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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 84 107
Rank change year-on-year -57 +23 -40
Contract jobs citing CSS 284 462 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 2.94% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.65% 11.24% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 289 333
10th Percentile £320 £285 £308
25th Percentile £385 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -8.85%
75th Percentile £601 £644 £619
90th Percentile £655 £775 £738
England median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £29.75 £38.73 £34.41
25th Percentile £32.63 £39.44 £45.71
Median hourly rate £34.50 £41.25 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -40.30% -9.64%
75th Percentile £48.67 £42.44 £75.58
90th Percentile £55.64 £42.78 £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% -8.00%

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 3,711 4,111 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.61% 26.15% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,694 3,999
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £707 £700
90th Percentile £796 £850 £800
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -22.41% +0.87%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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 +3 59 £523 -7.07% 115
East London +8 5 £520 +7.22% 49
West London -26 5 £365 -26.63% 43
South London -11 2 £775 +5.98% 28
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 11 (3.87%) Confluence
2 8 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.11%) CMS
4 5 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 2 (0.70%) Appian
6 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Moodle
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.52%) Adobe XD
1 10 (3.52%) Sketch
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) InVision
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.35%) InDesign
4 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
4 1 (0.35%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Shopify
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (28.87%) Azure
2 66 (23.24%) AWS
3 43 (15.14%) GitHub
4 24 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (7.04%) Figma
5 20 (7.04%) GCP
6 18 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.99%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.58%) Serverless
9 11 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.87%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.52%) PowerApps
11 9 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.82%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.46%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.46%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.46%) npm
13 7 (2.46%) SaaS
14 6 (2.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.52%) HTTP
2 5 (1.76%) DNS
3 3 (1.06%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.35%) DKIM
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (12.32%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.75%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.75%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.39%) MongoDB
5 13 (4.58%) MySQL
5 13 (4.58%) Redis
6 8 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.11%) Power BI
8 5 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.41%) DB2
9 4 (1.41%) Spark SQL
9 4 (1.41%) Tableau
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.06%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 95 (33.45%) Git
2 27 (9.51%) JIRA
3 24 (8.45%) webpack
4 23 (8.10%) Jenkins
5 20 (7.04%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.23%) JUnit
7 11 (3.87%) Mockito
8 10 (3.52%) Maven
9 9 (3.17%) Jasmine
9 9 (3.17%) Selenium
10 8 (2.82%) GitLab
10 8 (2.82%) Postman
10 8 (2.82%) Vite
11 7 (2.46%) Bitbucket
11 7 (2.46%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.11%) Axure RP
12 6 (2.11%) Mocha
12 6 (2.11%) Protractor
12 6 (2.11%) SoapUI
12 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
General
1 95 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.30%) Finance
3 35 (12.32%) Banking
4 31 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.99%) Marketing
7 9 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.76%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.76%) Front Office
9 5 (1.76%) Legal
9 5 (1.76%) Retail
10 4 (1.41%) Advertising
10 4 (1.41%) Military
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Publishing
12 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (59.51%) Developer
2 45 (15.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (10.21%) Senior
4 22 (7.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 21 (7.39%) React Developer
6 20 (7.04%) Designer
7 18 (6.34%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.34%) Lead
8 15 (5.28%) Angular Developer
9 14 (4.93%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.93%) UX Designer
10 11 (3.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 11 (3.87%) Python Developer
10 11 (3.87%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.52%) UI Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Consultant
12 9 (3.17%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.82%) Applications Developer
13 8 (2.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (88.73%) HTML
2 124 (43.66%) React
3 72 (25.35%) AngularJS
3 72 (25.35%) REST
4 70 (24.65%) HTML5
5 56 (19.72%) RESTful
6 46 (16.20%) Node.js
7 41 (14.44%) CSS3
8 39 (13.73%) .NET
9 37 (13.03%) Spring
10 32 (11.27%) Vue
11 31 (10.92%) Bootstrap
11 31 (10.92%) JSON
12 30 (10.56%) Jest
13 29 (10.21%) Sass
14 27 (9.51%) jQuery
15 24 (8.45%) Web Services
16 21 (7.39%) Redux
16 21 (7.39%) Spring Boot
17 18 (6.34%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.75%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.82%) Reinsurance
8 7 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.46%) Derivative
8 7 (2.46%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.06%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.52%) Android
1 10 (3.52%) Apple iOS
1 10 (3.52%) Linux
2 8 (2.82%) Unix
3 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.06%) CentOS
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (51.06%) Agile
2 99 (34.86%) CI/CD
3 76 (26.76%) User Experience
4 71 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (21.48%) Front End Development
7 51 (17.96%) DevOps
8 41 (14.44%) UX Design
9 40 (14.08%) Scrum
10 38 (13.38%) Microservices
11 31 (10.92%) Responsive Web Design
11 31 (10.92%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.21%) SDLC
12 29 (10.21%) Test Automation
12 29 (10.21%) Unit Testing
13 25 (8.80%) Code Quality
13 25 (8.80%) Web Development
14 23 (8.10%) Containerisation
14 23 (8.10%) Design Patterns
14 23 (8.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 219 (77.11%) JavaScript
2 88 (30.99%) TypeScript
3 79 (27.82%) SQL
4 68 (23.94%) Java
5 40 (14.08%) Python
6 26 (9.15%) C#
7 9 (3.17%) PHP
7 9 (3.17%) Ruby
8 8 (2.82%) Groovy
8 8 (2.82%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.46%) C++
9 7 (2.46%) JSX
9 7 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.76%) ABAP
11 5 (1.76%) C
12 4 (1.41%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.41%) COBOL
13 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) Degree
4 15 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (20.07%) Accessibility
2 30 (10.56%) QA
3 21 (7.39%) WCAG
4 7 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.41%) GDPR
6 2 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (15.85%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Argo
3 6 (2.11%) Terraform
4 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (12.32%) Oracle
2 26 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.04%) Google
4 16 (5.63%) Adobe
5 12 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.82%) SAP
7 7 (2.46%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.76%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.76%) Splunk
10 4 (1.41%) Foundry
10 4 (1.41%) Palantir
10 4 (1.41%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.70%) Marketo