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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 92 102
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing CSS 271 392 412
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 2.79% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.13% 10.81% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 235 278
10th Percentile £350 £275 £325
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £775 £742
England median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £44.38 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £47.19 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £53.75 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +36.08% +15.40% -55.24%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £62.13 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.42% -3.75% -9.43%

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 3,803 3,626 4,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.47% 25.82% 25.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,374 3,374
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -14 48 £540 -1.82% 42
West London -14 5 £350 -14.43% 19
East London -1 3 £450 - 17
South London -7 2 £775 +8.77% 10
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 13 (4.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (2.21%) CMS
2 6 (2.21%) Confluence
2 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.11%) Joomla!
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Camunda
4 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) Moodle
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.37%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.32%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.21%) Sketch
3 4 (1.48%) Trello
4 3 (1.11%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.11%) InVision
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.37%) InDesign
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.94%) AWS
2 72 (26.57%) Azure
3 42 (15.50%) GitHub
4 26 (9.59%) Figma
5 25 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (7.75%) GCP
7 17 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.90%) Serverless
9 15 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.17%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.43%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.32%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.58%) Amazon Cognito
15 6 (2.21%) Azure AKS
15 6 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.21%) npm
15 6 (2.21%) Power Automate
15 6 (2.21%) PowerApps
16 5 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) HTTP
2 3 (1.11%) SMS
3 2 (0.74%) BGP
3 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 2 (0.74%) Firewall
3 2 (0.74%) LAN
3 2 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.74%) OSPF
3 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.74%) SSL
3 2 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) DKIM
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 17 (6.27%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.17%) MySQL
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.21%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.21%) Redis
9 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) Power BI
11 3 (1.11%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.11%) DB2
11 3 (1.11%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.11%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.74%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 76 (28.04%) Git
2 24 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.75%) JIRA
4 20 (7.38%) Cypress.io
5 17 (6.27%) webpack
6 15 (5.54%) GitLab
7 14 (5.17%) JUnit
8 12 (4.43%) Mockito
9 9 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.32%) Maven
9 9 (3.32%) Selenium
10 6 (2.21%) Postman
11 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.85%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.85%) Storybook
11 5 (1.85%) Vite
12 4 (1.48%) Snyk
12 4 (1.48%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.11%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.93%) Finance
3 34 (12.55%) Banking
4 27 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.54%) Marketing
7 11 (4.06%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.95%) Front Office
9 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.48%) Military
10 4 (1.48%) Publishing
11 3 (1.11%) Advertising
11 3 (1.11%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 173 (63.84%) Developer
2 43 (15.87%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (13.65%) Senior
4 30 (11.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 23 (8.49%) Senior Developer
6 19 (7.01%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.27%) React Developer
8 14 (5.17%) Designer
9 13 (4.80%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 11 (4.06%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.69%) Consultant
11 10 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.32%) Lead
13 8 (2.95%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (2.95%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.58%) .NET Developer
14 7 (2.58%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 6 (2.21%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (88.93%) HTML
2 137 (50.55%) React
3 81 (29.89%) AngularJS
4 60 (22.14%) REST
5 54 (19.93%) HTML5
6 46 (16.97%) Node.js
7 45 (16.61%) RESTful
8 39 (14.39%) Spring
9 31 (11.44%) CSS3
9 31 (11.44%) Vue
10 28 (10.33%) JSON
11 26 (9.59%) .NET
12 25 (9.23%) Spring Boot
13 23 (8.49%) Jest
14 21 (7.75%) Sass
15 19 (7.01%) Redux
16 18 (6.64%) Bootstrap
16 18 (6.64%) jQuery
16 18 (6.64%) Tailwind CSS
17 17 (6.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.54%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.43%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.95%) CMDB
5 7 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.58%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.21%) Derivative
7 5 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.85%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.32%) Linux
2 5 (1.85%) Unix
3 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.11%) CentOS
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.65%) Agile
2 94 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 82 (30.26%) User Experience
4 73 (26.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 60 (22.14%) Front End Development
6 54 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (17.71%) DevOps
8 39 (14.39%) UX Design
9 37 (13.65%) Containerisation
10 36 (13.28%) Software Engineering
11 35 (12.92%) Microservices
12 32 (11.81%) Scrum
13 27 (9.96%) Analytics
13 27 (9.96%) Design Patterns
14 26 (9.59%) Test Automation
15 24 (8.86%) Unit Testing
16 23 (8.49%) SDLC
17 20 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (7.38%) Responsive Web Design
17 20 (7.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 202 (74.54%) JavaScript
2 79 (29.15%) TypeScript
3 77 (28.41%) Java
4 72 (26.57%) SQL
5 48 (17.71%) Python
6 14 (5.17%) C#
7 12 (4.43%) Ruby
8 9 (3.32%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.58%) JSX
10 6 (2.21%) PHP
11 5 (1.85%) ABAP
11 5 (1.85%) C
11 5 (1.85%) C++
11 5 (1.85%) Groovy
12 4 (1.48%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.48%) Go
12 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.11%) COBOL
13 3 (1.11%) Perl
13 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.12%) Degree
4 16 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) MCP
6 2 (0.74%) CCNP
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.50%) Accessibility
2 25 (9.23%) QA
3 21 (7.75%) WCAG
4 8 (2.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) NCSC
5 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (18.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.95%) Terraform
3 7 (2.58%) Argo
4 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.70%) Adobe
2 27 (9.96%) Oracle
3 23 (8.49%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.27%) Google
5 14 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.95%) SAP
7 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.85%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.85%) OutSystems
8 5 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.48%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.74%) Aruba
11 2 (0.74%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.74%) Marketo
11 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.74%) Splunk