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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -67 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing CSS 273 373 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 2.74% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.85% 10.40% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 222 297
10th Percentile £350 £326 £316
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £629 £650
90th Percentile £688 £749 £750
England median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -53.26%
75th Percentile £55.63 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £60.50 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% +2.50% -12.73%

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 3,984 3,587 4,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.98% 26.37% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,695 2,370 3,456
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 29
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.63
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +13.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.92
England median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -23 47 £528 +0.48% 32
West London -19 4 £358 -12.59% 18
East London -1 3 £450 -14.29% 21
South London -16 2 £775 +6.90% 4
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 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.56%) CMS
2 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) Joomla!
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Kentico
5 1 (0.37%) Moodle
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%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.66%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.20%) 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
5 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.37%) InDesign
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.94%) Azure
2 72 (26.37%) AWS
3 43 (15.75%) GitHub
4 24 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.06%) GCP
6 21 (7.69%) Figma
7 17 (6.23%) Serverless
8 16 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.40%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.30%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (2.56%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.56%) PowerApps
15 6 (2.20%) npm
16 5 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.83%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) HTTP
2 3 (1.10%) DNS
2 3 (1.10%) Firewall
2 3 (1.10%) Network Security
2 3 (1.10%) SMS
3 2 (0.73%) BGP
3 2 (0.73%) LAN
3 2 (0.73%) OSPF
3 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.73%) RTMP
3 2 (0.73%) SSL
3 2 (0.73%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) DHCP
4 1 (0.37%) DKIM
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Skype
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.33%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.33%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.96%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.76%) MySQL
5 12 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.56%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.47%) Power BI
10 3 (1.10%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.10%) Mixpanel
10 3 (1.10%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.73%) Big Data
11 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
11 2 (0.73%) Redis
11 2 (0.73%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 73 (26.74%) Git
2 23 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.06%) JIRA
4 18 (6.59%) Cypress.io
5 16 (5.86%) GitLab
6 14 (5.13%) JUnit
7 12 (4.40%) Mockito
7 12 (4.40%) webpack
8 10 (3.66%) Maven
9 8 (2.93%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.56%) Selenium
11 6 (2.20%) Postman
12 5 (1.83%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.47%) Snyk
13 4 (1.47%) Vite
14 3 (1.10%) Ant
14 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.10%) Gradle
14 3 (1.10%) Jasmine
14 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.41%) Finance
3 30 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.26%) Banking
5 27 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.13%) Marketing
7 12 (4.40%) Front Office
8 11 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.83%) Legal
9 5 (1.83%) Military
10 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.47%) Publishing
11 3 (1.10%) Advertising
11 3 (1.10%) Retail
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (63.37%) Developer
2 42 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (14.29%) Senior
4 30 (10.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 24 (8.79%) Senior Developer
6 21 (7.69%) React Developer
7 16 (5.86%) Designer
8 13 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.66%) Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.30%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 7 (2.56%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.56%) Lead
13 7 (2.56%) Senior Designer
13 7 (2.56%) UI Developer
14 6 (2.20%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (89.74%) HTML
2 130 (47.62%) React
3 81 (29.67%) AngularJS
4 62 (22.71%) REST
5 51 (18.68%) HTML5
6 49 (17.95%) Node.js
7 38 (13.92%) RESTful
8 34 (12.45%) Spring
9 32 (11.72%) CSS3
9 32 (11.72%) Vue
10 30 (10.99%) .NET
11 23 (8.42%) Spring Boot
12 22 (8.06%) Jest
13 21 (7.69%) JSON
13 21 (7.69%) Redux
13 21 (7.69%) Sass
14 19 (6.96%) SOAP
15 17 (6.23%) Web Services
16 15 (5.49%) Bootstrap
16 15 (5.49%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.93%) CMDB
6 7 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.20%) Derivative
7 6 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.83%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.10%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.93%) Linux
2 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
2 6 (2.20%) Unix
3 4 (1.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.10%) CentOS
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.39%) Agile
2 96 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 76 (27.84%) User Experience
4 71 (26.01%) Full-Stack Development
5 58 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (18.32%) DevOps
6 50 (18.32%) Front End Development
7 38 (13.92%) Containerisation
7 38 (13.92%) UX Design
8 36 (13.19%) Software Engineering
9 35 (12.82%) Microservices
10 32 (11.72%) Design Patterns
11 30 (10.99%) Scrum
12 28 (10.26%) Test Automation
13 26 (9.52%) Analytics
14 25 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (8.79%) AI
15 24 (8.79%) SDLC
16 23 (8.42%) Responsive Web Design
16 23 (8.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 202 (73.99%) JavaScript
2 84 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 74 (27.11%) Java
4 63 (23.08%) SQL
5 54 (19.78%) Python
6 22 (8.06%) C#
7 10 (3.66%) Ruby
8 9 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.56%) JSX
10 6 (2.20%) Groovy
10 6 (2.20%) PHP
11 5 (1.83%) ABAP
11 5 (1.83%) C
12 4 (1.47%) C++
12 4 (1.47%) Go
12 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.10%) COBOL
13 3 (1.10%) Perl
13 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.69%) Degree
4 13 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.10%) CCNP
5 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) 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%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.33%) QA
3 19 (6.96%) WCAG
4 8 (2.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) NCSC
5 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (17.95%) Docker
2 6 (2.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.66%) Terraform
3 7 (2.56%) Argo
4 5 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.62%) Adobe
2 26 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.69%) Oracle
4 16 (5.86%) Google
5 12 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.03%) SAP
7 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.30%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.83%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.10%) Symantec
11 2 (0.73%) Aruba
11 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.73%) Cisco
11 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.73%) Splunk
11 2 (0.73%) Sybase
11 2 (0.73%) Zend