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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 109 97
Rank change year-on-year -75 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing CSS 255 308 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 2.43% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.06% 9.33% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 224 304
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £650
90th Percentile £704 £788 £773
England median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
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% -49.29%
75th Percentile £50.63 £41.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £52.50 £42.55 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £53.09
% change year-on-year -45.45% +3.60% -15.06%

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 4,207 3,302 4,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.40% 26.10% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,316 3,312
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 21
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +46.58% -44.18%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £70.00
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -22 37 £550 +4.76% 46
East London -5 3 £410 -21.90% 15
West London -22 2 - - 8
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 14 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (3.14%) CMS
4 6 (2.35%) Confluence
5 3 (1.18%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.78%) Camunda
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) Moodle
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.35%) Sketch
3 4 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.57%) Trello
4 3 (1.18%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.18%) InVision
4 3 (1.18%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.78%) Magento
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.06%) Azure
2 56 (21.96%) AWS
3 23 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.02%) GitHub
4 22 (8.63%) Serverless
5 21 (8.24%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.84%) Figma
7 17 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.10%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.71%) GCP
9 12 (4.71%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.92%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.35%) npm
12 6 (2.35%) Yarn
13 5 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.57%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) HTTP
2 3 (1.18%) Firewall
2 3 (1.18%) Network Security
2 3 (1.18%) SMS
3 2 (0.78%) BGP
3 2 (0.78%) LAN
3 2 (0.78%) OSPF
3 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.78%) RTMP
3 2 (0.78%) SSL
3 2 (0.78%) WAN
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) FTP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) VLAN
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.37%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.71%) MySQL
6 11 (4.31%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.53%) Power BI
8 7 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.35%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.35%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.96%) Tableau
11 4 (1.57%) Big Data
11 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.57%) Redis
12 3 (1.18%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.78%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.78%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.78%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 51 (20.00%) Git
2 22 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.84%) JIRA
4 17 (6.67%) GitLab
5 16 (6.27%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.71%) JUnit
7 10 (3.92%) Mockito
7 10 (3.92%) Vite
7 10 (3.92%) webpack
8 9 (3.53%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.53%) Maven
9 6 (2.35%) Selenium
10 5 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.96%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.96%) MSTest
10 5 (1.96%) Postman
11 3 (1.18%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.18%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.18%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.04%) Finance
3 39 (15.29%) Banking
4 23 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.88%) Marketing
6 14 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.71%) Front Office
8 7 (2.75%) Retail
9 5 (1.96%) Legal
9 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.96%) Publishing
10 3 (1.18%) Advertising
10 3 (1.18%) Games
10 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Automotive
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (60.00%) Developer
2 43 (16.86%) Senior
3 27 (10.59%) Senior Developer
4 26 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (9.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 18 (7.06%) React Developer
7 16 (6.27%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.49%) Designer
8 14 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.92%) Consultant
9 10 (3.92%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.14%) Architect
11 8 (3.14%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.14%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.14%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.75%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.75%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (88.63%) HTML
2 118 (46.27%) React
3 75 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 59 (23.14%) REST
5 47 (18.43%) HTML5
6 39 (15.29%) RESTful
7 35 (13.73%) .NET
8 34 (13.33%) Node.js
9 31 (12.16%) CSS3
10 29 (11.37%) Redux
11 26 (10.20%) Spring
12 24 (9.41%) Vue
13 19 (7.45%) Spring Boot
14 18 (7.06%) JSON
15 17 (6.67%) Jest
15 17 (6.67%) SOAP
16 16 (6.27%) jQuery
17 14 (5.49%) Next.js
17 14 (5.49%) Sass
18 13 (5.10%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.35%) CMDB
7 5 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.96%) Derivative
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.18%) PropTech
10 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.14%) Windows
2 7 (2.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.00%) Agile
2 78 (30.59%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.84%) User Experience
4 56 (21.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (18.82%) DevOps
6 46 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (16.86%) Front End Development
8 38 (14.90%) Microservices
9 33 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.94%) Test Automation
10 32 (12.55%) Software Engineering
11 31 (12.16%) Containerisation
12 29 (11.37%) Design Patterns
12 29 (11.37%) Scrum
13 28 (10.98%) AI
14 27 (10.59%) Analytics
15 24 (9.41%) UX Design
16 22 (8.63%) Unit Testing
17 20 (7.84%) SDLC
18 18 (7.06%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 186 (72.94%) JavaScript
2 76 (29.80%) TypeScript
3 70 (27.45%) SQL
4 57 (22.35%) Java
5 50 (19.61%) Python
6 28 (10.98%) C#
7 9 (3.53%) Ruby
8 8 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.96%) ABAP
9 5 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.18%) Go
10 3 (1.18%) JSX
11 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) Bash
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.71%) Degree
4 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.18%) CCNP
5 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) CCNA
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 25 (9.80%) WCAG
3 21 (8.24%) QA
4 9 (3.53%) GDPR
5 4 (1.57%) SLA
6 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (16.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.92%) Terraform
3 4 (1.57%) Grafana
4 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (11.76%) Adobe
2 21 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.45%) Oracle
4 13 (5.10%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.31%) Google
6 10 (3.92%) SAP
7 6 (2.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 5 (1.96%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.57%) Workday
10 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.18%) Symantec
11 2 (0.78%) Aruba
11 2 (0.78%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.78%) Sybase
11 2 (0.78%) Telerik