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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 129 77
Rank change year-on-year -88 -52 +29
Contract jobs citing CSS 255 292 505
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 2.17% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 7.33% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 201 353
10th Percentile £375 £313 £314
25th Percentile £413 £385 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -8.12% -3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £788 £767
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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% -33.33%
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 5,356 3,982 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.57% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,747 3,469
10th Percentile £400 £366 £377
25th Percentile £450 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -63 23 £525 +0.43% 35
South London -4 6 £550 -29.03% 6
East London +2 3 £455 -15.74% 9
West London -24 3 - - 10
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 28 (10.98%) CMS
2 19 (7.45%) SharePoint
3 18 (7.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (4.31%) Confluence
5 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.96%) Camunda
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (1.57%) WordPress
7 3 (1.18%) Kentico
7 3 (1.18%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.78%) IIS
8 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.78%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.39%) Apache
9 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.39%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.78%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.96%) 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 61 (23.92%) Azure
2 53 (20.78%) AWS
3 29 (11.37%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.41%) GitHub
5 21 (8.24%) Power Automate
6 20 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (7.45%) PowerApps
8 18 (7.06%) GCP
8 18 (7.06%) Serverless
9 17 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (6.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 15 (5.88%) Figma
12 11 (4.31%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.14%) OneDrive
15 7 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.75%) SaaS
16 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 6 (2.35%) Azure Databricks
16 6 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.31%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) 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 50 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 35 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (10.20%) MySQL
4 21 (8.24%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.45%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.45%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.92%) Power BI
7 8 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.14%) Redis
7 8 (3.14%) Tableau
8 5 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.96%) Big Data
9 4 (1.57%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.57%) EDRMS
9 4 (1.57%) Metadata
9 4 (1.57%) Presto
9 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 61 (23.92%) Git
2 35 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.80%) GitLab
4 23 (9.02%) Cypress.io
5 16 (6.27%) JIRA
5 16 (6.27%) Maven
6 15 (5.88%) Storybook
7 13 (5.10%) JUnit
7 13 (5.10%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.92%) Gradle
9 9 (3.53%) Vite
10 7 (2.75%) Mockito
11 6 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.96%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.96%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.57%) Mocha
13 4 (1.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 91 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.86%) Finance
3 35 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.33%) Banking
4 34 (13.33%) Marketing
5 19 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.49%) Publishing
7 11 (4.31%) Retail
8 9 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.14%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.96%) Front Office
10 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.18%) Advertising
12 3 (1.18%) Games
12 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 145 (56.86%) Developer
2 36 (14.12%) Full-Stack Developer
3 31 (12.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 31 (12.16%) Senior
4 22 (8.63%) React Developer
5 18 (7.06%) Senior Developer
6 17 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Architect
7 14 (5.49%) Consultant
8 12 (4.71%) Lead
9 10 (3.92%) Angular Developer
9 10 (3.92%) Web Specialist
10 9 (3.53%) Designer
10 9 (3.53%) Lead Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Marketing Specialist
10 9 (3.53%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.53%) ServiceNow Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Web Developer
11 8 (3.14%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (91.37%) HTML
2 99 (38.82%) React
3 79 (30.98%) REST
4 71 (27.84%) HTML5
5 57 (22.35%) CSS3
6 55 (21.57%) RESTful
7 49 (19.22%) .NET
7 49 (19.22%) AngularJS
8 34 (13.33%) Node.js
8 34 (13.33%) OAuth
9 31 (12.16%) Redux
10 28 (10.98%) Kafka
11 27 (10.59%) SOAP
11 27 (10.59%) Spring Boot
12 26 (10.20%) Jest
13 25 (9.80%) jQuery
14 24 (9.41%) Spring
15 22 (8.63%) Playwright
16 21 (8.24%) GraphQL
16 21 (8.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.53%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.14%) Replication
6 5 (1.96%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.57%) CMDB
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Linux
2 9 (3.53%) Unix
3 5 (1.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.63%) Agile
2 96 (37.65%) CI/CD
3 62 (24.31%) DevOps
3 62 (24.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 62 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (22.75%) Front End Development
4 58 (22.75%) Scrum
5 56 (21.96%) Microservices
5 56 (21.96%) Test Automation
6 49 (19.22%) User Experience
7 41 (16.08%) AI
8 36 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (11.76%) Analytics
9 30 (11.76%) Code Quality
9 30 (11.76%) Event-Driven
9 30 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.37%) Performance Optimisation
10 29 (11.37%) Software Engineering
11 28 (10.98%) Clean Code
12 27 (10.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 206 (80.78%) JavaScript
2 97 (38.04%) SQL
3 79 (30.98%) TypeScript
4 47 (18.43%) Java
5 39 (15.29%) Python
6 35 (13.73%) C#
7 12 (4.71%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.92%) PHP
9 10 (3.92%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.35%) Bash
11 5 (1.96%) Scala
11 5 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.39%) CFML
14 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.20%) Degree
3 25 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.18%) 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 40 (15.69%) QA
2 38 (14.90%) Accessibility
3 26 (10.20%) WCAG
4 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.57%) GDPR
6 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.78%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) WAI
7 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 43 (16.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.67%) Grafana
3 8 (3.14%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (2.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (12.55%) Adobe
2 29 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.41%) Oracle
4 20 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.10%) Google
6 12 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.53%) OutSystems
8 8 (3.14%) Optimizely
9 7 (2.75%) Braze
9 7 (2.75%) Databricks
9 7 (2.75%) IBM
10 6 (2.35%) Splunk
11 5 (1.96%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.96%) Veracode
12 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.57%) Tealium
12 4 (1.57%) Workday
13 3 (1.18%) Apple
13 3 (1.18%) Qualtrics
13 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud