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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 89 102
Rank change year-on-year -49 +13 -22
Contract jobs citing CSS 275 399 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 2.80% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 10.95% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 238 282
10th Percentile £350 £275 £319
25th Percentile £420 £401 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £766 £747
England median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £44.38 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £47.19 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £53.75 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +36.08% +15.40% -55.24%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £62.13 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £63.00 £58.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.01% -1.88% -7.69%

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 3,770 3,643 4,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 25.61% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 2,376 3,450
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £35.05 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -18.07%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £69.25
90th Percentile £71.60 £72.80 £75.29
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -11 51 £528 -4.09% 39
East London +6 5 £520 - 17
West London -14 5 £350 -14.43% 21
South London -10 2 £775 +8.77% 15
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 13 (4.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.55%) Confluence
3 6 (2.18%) CMS
3 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.09%) Joomla!
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) Camunda
5 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.36%) SugarCRM
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.18%) Sketch
3 4 (1.45%) Trello
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.09%) InVision
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) InDesign
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.82%) Azure
2 68 (24.73%) AWS
3 42 (15.27%) GitHub
4 25 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (8.73%) Figma
6 21 (7.64%) GCP
7 16 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.82%) Serverless
8 15 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.09%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.36%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.64%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.27%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.55%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (2.18%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.18%) npm
14 6 (2.18%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.18%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) HTTP
2 3 (1.09%) SMS
3 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) BGP
4 1 (0.36%) DKIM
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) FTP
4 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) OSPF
4 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.36%) Skype
4 1 (0.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.45%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.73%) SQL Server
4 19 (6.91%) MongoDB
5 17 (6.18%) NoSQL
6 15 (5.45%) MySQL
7 11 (4.00%) Redis
8 10 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.27%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.18%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.45%) DB2
12 4 (1.45%) Power BI
13 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
13 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.09%) Mixpanel
13 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 2 (0.73%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (29.82%) Git
2 25 (9.09%) JIRA
3 24 (8.73%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.27%) Cypress.io
5 19 (6.91%) webpack
6 17 (6.18%) JUnit
7 15 (5.45%) Mockito
8 12 (4.36%) Maven
9 10 (3.64%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.27%) GitLab
10 9 (3.27%) Postman
10 9 (3.27%) Selenium
11 6 (2.18%) Eclipse
11 6 (2.18%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.18%) SoapUI
11 6 (2.18%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.82%) Subversion
12 5 (1.82%) Xcode
General
1 83 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.09%) Finance
3 32 (11.64%) Banking
4 26 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.45%) Marketing
7 11 (4.00%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Front Office
10 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.45%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Publishing
11 3 (1.09%) Advertising
11 3 (1.09%) Automotive
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (62.18%) Developer
2 39 (14.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (12.73%) Senior
4 29 (10.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 22 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 22 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 16 (5.82%) Designer
6 16 (5.82%) React Developer
7 11 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 11 (4.00%) Python Developer
7 11 (4.00%) Software Engineer
8 10 (3.64%) Consultant
9 9 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.27%) Lead
10 8 (2.91%) UX Designer
11 7 (2.55%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (2.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 7 (2.55%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (88.73%) HTML
2 132 (48.00%) React
3 78 (28.36%) AngularJS
4 64 (23.27%) REST
5 56 (20.36%) HTML5
6 43 (15.64%) RESTful
7 41 (14.91%) Node.js
8 38 (13.82%) Spring
9 31 (11.27%) JSON
9 31 (11.27%) Vue
10 30 (10.91%) CSS3
11 27 (9.82%) .NET
12 25 (9.09%) Spring Boot
13 23 (8.36%) Bootstrap
13 23 (8.36%) Sass
14 22 (8.00%) Jest
15 21 (7.64%) jQuery
16 19 (6.91%) SOAP
17 18 (6.55%) Tailwind CSS
17 18 (6.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.45%) Mobile App
2 14 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.55%) CMDB
6 7 (2.55%) Derivative
6 7 (2.55%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.55%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.64%) Linux
2 8 (2.91%) Unix
3 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.09%) CentOS
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (46.55%) Agile
2 89 (32.36%) CI/CD
3 84 (30.55%) User Experience
4 67 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (23.27%) Front End Development
6 58 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.36%) DevOps
8 38 (13.82%) UX Design
9 35 (12.73%) Microservices
10 34 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 32 (11.64%) Containerisation
12 30 (10.91%) Scrum
13 29 (10.55%) SDLC
14 28 (10.18%) Test Automation
15 27 (9.82%) Analytics
16 26 (9.45%) Unit Testing
17 25 (9.09%) Design Patterns
17 25 (9.09%) TDD
18 21 (7.64%) Code Quality
18 21 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 203 (73.82%) JavaScript
2 78 (28.36%) SQL
3 77 (28.00%) TypeScript
4 76 (27.64%) Java
5 46 (16.73%) Python
6 13 (4.73%) C#
7 11 (4.00%) Ruby
8 9 (3.27%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.91%) Groovy
10 7 (2.55%) JSX
10 7 (2.55%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.18%) PHP
11 6 (2.18%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.82%) ABAP
12 5 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.82%) C
12 5 (1.82%) C++
13 4 (1.45%) COBOL
13 4 (1.45%) Go
14 3 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.00%) Degree
4 17 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.09%) MCP
6 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CCNP
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) Accessibility
2 27 (9.82%) QA
3 21 (7.64%) WCAG
4 7 (2.55%) GDPR
5 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.91%) Terraform
3 7 (2.55%) Argo
4 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.36%) Control-M
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (12.36%) Oracle
2 27 (9.82%) Adobe
3 22 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.18%) Google
5 14 (5.09%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.91%) SAP
8 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.82%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.82%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.82%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.82%) Splunk
11 4 (1.45%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.73%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.73%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.73%) Marketo
12 2 (0.73%) Zend