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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 136 85
Rank change year-on-year -85 -51 +17
Contract jobs citing CSS 257 291 485
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 2.16% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.81% 7.36% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 200 340
10th Percentile £375 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -10.48% -1.41%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £643
90th Percentile £716 £788 £778
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile - £30.08 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +21.74%

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 5,341 3,953 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,551 2,731 3,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -50 24 £475 -8.74% 16
South London -5 6 £550 -31.25% 7
East London +3 4 £410 -24.07% 9
West London -18 3 - - 11
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 25 (9.73%) CMS
2 20 (7.78%) SharePoint
3 17 (6.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (4.28%) Confluence
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.95%) Camunda
6 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.17%) Kentico
7 3 (1.17%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.17%) WordPress
8 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.78%) IIS
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.78%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.39%) Apache
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Sketch
2 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.78%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 62 (24.12%) Azure
2 53 (20.62%) AWS
3 30 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.34%) GitHub
5 21 (8.17%) Power Automate
5 21 (8.17%) Serverless
6 20 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (7.39%) PowerApps
8 18 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (6.61%) Figma
9 17 (6.61%) GCP
10 14 (5.45%) Adobe Analytics
11 11 (4.28%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.11%) Google Analytics
13 8 (3.11%) OneDrive
14 7 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.72%) SaaS
15 6 (2.33%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) HTTP
2 4 (1.56%) Intranet
3 2 (0.78%) Skype
4 1 (0.39%) 4G
4 1 (0.39%) 5G
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.39%) SSH
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.84%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.73%) MySQL
4 19 (7.39%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.00%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.61%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.89%) Power BI
8 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.11%) Redis
9 8 (3.11%) Tableau
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.95%) Big Data
11 4 (1.56%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.56%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.56%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.56%) Metadata
11 4 (1.56%) Presto
11 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 61 (23.74%) Git
2 34 (13.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.34%) GitLab
4 23 (8.95%) Cypress.io
5 17 (6.61%) JIRA
6 15 (5.84%) Maven
6 15 (5.84%) Storybook
7 12 (4.67%) JUnit
7 12 (4.67%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.50%) Gradle
8 9 (3.50%) Vite
9 6 (2.33%) Mockito
10 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.56%) Mocha
11 4 (1.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 4 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 88 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.73%) Finance
3 35 (13.62%) Marketing
4 34 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (12.45%) Banking
6 22 (8.56%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.06%) Publishing
8 10 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.50%) Retail
10 8 (3.11%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Front Office
12 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.17%) Games
13 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Local Government
14 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (57.59%) Developer
2 36 (14.01%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (11.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 30 (11.67%) Senior
4 23 (8.95%) React Developer
5 17 (6.61%) Senior Developer
6 16 (6.23%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.84%) Consultant
8 14 (5.45%) Architect
9 12 (4.67%) Lead
10 10 (3.89%) Angular Developer
10 10 (3.89%) Designer
10 10 (3.89%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.50%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.50%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Web Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Web Specialist
12 8 (3.11%) Low-Code Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.11%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (90.66%) HTML
2 100 (38.91%) React
3 82 (31.91%) REST
4 71 (27.63%) HTML5
5 59 (22.96%) CSS3
6 54 (21.01%) RESTful
7 51 (19.84%) AngularJS
8 50 (19.46%) .NET
9 35 (13.62%) OAuth
10 34 (13.23%) Node.js
11 32 (12.45%) Redux
12 26 (10.12%) Kafka
12 26 (10.12%) SOAP
12 26 (10.12%) Spring Boot
13 25 (9.73%) Jest
13 25 (9.73%) jQuery
14 23 (8.95%) Spring
15 21 (8.17%) GraphQL
15 21 (8.17%) OAuth2
15 21 (8.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.89%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.50%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.72%) Replication
7 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.95%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.56%) CMDB
9 4 (1.56%) Equities
9 4 (1.56%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.67%) Linux
2 8 (3.11%) Unix
3 5 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (46.69%) Agile
2 95 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 61 (23.74%) DevOps
3 61 (23.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (22.96%) Front End Development
5 58 (22.57%) Microservices
5 58 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (21.79%) Scrum
7 54 (21.01%) User Experience
8 52 (20.23%) Test Automation
9 39 (15.18%) AI
10 37 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (12.06%) Analytics
12 30 (11.67%) Code Quality
13 29 (11.28%) Clean Code
13 29 (11.28%) Event-Driven
13 29 (11.28%) Software Engineering
13 29 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (10.51%) UX Design
15 26 (10.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 206 (80.16%) JavaScript
2 98 (38.13%) SQL
3 80 (31.13%) TypeScript
4 47 (18.29%) Java
5 42 (16.34%) Python
6 34 (13.23%) C#
7 12 (4.67%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.89%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.11%) PHP
11 5 (1.95%) Bash
11 5 (1.95%) Scala
12 4 (1.56%) Ruby
12 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.39%) CFML
14 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.34%) Degree
4 19 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.34%) Accessibility
2 39 (15.18%) QA
3 29 (11.28%) WCAG
4 9 (3.50%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.33%) GDPR
6 4 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) WAI
8 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 44 (17.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.61%) Grafana
3 7 (2.72%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.67%) Adobe
3 25 (9.73%) Oracle
4 20 (7.78%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.45%) Google
6 12 (4.67%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.50%) OutSystems
8 7 (2.72%) Braze
8 7 (2.72%) Databricks
8 7 (2.72%) IBM
8 7 (2.72%) Optimizely
9 6 (2.33%) Splunk
10 5 (1.95%) Veracode
11 4 (1.56%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (1.56%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.56%) Tealium
11 4 (1.56%) Workday
12 3 (1.17%) Qualtrics
13 2 (0.78%) Marketo