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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 103 102
Rank change year-on-year -61 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing CSS 272 328 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 2.54% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.62% 9.79% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 204 302
10th Percentile £342 £363 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £609 £623 £650
90th Percentile £698 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 £27.04
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £27.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £31.49
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +25.44% -57.00%
75th Percentile £55.63 £41.88 £37.62
90th Percentile £60.50 £42.55 £39.02
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -48.05% +0.43% -14.81%

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 4,106 3,351 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.29% 25.94% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 2,298 3,328
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -5.27%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 29
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £26.88
Median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +6.66% -35.87%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £80.10 £75.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -28 40 £550 +4.76% 54
West London -18 3 £350 -14.43% 14
East London -2 2 £450 -14.29% 24
South London -14 1 £750 +3.45% 5
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 15 (5.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 8 (2.94%) CMS
2 8 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) Joomla!
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Camunda
4 2 (0.74%) Moodle
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) Kentico
5 1 (0.37%) Mule
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.68%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.94%) Sketch
3 4 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.47%) Trello
4 3 (1.10%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.10%) InVision
4 3 (1.10%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.41%) Azure
2 69 (25.37%) AWS
3 40 (14.71%) GitHub
4 26 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.19%) Figma
5 25 (9.19%) Serverless
6 21 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (6.25%) GCP
8 16 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.68%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.57%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (2.57%) npm
14 7 (2.57%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.57%) PowerApps
15 6 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.21%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.84%) HTTP
2 3 (1.10%) Firewall
2 3 (1.10%) Network Security
2 3 (1.10%) SMS
3 2 (0.74%) BGP
3 2 (0.74%) LAN
3 2 (0.74%) OSPF
3 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.74%) RTMP
3 2 (0.74%) SSL
3 2 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) DHCP
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.72%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.15%) MySQL
6 12 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.57%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.47%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.47%) Power BI
11 4 (1.47%) Redis
12 3 (1.10%) Big Data
12 3 (1.10%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.74%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.74%) Text Mining
14 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (25.37%) Git
2 25 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.99%) Cypress.io
3 19 (6.99%) JIRA
4 18 (6.62%) GitLab
5 14 (5.15%) JUnit
6 12 (4.41%) Maven
6 12 (4.41%) Mockito
6 12 (4.41%) webpack
7 10 (3.68%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.94%) Selenium
9 6 (2.21%) Jasmine
9 6 (2.21%) Postman
9 6 (2.21%) Vite
10 5 (1.84%) MSTest
11 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.10%) Gradle
11 3 (1.10%) Mocha
11 3 (1.10%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.12%) Finance
3 33 (12.13%) Banking
4 28 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.41%) Front Office
6 12 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 11 (4.04%) Marketing
8 6 (2.21%) Retail
9 5 (1.84%) Legal
9 5 (1.84%) Publishing
10 4 (1.47%) Military
11 3 (1.10%) Advertising
11 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.74%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 173 (63.60%) Developer
2 44 (16.18%) Senior
3 37 (13.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (11.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 26 (9.56%) Senior Developer
6 20 (7.35%) React Developer
7 17 (6.25%) Designer
8 16 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 11 (4.04%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.31%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.94%) C# Developer
11 8 (2.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.94%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.57%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.57%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.57%) Senior Designer
13 6 (2.21%) Senior Python Developer
13 6 (2.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (86.76%) HTML
2 132 (48.53%) React
3 87 (31.99%) AngularJS
4 62 (22.79%) REST
5 50 (18.38%) HTML5
6 47 (17.28%) Node.js
7 44 (16.18%) RESTful
8 36 (13.24%) Spring
8 36 (13.24%) Vue
9 35 (12.87%) .NET
10 32 (11.76%) CSS3
11 24 (8.82%) Sass
12 23 (8.46%) Redux
12 23 (8.46%) Spring Boot
13 22 (8.09%) Jest
14 21 (7.72%) JSON
15 16 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
15 16 (5.88%) Web Services
16 15 (5.51%) Bootstrap
17 14 (5.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.15%) Cloud Native
1 14 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (4.04%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.94%) CMDB
4 8 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.57%) Derivative
6 5 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.84%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.10%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.10%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.57%) Linux
1 7 (2.57%) Windows
2 6 (2.21%) Unix
3 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.74%) Android
4 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (40.81%) Agile
2 97 (35.66%) CI/CD
3 71 (26.10%) User Experience
4 67 (24.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 58 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (20.22%) DevOps
7 52 (19.12%) Front End Development
8 45 (16.54%) Microservices
9 39 (14.34%) Software Engineering
10 37 (13.60%) Containerisation
11 35 (12.87%) Design Patterns
12 33 (12.13%) Test Automation
13 30 (11.03%) Scrum
14 29 (10.66%) Unit Testing
15 27 (9.93%) UX Design
16 26 (9.56%) AI
16 26 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (8.46%) Analytics
18 22 (8.09%) Responsive Web Design
18 22 (8.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 198 (72.79%) JavaScript
2 91 (33.46%) TypeScript
3 69 (25.37%) Java
4 62 (22.79%) SQL
5 55 (20.22%) Python
6 27 (9.93%) C#
7 11 (4.04%) Ruby
8 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.57%) JSX
10 5 (1.84%) ABAP
11 4 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.10%) Go
12 3 (1.10%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.74%) C
13 2 (0.74%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) Groovy
13 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.62%) Degree
4 10 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.10%) CCNP
5 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.44%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.46%) WCAG
3 22 (8.09%) QA
4 7 (2.57%) GDPR
5 4 (1.47%) SLA
6 3 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (15.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.68%) Terraform
3 7 (2.57%) Argo
4 4 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.66%) Adobe
2 25 (9.19%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.62%) Oracle
4 12 (4.41%) Google
5 10 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.31%) SAP
6 9 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.10%) Symantec
10 2 (0.74%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.74%) mParticle
10 2 (0.74%) Netskope
10 2 (0.74%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.74%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.74%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.74%) Tealium