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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 133 84
Rank change year-on-year -95 -49 +11
Contract jobs citing CSS 231 293 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 2.18% 2.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 8.40% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 205 351
10th Percentile £372 £315 £325
25th Percentile £410 £385 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £640
90th Percentile £650 £783 £800
England median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -
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% +51.88%

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 4,573 3,487 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 25.94% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,426 3,163
10th Percentile £400 £363 £377
25th Percentile £452 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -48 21 £408 -24.19% 29
South London - 6 £550 - 6
East London 0 4 £410 -24.07% 13
West London -24 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 24 (10.39%) CMS
2 19 (8.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.46%) Confluence
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.73%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.30%) Kentico
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.30%) WordPress
8 2 (0.87%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.87%) Camunda
8 2 (0.87%) Drupal
8 2 (0.87%) IIS
8 2 (0.87%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.43%) Apache
9 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.43%) nginx
9 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.30%) Sketch
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Shopify
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.43%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.94%) Azure
2 50 (21.65%) AWS
3 27 (11.69%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.66%) Serverless
5 19 (8.23%) Power Automate
6 18 (7.79%) Figma
6 18 (7.79%) GitHub
7 16 (6.93%) PowerApps
8 15 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.49%) GCP
9 10 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.46%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (3.03%) OneDrive
12 7 (3.03%) SaaS
13 6 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.90%) HTTP
2 5 (2.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.36%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.36%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.93%) MySQL
5 12 (5.19%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.33%) Power BI
7 9 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.46%) Tableau
9 7 (3.03%) Redis
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.16%) Big Data
10 5 (2.16%) Metadata
11 4 (1.73%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.73%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.73%) Presto
11 4 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (23.38%) Git
2 27 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.96%) Cypress.io
4 16 (6.93%) GitLab
5 15 (6.49%) JIRA
6 14 (6.06%) Storybook
7 13 (5.63%) Maven
8 10 (4.33%) Vite
9 9 (3.90%) JUnit
10 7 (3.03%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.60%) MSTest
12 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.16%) Gradle
12 5 (2.16%) Jasmine
13 4 (1.73%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.73%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (1.73%) Mocha
13 4 (1.73%) Mockito
13 4 (1.73%) tSQLt
13 4 (1.73%) webpack
General
1 76 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.02%) Finance
3 32 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.99%) Banking
5 26 (11.26%) Marketing
6 24 (10.39%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.19%) Retail
8 11 (4.76%) Publishing
9 10 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.46%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.16%) Front Office
13 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.30%) Games
14 3 (1.30%) Local Government
15 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.87%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.87%) Law
16 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 126 (54.55%) Developer
2 30 (12.99%) Senior
3 27 (11.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (9.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (9.96%) React Developer
5 17 (7.36%) Senior Developer
6 14 (6.06%) Consultant
7 12 (5.19%) Architect
7 12 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.19%) Lead
8 11 (4.76%) Designer
9 10 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Angular Developer
10 9 (3.90%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.46%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.46%) Low-Code Developer
11 8 (3.46%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.46%) Web Developer
12 7 (3.03%) Braze Specialist
12 7 (3.03%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (86.58%) HTML
2 91 (39.39%) React
3 73 (31.60%) REST
4 59 (25.54%) HTML5
5 51 (22.08%) RESTful
6 48 (20.78%) AngularJS
7 47 (20.35%) CSS3
8 37 (16.02%) .NET
9 29 (12.55%) Redux
10 28 (12.12%) OAuth
11 26 (11.26%) Node.js
12 23 (9.96%) SOAP
13 22 (9.52%) jQuery
14 21 (9.09%) Jest
15 20 (8.66%) Spring
15 20 (8.66%) Spring Boot
16 19 (8.23%) Playwright
17 18 (7.79%) Kafka
18 17 (7.36%) JSON
18 17 (7.36%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.46%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.73%) CMDB
7 4 (1.73%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.30%) Equities
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Linux
2 11 (4.76%) Unix
3 8 (3.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (45.89%) Agile
2 85 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (24.24%) User Experience
5 52 (22.51%) DevOps
6 50 (21.65%) Front End Development
7 49 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (21.21%) Microservices
8 48 (20.78%) Test Automation
9 45 (19.48%) Scrum
10 36 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.99%) AI
12 28 (12.12%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.69%) Clean Code
13 27 (11.69%) Code Quality
13 27 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.96%) Analytics
15 23 (9.96%) API Integration
16 22 (9.52%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 176 (76.19%) JavaScript
2 80 (34.63%) SQL
3 72 (31.17%) TypeScript
4 38 (16.45%) Java
5 34 (14.72%) Python
6 30 (12.99%) C#
7 12 (5.19%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 10 (4.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.16%) PHP
10 5 (2.16%) Scala
11 4 (1.73%) Ruby
12 3 (1.30%) Bash
12 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.43%) CFML
14 1 (0.43%) F#
14 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (4.33%) Degree
4 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.48%) Accessibility
2 38 (16.45%) QA
3 29 (12.55%) WCAG
4 9 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.60%) GDPR
6 4 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.87%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) WAI
9 1 (0.43%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 40 (17.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Varnish
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.49%) Grafana
2 15 (6.49%) Terraform
3 7 (3.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (10.82%) Oracle
2 24 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.52%) Adobe
4 19 (8.23%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.63%) Google
6 10 (4.33%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.46%) Optimizely
7 8 (3.46%) OutSystems
8 7 (3.03%) Braze
9 6 (2.60%) Splunk
10 4 (1.73%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.73%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.73%) Tealium
10 4 (1.73%) Workday
11 3 (1.30%) Qualtrics
11 3 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) IBM
12 2 (0.87%) Marketo
12 2 (0.87%) Veracode