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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 124 83
Rank change year-on-year -91 -41 0
Contract jobs citing CSS 233 312 490
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 2.31% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.15% 8.85% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 223 372
10th Percentile £375 £313 £343
25th Percentile £409 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £524
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -7.97% -4.77%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £683 £785 £766
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £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% -31.03%
75th Percentile £56.25 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £72.08 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +14.29%

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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -46 24 £530 +0.95% 20
South London - 5 £550 - 5
East London +1 4 £410 -22.64% 12
West London -17 1 - - 15
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 19 (8.15%) CMS
2 17 (7.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.43%) Confluence
5 5 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.15%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.72%) Kentico
7 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.29%) WordPress
8 2 (0.86%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.86%) Drupal
8 2 (0.86%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.43%) Apache
9 1 (0.43%) Moodle
9 1 (0.43%) Mule
9 1 (0.43%) nginx
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.43%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.29%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.29%) Sketch
2 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.86%) Magento
2 1 (0.43%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.61%) Azure
2 49 (21.03%) AWS
3 25 (10.73%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (8.58%) Serverless
6 17 (7.30%) Figma
6 17 (7.30%) Power Automate
7 16 (6.87%) PowerApps
8 13 (5.58%) GitHub
9 12 (5.15%) GCP
10 11 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.00%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.58%) SaaS
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) HTTP
1 5 (2.15%) Intranet
2 2 (0.86%) Firewall
2 2 (0.86%) Network Security
2 2 (0.86%) RTMP
3 1 (0.43%) BGP
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) LAN
3 1 (0.43%) OSPF
3 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.45%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.73%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.87%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.58%) MySQL
6 11 (4.72%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.43%) Power BI
8 7 (3.00%) Big Data
8 7 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.00%) Tableau
9 5 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.15%) Metadata
10 4 (1.72%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.72%) EDRMS
10 4 (1.72%) Presto
10 4 (1.72%) Redis
10 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (21.89%) Git
2 28 (12.02%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.73%) GitLab
4 17 (7.30%) JIRA
5 15 (6.44%) Cypress.io
6 12 (5.15%) Maven
7 10 (4.29%) Vite
8 9 (3.86%) Storybook
9 8 (3.43%) MSTest
10 7 (3.00%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.00%) JUnit
10 7 (3.00%) webpack
11 6 (2.58%) Mocha
11 6 (2.58%) tSQLt
12 5 (2.15%) Jasmine
13 4 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (1.72%) Mockito
13 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.72%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.29%) Moq
General
1 68 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.17%) Finance
3 39 (16.74%) Banking
4 29 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.44%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.58%) Marketing
7 14 (6.01%) Retail
8 13 (5.58%) Investment Banking
9 10 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.86%) Front Office
11 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.72%) Publishing
12 3 (1.29%) Games
12 3 (1.29%) Legal
12 3 (1.29%) Local Government
13 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 133 (57.08%) Developer
2 33 (14.16%) Senior
3 24 (10.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 24 (10.30%) React Developer
4 20 (8.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (7.73%) Senior Developer
6 14 (6.01%) Consultant
7 13 (5.58%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.72%) Architect
9 11 (4.72%) Designer
10 9 (3.86%) Angular Developer
10 9 (3.86%) UI Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Lead
11 8 (3.43%) Low-Code Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.43%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Web Developer
12 7 (3.00%) Braze Specialist
12 7 (3.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (83.69%) HTML
2 95 (40.77%) React
3 65 (27.90%) REST
4 56 (24.03%) HTML5
5 52 (22.32%) AngularJS
6 47 (20.17%) RESTful
7 46 (19.74%) .NET
8 43 (18.45%) CSS3
9 32 (13.73%) Node.js
9 32 (13.73%) Redux
10 26 (11.16%) OAuth
11 25 (10.73%) Spring
12 23 (9.87%) SOAP
13 22 (9.44%) Spring Boot
14 19 (8.15%) Jest
15 18 (7.73%) jQuery
16 17 (7.30%) Tailwind CSS
17 16 (6.87%) Web Services
18 15 (6.44%) JSON
18 15 (6.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.43%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.15%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.15%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.29%) Derivative
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.29%) Equities
9 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.86%) Linux
1 9 (3.86%) Windows
2 8 (3.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (44.21%) Agile
2 82 (35.19%) CI/CD
3 58 (24.89%) User Experience
4 56 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (22.75%) DevOps
6 49 (21.03%) Microservices
7 48 (20.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (20.17%) Scrum
9 46 (19.74%) Test Automation
10 41 (17.60%) Front End Development
11 32 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 31 (13.30%) AI
12 31 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (11.16%) Design Patterns
13 26 (11.16%) UX Design
14 24 (10.30%) Clean Code
15 23 (9.87%) Code Quality
15 23 (9.87%) Performance Optimisation
16 22 (9.44%) API Integration
16 22 (9.44%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 176 (75.54%) JavaScript
2 78 (33.48%) SQL
2 78 (33.48%) TypeScript
3 50 (21.46%) Java
4 45 (19.31%) Python
5 35 (15.02%) C#
6 14 (6.01%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.58%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.15%) Ruby
9 5 (2.15%) Scala
10 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.86%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.72%) Degree
4 10 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.86%) CCNP
6 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CCNA
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.31%) Accessibility
2 33 (14.16%) QA
3 26 (11.16%) WCAG
4 7 (3.00%) GDPR
5 6 (2.58%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) WAI
8 1 (0.43%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 39 (16.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.44%) Terraform
3 10 (4.29%) Grafana
4 7 (3.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.15%) Kibana
6 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.88%) Oracle
2 22 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.73%) Adobe
4 15 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.43%) OutSystems
6 7 (3.00%) Braze
6 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.58%) Google
8 5 (2.15%) SAP
8 5 (2.15%) Workday
9 4 (1.72%) Splunk
10 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.29%) Qualtrics
10 3 (1.29%) Sybase
11 2 (0.86%) ESRI
11 2 (0.86%) Marketo
11 2 (0.86%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.86%) Symantec
12 1 (0.43%) Pardot