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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 117 97
Rank change year-on-year -55 -20 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 262 298 428
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 2.34% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.19% 9.00% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 218 314
10th Percentile £340 £363 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £788 £764
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £28.85 £34.23 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.69 £28.51
Median hourly rate £48.75 £38.75 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% +13.20% -49.29%
75th Percentile £58.56 £41.19 £39.95
90th Percentile £67.23 £42.28 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £54.94 £53.09
% change year-on-year -45.39% +3.48% -9.63%

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 4,231 3,312 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.29% 26.06% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,853 2,321 3,341
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -18 36 £540 +2.86% 49
East London -5 3 £410 -21.90% 16
West London -24 2 - - 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 15 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (3.05%) CMS
4 6 (2.29%) Confluence
5 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.91%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.15%) Joomla!
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.76%) Camunda
7 2 (0.76%) IIS
8 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.38%) Apache
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.38%) Drupal
8 1 (0.38%) Moodle
8 1 (0.38%) Mule
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.29%) Sketch
3 4 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.53%) Trello
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.15%) InVision
4 3 (1.15%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Magento
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.34%) Azure
2 59 (22.52%) AWS
3 24 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.78%) GitHub
4 23 (8.78%) Serverless
5 22 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.63%) Figma
7 18 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (5.73%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.34%) Power Automate
11 13 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (4.96%) PowerApps
12 12 (4.58%) GCP
13 10 (3.82%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.29%) npm
14 6 (2.29%) Yarn
15 5 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.91%) HTTP
2 3 (1.15%) Firewall
2 3 (1.15%) Network Security
2 3 (1.15%) SMS
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) OSPF
3 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.76%) RTMP
3 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.16%) NoSQL
2 24 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.73%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.58%) MySQL
6 9 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.44%) Power BI
7 8 (3.05%) Big Data
8 7 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.67%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.91%) Tableau
11 4 (1.53%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.53%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.53%) Presto
11 4 (1.53%) Redis
12 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 52 (19.85%) Git
2 26 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.63%) JIRA
4 17 (6.49%) GitLab
5 15 (5.73%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.20%) JUnit
7 10 (3.82%) Vite
7 10 (3.82%) webpack
8 9 (3.44%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.44%) Mockito
9 8 (3.05%) Maven
10 6 (2.29%) Selenium
11 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.91%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.91%) MSTest
11 5 (1.91%) Postman
12 3 (1.15%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.15%) Spinnaker
12 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.15%) tSQLt
General
1 61 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.79%) Finance
3 41 (15.65%) Banking
4 26 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.11%) Investment Banking
7 15 (5.73%) Marketing
8 12 (4.58%) Front Office
9 8 (3.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.91%) Legal
10 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.91%) Publishing
11 3 (1.15%) Advertising
11 3 (1.15%) Games
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
12 2 (0.76%) Automotive
12 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (59.54%) Developer
2 43 (16.41%) Senior
3 27 (10.31%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (9.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 19 (7.25%) React Developer
7 15 (5.73%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.34%) Designer
8 14 (5.34%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.82%) Consultant
10 9 (3.44%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.44%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.05%) Architect
11 8 (3.05%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.05%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.67%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (88.17%) HTML
2 119 (45.42%) React
3 77 (29.39%) AngularJS
4 61 (23.28%) REST
5 49 (18.70%) HTML5
6 43 (16.41%) RESTful
7 36 (13.74%) .NET
8 33 (12.60%) Node.js
9 32 (12.21%) CSS3
10 29 (11.07%) Redux
11 25 (9.54%) Spring
12 24 (9.16%) Vue
13 18 (6.87%) JSON
13 18 (6.87%) Spring Boot
14 17 (6.49%) jQuery
14 17 (6.49%) SOAP
15 16 (6.11%) Jest
16 14 (5.34%) Next.js
16 14 (5.34%) OAuth
16 14 (5.34%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.11%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.05%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.91%) CMDB
6 5 (1.91%) Derivative
7 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.15%) PropTech
9 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.05%) Unix
2 8 (3.05%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Android
3 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (41.22%) Agile
2 81 (30.92%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.10%) User Experience
4 60 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (19.08%) DevOps
6 47 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (16.41%) Front End Development
8 38 (14.50%) Microservices
9 37 (14.12%) Software Engineering
9 37 (14.12%) Test Automation
10 36 (13.74%) Scrum
11 32 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (11.45%) Containerisation
13 29 (11.07%) Design Patterns
14 28 (10.69%) AI
15 27 (10.31%) Analytics
16 24 (9.16%) UX Design
17 20 (7.63%) Unit Testing
18 18 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (6.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 190 (72.52%) JavaScript
2 78 (29.77%) TypeScript
3 77 (29.39%) SQL
4 59 (22.52%) Java
5 52 (19.85%) Python
6 29 (11.07%) C#
7 9 (3.44%) Ruby
7 9 (3.44%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.67%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.91%) ABAP
10 5 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.15%) JSX
12 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.76%) Go
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.38%) F#
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.20%) Degree
4 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.15%) CCNP
6 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCNA
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.65%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.92%) WCAG
3 22 (8.40%) QA
4 9 (3.44%) GDPR
5 4 (1.53%) SLA
6 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (17.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.96%) Terraform
3 8 (3.05%) Grafana
4 5 (1.91%) Kibana
5 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.45%) Adobe
2 23 (8.78%) Oracle
3 21 (8.02%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.20%) Google
7 10 (3.82%) SAP
8 6 (2.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.91%) Qualtrics
10 4 (1.53%) Splunk
10 4 (1.53%) Workday
11 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.15%) Symantec
12 2 (0.76%) Botify
12 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.76%) Netskope
12 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.76%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.76%) Screaming Frog