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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 72 67
Rank change year-on-year -52 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing CSS 18 48 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 2.68% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.27% 9.68% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 42
10th Percentile £377 £413 £454
25th Percentile £418 £491 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +10.78%
75th Percentile £554 £638 £675
90th Percentile £577 £675 £750
Central London median daily rate £475 £521 £563
% change year-on-year -8.74% -7.47% +10.29%

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 550 496 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.12% 27.71% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 325 364
10th Percentile £421 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £710
90th Percentile £771 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

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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 6 September 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 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Magento
2 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Figma
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.56%) JMeter
3 1 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
3 1 (5.56%) rollup.js
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Storybook
3 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) UI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.56%) UX Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) HTML
2 6 (33.33%) React
2 6 (33.33%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) .NET
3 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 4 (22.22%) HTML5
3 4 (22.22%) RESTful
4 3 (16.67%) CSS3
4 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (16.67%) JSON
4 3 (16.67%) SOAP
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) XML
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (11.11%) Jest
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) Next.js
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) User Experience
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) AI
4 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) UX Design
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (61.11%) TypeScript
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Workday