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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 119 90
Rank change year-on-year -73 -29 +3
Contract jobs citing CSS 250 298 467
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 2.43% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.77% 9.18% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 207 346
10th Percentile £340 £313 £376
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.08% -5.23%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £638
90th Percentile £700 £780 £753
England median daily rate £488 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +5.98% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £23.00 £30.91 £30.66
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £42.12
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -18.08% -39.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.75 £47.49
90th Percentile £73.00 £39.06 £49.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +2.04%

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 4,330 3,245 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.97% 26.43% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 2,279 3,456
10th Percentile £375 £381 £375
25th Percentile £447 £432 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £846
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.72% -36.80%
75th Percentile £68.38 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -38 31 £538 +2.82% 20
East London -4 4 £410 -21.90% 3
West London - 3 - - 9
South London - 2 - - 2
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 21 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.80%) CMS
3 13 (5.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.20%) Confluence
5 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.60%) Kentico
6 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.20%) Camunda
7 3 (1.20%) WordPress
8 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.80%) Drupal
8 2 (0.80%) IIS
8 2 (0.80%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.40%) Apache
9 1 (0.40%) Mule
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.60%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.20%) Sketch
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.60%) Azure
2 50 (20.00%) AWS
3 28 (11.20%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.80%) Serverless
6 19 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.60%) Power Automate
7 17 (6.80%) Figma
7 17 (6.80%) PowerApps
8 16 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.80%) GitHub
10 10 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.60%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.20%) GCP
13 7 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.00%) Intranet
2 4 (1.60%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) Firewall
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
4 2 (0.80%) BGP
4 2 (0.80%) LAN
4 2 (0.80%) OSPF
4 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.80%) RTMP
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
4 2 (0.80%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) Internet
5 1 (0.40%) Skype
5 1 (0.40%) SMS
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.20%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.40%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.40%) MySQL
5 11 (4.40%) Power BI
6 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.20%) Big Data
8 7 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.80%) Tableau
9 5 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.00%) Metadata
10 4 (1.60%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.60%) EDRMS
10 4 (1.60%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.60%) Presto
10 4 (1.60%) Redis
11 3 (1.20%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 46 (18.40%) Git
2 25 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.80%) JIRA
4 15 (6.00%) GitLab
5 11 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.00%) Maven
7 9 (3.60%) Vite
8 8 (3.20%) MSTest
9 7 (2.80%) JUnit
10 6 (2.40%) Mocha
10 6 (2.40%) Mockito
10 6 (2.40%) tSQLt
10 6 (2.40%) webpack
11 5 (2.00%) Storybook
12 4 (1.60%) Ant
12 4 (1.60%) Selenium
12 4 (1.60%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.20%) IntelliJ
13 3 (1.20%) NUnit
General
1 69 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.40%) Finance
3 38 (15.20%) Banking
4 28 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.00%) Marketing
7 13 (5.20%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.20%) Retail
8 9 (3.60%) Front Office
9 8 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.60%) Publishing
11 3 (1.20%) Games
11 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Automotive
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.80%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (58.00%) Developer
2 40 (16.00%) Senior
3 25 (10.00%) React Developer
4 23 (9.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (9.20%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (6.00%) Software Engineer
7 13 (5.20%) Consultant
8 10 (4.00%) Designer
8 10 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.60%) Python Developer
10 8 (3.20%) Architect
10 8 (3.20%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.20%) Low-Code Developer
10 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow Developer
10 8 (3.20%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.20%) UI Developer
11 7 (2.80%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.80%) Web Developer
12 6 (2.40%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (84.80%) HTML
2 104 (41.60%) React
3 69 (27.60%) AngularJS
4 61 (24.40%) REST
5 47 (18.80%) .NET
6 45 (18.00%) HTML5
7 34 (13.60%) RESTful
8 32 (12.80%) Redux
9 29 (11.60%) CSS3
10 25 (10.00%) Node.js
11 24 (9.60%) OAuth
11 24 (9.60%) SOAP
12 21 (8.40%) Spring
13 20 (8.00%) jQuery
14 18 (7.20%) JSON
14 18 (7.20%) Spring Boot
14 18 (7.20%) Tailwind CSS
15 16 (6.40%) Vue
15 16 (6.40%) Web Services
16 15 (6.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.60%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.60%) CMDB
8 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.60%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.20%) Derivative
9 3 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.20%) Equities
10 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.60%) Linux
1 9 (3.60%) Windows
2 8 (3.20%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.60%) Agile
2 69 (27.60%) CI/CD
3 65 (26.00%) User Experience
4 55 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (18.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (17.60%) DevOps
7 42 (16.80%) Scrum
8 41 (16.40%) Front End Development
9 39 (15.60%) Test Automation
10 38 (15.20%) Microservices
11 35 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 33 (13.20%) AI
12 33 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (9.60%) Analytics
13 24 (9.60%) Containerisation
13 24 (9.60%) Design Patterns
13 24 (9.60%) Workflow
14 21 (8.40%) API Integration
14 21 (8.40%) UX Design
15 20 (8.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 188 (75.20%) JavaScript
2 80 (32.00%) SQL
3 70 (28.00%) TypeScript
4 59 (23.60%) Python
5 49 (19.60%) Java
6 38 (15.20%) C#
7 14 (5.60%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.20%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.80%) Ruby
11 5 (2.00%) Scala
12 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.80%) Go
13 2 (0.80%) PHP
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) F#
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.00%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.20%) CCNP
5 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CCNA
6 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.80%) Accessibility
2 30 (12.00%) QA
3 21 (8.40%) WCAG
4 10 (4.00%) GDPR
5 6 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.60%) SLA
7 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) WAI
9 1 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 38 (15.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.60%) Terraform
3 7 (2.80%) Grafana
4 5 (2.00%) Kibana
4 5 (2.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (11.20%) Oracle
2 26 (10.40%) Adobe
3 22 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.40%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.20%) OutSystems
7 5 (2.00%) Braze
7 5 (2.00%) Google
7 5 (2.00%) Qualtrics
7 5 (2.00%) SAP
7 5 (2.00%) Workday
8 4 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.20%) Sybase
9 3 (1.20%) Symantec
10 2 (0.80%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco
10 2 (0.80%) Netskope
10 2 (0.80%) Optimizely