £459 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.63% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 - £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -13.25% -12.63% -20.17%

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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 16 March 2026.

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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Kentico
2 1 (2.78%) Sitefinity
2 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Trello
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Figma
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) CloudFront
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) Google Docs
4 1 (2.78%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (2.78%) npm
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Text Mining
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.56%) JMeter
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Maven
3 2 (5.56%) Mockito
3 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.78%) gulp
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) jMock
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
4 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.78%) Vite
4 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Automotive
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Front Office
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Backend Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (8.33%) React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Shopify Developer
8 1 (2.78%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) HTML
2 20 (55.56%) React
3 13 (36.11%) AngularJS
4 9 (25.00%) REST
5 7 (19.44%) HTML5
5 7 (19.44%) Playwright
6 6 (16.67%) OSGi
7 5 (13.89%) SOAP
8 4 (11.11%) Node.js
8 4 (11.11%) XML
9 3 (8.33%) .NET
9 3 (8.33%) jQuery
9 3 (8.33%) JSON
9 3 (8.33%) Spring
9 3 (8.33%) Web Services
10 2 (5.56%) CSS3
10 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
10 2 (5.56%) OAuth
10 2 (5.56%) RESTful
10 2 (5.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) CMDB
2 1 (2.78%) Derivative
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.78%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) User Experience
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Front End Development
6 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.11%) A/B Testing
7 4 (11.11%) Analytics
7 4 (11.11%) API Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 4 (11.11%) Microservices
7 4 (11.11%) Scrum
7 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Web Development
8 3 (8.33%) AI
8 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
1 3 (8.33%) QA
1 3 (8.33%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Qualtrics
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.78%) OutSystems
4 1 (2.78%) Planview
4 1 (2.78%) Workday