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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 96 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -29
Contract jobs citing CSS 314 420 817
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.49% 2.33% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.56% 9.45% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 305 593
10th Percentile £366 £325 £363
25th Percentile £420 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £776 £775 £788
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £34.25 - £40.15
25th Percentile £35.75 £28.51 £62.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.23 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.40% -51.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £41.88 £39.95 £75.00
90th Percentile £42.55 - £76.03
England median hourly rate £57.75 £57.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +0.43% -13.21% +20.45%

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 3,286 4,446 7,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 24.63% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,299 3,342 5,936
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £699 £735
90th Percentile £834 £800 £820
England median daily rate £534 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 38
10th Percentile £34.48 £16.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £38.69 £25.00 £38.91
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.16 £65.40
Median % change year-on-year +41.53% -41.65% +30.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £69.40 -
England median hourly rate £64.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +35.79% -26.92% +32.65%

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 2 April 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
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 2 April 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 48 £550 +4.76% 27
East London +13 5 £525 -2.78% 7
West London +4 3 £409 -13.89% 14
South London -3 1 £725 +18.57% 2
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 39 (12.42%) CMS
2 9 (2.87%) nginx
3 8 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.59%) WordPress
5 4 (1.27%) Apache
5 4 (1.27%) Drupal
6 3 (0.96%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.32%) govService
7 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.32%) Mendix
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.87%) Adobe XD
1 9 (2.87%) Sketch
2 6 (1.91%) Trello
3 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.27%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.64%) InDesign
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (6.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.27%) Shopify
3 2 (0.64%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.52%) Azure
2 45 (14.33%) AWS
3 30 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 22 (7.01%) Power Automate
5 20 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (6.37%) Figma
6 19 (6.05%) PowerApps
7 15 (4.78%) GitHub
8 13 (4.14%) npm
8 13 (4.14%) Serverless
8 13 (4.14%) Yarn
9 12 (3.82%) SaaS
10 11 (3.50%) PaaS
11 10 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (2.87%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.23%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.91%) IaaS
15 5 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.50%) HTTP
2 5 (1.59%) DNS
3 4 (1.27%) SSL
4 3 (0.96%) SMS
5 2 (0.64%) Firewall
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.82%) MySQL
5 11 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.18%) Power BI
7 9 (2.87%) Redis
8 6 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.27%) Tableau
11 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.96%) Big Data
11 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.64%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.64%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.64%) Power Query
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 70 (22.29%) Git
2 23 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.41%) webpack
4 16 (5.10%) TeamCity
5 15 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 13 (4.14%) JIRA
7 10 (3.18%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.87%) Maven
9 7 (2.23%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.59%) Mocha
10 5 (1.59%) Subversion
10 5 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.59%) Vite
11 4 (1.27%) Babel
11 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.27%) ESLint
11 4 (1.27%) GitLab
11 4 (1.27%) Selenium
11 4 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.15%) Finance
3 49 (15.61%) Banking
4 40 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (11.78%) Public Sector
6 29 (9.24%) Marketing
7 23 (7.32%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.18%) Front Office
8 10 (3.18%) Legal
9 9 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.27%) Back Office
11 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.27%) Law
11 4 (1.27%) Local Government
11 4 (1.27%) Retail
12 3 (0.96%) German Language
12 3 (0.96%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (61.78%) Developer
2 64 (20.38%) Senior
3 51 (16.24%) Architect
4 46 (14.65%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.15%) ServiceNow Architect
6 31 (9.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 23 (7.32%) UI Developer
8 21 (6.69%) Angular Developer
9 19 (6.05%) Lead
10 16 (5.10%) Senior UI Developer
11 15 (4.78%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.46%) React Developer
12 14 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.14%) Designer
14 11 (3.50%) .NET Developer
14 11 (3.50%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.50%) Software Engineer
15 10 (3.18%) C# Developer
15 10 (3.18%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (87.58%) HTML
2 91 (28.98%) React
3 84 (26.75%) AngularJS
4 78 (24.84%) HTML5
5 66 (21.02%) .NET
6 55 (17.52%) Node.js
7 53 (16.88%) jQuery
8 44 (14.01%) REST
9 42 (13.38%) RESTful
10 33 (10.51%) CSS3
11 31 (9.87%) Web Services
12 27 (8.60%) Sass
13 24 (7.64%) Vue
14 23 (7.32%) .NET Framework
15 22 (7.01%) JSON
16 19 (6.05%) ASP.NET
16 19 (6.05%) XML
17 16 (5.10%) ASP.NET Web API
18 15 (4.78%) Redux
19 14 (4.46%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (4.46%) Derivative
3 11 (3.50%) Low-Code
4 10 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.87%) CMDB
6 8 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.23%) N-Tier
7 7 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.91%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.87%) Windows
2 7 (2.23%) Linux
2 7 (2.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.96%) Android
4 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.64%) CentOS
4 2 (0.64%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.48%) Agile
2 75 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (20.70%) User Experience
4 63 (20.06%) CI/CD
5 60 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (17.20%) Front End Development
7 53 (16.88%) Web Development
8 43 (13.69%) DevOps
9 35 (11.15%) UX Design
10 30 (9.55%) Computer Science
11 29 (9.24%) Workflow
12 28 (8.92%) Analytics
13 26 (8.28%) Microservices
13 26 (8.28%) Test Automation
14 24 (7.64%) CRM
14 24 (7.64%) Responsive Web Design
15 23 (7.32%) Mentoring
15 23 (7.32%) OO
15 23 (7.32%) Software Engineering
16 22 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 266 (84.71%) JavaScript
2 98 (31.21%) TypeScript
3 76 (24.20%) SQL
4 75 (23.89%) Java
5 64 (20.38%) C#
6 35 (11.15%) Python
7 18 (5.73%) PHP
8 9 (2.87%) Ruby
9 8 (2.55%) Scala
10 6 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.27%) Formula Language
12 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.64%) C++
13 2 (0.64%) Groovy
13 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.32%) COBOL
14 1 (0.32%) JCL
14 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.78%) Degree
3 33 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.59%) CCSAS
6 5 (1.59%) CEH
6 5 (1.59%) CREST Certified
6 5 (1.59%) GIAC
6 5 (1.59%) GPEN
6 5 (1.59%) GWAPT
6 5 (1.59%) OSCP
7 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) CCA
8 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.10%) Accessibility
2 16 (5.10%) QA
3 14 (4.46%) WCAG
4 3 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
5 2 (0.64%) WAI
System Software
1 26 (8.28%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.64%) vCloud
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.96%) Terraform
3 2 (0.64%) Kibana
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Sysdig
4 1 (0.32%) vRealize
4 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.69%) ServiceNow
3 25 (7.96%) Adobe
4 16 (5.10%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.46%) OutSystems
6 9 (2.87%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.55%) Splunk
8 7 (2.23%) Google
8 7 (2.23%) Oracle
8 7 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.91%) SAP
10 4 (1.27%) VMware
11 3 (0.96%) Sage
11 3 (0.96%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.64%) IBM
12 2 (0.64%) Marketo
12 2 (0.64%) Sun
13 1 (0.32%) Tealium