CSS Contracts in London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 93 92
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -31
Contract jobs citing CSS 296 472 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.31% 2.68% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.79% 10.03% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 354 500
10th Percentile £313 £352 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £630 £675
90th Percentile £779 £754 £775
England median daily rate £452 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.60% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £31.50 - £33.70
25th Percentile £33.25 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £34.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £37.82 - £73.75
90th Percentile £46.47 - £74.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.53% +26.19% -5.41%

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 3,368 4,706 6,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.31% 26.76% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 3,463 5,047
10th Percentile £377 £375 £413
25th Percentile £429 £458 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £710 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 42
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £58.88 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.51% -10.77% +23.81%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in London

CSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSS in London.

Daily rate trend for CSS in London

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in London

CSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CSS in London.

Hourly rate trend for CSS in London

CSS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSS in London over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

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 June 2025. 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 +4 51 £525 +0.24% 139
East London +13 4 £525 -2.78% 65
West London -20 2 £373 -25.50% 31
CSS
England

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.38%) CMS
3 7 (2.36%) Confluence
4 4 (1.35%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.01%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.68%) Appian
6 2 (0.68%) Drupal
6 2 (0.68%) WordPress
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) govService
7 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.04%) Adobe XD
1 9 (3.04%) Sketch
2 5 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.01%) InDesign
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.01%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.01%) Trello
4 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.34%) InVision
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (7.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.69%) Shopify
3 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.93%) Azure
2 38 (12.84%) AWS
3 30 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.45%) Power Automate
5 24 (8.11%) GitHub
6 23 (7.77%) PowerApps
7 20 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.74%) Serverless
10 16 (5.41%) npm
11 14 (4.73%) Yarn
12 12 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (3.72%) Figma
14 8 (2.70%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.36%) Entra ID
16 6 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.74%) HTTP
2 8 (2.70%) DNS
3 3 (1.01%) Bluetooth
3 3 (1.01%) POP3
3 3 (1.01%) SMTP
4 2 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.04%) MySQL
5 9 (3.04%) Power BI
6 8 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.70%) Redis
6 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.35%) Big Data
7 4 (1.35%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.01%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.68%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 83 (28.04%) Git
2 24 (8.11%) webpack
3 18 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.74%) Bitbucket
5 16 (5.41%) JIRA
6 11 (3.72%) Mocha
6 11 (3.72%) TeamCity
7 10 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.70%) GitLab
8 8 (2.70%) Jasmine
9 7 (2.36%) Axure RP
9 7 (2.36%) Maven
9 7 (2.36%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (2.03%) Postman
10 6 (2.03%) Protractor
10 6 (2.03%) Subversion
10 6 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (1.69%) Babel
12 4 (1.35%) Vite
General
1 82 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.27%) Finance
3 45 (15.20%) Banking
4 29 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.45%) Marketing
6 22 (7.43%) Investment Banking
7 17 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.04%) Legal
9 8 (2.70%) Retail
9 8 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.36%) Front Office
10 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.69%) Law
12 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Local Government
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
14 2 (0.68%) Automotive
14 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.68%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 187 (63.18%) Developer
2 46 (15.54%) Senior
3 34 (11.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 33 (11.15%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 23 (7.77%) Angular Developer
6 23 (7.77%) Architect
6 23 (7.77%) Lead
7 20 (6.76%) React Developer
8 18 (6.08%) UI Developer
9 16 (5.41%) Designer
10 15 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (4.05%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.05%) Senior UI Developer
11 12 (4.05%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.72%) ServiceNow Developer
13 10 (3.38%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.38%) Consultant
14 9 (3.04%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (88.85%) HTML
2 115 (38.85%) React
3 66 (22.30%) AngularJS
4 65 (21.96%) HTML5
5 63 (21.28%) .NET
6 48 (16.22%) Node.js
6 48 (16.22%) REST
6 48 (16.22%) RESTful
7 39 (13.18%) CSS3
8 34 (11.49%) Sass
9 32 (10.81%) jQuery
10 30 (10.14%) Web Services
11 28 (9.46%) Vue
12 25 (8.45%) Bootstrap
12 25 (8.45%) Jest
12 25 (8.45%) JSON
12 25 (8.45%) Redux
13 24 (8.11%) ASP.NET
14 23 (7.77%) .NET Framework
15 21 (7.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.07%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.04%) Derivative
5 9 (3.04%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.01%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.39%) Android
2 12 (4.05%) Apple iOS
2 12 (4.05%) Windows
3 7 (2.36%) Linux
4 6 (2.03%) Unix
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.01%) CentOS
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.20%) Agile
2 66 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 62 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (20.61%) User Experience
6 55 (18.58%) Front End Development
7 54 (18.24%) DevOps
8 47 (15.88%) Web Development
9 36 (12.16%) Scrum
10 35 (11.82%) Responsive Web Design
11 33 (11.15%) UX Design
12 32 (10.81%) Microservices
13 27 (9.12%) Analytics
13 27 (9.12%) Mentoring
14 26 (8.78%) Clean Code
15 25 (8.45%) Computer Science
16 24 (8.11%) OO
17 23 (7.77%) CRM
18 22 (7.43%) Software Engineering
18 22 (7.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 241 (81.42%) JavaScript
2 102 (34.46%) TypeScript
3 69 (23.31%) C#
4 61 (20.61%) SQL
5 49 (16.55%) Java
6 35 (11.82%) Python
7 12 (4.05%) PHP
8 10 (3.38%) C++
9 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
11 4 (1.35%) Bicep
11 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.01%) Groovy
12 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) Bash
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.34%) COBOL
14 1 (0.34%) JCL
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.14%) Degree
3 24 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) CCA
8 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.23%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.07%) QA
3 14 (4.73%) WCAG
4 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WAI
System Software
1 20 (6.76%) Docker
2 15 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.01%) vCloud
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.01%) Kibana
4 2 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.42%) Adobe
2 19 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.05%) OutSystems
4 10 (3.38%) Google
4 10 (3.38%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.04%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.04%) Oracle
6 5 (1.69%) SAP
7 4 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.35%) Splunk
8 3 (1.01%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.01%) Foundry
8 3 (1.01%) Palantir
8 3 (1.01%) VMware
9 2 (0.68%) Nintex
9 2 (0.68%) Sage
9 2 (0.68%) Sitecore