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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 126 96
Rank change year-on-year -52 -30 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 256 296 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 2.35% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 9.04% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 323
10th Percentile £340 £354 £351
25th Percentile £413 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £657 £638
90th Percentile £716 £788 £754
England median daily rate £475 £480 £496
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.27% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 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 £43.00 £47.49
90th Percentile £69.15 £43.62 £49.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £42.91 £61.25
% change year-on-year -38.24% -29.95% -5.77%

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 4,160 3,274 4,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.36% 26.03% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 2,301 3,346
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £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 32 18 24
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +21.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £76.25 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -19 35 £550 - 42
East London -7 4 £410 -21.90% 11
West London - 2 - - 13
South London -14 1 - - 6
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 17 (6.64%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (4.69%) CMS
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.95%) Confluence
4 4 (1.56%) Kentico
5 3 (1.17%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.17%) WordPress
6 2 (0.78%) Camunda
6 2 (0.78%) Drupal
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Moodle
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (2.73%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.95%) Sketch
3 4 (1.56%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.56%) Trello
4 3 (1.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.78%) InVision
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.78%) Magento
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 64 (25.00%) Azure
2 52 (20.31%) AWS
3 25 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (8.20%) Serverless
7 20 (7.81%) Figma
8 17 (6.64%) Power Automate
9 16 (6.25%) PowerApps
10 15 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.08%) GitHub
12 12 (4.69%) GCP
13 10 (3.91%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.91%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.34%) npm
15 6 (2.34%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.34%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) Firewall
1 3 (1.17%) Intranet
1 3 (1.17%) Network Security
1 3 (1.17%) SMS
2 2 (0.78%) BGP
2 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.78%) LAN
2 2 (0.78%) OSPF
2 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.78%) RTMP
2 2 (0.78%) SSL
2 2 (0.78%) WAN
3 1 (0.39%) DHCP
3 1 (0.39%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) FTP
3 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) VLAN
3 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.84%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.20%) NoSQL
4 20 (7.81%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.47%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.69%) MySQL
7 9 (3.52%) Power BI
8 8 (3.13%) Big Data
8 8 (3.13%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.34%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.95%) Tableau
12 4 (1.56%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.56%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.56%) Presto
12 4 (1.56%) Redis
13 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (17.19%) Git
2 24 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.81%) JIRA
4 15 (5.86%) GitLab
5 12 (4.69%) JUnit
6 11 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.91%) Mockito
8 8 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.13%) webpack
9 7 (2.73%) Maven
9 7 (2.73%) MSTest
9 7 (2.73%) Vite
10 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.95%) Mocha
10 5 (1.95%) Selenium
10 5 (1.95%) tSQLt
11 4 (1.56%) Storybook
11 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.17%) Postman
12 3 (1.17%) Spinnaker
General
1 63 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.97%) Finance
3 40 (15.63%) Banking
4 25 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.25%) Marketing
7 15 (5.86%) Investment Banking
8 13 (5.08%) Front Office
9 8 (3.13%) Retail
10 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.95%) Publishing
11 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Games
12 3 (1.17%) Legal
12 3 (1.17%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Automotive
13 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (60.16%) Developer
2 42 (16.41%) Senior
3 26 (10.16%) Senior Developer
4 24 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 23 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (8.59%) React Developer
7 14 (5.47%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.47%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.08%) Designer
9 9 (3.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (3.52%) Python Developer
9 9 (3.52%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.13%) Architect
10 8 (3.13%) Consultant
10 8 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.73%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.73%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.73%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.73%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (2.73%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (87.11%) HTML
2 112 (43.75%) React
3 74 (28.91%) AngularJS
4 62 (24.22%) REST
5 46 (17.97%) .NET
5 46 (17.97%) HTML5
6 37 (14.45%) RESTful
7 30 (11.72%) CSS3
7 30 (11.72%) Redux
8 29 (11.33%) Node.js
9 24 (9.38%) Spring
10 22 (8.59%) SOAP
11 21 (8.20%) Vue
12 19 (7.42%) jQuery
13 18 (7.03%) JSON
13 18 (7.03%) Spring Boot
14 17 (6.64%) OAuth
14 17 (6.64%) Tailwind CSS
15 16 (6.25%) Web Services
16 14 (5.47%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.95%) CMDB
7 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.95%) Derivative
7 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.56%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.56%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.56%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.17%) PropTech
10 2 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (0.78%) PKI
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.52%) Linux
2 8 (3.13%) Unix
2 8 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) Android
3 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (40.23%) Agile
2 72 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 69 (26.95%) User Experience
4 55 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (19.92%) DevOps
6 50 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.19%) Front End Development
8 40 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 36 (14.06%) Microservices
9 36 (14.06%) Software Engineering
10 34 (13.28%) Scrum
11 33 (12.89%) AI
12 30 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.55%) Analytics
13 27 (10.55%) Design Patterns
14 25 (9.77%) Containerisation
15 23 (8.98%) UX Design
16 21 (8.20%) SDLC
17 20 (7.81%) Unit Testing
18 19 (7.42%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 190 (74.22%) JavaScript
2 75 (29.30%) SQL
3 72 (28.13%) TypeScript
4 57 (22.27%) Python
5 54 (21.09%) Java
6 33 (12.89%) C#
7 12 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.30%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.91%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.13%) Ruby
11 5 (1.95%) Scala
12 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.78%) Go
13 2 (0.78%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) ABAP
14 1 (0.39%) Bash
14 1 (0.39%) F#
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (11.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.30%) Degree
4 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.17%) CCNP
6 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CCNA
8 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.84%) Accessibility
2 25 (9.77%) WCAG
3 24 (9.38%) QA
4 9 (3.52%) GDPR
5 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) WAI
8 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 41 (16.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.47%) Terraform
3 6 (2.34%) Grafana
4 5 (1.95%) Kibana
5 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.33%) Adobe
2 27 (10.55%) Oracle
3 23 (8.98%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.91%) Google
7 6 (2.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) OutSystems
8 5 (1.95%) Qualtrics
8 5 (1.95%) SAP
8 5 (1.95%) Workday
9 4 (1.56%) Splunk
10 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.17%) Symantec
11 2 (0.78%) Botify
11 2 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.78%) Netskope
11 2 (0.78%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.78%) Screaming Frog