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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 118 90
Rank change year-on-year -104 -28 0
Contract jobs citing CSS 232 314 485
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 2.32% 2.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 8.89% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 220 369
10th Percentile £373 £313 £335
25th Percentile £405 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £479 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £663 £788 £768
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £30.08 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £56.25 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £72.08 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +51.88%

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 4,494 3,532 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,453 3,386
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -45 23 £408 -22.38% 9
South London - 6 £550 - 4
East London +2 4 £410 -22.64% 9
West London -14 1 - - 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 20 (8.62%) CMS
2 18 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (3.88%) Confluence
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.72%) Kentico
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.29%) WordPress
8 2 (0.86%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.86%) Camunda
8 2 (0.86%) Drupal
8 2 (0.86%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.43%) Apache
9 1 (0.43%) Mule
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.43%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.29%) Sketch
1 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.86%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.86%) Magento
1 2 (0.86%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.72%) Azure
2 49 (21.12%) AWS
3 25 (10.78%) Power Platform
4 21 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.05%) Serverless
5 18 (7.76%) Power Automate
6 16 (6.90%) Figma
6 16 (6.90%) PowerApps
7 15 (6.47%) GCP
8 14 (6.03%) GitHub
9 12 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.02%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.59%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.59%) SaaS
13 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.45%) HTTP
2 5 (2.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) Skype
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.33%) NoSQL
4 15 (6.47%) MySQL
5 14 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.74%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.45%) Power BI
8 7 (3.02%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.02%) Tableau
9 6 (2.59%) Big Data
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.16%) Metadata
11 4 (1.72%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.72%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.72%) Presto
11 4 (1.72%) Redis
11 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (21.98%) Git
2 24 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.76%) Cypress.io
3 18 (7.76%) JIRA
4 14 (6.03%) GitLab
5 13 (5.60%) Maven
6 10 (4.31%) Storybook
6 10 (4.31%) Vite
7 8 (3.45%) JUnit
7 8 (3.45%) MSTest
8 7 (3.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.59%) Mocha
9 6 (2.59%) tSQLt
9 6 (2.59%) webpack
10 5 (2.16%) Gradle
10 5 (2.16%) Jasmine
10 5 (2.16%) Mockito
10 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.40%) Finance
3 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.79%) Banking
4 22 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.62%) Marketing
6 14 (6.03%) Retail
7 10 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.59%) Front Office
9 5 (2.16%) Publishing
9 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Games
11 3 (1.29%) Legal
11 3 (1.29%) Local Government
12 2 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 129 (55.60%) Developer
2 33 (14.22%) Senior
3 26 (11.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 25 (10.78%) React Developer
5 19 (8.19%) Senior Developer
6 18 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (6.03%) Consultant
8 13 (5.60%) Architect
8 13 (5.60%) Designer
8 13 (5.60%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.60%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.88%) Angular Developer
9 9 (3.88%) UI Developer
10 8 (3.45%) Lead
10 8 (3.45%) Low-Code Developer
10 8 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.45%) Web Developer
11 7 (3.02%) Braze Specialist
11 7 (3.02%) C# Developer
11 7 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (84.05%) HTML
2 93 (40.09%) React
3 70 (30.17%) REST
4 55 (23.71%) HTML5
5 50 (21.55%) AngularJS
6 48 (20.69%) RESTful
7 45 (19.40%) .NET
8 43 (18.53%) CSS3
9 32 (13.79%) Redux
10 29 (12.50%) Node.js
11 26 (11.21%) OAuth
12 24 (10.34%) SOAP
13 21 (9.05%) jQuery
13 21 (9.05%) Spring
14 20 (8.62%) Jest
14 20 (8.62%) Spring Boot
15 17 (7.33%) Tailwind CSS
15 17 (7.33%) Vue
16 15 (6.47%) JSON
16 15 (6.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.45%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.29%) CMDB
11 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.29%) Equities
11 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.88%) Linux
1 9 (3.88%) Windows
2 8 (3.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.97%) Agile
2 82 (35.34%) CI/CD
3 58 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (25.00%) User Experience
4 53 (22.84%) DevOps
5 51 (21.98%) Microservices
6 48 (20.69%) Test Automation
7 45 (19.40%) Front End Development
8 44 (18.97%) Scrum
9 43 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (13.36%) AI
11 30 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.93%) Software Engineering
12 26 (11.21%) Clean Code
13 25 (10.78%) UX Design
14 24 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (9.91%) API Integration
15 23 (9.91%) Code Quality
15 23 (9.91%) Design Patterns
16 22 (9.48%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 175 (75.43%) JavaScript
2 77 (33.19%) SQL
2 77 (33.19%) TypeScript
3 44 (18.97%) Java
4 42 (18.10%) Python
5 35 (15.09%) C#
6 14 (6.03%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.60%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.16%) Scala
10 4 (1.72%) Ruby
11 3 (1.29%) PHP
11 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.74%) Degree
4 10 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CCNA
6 1 (0.43%) CCNP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.53%) Accessibility
2 34 (14.66%) QA
3 27 (11.64%) WCAG
4 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.86%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) WAI
7 1 (0.43%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 39 (16.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.47%) Terraform
3 11 (4.74%) Grafana
4 7 (3.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.16%) Kibana
6 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.93%) Oracle
2 24 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.62%) Adobe
4 16 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.45%) Google
5 8 (3.45%) OutSystems
6 7 (3.02%) Braze
6 7 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.16%) Optimizely
7 5 (2.16%) SAP
7 5 (2.16%) Workday
8 4 (1.72%) Splunk
9 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.29%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.29%) Sybase
10 2 (0.86%) ESRI
10 2 (0.86%) IBM
10 2 (0.86%) Marketo
10 2 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Veracode