CSS Contracts in London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 92 89
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -27
Contract jobs citing CSS 303 481 713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.28% 2.73% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 10.12% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 366 513
10th Percentile £313 £359 £325
25th Percentile £386 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% -6.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £675
90th Percentile £784 £761 £775
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £30.08 - £33.70
25th Percentile £33.25 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £34.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £45.66 - £74.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -6.67%

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 3,504 4,755 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.99% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,490 5,129
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 42
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +37.97%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in London

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in London.

Daily rate trend for CSS in London

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in London

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in London.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in London

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 0 53 £525 - 149
East London +10 3 £525 -2.78% 52
West London -15 2 £373 -25.50% 68
CSS
England

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.30%) CMS
3 7 (2.31%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.66%) Appian
5 2 (0.66%) Drupal
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.33%) govService
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.97%) Adobe XD
1 9 (2.97%) Sketch
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.99%) InDesign
4 3 (0.99%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.66%) Trello
6 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.33%) InVision
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.65%) Shopify
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.46%) Azure
2 40 (13.20%) AWS
3 30 (9.90%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.25%) Power Automate
5 24 (7.92%) GitHub
6 23 (7.59%) PowerApps
7 20 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.61%) npm
9 17 (5.61%) Serverless
10 15 (4.95%) Yarn
11 12 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.30%) Figma
13 8 (2.64%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.31%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.98%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.94%) HTTP
2 8 (2.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.99%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.99%) POP3
3 3 (0.99%) SMTP
4 2 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.54%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.96%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (2.97%) MySQL
4 9 (2.97%) Power BI
4 9 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.64%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.64%) Redis
6 4 (1.32%) Big Data
6 4 (1.32%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.99%) Apache Hive
7 3 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.99%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.66%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 84 (27.72%) Git
2 27 (8.91%) webpack
3 19 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.94%) JIRA
5 17 (5.61%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.63%) Cypress.io
6 11 (3.63%) TeamCity
7 9 (2.97%) Mocha
8 8 (2.64%) GitLab
9 7 (2.31%) Axure RP
9 7 (2.31%) Jasmine
9 7 (2.31%) Maven
10 6 (1.98%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (1.98%) Postman
10 6 (1.98%) Protractor
10 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.65%) Babel
11 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (1.65%) Vite
12 4 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
General
1 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.13%) Finance
3 47 (15.51%) Banking
4 30 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.25%) Marketing
6 24 (7.92%) Investment Banking
7 17 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.97%) Legal
8 9 (2.97%) Retail
9 8 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.64%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.31%) Front Office
11 5 (1.65%) Law
11 5 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Local Government
13 2 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Back Office
13 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 189 (62.38%) Developer
2 47 (15.51%) Senior
3 39 (12.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (11.22%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.92%) Angular Developer
6 23 (7.59%) Architect
6 23 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 23 (7.59%) Lead
7 22 (7.26%) React Developer
8 19 (6.27%) UI Developer
9 16 (5.28%) Designer
10 15 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.29%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.29%) Python Developer
11 13 (4.29%) Senior UI Developer
12 12 (3.96%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.63%) ServiceNow Developer
14 10 (3.30%) C# Developer
14 10 (3.30%) Consultant
15 9 (2.97%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (88.78%) HTML
2 121 (39.93%) React
3 70 (23.10%) AngularJS
4 66 (21.78%) .NET
4 66 (21.78%) HTML5
5 49 (16.17%) REST
5 49 (16.17%) RESTful
6 47 (15.51%) Node.js
7 40 (13.20%) CSS3
8 34 (11.22%) Sass
9 30 (9.90%) jQuery
9 30 (9.90%) Web Services
10 29 (9.57%) Vue
11 26 (8.58%) Jest
11 26 (8.58%) Redux
12 25 (8.25%) JSON
13 24 (7.92%) ASP.NET
13 24 (7.92%) Bootstrap
14 23 (7.59%) .NET Framework
15 22 (7.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.63%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.30%) Derivative
6 9 (2.97%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.97%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.99%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.29%) Android
2 12 (3.96%) Apple iOS
2 12 (3.96%) Windows
3 5 (1.65%) Linux
3 5 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.32%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) CentOS
5 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (40.92%) Agile
2 69 (22.77%) CI/CD
3 68 (22.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.13%) User Experience
6 56 (18.48%) Front End Development
7 53 (17.49%) DevOps
8 46 (15.18%) Web Development
9 38 (12.54%) Scrum
10 35 (11.55%) Microservices
11 34 (11.22%) Responsive Web Design
12 33 (10.89%) UX Design
13 27 (8.91%) Clean Code
13 27 (8.91%) Mentoring
14 26 (8.58%) Analytics
15 25 (8.25%) Computer Science
16 24 (7.92%) OO
17 22 (7.26%) CRM
17 22 (7.26%) Software Engineering
17 22 (7.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 245 (80.86%) JavaScript
2 108 (35.64%) TypeScript
3 72 (23.76%) C#
4 65 (21.45%) SQL
5 49 (16.17%) Java
6 37 (12.21%) Python
7 11 (3.63%) PHP
8 10 (3.30%) C++
9 7 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.65%) Ruby
11 4 (1.32%) Bicep
11 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.99%) Groovy
12 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) Bash
13 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.33%) Elm
14 1 (0.33%) JCL
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.90%) Degree
3 23 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) CCA
8 1 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (17.82%) Accessibility
2 16 (5.28%) QA
3 13 (4.29%) WCAG
4 5 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) WAI
System Software
1 20 (6.60%) Docker
2 15 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.99%) vCloud
4 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.99%) Kibana
4 2 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.27%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.94%) Adobe
4 12 (3.96%) OutSystems
5 10 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.30%) Google
5 10 (3.30%) Oracle
5 10 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.65%) SAP
7 4 (1.32%) Amplitude
7 4 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Splunk
8 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.99%) Foundry
8 3 (0.99%) Palantir
8 3 (0.99%) VMware
9 2 (0.66%) Nintex
9 2 (0.66%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.33%) Talend