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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing CSS 31 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.40% 2.18% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 7.90% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 30
10th Percentile £396 £434 £385
25th Percentile £497 £477 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.09% -4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £592
90th Percentile £651 £703 £690
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.39% -6.77%
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 452 481 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.43% 27.56% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 306 338
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £665 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £779
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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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 15 April 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 1 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Kentico
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.23%) Sitefinity
1 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Trello
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Shopify
2 1 (3.23%) Magento
2 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.68%) Figma
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.23%) Google Docs
5 1 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) Text Mining
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) JMeter
4 1 (3.23%) jMock
4 1 (3.23%) PHPUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.23%) Vite
4 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Automotive
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Backend Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Backend Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Designer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Designer
6 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Planning Manager
6 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (100.00%) HTML
2 15 (48.39%) React
3 13 (41.94%) AngularJS
4 9 (29.03%) REST
5 7 (22.58%) SOAP
6 6 (19.35%) OSGi
7 4 (12.90%) jQuery
7 4 (12.90%) Playwright
7 4 (12.90%) XML
8 3 (9.68%) HTML5
8 3 (9.68%) Node.js
8 3 (9.68%) Spring
9 2 (6.45%) CSS3
9 2 (6.45%) JSON
9 2 (6.45%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (6.45%) OAuth
9 2 (6.45%) RESTful
9 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
9 2 (6.45%) Visualforce
9 2 (6.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) CMDB
2 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) User Experience
2 11 (35.48%) Agile
3 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
4 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.90%) A/B Testing
5 4 (12.90%) AI
5 4 (12.90%) Analytics
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) API Integration
6 3 (9.68%) B2C
6 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.68%) Front End Development
6 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.68%) Web Development
6 3 (9.68%) Webhook
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) JavaScript
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
4 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) Python
6 2 (6.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) PHP
7 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) WCAG
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Adobe
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Qualtrics
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.45%) Workday
4 1 (3.23%) Amplitude
4 1 (3.23%) Planview