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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 96 96
Rank change year-on-year -57 0 -11
Contract jobs citing CSS 275 349 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 2.60% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.76% 9.83% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 219 300
10th Percentile £347 £361 £319
25th Percentile £418 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £523
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.87% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £753
England median daily rate £495 £477 £480
% change year-on-year +3.77% -0.52% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -53.26%
75th Percentile £55.63 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £60.50 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £30.00 £61.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -51.22% +4.68% -12.96%

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 4,071 3,551 4,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.62% 26.46% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 2,382 3,401
10th Percentile £363 £383 £388
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -7 44 £550 +2.33% 39
West London -20 3 £350 -14.43% 18
East London -1 2 £450 -14.29% 26
South London -18 2 £775 +6.90% 4
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 14 (5.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 8 (2.91%) CMS
2 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Joomla!
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Camunda
4 2 (0.73%) Moodle
5 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Drupal
5 1 (0.36%) Kentico
5 1 (0.36%) Mule
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.64%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.18%) Sketch
3 4 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.45%) Trello
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.09%) InVision
5 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) InDesign
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.73%) Azure
2 72 (26.18%) AWS
3 42 (15.27%) GitHub
4 23 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (8.00%) Figma
6 21 (7.64%) GCP
6 21 (7.64%) Serverless
7 17 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.36%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.64%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.27%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.55%) Amazon Cognito
12 7 (2.55%) npm
12 7 (2.55%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.55%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.18%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) HTTP
2 3 (1.09%) Firewall
2 3 (1.09%) Network Security
2 3 (1.09%) SMS
3 2 (0.73%) BGP
3 2 (0.73%) DNS
3 2 (0.73%) LAN
3 2 (0.73%) OSPF
3 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.73%) RTMP
3 2 (0.73%) SSL
3 2 (0.73%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) DHCP
4 1 (0.36%) DKIM
4 1 (0.36%) FTP
4 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) VLAN
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.64%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.55%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.82%) MySQL
6 13 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.55%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.18%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.45%) Power BI
12 3 (1.09%) Big Data
12 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.09%) Mixpanel
12 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.73%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.73%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 69 (25.09%) Git
2 22 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.64%) JIRA
4 18 (6.55%) Cypress.io
4 18 (6.55%) GitLab
5 14 (5.09%) JUnit
6 12 (4.36%) Mockito
6 12 (4.36%) webpack
7 11 (4.00%) Maven
8 10 (3.64%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.91%) Selenium
10 6 (2.18%) Postman
11 4 (1.45%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.45%) MSTest
12 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.09%) Gradle
12 3 (1.09%) Mocha
12 3 (1.09%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.09%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.36%) Finance
3 32 (11.64%) Banking
4 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.73%) Front Office
6 13 (4.73%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.73%) Marketing
7 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.82%) Legal
7 5 (1.82%) Retail
8 4 (1.45%) Military
8 4 (1.45%) Publishing
9 3 (1.09%) Advertising
9 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.73%) Automotive
10 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 175 (63.64%) Developer
2 43 (15.64%) Senior
3 39 (14.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (10.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 26 (9.45%) Senior Developer
6 21 (7.64%) React Developer
7 15 (5.45%) Designer
7 15 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.09%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.36%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (3.27%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.91%) Consultant
11 8 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.55%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 7 (2.55%) Lead
12 7 (2.55%) Senior Designer
12 7 (2.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (88.00%) HTML
2 133 (48.36%) React
3 82 (29.82%) AngularJS
4 61 (22.18%) REST
5 49 (17.82%) Node.js
6 48 (17.45%) HTML5
7 41 (14.91%) RESTful
8 35 (12.73%) Spring
9 33 (12.00%) Vue
10 32 (11.64%) .NET
11 30 (10.91%) CSS3
12 23 (8.36%) Spring Boot
13 22 (8.00%) Redux
13 22 (8.00%) Sass
14 21 (7.64%) Jest
15 20 (7.27%) JSON
16 16 (5.82%) SOAP
17 15 (5.45%) Tailwind CSS
17 15 (5.45%) Web Services
18 14 (5.09%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.91%) CMDB
7 8 (2.91%) Derivative
7 8 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Unix
3 6 (2.18%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.18%) Windows
4 3 (1.09%) CentOS
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (41.45%) Agile
2 99 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 70 (25.45%) User Experience
4 69 (25.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 60 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (18.91%) DevOps
7 48 (17.45%) Front End Development
8 39 (14.18%) Microservices
9 38 (13.82%) Software Engineering
10 36 (13.09%) Containerisation
11 35 (12.73%) Design Patterns
12 32 (11.64%) Test Automation
13 29 (10.55%) Scrum
13 29 (10.55%) UX Design
14 26 (9.45%) AI
14 26 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (9.45%) Unit Testing
15 24 (8.73%) Analytics
16 22 (8.00%) Responsive Web Design
17 21 (7.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 202 (73.45%) JavaScript
2 87 (31.64%) TypeScript
3 72 (26.18%) Java
4 62 (22.55%) SQL
5 56 (20.36%) Python
6 25 (9.09%) C#
7 10 (3.64%) Ruby
8 9 (3.27%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.55%) JSX
9 7 (2.55%) PHP
10 5 (1.82%) ABAP
11 4 (1.45%) C
11 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.09%) Go
12 3 (1.09%) Perl
13 2 (0.73%) Bash
13 2 (0.73%) C++
13 2 (0.73%) Groovy
13 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) Degree
4 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) CCNP
5 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) CCNA
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.55%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.64%) QA
3 20 (7.27%) WCAG
4 8 (2.91%) GDPR
5 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (16.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.64%) Terraform
3 7 (2.55%) Argo
4 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (10.18%) Adobe
2 25 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.27%) Oracle
4 14 (5.09%) Google
5 12 (4.36%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.64%) SAP
7 9 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.09%) Symantec
11 2 (0.73%) Aruba
11 2 (0.73%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.73%) Cisco
11 2 (0.73%) Marketo
11 2 (0.73%) mParticle
11 2 (0.73%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (0.73%) Sybase
11 2 (0.73%) Zend