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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 127 81
Rank change year-on-year -93 -46 +25
Contract jobs citing CSS 250 285 484
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 2.16% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.74% 7.36% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 194 343
10th Percentile £375 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £788 £774
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 5,275 3,870 4,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.29% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,683 3,447
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
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% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -53 24 £475 -8.74% 15
South London - 6 £550 - 8
East London +4 4 £410 -24.07% 8
West London -20 3 - - 12
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 24 (9.60%) CMS
2 20 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (4.40%) Confluence
5 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.00%) Camunda
6 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.60%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.20%) Kentico
7 3 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.20%) WordPress
8 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.80%) IIS
8 2 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.80%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.40%) Apache
9 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.40%) Drupal
9 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.80%) Sketch
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.60%) Shopify
3 2 (0.80%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.40%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.60%) Azure
2 50 (20.00%) AWS
3 30 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.40%) GitHub
4 21 (8.40%) Power Automate
4 21 (8.40%) Serverless
5 20 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.60%) PowerApps
7 18 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.40%) Figma
9 15 (6.00%) GCP
10 13 (5.20%) Adobe Analytics
11 11 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.20%) Google Analytics
13 8 (3.20%) OneDrive
14 7 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.80%) SaaS
15 6 (2.40%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) HTTP
2 4 (1.60%) Intranet
3 2 (0.80%) Skype
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.40%) SSH
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.20%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.80%) MySQL
4 19 (7.60%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.20%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.00%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.00%) Power BI
8 9 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.20%) Redis
9 8 (3.20%) Tableau
10 5 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.00%) Big Data
11 4 (1.60%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.60%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.60%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.60%) Metadata
11 4 (1.60%) Presto
11 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (23.20%) Git
2 34 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.80%) Cypress.io
4 21 (8.40%) GitLab
5 17 (6.80%) JIRA
6 15 (6.00%) Maven
6 15 (6.00%) Storybook
7 12 (4.80%) JUnit
7 12 (4.80%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.60%) Gradle
8 9 (3.60%) Vite
9 6 (2.40%) Mockito
10 5 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.00%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.60%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.60%) Mocha
11 4 (1.60%) MSTest
11 4 (1.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 83 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.40%) Finance
3 34 (13.60%) Marketing
4 33 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (12.40%) Banking
6 22 (8.80%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.80%) Publishing
8 10 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.60%) Retail
10 8 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.20%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.60%) Front Office
11 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Games
12 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Local Government
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 142 (56.80%) Developer
2 33 (13.20%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (12.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 30 (12.00%) Senior
4 23 (9.20%) React Developer
5 17 (6.80%) Senior Developer
6 16 (6.40%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.00%) Consultant
8 14 (5.60%) Architect
9 12 (4.80%) Lead
10 10 (4.00%) Designer
10 10 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Angular Developer
11 9 (3.60%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.60%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (3.60%) Web Developer
12 8 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (3.20%) Low-Code Developer
12 8 (3.20%) Web Specialist
13 7 (2.80%) Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (90.40%) HTML
2 96 (38.40%) React
3 78 (31.20%) REST
4 66 (26.40%) HTML5
5 55 (22.00%) CSS3
6 52 (20.80%) RESTful
7 50 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 47 (18.80%) .NET
9 34 (13.60%) OAuth
10 33 (13.20%) Node.js
11 29 (11.60%) Redux
12 26 (10.40%) SOAP
12 26 (10.40%) Spring Boot
13 24 (9.60%) Kafka
14 23 (9.20%) jQuery
14 23 (9.20%) Spring
15 22 (8.80%) Jest
16 20 (8.00%) OAuth2
16 20 (8.00%) Playwright
17 19 (7.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.20%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.40%) Replication
5 6 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.60%) CMDB
7 4 (1.60%) Equities
7 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.20%) Unix
3 5 (2.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.40%) Agile
2 92 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 59 (23.60%) Front End Development
4 58 (23.20%) DevOps
4 58 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (22.00%) Microservices
7 53 (21.20%) Scrum
8 52 (20.80%) User Experience
9 51 (20.40%) Test Automation
10 37 (14.80%) AI
10 37 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.00%) Analytics
12 29 (11.60%) Clean Code
13 28 (11.20%) Code Quality
13 28 (11.20%) Software Engineering
14 27 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.40%) Event-Driven
16 25 (10.00%) Mentoring
16 25 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 199 (79.60%) JavaScript
2 94 (37.60%) SQL
3 76 (30.40%) TypeScript
4 46 (18.40%) Java
5 39 (15.60%) Python
6 33 (13.20%) C#
7 12 (4.80%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.00%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.80%) PHP
11 5 (2.00%) Bash
11 5 (2.00%) Scala
12 4 (1.60%) Ruby
12 4 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.40%) CFML
14 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.40%) Degree
4 17 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.40%) Accessibility
2 37 (14.80%) QA
3 28 (11.20%) WCAG
4 9 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.40%) GDPR
6 4 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) WAI
8 1 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 42 (16.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Varnish
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.80%) Grafana
3 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (2.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.20%) Adobe
3 26 (10.40%) Oracle
4 20 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.60%) Google
6 12 (4.80%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.20%) OutSystems
8 7 (2.80%) Braze
8 7 (2.80%) IBM
8 7 (2.80%) Optimizely
9 6 (2.40%) Databricks
9 6 (2.40%) Splunk
10 5 (2.00%) Veracode
11 4 (1.60%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (1.60%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.60%) Tealium
11 4 (1.60%) Workday
12 3 (1.20%) Qualtrics
13 2 (0.80%) OpenAI