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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 122 96
Rank change year-on-year -52 -26 -6
Contract jobs citing CSS 266 292 437
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 2.29% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.33% 8.80% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 211 322
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £411 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £655 £650
90th Percentile £704 £788 £755
England median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £28.65 - -
25th Percentile £37.13 £33.25 £28.51
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.66 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% +12.93% -49.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £43.26 £39.95
90th Percentile £69.15 £43.72 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.94 £60.00
% change year-on-year -38.70% -18.44% +2.13%

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 4,202 3,317 4,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.96% 26.03% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 2,329 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 23
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +53.37% -48.91%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -27 35 £540 -1.82% 45
East London -5 4 £410 -21.90% 11
West London - 2 - - 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 17 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (4.14%) CMS
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.88%) Confluence
5 3 (1.13%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.13%) Kentico
5 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.13%) WordPress
6 2 (0.75%) Camunda
6 2 (0.75%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.26%) Sketch
3 4 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.50%) Trello
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.13%) InVision
4 3 (1.13%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.75%) Magento
1 2 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.19%) Azure
2 58 (21.80%) AWS
3 24 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.65%) Serverless
5 21 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (7.52%) Figma
6 20 (7.52%) GitHub
7 17 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.02%) Power Automate
9 15 (5.64%) PowerApps
10 14 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.51%) GCP
12 11 (4.14%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.26%) npm
13 6 (2.26%) Yarn
14 5 (1.88%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) Firewall
1 3 (1.13%) HTTP
1 3 (1.13%) Network Security
1 3 (1.13%) SMS
2 2 (0.75%) BGP
2 2 (0.75%) Intranet
2 2 (0.75%) LAN
2 2 (0.75%) OSPF
2 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.75%) RTMP
2 2 (0.75%) SSL
2 2 (0.75%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) DHCP
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) FTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) VLAN
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.65%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.64%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.51%) MySQL
7 9 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.38%) Power BI
8 8 (3.01%) Big Data
8 8 (3.01%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.88%) Tableau
12 4 (1.50%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.50%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.50%) Presto
12 4 (1.50%) Redis
13 3 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (17.29%) Git
2 25 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.89%) JIRA
4 17 (6.39%) GitLab
5 13 (4.89%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.14%) JUnit
7 9 (3.38%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.38%) Mockito
7 9 (3.38%) Vite
7 9 (3.38%) webpack
8 8 (3.01%) Maven
9 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.88%) MSTest
9 5 (1.88%) Selenium
10 4 (1.50%) Jasmine
10 4 (1.50%) Postman
10 4 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.13%) Mocha
11 3 (1.13%) NUnit
11 3 (1.13%) Spinnaker
General
1 63 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.54%) Finance
3 41 (15.41%) Banking
4 26 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.02%) Investment Banking
7 15 (5.64%) Marketing
8 12 (4.51%) Front Office
9 8 (3.01%) Retail
10 5 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.88%) Publishing
11 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.50%) Legal
12 3 (1.13%) Games
12 3 (1.13%) Local Government
13 2 (0.75%) Automotive
13 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 161 (60.53%) Developer
2 43 (16.17%) Senior
3 27 (10.15%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (7.52%) React Developer
7 16 (6.02%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.89%) Designer
10 9 (3.38%) Consultant
10 9 (3.38%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.38%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.01%) Architect
11 8 (3.01%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.01%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.63%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.63%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (87.59%) HTML
2 117 (43.98%) React
3 77 (28.95%) AngularJS
4 63 (23.68%) REST
5 50 (18.80%) HTML5
6 41 (15.41%) .NET
7 40 (15.04%) RESTful
8 35 (13.16%) Node.js
9 32 (12.03%) CSS3
10 28 (10.53%) Redux
11 25 (9.40%) Spring
12 23 (8.65%) Vue
13 21 (7.89%) SOAP
14 19 (7.14%) jQuery
14 19 (7.14%) JSON
15 18 (6.77%) Spring Boot
16 16 (6.02%) OAuth
17 15 (5.64%) Next.js
18 14 (5.26%) .NET Framework
18 14 (5.26%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.88%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.88%) CMDB
5 5 (1.88%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.88%) Derivative
5 5 (1.88%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.50%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.13%) PropTech
8 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.75%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Linux
2 8 (3.01%) Unix
2 8 (3.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Android
3 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (42.11%) Agile
2 76 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 73 (27.44%) User Experience
4 59 (22.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (18.80%) DevOps
7 43 (16.17%) Front End Development
8 37 (13.91%) Scrum
8 37 (13.91%) Software Engineering
9 36 (13.53%) Microservices
9 36 (13.53%) Test Automation
10 34 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (11.28%) AI
11 30 (11.28%) Design Patterns
12 28 (10.53%) Analytics
13 27 (10.15%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.40%) UX Design
15 23 (8.65%) Unit Testing
16 20 (7.52%) E-Commerce
17 19 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 194 (72.93%) JavaScript
2 78 (29.32%) SQL
3 75 (28.20%) TypeScript
4 58 (21.80%) Java
5 54 (20.30%) Python
6 31 (11.65%) C#
7 10 (3.76%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.38%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.01%) Ruby
10 5 (1.88%) ABAP
10 5 (1.88%) Scala
11 3 (1.13%) JSX
11 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.75%) Go
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.38%) F#
Qualifications
1 34 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.14%) Degree
4 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.13%) CCNP
6 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCNA
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.91%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.65%) WCAG
3 21 (7.89%) QA
4 9 (3.38%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) SLA
6 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (15.79%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.89%) Terraform
3 7 (2.63%) Grafana
4 5 (1.88%) Kibana
5 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.28%) Adobe
2 28 (10.53%) Oracle
3 23 (8.65%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.76%) Google
5 10 (3.76%) SAP
6 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Qualtrics
7 5 (1.88%) Workday
8 4 (1.50%) OutSystems
8 4 (1.50%) Splunk
9 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.13%) Symantec
10 2 (0.75%) Botify
10 2 (0.75%) Netskope
10 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.75%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.75%) Telerik