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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -58 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 58 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.84% 3.40% 2.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 12.26% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 39 40
10th Percentile £403 £413 £348
25th Percentile £425 £469 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.37% +5.95%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £675
90th Percentile £570 £704 £830
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%

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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 553 473 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.93% 27.71% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 329 352
10th Percentile £413 £400 £407
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.13% -0.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.16% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%

CSS 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

CSS 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

CSS 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 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in the City of London

CSS 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

CSS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1HTML94.4%17
2React50.0%9
3RESTful22.2%4
4.NET16.7%3
4AngularJS16.7%3
4CSS316.7%3
4HTML516.7%3
4JSON16.7%3
4REST16.7%3
4Web Services16.7%3
4XML16.7%3
12.NET Framework11.1%2
12ASP.NET Web API11.1%2
12GraphQL11.1%2
12Jest11.1%2
12Model Context Protocol11.1%2
12Next.js11.1%2
12Spring11.1%2
12Spring Boot11.1%2
12Tailwind CSS11.1%2
31 CSS jobs in the City of London