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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -64 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing CSS 265 316 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 2.50% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.43% 9.56% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 205 306
10th Percentile £339 £368 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £691 £738 £763
England median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.81% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £28.51
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -49.29%
75th Percentile £50.63 £41.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £52.50 £42.55 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.05% +5.00% -15.38%

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 4,120 3,307 4,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.74% 26.11% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,304 3,322
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £665 £707 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 27
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £45.50 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.88 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -15 39 £530 -3.64% 50
East London -7 2 £375 -28.57% 19
West London -19 2 - - 7
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 13 (4.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.40%) CMS
4 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 3 (1.13%) Joomla!
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) Kentico
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
6 1 (0.38%) Mule
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.77%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.02%) Sketch
3 4 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.51%) Trello
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.13%) InVision
4 3 (1.13%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.06%) Azure
2 67 (25.28%) AWS
3 36 (13.58%) GitHub
4 26 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.43%) Serverless
6 22 (8.30%) Figma
7 19 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.42%) Power Platform
9 16 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.04%) GCP
10 14 (5.28%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.77%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.77%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.40%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.64%) Amazon Cognito
15 7 (2.64%) npm
16 6 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (2.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) HTTP
2 3 (1.13%) Firewall
2 3 (1.13%) Network Security
2 3 (1.13%) SMS
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) LAN
3 2 (0.75%) OSPF
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) RTMP
3 2 (0.75%) SSL
3 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.81%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.79%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.91%) MySQL
6 11 (4.15%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.26%) Power BI
9 6 (2.26%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.51%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.13%) Big Data
11 3 (1.13%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.13%) Redis
12 2 (0.75%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.75%) Tableau
12 2 (0.75%) Text Mining
13 1 (0.38%) Metabase
13 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (24.53%) Git
2 23 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.55%) Cypress.io
4 19 (7.17%) JIRA
5 17 (6.42%) GitLab
6 12 (4.53%) JUnit
7 11 (4.15%) webpack
8 10 (3.77%) Maven
8 10 (3.77%) Mockito
9 9 (3.40%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.40%) Vite
10 7 (2.64%) Selenium
11 5 (1.89%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.89%) MSTest
11 5 (1.89%) Postman
12 4 (1.51%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.13%) Gradle
13 3 (1.13%) Mocha
13 3 (1.13%) Robot Framework
13 3 (1.13%) tSQLt
General
1 63 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.11%) Finance
3 35 (13.21%) Banking
4 30 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.28%) Marketing
7 13 (4.91%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.53%) Front Office
9 6 (2.26%) Retail
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Publishing
11 4 (1.51%) Military
11 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Advertising
12 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.75%) Automotive
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Law
13 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 166 (62.64%) Developer
2 45 (16.98%) Senior
3 34 (12.83%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (10.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 27 (10.19%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.30%) React Developer
7 17 (6.42%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.04%) Designer
9 15 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.15%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.40%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.02%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.02%) Consultant
12 8 (3.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.64%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.64%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.64%) Senior Designer
13 7 (2.64%) Senior React Developer
13 7 (2.64%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (86.79%) HTML
2 132 (49.81%) React
3 79 (29.81%) AngularJS
4 59 (22.26%) REST
5 51 (19.25%) HTML5
6 46 (17.36%) Node.js
7 45 (16.98%) RESTful
8 34 (12.83%) .NET
9 33 (12.45%) CSS3
10 32 (12.08%) Spring
11 31 (11.70%) Vue
12 27 (10.19%) Redux
13 23 (8.68%) Jest
13 23 (8.68%) Sass
14 21 (7.92%) Spring Boot
15 17 (6.42%) JSON
16 15 (5.66%) Next.js
16 15 (5.66%) Tailwind CSS
17 13 (4.91%) jQuery
17 13 (4.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.53%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.02%) CMDB
5 8 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.89%) Derivative
7 5 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.13%) PropTech
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.64%) Windows
2 6 (2.26%) Linux
3 4 (1.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (40.38%) Agile
2 95 (35.85%) CI/CD
3 71 (26.79%) User Experience
4 62 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (20.75%) DevOps
6 51 (19.25%) Front End Development
7 49 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (15.85%) Microservices
9 38 (14.34%) Software Engineering
10 36 (13.58%) Containerisation
11 33 (12.45%) Test Automation
12 32 (12.08%) Design Patterns
13 28 (10.57%) Scrum
14 27 (10.19%) AI
14 27 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.06%) Analytics
15 24 (9.06%) UX Design
16 23 (8.68%) Unit Testing
17 21 (7.92%) Responsive Web Design
17 21 (7.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 193 (72.83%) JavaScript
2 91 (34.34%) TypeScript
3 64 (24.15%) SQL
4 62 (23.40%) Java
5 54 (20.38%) Python
6 27 (10.19%) C#
7 11 (4.15%) Ruby
8 10 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.64%) JSX
10 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.89%) ABAP
12 3 (1.13%) Go
12 3 (1.13%) PHP
12 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.38%) Bash
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) F#
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.91%) Degree
4 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.13%) CCNP
5 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.60%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.81%) WCAG
3 21 (7.92%) QA
4 9 (3.40%) GDPR
5 4 (1.51%) SLA
6 3 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.75%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (17.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (14.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.77%) Terraform
3 6 (2.26%) Argo
4 3 (1.13%) Grafana
4 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.94%) Adobe
2 24 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.42%) Oracle
4 13 (4.91%) Google
5 9 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.40%) SAP
5 9 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.02%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.13%) Symantec
9 2 (0.75%) Botify
9 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco
9 2 (0.75%) Netskope
9 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.75%) Qualtrics
9 2 (0.75%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (0.75%) Sybase
9 2 (0.75%) Telerik