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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 128 82
Rank change year-on-year -102 -46 +20
Contract jobs citing CSS 254 291 503
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 2.16% 3.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.74% 7.30% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 200 348
10th Percentile £375 £313 £311
25th Percentile £413 £385 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -7.59% -3.47%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £633
90th Percentile £725 £776 £764
England median daily rate £475 £435 £500
% change year-on-year +9.20% -13.00% -
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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 23 £500 -4.35% 39
South London -5 6 £550 -29.03% 5
East London +1 3 £455 -14.15% 8
West London -25 3 - - 11
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 16 (6.30%) SharePoint
4 11 (4.33%) Confluence
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.97%) Camunda
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (1.57%) WordPress
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
9 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.39%) Drupal
9 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.79%) Sketch
2 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.97%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.02%) Azure
2 53 (20.87%) AWS
3 25 (9.84%) GitHub
4 24 (9.45%) Power Platform
5 18 (7.09%) Power Automate
5 18 (7.09%) Serverless
6 17 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.69%) Figma
6 17 (6.69%) GCP
6 17 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (6.30%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (6.30%) PowerApps
8 11 (4.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.15%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.76%) SaaS
12 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.36%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (2.36%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.33%) 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 48 (18.90%) SQL Server
2 37 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (11.02%) MySQL
4 21 (8.27%) NoSQL
4 21 (8.27%) Relational Database
5 20 (7.87%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.15%) Power BI
6 8 (3.15%) Redis
7 6 (2.36%) Tableau
8 5 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.97%) Big Data
9 4 (1.57%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.57%) EDRMS
9 4 (1.57%) Metadata
9 4 (1.57%) Presto
9 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 61 (24.02%) Git
2 36 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.84%) GitLab
4 22 (8.66%) Cypress.io
5 17 (6.69%) Maven
6 16 (6.30%) JIRA
7 15 (5.91%) Storybook
8 14 (5.51%) JUnit
8 14 (5.51%) SonarQube
9 11 (4.33%) Gradle
10 8 (3.15%) Mockito
11 7 (2.76%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.76%) Vite
12 5 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.97%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.57%) Claude Code
13 4 (1.57%) Mocha
13 4 (1.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 90 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.32%) Finance
3 33 (12.99%) Marketing
4 32 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.60%) Banking
5 17 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.91%) Publishing
7 11 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.33%) Retail
8 9 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.76%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.97%) Advertising
11 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Front Office
12 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.18%) Games
13 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 143 (56.30%) Developer
2 36 (14.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 31 (12.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 30 (11.81%) Senior
5 19 (7.48%) React Developer
6 18 (7.09%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.69%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.51%) Architect
9 12 (4.72%) Consultant
9 12 (4.72%) Lead
9 12 (4.72%) Web Specialist
10 10 (3.94%) Angular Developer
10 10 (3.94%) Designer
10 10 (3.94%) Marketing Specialist
10 10 (3.94%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.54%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Web Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Web Marketing Specialist
12 8 (3.15%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (91.34%) HTML
2 97 (38.19%) React
3 79 (31.10%) REST
4 68 (26.77%) HTML5
5 56 (22.05%) CSS3
6 55 (21.65%) RESTful
7 51 (20.08%) AngularJS
8 49 (19.29%) .NET
9 34 (13.39%) Node.js
9 34 (13.39%) OAuth
10 29 (11.42%) Kafka
10 29 (11.42%) SOAP
11 28 (11.02%) Redux
11 28 (11.02%) Spring Boot
12 25 (9.84%) Jest
12 25 (9.84%) Spring
13 24 (9.45%) jQuery
14 22 (8.66%) Playwright
15 21 (8.27%) OAuth2
16 20 (7.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.94%) Low-Code
3 10 (3.94%) Replication
4 9 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.97%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.57%) CMDB
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
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
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.91%) Linux
2 10 (3.94%) Unix
3 4 (1.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (47.24%) Agile
2 95 (37.40%) CI/CD
3 64 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (24.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (24.02%) DevOps
6 59 (23.23%) Front End Development
7 58 (22.83%) Microservices
8 57 (22.44%) Scrum
9 55 (21.65%) Test Automation
10 50 (19.69%) User Experience
11 45 (17.72%) AI
12 36 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (12.60%) Code Quality
14 30 (11.81%) Analytics
14 30 (11.81%) Event-Driven
14 30 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (11.42%) Software Engineering
16 28 (11.02%) Computer Science
16 28 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
16 28 (11.02%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 205 (80.71%) JavaScript
2 95 (37.40%) SQL
3 77 (30.31%) TypeScript
4 48 (18.90%) Java
5 38 (14.96%) Python
6 35 (13.78%) C#
7 10 (3.94%) PHP
7 10 (3.94%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.94%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.76%) Bash
10 6 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.97%) Scala
12 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.79%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.39%) R
14 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%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.57%) Accessibility
1 37 (14.57%) QA
2 25 (9.84%) WCAG
3 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) WAI
6 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 44 (17.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.69%) 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%) Adobe
2 30 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.06%) Oracle
4 20 (7.87%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.72%) Google
5 12 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.94%) OutSystems
7 7 (2.76%) Braze
7 7 (2.76%) Databricks
7 7 (2.76%) IBM
7 7 (2.76%) Optimizely
8 6 (2.36%) Splunk
9 5 (1.97%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.97%) Apple
9 5 (1.97%) Veracode
10 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.57%) Tealium
10 4 (1.57%) Workday
11 3 (1.18%) Qualtrics
11 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud