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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing CSS 44 58 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.41% 2.82% 2.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.50% 10.98% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 39
10th Percentile £413 £348 £263
25th Percentile £475 £474 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £701 £835 £840
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -4.55%
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 419 528 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.95% 25.68% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 320 407
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £443 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £691 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -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 22 December 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 & 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 (4.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Trello
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.73%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) GCP
3 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.55%) Figma
5 2 (4.55%) Firebase
5 2 (4.55%) Google Gemini
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DKIM
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Tableau
2 2 (4.55%) Mixpanel
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.27%) GIS
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.55%) JMeter
3 2 (4.55%) JUnit
3 2 (4.55%) Mockito
3 2 (4.55%) Selenium
3 2 (4.55%) Snyk
3 2 (4.55%) Storybook
3 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (4.55%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (2.27%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) gulp
4 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) Vite
4 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Banking
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Front Office
6 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Advertising
7 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (59.09%) Developer
2 5 (11.36%) Senior
2 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (9.09%) React Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Lead
4 3 (6.82%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Conversion Specialist
5 2 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.27%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Dashboard Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Designer
6 1 (2.27%) Developer in Test
6 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (100.00%) HTML
2 20 (45.45%) React
3 15 (34.09%) HTML5
4 9 (20.45%) AngularJS
5 8 (18.18%) REST
6 6 (13.64%) .NET
6 6 (13.64%) CSS3
7 5 (11.36%) Playwright
8 4 (9.09%) jQuery
8 4 (9.09%) Node.js
8 4 (9.09%) RESTful
9 3 (6.82%) Flask
9 3 (6.82%) JSON
9 3 (6.82%) OAuth
9 3 (6.82%) OAuth2
9 3 (6.82%) OSGi
9 3 (6.82%) Pandas
9 3 (6.82%) Sass
9 3 (6.82%) Spring
9 3 (6.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.82%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Agile
2 20 (45.45%) User Experience
3 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 11 (25.00%) UX Design
5 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 7 (15.91%) Web Development
8 6 (13.64%) AI
8 6 (13.64%) Scrum
9 5 (11.36%) Kanban
9 5 (11.36%) Microservices
9 5 (11.36%) Visualisation
10 4 (9.09%) A/B Testing
10 4 (9.09%) Analytics
10 4 (9.09%) E-Commerce
10 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.27%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (20.45%) Java
5 7 (15.91%) Python
6 5 (11.36%) Apex Code
6 5 (11.36%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) PHP
7 1 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (2.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) WCAG
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Ansible
1 1 (2.27%) Grafana
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Google
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.82%) Adobe
3 3 (6.82%) Bloomberg
3 3 (6.82%) Cloudera
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) OutSystems
4 2 (4.55%) Amplitude
4 2 (4.55%) Hotjar
4 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.55%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Planview