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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 111 101
Rank change year-on-year -58 -10 -9
Contract jobs citing CSS 268 321 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 2.50% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.48% 9.55% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 204 305
10th Percentile £338 £366 £325
25th Percentile £413 £446 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £746 £765
England median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £28.51
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -51.10%
75th Percentile £50.63 £41.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £52.50 £42.55 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -48.05% +0.43% -13.21%

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 4,138 3,363 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.84% 26.20% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 2,332 3,326
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £667 £706 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 38 £530 -3.64% 54
East London -5 3 £450 -14.29% 16
West London -19 2 - - 6
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 15 (5.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.36%) CMS
4 3 (1.12%) Confluence
4 3 (1.12%) Joomla!
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Drupal
6 1 (0.37%) Kentico
6 1 (0.37%) Moodle
6 1 (0.37%) Mule
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.73%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.99%) Sketch
3 4 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.49%) Trello
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.12%) InVision
4 3 (1.12%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.10%) Azure
2 68 (25.37%) AWS
3 39 (14.55%) GitHub
4 26 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.33%) Serverless
6 24 (8.96%) Figma
7 21 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.97%) GCP
9 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.22%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (3.73%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.36%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.36%) PowerApps
13 8 (2.99%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.61%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (2.61%) npm
15 6 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.24%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.12%) Firewall
2 3 (1.12%) Network Security
2 3 (1.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) LAN
3 2 (0.75%) OSPF
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) RTMP
3 2 (0.75%) SSL
3 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) DHCP
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.70%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.84%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.22%) MySQL
6 12 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.61%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.24%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.49%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.49%) Power BI
11 4 (1.49%) Redis
12 3 (1.12%) Big Data
12 3 (1.12%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.75%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.75%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.75%) Text Mining
14 1 (0.37%) Metabase
14 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 68 (25.37%) Git
2 25 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.46%) JIRA
4 19 (7.09%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.72%) GitLab
6 14 (5.22%) JUnit
7 12 (4.48%) Maven
7 12 (4.48%) Mockito
7 12 (4.48%) webpack
8 9 (3.36%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.99%) Vite
10 7 (2.61%) Selenium
11 6 (2.24%) Jasmine
11 6 (2.24%) Postman
12 5 (1.87%) MSTest
13 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.12%) Gradle
14 3 (1.12%) Mocha
14 3 (1.12%) Robot Framework
14 3 (1.12%) tSQLt
General
1 65 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.66%) Finance
3 35 (13.06%) Banking
4 28 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.85%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.48%) Front Office
7 12 (4.48%) Marketing
8 6 (2.24%) Publishing
8 6 (2.24%) Retail
9 5 (1.87%) Legal
10 4 (1.49%) Military
10 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
12 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 170 (63.43%) Developer
2 45 (16.79%) Senior
3 35 (13.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (11.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 27 (10.07%) Senior Developer
6 20 (7.46%) React Developer
7 17 (6.34%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.97%) Designer
8 16 (5.97%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.10%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.36%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.99%) C# Developer
11 8 (2.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.61%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.61%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.61%) Consultant
12 7 (2.61%) Senior Designer
12 7 (2.61%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (86.57%) HTML
2 134 (50.00%) React
3 85 (31.72%) AngularJS
4 64 (23.88%) REST
5 52 (19.40%) HTML5
6 47 (17.54%) Node.js
7 43 (16.04%) RESTful
8 36 (13.43%) Vue
9 35 (13.06%) Spring
10 34 (12.69%) .NET
10 34 (12.69%) CSS3
11 25 (9.33%) Redux
12 24 (8.96%) Sass
13 23 (8.58%) Spring Boot
14 22 (8.21%) Jest
15 17 (6.34%) Tailwind CSS
16 16 (5.97%) JSON
17 15 (5.60%) Bootstrap
18 14 (5.22%) SOAP
18 14 (5.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.36%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.99%) CMDB
5 8 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.87%) Derivative
7 5 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) PropTech
10 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.61%) Windows
2 6 (2.24%) Linux
3 5 (1.87%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.30%) Agile
2 97 (36.19%) CI/CD
3 71 (26.49%) User Experience
4 64 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (20.90%) DevOps
6 53 (19.78%) Front End Development
7 52 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (16.42%) Microservices
9 40 (14.93%) Software Engineering
10 37 (13.81%) Containerisation
11 33 (12.31%) Design Patterns
12 32 (11.94%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.45%) Unit Testing
14 27 (10.07%) AI
14 27 (10.07%) Scrum
15 26 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (8.96%) Analytics
16 24 (8.96%) UX Design
17 22 (8.21%) TDD
18 21 (7.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 196 (73.13%) JavaScript
2 93 (34.70%) TypeScript
3 66 (24.63%) Java
4 63 (23.51%) SQL
5 53 (19.78%) Python
6 27 (10.07%) C#
7 12 (4.48%) Ruby
8 10 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.61%) JSX
10 5 (1.87%) ABAP
10 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.12%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.75%) Groovy
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) C
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) F#
Qualifications
1 49 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.22%) Degree
4 7 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) CCNP
5 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.42%) Accessibility
2 25 (9.33%) WCAG
3 19 (7.09%) QA
4 7 (2.61%) GDPR
5 4 (1.49%) SLA
6 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.75%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (18.28%) Docker
2 4 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.73%) Terraform
3 7 (2.61%) Argo
4 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) Adobe
2 24 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.72%) Oracle
4 12 (4.48%) Google
5 9 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.36%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.36%) SAP
5 9 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.12%) Symantec
8 2 (0.75%) Botify
8 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco
8 2 (0.75%) Netskope
8 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.75%) Qualtrics
8 2 (0.75%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.75%) Sybase