CSS Contract Job Trends in London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 118 98
Rank change year-on-year -64 -20 -5
Contract jobs citing CSS 251 292 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 2.36% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.10% 9.06% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 211 324
10th Percentile £340 £363 £352
25th Percentile £411 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.19%
75th Percentile £595 £655 £638
90th Percentile £710 £788 £754
England median daily rate £475 £480 £498
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £28.65 - £30.66
25th Percentile £37.13 £33.25 £33.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £42.12
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% -18.08% -37.61%
75th Percentile £63.38 £37.82 £47.49
90th Percentile £69.15 £41.55 £49.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £42.82 £62.50
% change year-on-year -46.28% -31.50% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,118 3,223 4,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.13% 26.07% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,261 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CSS job vacancy trend in London

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in London

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CSS in London

CSS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -27 33 £550 - 48
East London -6 4 £410 -21.90% 14
South London -11 2 - - 6
West London - 2 - - 15
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 18 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (4.78%) CMS
3 5 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.99%) Confluence
4 4 (1.59%) Kentico
5 3 (1.20%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.20%) WordPress
6 2 (0.80%) Camunda
6 2 (0.80%) Drupal
6 2 (0.80%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.40%) Moodle
7 1 (0.40%) Mule
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.59%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.59%) Sketch
3 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.20%) Trello
4 2 (0.80%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.40%) InVision
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.80%) Magento
1 2 (0.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.10%) Azure
2 52 (20.72%) AWS
3 26 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 23 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.37%) Serverless
7 19 (7.57%) Figma
8 18 (7.17%) Power Automate
9 17 (6.77%) PowerApps
10 15 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.18%) GitHub
12 12 (4.78%) GCP
13 10 (3.98%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.98%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.39%) OneDrive
16 5 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Firewall
1 3 (1.20%) Intranet
1 3 (1.20%) Network Security
1 3 (1.20%) SMS
2 2 (0.80%) BGP
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) LAN
2 2 (0.80%) OSPF
2 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.80%) RTMP
2 2 (0.80%) SSL
2 2 (0.80%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) DHCP
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) FTP
3 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) VLAN
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.54%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.57%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.58%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.78%) MySQL
7 9 (3.59%) Power BI
8 8 (3.19%) Big Data
8 8 (3.19%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.39%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.99%) Tableau
12 4 (1.59%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.59%) Presto
12 4 (1.59%) Redis
13 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (17.53%) Git
2 24 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.17%) JIRA
4 15 (5.98%) GitLab
5 12 (4.78%) JUnit
6 10 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.98%) Mockito
7 8 (3.19%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.79%) Maven
8 7 (2.79%) MSTest
8 7 (2.79%) Vite
8 7 (2.79%) webpack
9 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.99%) Mocha
9 5 (1.99%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.59%) Selenium
10 4 (1.59%) Storybook
10 4 (1.59%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.20%) Robot Framework
General
1 62 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.33%) Finance
3 40 (15.94%) Banking
4 25 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.37%) Marketing
7 14 (5.58%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.38%) Front Office
9 8 (3.19%) Retail
10 5 (1.99%) Publishing
11 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Games
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Local Government
13 2 (0.80%) Automotive
13 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (59.76%) Developer
2 41 (16.33%) Senior
3 25 (9.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 25 (9.96%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (8.76%) React Developer
5 14 (5.58%) Software Engineer
6 13 (5.18%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.78%) Designer
8 9 (3.59%) Consultant
8 9 (3.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 9 (3.59%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (3.19%) Software Developer
10 7 (2.79%) Architect
10 7 (2.79%) Backend Developer
10 7 (2.79%) C# Developer
10 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow Developer
10 7 (2.79%) UI Developer
11 6 (2.39%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (87.25%) HTML
2 112 (44.62%) React
3 74 (29.48%) AngularJS
4 61 (24.30%) REST
5 46 (18.33%) .NET
6 45 (17.93%) HTML5
7 38 (15.14%) RESTful
8 29 (11.55%) CSS3
8 29 (11.55%) Node.js
8 29 (11.55%) Redux
9 24 (9.56%) Spring
10 21 (8.37%) SOAP
11 20 (7.97%) Vue
12 19 (7.57%) jQuery
13 18 (7.17%) Spring Boot
14 17 (6.77%) JSON
14 17 (6.77%) OAuth
14 17 (6.77%) Tailwind CSS
15 16 (6.37%) Web Services
16 14 (5.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.39%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.99%) CMDB
7 5 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.59%) Derivative
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.20%) PropTech
10 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.80%) Equities
10 2 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Linux
2 8 (3.19%) Unix
2 8 (3.19%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Android
3 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.04%) Agile
2 70 (27.89%) CI/CD
3 68 (27.09%) User Experience
4 53 (21.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (19.92%) DevOps
5 50 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (17.53%) Front End Development
7 39 (15.54%) Test Automation
8 36 (14.34%) Microservices
8 36 (14.34%) Software Engineering
9 34 (13.55%) Scrum
10 32 (12.75%) AI
11 31 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.76%) Analytics
13 25 (9.96%) Containerisation
13 25 (9.96%) Design Patterns
14 22 (8.76%) UX Design
15 21 (8.37%) SDLC
16 20 (7.97%) Unit Testing
17 19 (7.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 188 (74.90%) JavaScript
2 75 (29.88%) SQL
3 69 (27.49%) TypeScript
4 57 (22.71%) Python
5 53 (21.12%) Java
6 34 (13.55%) C#
7 13 (5.18%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.78%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.19%) Ruby
11 5 (1.99%) Scala
12 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.80%) Go
13 2 (0.80%) PHP
14 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) F#
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.98%) Degree
4 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.20%) CCNP
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CCNA
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.74%) Accessibility
2 23 (9.16%) QA
2 23 (9.16%) WCAG
3 9 (3.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) SLA
5 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) WAI
7 1 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 41 (16.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.58%) Terraform
3 6 (2.39%) Grafana
4 5 (1.99%) Kibana
5 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (11.16%) Adobe
1 28 (11.16%) Oracle
2 23 (9.16%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.98%) Google
6 6 (2.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) OutSystems
7 5 (1.99%) Qualtrics
7 5 (1.99%) Workday
8 4 (1.59%) SAP
8 4 (1.59%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.20%) Symantec
10 2 (0.80%) Botify
10 2 (0.80%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.80%) Netskope
10 2 (0.80%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.80%) Screaming Frog