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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 71 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 52 61 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.95% 2.91% 3.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.01% 11.98% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 54
10th Percentile £415 £425 £301
25th Percentile £475 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £634
90th Percentile £675 £761 £796
Central London median daily rate £521 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -6.43% +5.95% -2.33%

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 433 509 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.56% 24.26% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 326 510
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £725
90th Percentile £741 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +62.34% -27.36% +11.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) Drupal
3 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.77%) PaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Run
5 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.85%) Firebase
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.85%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) DKIM
2 1 (1.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) Tableau
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.85%) Mixpanel
4 2 (3.85%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.92%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) JIRA
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.77%) Storybook
4 2 (3.85%) Snyk
4 2 (3.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (3.85%) webpack
5 1 (1.92%) Ant
5 1 (1.92%) Babel
5 1 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
5 1 (1.92%) JMeter
5 1 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.92%) Vite
5 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.77%) Marketing
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Developer
2 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Angular Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Applications Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Django Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Conversion Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.85%) React Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (96.15%) HTML
2 16 (30.77%) React
3 15 (28.85%) HTML5
4 10 (19.23%) .NET
4 10 (19.23%) AngularJS
4 10 (19.23%) REST
5 8 (15.38%) jQuery
6 7 (13.46%) RESTful
7 5 (9.62%) CSS3
7 5 (9.62%) Next.js
7 5 (9.62%) Vue
8 4 (7.69%) Jest
8 4 (7.69%) Redux
9 3 (5.77%) Django
9 3 (5.77%) Flask
9 3 (5.77%) Leaflet
9 3 (5.77%) Node.js
9 3 (5.77%) Pandas
9 3 (5.77%) Sass
9 3 (5.77%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Agile
2 18 (34.62%) User Experience
3 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.15%) UX Design
4 11 (21.15%) Web Development
5 9 (17.31%) DevOps
5 9 (17.31%) Front End Development
5 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (15.38%) Analytics
6 8 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
7 7 (13.46%) Scrum
8 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.69%) Kanban
10 4 (7.69%) MVC
10 4 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (82.69%) JavaScript
2 20 (38.46%) SQL
3 13 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.38%) C#
6 5 (9.62%) Apex Code
7 4 (7.69%) Java
8 2 (3.85%) C++
9 1 (1.92%) Bash
9 1 (1.92%) Elm
9 1 (1.92%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.54%) QA
3 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.85%) GDPR
4 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.85%) WCAG
5 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.69%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) OutSystems
3 3 (5.77%) Bloomberg
3 3 (5.77%) Cloudera
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) Amplitude
4 2 (3.85%) Foundry
4 2 (3.85%) Hotjar
4 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.85%) Optimizely
4 2 (3.85%) Palantir
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud