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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 89 103
Rank change year-on-year -55 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing CSS 262 393 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.82% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 10.97% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 235 283
10th Percentile £350 £275 £325
25th Percentile £419 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £775 £746
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -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 £50.00 £58.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% -1.88% -9.43%

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 3,715 3,583 4,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.46% 25.74% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,510 2,345 3,443
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.54% -3.67%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -16 46 £540 -1.82% 31
West London -15 5 £350 -14.43% 12
East London -2 3 £450 - 17
South London -11 2 £775 +8.77% 9
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 (4.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (2.29%) CMS
2 6 (2.29%) Confluence
2 6 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) Joomla!
4 2 (0.76%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Camunda
4 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.38%) CICS
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.29%) Sketch
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%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.38%) InDesign
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.34%) AWS
2 67 (25.57%) Azure
3 42 (16.03%) GitHub
4 25 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (9.16%) Figma
6 21 (8.02%) GCP
7 16 (6.11%) Serverless
8 15 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.58%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.82%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.44%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.67%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (2.29%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.29%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.29%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.91%) npm
15 5 (1.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.29%) HTTP
2 3 (1.15%) SMS
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) OSPF
3 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) DKIM
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 19 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 18 (6.87%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.49%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.34%) MySQL
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.05%) Redis
9 6 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.29%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.53%) DB2
10 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.53%) Power BI
11 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.15%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.76%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 75 (28.63%) Git
2 22 (8.40%) JIRA
3 20 (7.63%) Cypress.io
3 20 (7.63%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.49%) webpack
5 15 (5.73%) JUnit
6 13 (4.96%) Mockito
7 9 (3.44%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.44%) GitLab
7 9 (3.44%) Maven
8 8 (3.05%) Selenium
9 6 (2.29%) Postman
10 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.91%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.91%) Storybook
10 5 (1.91%) Vite
11 4 (1.53%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.53%) Snyk
11 4 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.61%) Finance
3 29 (11.07%) Banking
4 25 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.73%) Marketing
6 10 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.67%) Front Office
7 7 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.53%) Military
8 4 (1.53%) Publishing
9 3 (1.15%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 165 (62.98%) Developer
2 39 (14.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (13.36%) Senior
4 29 (11.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 22 (8.40%) Senior Developer
6 20 (7.63%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.49%) React Developer
8 14 (5.34%) Designer
9 12 (4.58%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.20%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 11 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Consultant
12 9 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) Lead
13 8 (3.05%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 7 (2.67%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 7 (2.67%) Software Developer
15 6 (2.29%) .NET Developer
15 6 (2.29%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (88.55%) HTML
2 131 (50.00%) React
3 77 (29.39%) AngularJS
4 60 (22.90%) REST
5 52 (19.85%) HTML5
6 42 (16.03%) Node.js
7 41 (15.65%) RESTful
8 35 (13.36%) Spring
9 31 (11.83%) Vue
10 28 (10.69%) CSS3
10 28 (10.69%) JSON
11 25 (9.54%) .NET
12 23 (8.78%) Jest
13 22 (8.40%) Spring Boot
14 21 (8.02%) Sass
15 20 (7.63%) Bootstrap
16 19 (7.25%) jQuery
17 18 (6.87%) Redux
17 18 (6.87%) Tailwind CSS
18 17 (6.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.58%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.67%) CMDB
4 7 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.67%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.29%) Derivative
5 6 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.29%) Reinsurance
6 5 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) PropTech
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.82%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
3 4 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.15%) CentOS
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.27%) Agile
2 87 (33.21%) CI/CD
3 80 (30.53%) User Experience
4 66 (25.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (23.28%) Front End Development
6 54 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (16.41%) DevOps
8 36 (13.74%) UX Design
9 34 (12.98%) Software Engineering
10 33 (12.60%) Containerisation
11 31 (11.83%) Microservices
12 27 (10.31%) Analytics
12 27 (10.31%) Scrum
13 25 (9.54%) Design Patterns
13 25 (9.54%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.16%) SDLC
14 24 (9.16%) Unit Testing
15 21 (8.02%) TDD
16 19 (7.25%) Code Quality
16 19 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 194 (74.05%) JavaScript
2 77 (29.39%) TypeScript
3 71 (27.10%) Java
4 69 (26.34%) SQL
5 45 (17.18%) Python
6 13 (4.96%) C#
7 11 (4.20%) Ruby
8 9 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.67%) JSX
10 6 (2.29%) Groovy
10 6 (2.29%) PHP
11 5 (1.91%) ABAP
11 5 (1.91%) C
11 5 (1.91%) C++
12 4 (1.53%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.53%) COBOL
12 4 (1.53%) Go
12 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.40%) Degree
4 16 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.15%) MCP
6 2 (0.76%) CCNP
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.27%) Accessibility
2 25 (9.54%) QA
3 21 (8.02%) WCAG
4 7 (2.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (17.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.05%) Terraform
3 7 (2.67%) Argo
4 5 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
6 1 (0.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 28 (10.69%) Oracle
2 27 (10.31%) Adobe
3 22 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.49%) Google
5 14 (5.34%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.82%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.05%) SAP
8 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.91%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.91%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.53%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.15%) Splunk
12 2 (0.76%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
12 2 (0.76%) Tealium