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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 136 78
Rank change year-on-year -83 -58 +27
Contract jobs citing CSS 256 277 506
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 2.07% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.77% 6.96% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 187 338
10th Percentile £375 £313 £305
25th Percentile £413 £369 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.27% -3.48%
75th Percentile £580 £623 £638
90th Percentile £719 £708 £754
England median daily rate £480 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +12.94% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 1
10th Percentile £34.74 £30.42 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -27.64%
75th Percentile £58.75 £41.96 -
90th Percentile £74.58 £53.32 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 5,364 3,978 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.69% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 2,714 3,281
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £762 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -69 22 £500 -3.94% 42
South London -3 8 £543 -30.00% 5
West London -19 3 - - 6
East London -1 2 £500 -5.66% 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 29 (11.33%) CMS
2 20 (7.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (5.47%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.13%) Confluence
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.95%) Camunda
5 5 (1.95%) WordPress
6 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.17%) Kentico
7 3 (1.17%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.78%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.39%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.95%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 67 (26.17%) Azure
2 57 (22.27%) AWS
3 26 (10.16%) GitHub
4 21 (8.20%) GCP
5 19 (7.42%) Figma
5 19 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 18 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.64%) Serverless
8 16 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
8 16 (6.25%) Power Automate
9 15 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (5.47%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.13%) OneDrive
14 7 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.34%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.34%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (2.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.52%) HTTP
2 4 (1.56%) Intranet
3 2 (0.78%) 4G
3 2 (0.78%) 5G
3 2 (0.78%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) Skype
3 2 (0.78%) SSH
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 39 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (10.94%) MySQL
4 24 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 23 (8.98%) MongoDB
6 22 (8.59%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.52%) Redis
8 8 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.34%) Power BI
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
11 4 (1.56%) Tableau
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 67 (26.17%) Git
2 38 (14.84%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.38%) GitLab
4 22 (8.59%) Cypress.io
5 20 (7.81%) Maven
6 15 (5.86%) JIRA
6 15 (5.86%) JUnit
6 15 (5.86%) SonarQube
6 15 (5.86%) Storybook
7 14 (5.47%) Gradle
8 9 (3.52%) Mockito
9 8 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.34%) Vite
11 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.95%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.95%) webpack
12 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.56%) Mocha
General
1 91 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.14%) Finance
3 34 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.28%) Banking
4 32 (12.50%) Marketing
5 17 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.86%) Publishing
7 11 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.91%) Retail
9 9 (3.52%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Advertising
11 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.17%) Front Office
13 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Local Government
14 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 148 (57.81%) Developer
2 39 (15.23%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (13.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 27 (10.55%) Senior
5 20 (7.81%) Java Developer
6 19 (7.42%) React Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.47%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.69%) Architect
9 12 (4.69%) Web Specialist
10 11 (4.30%) Consultant
11 10 (3.91%) Angular Developer
11 10 (3.91%) Marketing Specialist
12 9 (3.52%) Designer
12 9 (3.52%) Lead
12 9 (3.52%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.52%) Web Developer
12 9 (3.52%) Web Marketing Specialist
13 8 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (3.13%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (91.02%) HTML
2 102 (39.84%) React
3 81 (31.64%) REST
4 72 (28.13%) HTML5
5 65 (25.39%) RESTful
6 62 (24.22%) CSS3
7 51 (19.92%) AngularJS
8 48 (18.75%) .NET
9 34 (13.28%) OAuth
10 33 (12.89%) Node.js
11 32 (12.50%) Kafka
12 31 (12.11%) Spring Boot
13 28 (10.94%) Spring
14 26 (10.16%) SOAP
15 25 (9.77%) Jest
15 25 (9.77%) Redux
16 22 (8.59%) Playwright
17 21 (8.20%) jQuery
17 21 (8.20%) OAuth2
18 20 (7.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.91%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.91%) Low-Code
3 10 (3.91%) Replication
4 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.56%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.56%) CMDB
8 4 (1.56%) Equities
8 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.42%) Linux
2 13 (5.08%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (47.66%) Agile
2 101 (39.45%) CI/CD
3 67 (26.17%) Front End Development
3 67 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (24.61%) DevOps
5 63 (24.61%) Microservices
6 58 (22.66%) Scrum
7 56 (21.88%) Test Automation
8 52 (20.31%) User Experience
9 46 (17.97%) AI
10 38 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.50%) Code Quality
11 32 (12.50%) Event-Driven
12 31 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.72%) Software Engineering
14 29 (11.33%) Analytics
14 29 (11.33%) Computer Science
14 29 (11.33%) UX Design
15 28 (10.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 208 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 91 (35.55%) SQL
3 80 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 50 (19.53%) Java
5 39 (15.23%) Python
6 35 (13.67%) C#
7 10 (3.91%) Bash
7 10 (3.91%) PHP
8 9 (3.52%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.52%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.52%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.95%) Scala
10 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) CFML
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.72%) Degree
3 28 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 24 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.23%) Accessibility
1 39 (15.23%) QA
2 28 (10.94%) WCAG
3 9 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) GRC
5 2 (0.78%) WAI
5 2 (0.78%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 49 (19.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.42%) Grafana
3 8 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (2.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.55%) Adobe
3 24 (9.38%) Oracle
4 16 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.08%) Google
6 10 (3.91%) OutSystems
7 9 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.13%) Splunk
9 7 (2.73%) Braze
9 7 (2.73%) Databricks
9 7 (2.73%) IBM
9 7 (2.73%) Optimizely
10 5 (1.95%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.95%) Apple
10 5 (1.95%) Veracode
11 4 (1.56%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.56%) Tealium
12 3 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (1.17%) Workday
13 2 (0.78%) Marketo