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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 66 76
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 0
Contract jobs citing CSS 42 53 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.24% 2.82% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 10.71% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 35
10th Percentile £413 £370 £379
25th Percentile £475 £467 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £751 £808 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +0.95% -7.49% +0.89%
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 £45.00 - -

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 429 495 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.88% 26.32% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 304 395
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +0.87% -7.63%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £773 £799 £800
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -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 30 January 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 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Kentico
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Sitefinity
2 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Trello
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 4 (9.52%) GitHub
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.14%) Figma
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Firebase
5 2 (4.76%) Google Gemini
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DKIM
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.76%) Mixpanel
2 2 (4.76%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) Text Mining
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.38%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.38%) GIS
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) JMeter
3 2 (4.76%) JUnit
3 2 (4.76%) Maven
3 2 (4.76%) Mockito
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (4.76%) Snyk
3 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.38%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (2.38%) gulp
4 1 (2.38%) jMock
4 1 (2.38%) Storybook
4 1 (2.38%) Vite
4 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Automotive
6 2 (4.76%) Front Office
7 1 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Backend Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) React Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Conversion Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Specialist
8 1 (2.38%) IAM Specialist
8 1 (2.38%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior PHP Developer
8 1 (2.38%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Solutions Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) HTML
2 23 (54.76%) React
3 13 (30.95%) AngularJS
4 11 (26.19%) HTML5
5 9 (21.43%) REST
6 6 (14.29%) OSGi
6 6 (14.29%) Playwright
7 5 (11.90%) .NET
8 4 (9.52%) CSS3
8 4 (9.52%) Node.js
8 4 (9.52%) OAuth
8 4 (9.52%) SOAP
8 4 (9.52%) XML
8 4 (9.52%) Zustand
9 3 (7.14%) JWT
9 3 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
9 3 (7.14%) Redux
9 3 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) CMDB
3 1 (2.38%) Derivative
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) User Experience
2 18 (42.86%) Agile
3 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) DevOps
5 9 (21.43%) UX Design
6 7 (16.67%) A/B Testing
6 7 (16.67%) Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 6 (14.29%) Web Development
8 5 (11.90%) E-Commerce
8 5 (11.90%) Microservices
8 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) AI
9 4 (9.52%) API Integration
9 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.14%) Design Patterns
10 3 (7.14%) Generative AI
10 3 (7.14%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) JavaScript
2 12 (28.57%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) TypeScript
4 8 (19.05%) SQL
5 4 (9.52%) C#
6 3 (7.14%) Apex Code
6 3 (7.14%) Python
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) WCAG
3 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 3 (7.14%) Adobe
2 3 (7.14%) Amplitude
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.76%) Hotjar
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) Optimizely
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) OutSystems
3 2 (4.76%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.38%) Planview
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow