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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 108 96
Rank change year-on-year -75 -12 -6
Contract jobs citing CSS 257 313 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.48% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.08% 9.51% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 224 300
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £703 £788 £757
England median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
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 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% -4.35% -9.80%

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 4,227 3,291 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.45% 26.03% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,301 3,331
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 21
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +46.58% -43.32%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -22 38 £540 +0.47% 56
East London -5 3 £410 -21.90% 18
West London -21 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 15 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (3.11%) CMS
4 6 (2.33%) Confluence
5 3 (1.17%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.78%) Camunda
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) Kentico
7 1 (0.39%) Moodle
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.33%) Sketch
3 4 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.56%) Trello
4 3 (1.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.17%) InVision
4 3 (1.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.78%) Magento
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.02%) Azure
2 57 (22.18%) AWS
3 25 (9.73%) GitHub
4 24 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.56%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.56%) Serverless
6 20 (7.78%) Figma
7 17 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.06%) GCP
9 13 (5.06%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.06%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.89%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.89%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.72%) npm
13 6 (2.33%) Yarn
14 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) HTTP
2 3 (1.17%) Firewall
2 3 (1.17%) Network Security
2 3 (1.17%) SMS
3 2 (0.78%) BGP
3 2 (0.78%) LAN
3 2 (0.78%) OSPF
3 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.78%) RTMP
3 2 (0.78%) SSL
3 2 (0.78%) WAN
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) FTP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) VLAN
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.61%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.67%) MySQL
6 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.50%) Power BI
8 7 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.33%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.95%) Tableau
11 4 (1.56%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.56%) Redis
12 3 (1.17%) Big Data
12 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.78%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.78%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.78%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 53 (20.62%) Git
2 22 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.78%) JIRA
4 18 (7.00%) GitLab
5 17 (6.61%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.67%) JUnit
7 11 (4.28%) webpack
8 10 (3.89%) Maven
8 10 (3.89%) Mockito
8 10 (3.89%) Vite
9 9 (3.50%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.33%) Selenium
11 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.95%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.95%) MSTest
11 5 (1.95%) Postman
12 3 (1.17%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.17%) Spinnaker
12 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.17%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.90%) Finance
3 39 (15.18%) Banking
4 23 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.84%) Marketing
7 14 (5.45%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.67%) Front Office
9 7 (2.72%) Retail
10 5 (1.95%) Legal
10 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Publishing
11 3 (1.17%) Advertising
11 3 (1.17%) Games
11 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.78%) Automotive
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (60.31%) Developer
2 43 (16.73%) Senior
3 27 (10.51%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (9.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 18 (7.00%) React Developer
7 16 (6.23%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.45%) Designer
10 10 (3.89%) Consultant
10 10 (3.89%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Architect
12 8 (3.11%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) ServiceNow Developer
12 8 (3.11%) UI Developer
13 7 (2.72%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (88.72%) HTML
2 121 (47.08%) React
3 76 (29.57%) AngularJS
4 60 (23.35%) REST
5 49 (19.07%) HTML5
6 39 (15.18%) RESTful
7 37 (14.40%) Node.js
8 35 (13.62%) .NET
9 32 (12.45%) CSS3
10 29 (11.28%) Redux
11 28 (10.89%) Spring
12 25 (9.73%) Vue
13 20 (7.78%) Spring Boot
14 18 (7.00%) Jest
14 18 (7.00%) JSON
15 17 (6.61%) SOAP
16 16 (6.23%) jQuery
16 16 (6.23%) Sass
17 14 (5.45%) Next.js
18 13 (5.06%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.33%) CMDB
7 5 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.95%) Derivative
8 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.17%) PropTech
9 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.11%) Windows
2 6 (2.33%) Linux
3 4 (1.56%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (39.69%) Agile
2 80 (31.13%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.63%) User Experience
4 56 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (19.46%) DevOps
6 46 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (17.51%) Front End Development
8 38 (14.79%) Microservices
9 33 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.84%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.45%) Containerisation
10 32 (12.45%) Test Automation
11 29 (11.28%) Design Patterns
11 29 (11.28%) Scrum
12 28 (10.89%) AI
13 27 (10.51%) Analytics
14 24 (9.34%) UX Design
15 23 (8.95%) Unit Testing
16 20 (7.78%) SDLC
17 19 (7.39%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 187 (72.76%) JavaScript
2 78 (30.35%) TypeScript
3 69 (26.85%) SQL
4 58 (22.57%) Java
5 49 (19.07%) Python
6 28 (10.89%) C#
7 9 (3.50%) Ruby
8 8 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.11%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.95%) ABAP
9 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.17%) Go
10 3 (1.17%) JSX
11 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) Bash
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) F#
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.67%) Degree
4 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.17%) CCNP
5 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) CCNA
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.95%) Accessibility
2 26 (10.12%) WCAG
3 21 (8.17%) QA
4 9 (3.50%) GDPR
5 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (16.34%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (14.01%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.17%) Grafana
3 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Argo
Vendors
1 30 (11.67%) Adobe
2 23 (8.95%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.39%) Oracle
4 13 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.28%) Google
6 10 (3.89%) SAP
7 6 (2.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.56%) Workday
10 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.17%) Symantec
11 2 (0.78%) Aruba
11 2 (0.78%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.78%) Sybase
11 2 (0.78%) Telerik