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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 133 84
Rank change year-on-year -91 -49 +18
Contract jobs citing CSS 255 291 494
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 2.17% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 7.44% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 198 351
10th Percentile £375 £313 £325
25th Percentile £411 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £788 £800
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile - £30.08 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +21.74%

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 5,271 3,910 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.21% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 2,722 3,484
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £451 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £814 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -51 24 £475 -9.13% 14
South London - 6 £550 - 9
East London +3 4 £410 -24.07% 9
West London -18 3 - - 12
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 25 (9.80%) CMS
2 20 (7.84%) SharePoint
3 17 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (3.92%) Confluence
5 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.57%) Camunda
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.18%) Kentico
7 3 (1.18%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.18%) WordPress
8 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.78%) IIS
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.78%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.39%) Apache
9 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.39%) Drupal
9 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.18%) Sketch
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.78%) 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 62 (24.31%) Azure
2 52 (20.39%) AWS
3 30 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 23 (9.02%) Serverless
5 22 (8.63%) GitHub
6 21 (8.24%) Power Automate
7 20 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (7.45%) PowerApps
9 17 (6.67%) Figma
10 15 (5.88%) GCP
11 13 (5.10%) Adobe Analytics
12 11 (4.31%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.14%) Google Analytics
14 8 (3.14%) OneDrive
15 7 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.75%) SaaS
16 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 6 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) Intranet
3 2 (0.78%) Skype
4 1 (0.39%) 4G
4 1 (0.39%) 5G
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.39%) SSH
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 31 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (9.02%) MySQL
4 20 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.45%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.27%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.92%) Power BI
7 10 (3.92%) Redis
8 9 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.14%) Tableau
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.96%) Big Data
11 4 (1.57%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.57%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.57%) Metadata
11 4 (1.57%) Presto
11 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (23.14%) Git
2 35 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.02%) Cypress.io
4 20 (7.84%) GitLab
5 16 (6.27%) JIRA
6 15 (5.88%) Maven
6 15 (5.88%) Storybook
7 11 (4.31%) JUnit
7 11 (4.31%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.31%) Vite
8 8 (3.14%) Gradle
9 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.96%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.96%) Mockito
10 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.57%) Mocha
10 4 (1.57%) MSTest
10 4 (1.57%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 86 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.08%) Finance
3 35 (13.73%) Marketing
4 33 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.76%) Banking
6 23 (9.02%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.10%) Publishing
8 10 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.92%) Retail
9 8 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.14%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.57%) Front Office
10 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Games
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 144 (56.47%) Developer
2 32 (12.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 31 (12.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 31 (12.16%) Senior
4 24 (9.41%) React Developer
5 17 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 15 (5.88%) Consultant
6 15 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Architect
8 12 (4.71%) Lead
9 11 (4.31%) Designer
10 10 (3.92%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Angular Developer
11 9 (3.53%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.53%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (3.53%) Web Developer
12 8 (3.14%) Low-Code Developer
12 8 (3.14%) Web Specialist
13 7 (2.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (89.41%) HTML
2 99 (38.82%) React
3 79 (30.98%) REST
4 68 (26.67%) HTML5
5 57 (22.35%) CSS3
6 54 (21.18%) RESTful
7 53 (20.78%) AngularJS
8 47 (18.43%) .NET
9 35 (13.73%) Node.js
10 34 (13.33%) OAuth
11 30 (11.76%) Redux
12 26 (10.20%) SOAP
13 25 (9.80%) Spring Boot
14 24 (9.41%) jQuery
15 23 (9.02%) Jest
15 23 (9.02%) Kafka
15 23 (9.02%) Spring
16 20 (7.84%) OAuth2
16 20 (7.84%) Playwright
16 20 (7.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.14%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.35%) Replication
5 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.57%) CMDB
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Linux
2 9 (3.53%) Unix
3 6 (2.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (45.49%) Agile
2 93 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 62 (24.31%) Front End Development
4 60 (23.53%) DevOps
5 59 (23.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 58 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (22.35%) Microservices
8 55 (21.57%) User Experience
9 54 (21.18%) Scrum
10 51 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 38 (14.90%) AI
12 37 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (11.76%) Analytics
14 29 (11.37%) Clean Code
15 28 (10.98%) Code Quality
15 28 (10.98%) Software Engineering
16 27 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (10.20%) Event-Driven
17 26 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
18 25 (9.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (78.82%) JavaScript
2 94 (36.86%) SQL
3 79 (30.98%) TypeScript
4 46 (18.04%) Java
5 41 (16.08%) Python
6 33 (12.94%) C#
7 12 (4.71%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.92%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.75%) PHP
11 5 (1.96%) Bash
11 5 (1.96%) Scala
12 4 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.39%) CFML
15 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.24%) Degree
4 17 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.86%) Accessibility
2 38 (14.90%) QA
3 30 (11.76%) WCAG
4 9 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.35%) GDPR
6 4 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.39%) WAI
8 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 45 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.67%) Grafana
3 7 (2.75%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (2.35%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.37%) Adobe
3 26 (10.20%) Oracle
4 20 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.49%) Google
6 12 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.14%) Optimizely
7 8 (3.14%) OutSystems
8 7 (2.75%) Braze
9 6 (2.35%) Databricks
9 6 (2.35%) IBM
9 6 (2.35%) Splunk
10 4 (1.57%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.57%) Tealium
10 4 (1.57%) Veracode
10 4 (1.57%) Workday
11 3 (1.18%) Qualtrics