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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 74 61
Rank change year-on-year -52 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing CSS 15 51 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.64% 2.73% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 10.90% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 43
10th Percentile £309 £413 £428
25th Percentile £402 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £543 £638 £659
90th Percentile £579 £700 £745
Central London median daily rate £404 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -26.59% +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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 486 468 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.65% 25.08% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 301 334
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £558 £600
% change year-on-year +1.75% -7.08% -3.23%
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 £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%

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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 14 August 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Magento
2 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.67%) PHPUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Front Office
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) UI Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Magento Developer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) UI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) REST
3 5 (33.33%) React
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (20.00%) .NET
5 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (20.00%) HTML5
5 3 (20.00%) RESTful
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
6 2 (13.33%) CSS3
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 2 (13.33%) Spring
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (13.33%) Web Services
6 2 (13.33%) XML
7 1 (6.67%) D3.js
7 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (6.67%) SPFx
7 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience
4 4 (26.67%) AI
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) UX Design
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Workday