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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 133 79
Rank change year-on-year -88 -54 +25
Contract jobs citing CSS 254 276 510
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 2.04% 3.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.77% 6.88% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 187 346
10th Percentile £375 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £369 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -6.95% -2.76%
75th Percentile £579 £623 £638
90th Percentile £716 £727 £759
England median daily rate £475 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% -
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 5,329 4,012 4,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.72% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,593 2,741 3,331
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 22
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.84
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 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -61 22 £500 -3.94% 43
South London -2 7 £550 -29.03% 5
West London -24 3 - - 10
East London +2 2 £500 -5.66% 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 29 (11.42%) CMS
2 20 (7.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 15 (5.91%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.15%) Confluence
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.97%) Camunda
5 5 (1.97%) WordPress
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.18%) Kentico
7 3 (1.18%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.79%) 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 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.97%) 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 66 (25.98%) Azure
2 56 (22.05%) AWS
3 26 (10.24%) GitHub
4 20 (7.87%) GCP
4 20 (7.87%) Power Platform
5 19 (7.48%) Figma
6 18 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.69%) Power Automate
7 17 (6.69%) Serverless
8 16 (6.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 16 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.91%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.15%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.36%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.36%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.54%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) Intranet
3 2 (0.79%) 4G
3 2 (0.79%) 5G
3 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) Skype
3 2 (0.79%) SSH
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (19.29%) SQL Server
2 38 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.63%) MySQL
4 23 (9.06%) Relational Database
5 22 (8.66%) MongoDB
5 22 (8.66%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.54%) Redis
7 8 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.36%) Power BI
9 5 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.97%) Big Data
10 4 (1.57%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.57%) EDRMS
10 4 (1.57%) Metadata
10 4 (1.57%) Presto
10 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.57%) Tableau
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 65 (25.59%) Git
2 37 (14.57%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.45%) GitLab
4 22 (8.66%) Cypress.io
5 19 (7.48%) Maven
6 15 (5.91%) JIRA
6 15 (5.91%) Storybook
7 14 (5.51%) JUnit
7 14 (5.51%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.12%) Gradle
9 8 (3.15%) Mockito
10 7 (2.76%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.36%) Vite
12 5 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.97%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.97%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.57%) Mocha
13 4 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 89 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.50%) Finance
3 34 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.99%) Banking
5 32 (12.60%) Marketing
6 17 (6.69%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.91%) Publishing
8 11 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.94%) Retail
10 9 (3.54%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.15%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.97%) Advertising
13 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.18%) Front Office
15 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Local Government
16 2 (0.79%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 146 (57.48%) Developer
2 37 (14.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (13.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 27 (10.63%) Senior
5 19 (7.48%) Java Developer
6 18 (7.09%) React Developer
7 15 (5.91%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.12%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.72%) Architect
9 12 (4.72%) Consultant
9 12 (4.72%) Web Specialist
10 10 (3.94%) Angular Developer
10 10 (3.94%) Marketing Specialist
11 9 (3.54%) Designer
11 9 (3.54%) Lead
11 9 (3.54%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Web Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Web Marketing Specialist
12 8 (3.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (3.15%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (91.34%) HTML
2 100 (39.37%) React
3 80 (31.50%) REST
4 72 (28.35%) HTML5
5 64 (25.20%) RESTful
6 62 (24.41%) CSS3
7 50 (19.69%) AngularJS
8 47 (18.50%) .NET
9 34 (13.39%) OAuth
10 32 (12.60%) Node.js
11 30 (11.81%) Kafka
11 30 (11.81%) Spring Boot
12 26 (10.24%) Redux
12 26 (10.24%) Spring
13 25 (9.84%) Jest
13 25 (9.84%) SOAP
14 22 (8.66%) Playwright
15 21 (8.27%) jQuery
15 21 (8.27%) OAuth2
16 20 (7.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.51%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.94%) Low-Code
3 10 (3.94%) Replication
4 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.97%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.57%) CMDB
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.09%) Linux
2 12 (4.72%) Unix
3 3 (1.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (48.03%) Agile
2 99 (38.98%) CI/CD
3 66 (25.98%) Front End Development
4 65 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (25.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (24.02%) DevOps
6 61 (24.02%) Microservices
7 58 (22.83%) Scrum
8 56 (22.05%) Test Automation
9 52 (20.47%) User Experience
10 45 (17.72%) AI
11 39 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (12.20%) Code Quality
12 31 (12.20%) Event-Driven
12 31 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.81%) Software Engineering
14 29 (11.42%) Analytics
14 29 (11.42%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (11.42%) UX Design
15 28 (11.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 206 (81.10%) JavaScript
2 91 (35.83%) SQL
3 80 (31.50%) TypeScript
4 48 (18.90%) Java
5 38 (14.96%) Python
6 34 (13.39%) C#
7 10 (3.94%) Bash
7 10 (3.94%) PHP
7 10 (3.94%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.94%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.97%) Scala
10 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.39%) CFML
11 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.39%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.42%) Degree
3 26 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.75%) Accessibility
2 39 (15.35%) QA
3 29 (11.42%) WCAG
4 9 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) GRC
6 2 (0.79%) WAI
6 2 (0.79%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 47 (18.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.48%) Grafana
3 8 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (2.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.63%) Adobe
3 24 (9.45%) Oracle
4 16 (6.30%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.72%) Google
6 10 (3.94%) OutSystems
7 9 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.15%) Splunk
9 7 (2.76%) Braze
9 7 (2.76%) Databricks
9 7 (2.76%) IBM
9 7 (2.76%) Optimizely
10 5 (1.97%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.97%) Apple
10 5 (1.97%) Veracode
11 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.57%) Tealium
12 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Workday
13 2 (0.79%) Marketo