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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 86 102
Rank change year-on-year -60 +16 -33
Contract jobs citing CSS 267 463 474
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 2.93% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 11.33% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 289 332
10th Percentile £320 £275 £301
25th Percentile £393 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -7.21%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £626
90th Percentile £665 £788 £750
England median daily rate £450 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.60% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £34.28 £38.73 £34.41
25th Percentile £39.56 £39.44 £45.71
Median hourly rate £48.22 £41.25 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% -40.30% -9.64%
75th Percentile £55.06 £42.44 £75.58
90th Percentile £60.27 £42.78 £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 3,700 4,085 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 25.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 2,673 3,872
10th Percentile £356 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 32
10th Percentile £34.52 £35.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.25 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £72.41
90th Percentile £87.75 £71.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -19.23%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +1 55 £521 -5.36% 38
East London +6 5 £520 +7.22% 48
West London -20 5 £365 -26.26% 41
South London -7 2 £775 +5.98% 23
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 9 (3.37%) Confluence
2 8 (3.00%) CMS
3 6 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Moodle
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.37%) SugarCRM
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Adobe XD
1 10 (3.75%) Sketch
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) InVision
3 2 (0.75%) Trello
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.37%) InDesign
4 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Shopify
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (27.34%) Azure
2 65 (24.34%) AWS
3 40 (14.98%) GitHub
4 24 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (7.87%) GCP
6 20 (7.49%) Figma
7 14 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.12%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.12%) Serverless
9 10 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.62%) Amazon Cognito
11 7 (2.62%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.62%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.25%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.25%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.25%) npm
12 6 (2.25%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.25%) SaaS
13 5 (1.87%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.37%) DKIM
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.23%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.61%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.24%) MongoDB
4 19 (7.12%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.12%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.87%) MySQL
6 12 (4.49%) Redis
7 8 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.50%) DB2
10 4 (1.50%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.50%) Tableau
11 3 (1.12%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.12%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 88 (32.96%) Git
2 28 (10.49%) JIRA
3 24 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.61%) webpack
5 19 (7.12%) Cypress.io
6 13 (4.87%) JUnit
7 12 (4.49%) Mockito
8 10 (3.75%) Maven
9 9 (3.37%) Jasmine
9 9 (3.37%) Selenium
10 8 (3.00%) Postman
11 7 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.62%) GitLab
11 7 (2.62%) Vite
12 6 (2.25%) Axure RP
12 6 (2.25%) Karma Test Runner
12 6 (2.25%) Mocha
12 6 (2.25%) Protractor
12 6 (2.25%) SoapUI
12 6 (2.25%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 67 (25.09%) Finance
3 33 (12.36%) Banking
4 29 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.62%) Marketing
7 9 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Front Office
9 5 (1.87%) Legal
10 4 (1.50%) Advertising
10 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.50%) Military
10 4 (1.50%) Publishing
10 4 (1.50%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
12 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (58.05%) Developer
2 40 (14.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (10.11%) Senior
4 23 (8.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (7.49%) Designer
6 19 (7.12%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.37%) React Developer
8 14 (5.24%) Angular Developer
8 14 (5.24%) Lead
8 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.24%) UX Designer
9 13 (4.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 10 (3.75%) Consultant
10 10 (3.75%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.37%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.37%) UI Developer
12 8 (3.00%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.62%) Applications Developer
13 7 (2.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (88.01%) HTML
2 122 (45.69%) React
3 72 (26.97%) AngularJS
4 68 (25.47%) HTML5
5 66 (24.72%) REST
6 50 (18.73%) RESTful
7 44 (16.48%) Node.js
8 42 (15.73%) CSS3
9 35 (13.11%) Spring
10 32 (11.99%) .NET
11 31 (11.61%) JSON
12 30 (11.24%) Vue
13 29 (10.86%) Jest
14 27 (10.11%) Bootstrap
14 27 (10.11%) Sass
15 24 (8.99%) jQuery
16 22 (8.24%) Spring Boot
17 18 (6.74%) Redux
18 17 (6.37%) Next.js
18 17 (6.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.24%) Mobile App
1 22 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.00%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.62%) Derivative
7 6 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.25%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.12%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.75%) Linux
2 9 (3.37%) Android
2 9 (3.37%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.00%) Unix
4 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.12%) CentOS
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (50.94%) Agile
2 95 (35.58%) CI/CD
3 73 (27.34%) User Experience
4 65 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (23.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (23.22%) Front End Development
7 46 (17.23%) DevOps
8 41 (15.36%) UX Design
9 38 (14.23%) Microservices
10 36 (13.48%) Scrum
11 31 (11.61%) Test Automation
12 29 (10.86%) SDLC
12 29 (10.86%) Software Engineering
13 27 (10.11%) Responsive Web Design
13 27 (10.11%) Unit Testing
14 23 (8.61%) Code Quality
14 23 (8.61%) TDD
14 23 (8.61%) Web Development
15 22 (8.24%) Containerisation
15 22 (8.24%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 203 (76.03%) JavaScript
2 84 (31.46%) TypeScript
3 73 (27.34%) SQL
4 66 (24.72%) Java
5 38 (14.23%) Python
6 17 (6.37%) C#
7 9 (3.37%) Ruby
8 8 (3.00%) Groovy
9 7 (2.62%) C++
9 7 (2.62%) JSX
9 7 (2.62%) PHP
9 7 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.87%) ABAP
11 5 (1.87%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.87%) C
11 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.50%) COBOL
13 3 (1.12%) Perl
14 2 (0.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 47 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.61%) Degree
4 16 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (20.60%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.86%) QA
3 21 (7.87%) WCAG
4 6 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (16.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.62%) Argo
3 6 (2.25%) Terraform
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (12.73%) Oracle
2 22 (8.24%) Google
2 22 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.37%) Adobe
4 12 (4.49%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.00%) SAP
7 6 (2.25%) Amplitude
7 6 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.87%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.87%) OutSystems
8 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.87%) Splunk
9 4 (1.50%) Foundry
9 4 (1.50%) Palantir
9 4 (1.50%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.12%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud