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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 -29
Contract jobs citing CSS 261 452 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.90% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 11.23% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 285 328
10th Percentile £320 £280 £304
25th Percentile £389 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £632
90th Percentile £675 £775 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £34.28 £34.25 £34.41
25th Percentile £39.56 £35.75 £45.71
Median hourly rate £48.22 £39.50 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +22.08% -42.84% -9.64%
75th Percentile £55.06 £41.88 £75.58
90th Percentile £60.27 £42.55 £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 3,717 4,025 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 25.80% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,514 2,632 3,816
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 -11 45 £523 -4.95% 42
East London +7 5 £520 +7.22% 43
West London -17 5 £365 -26.26% 42
South London -11 2 £775 +6.90% 25
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 8 (3.07%) CMS
1 8 (3.07%) Confluence
2 6 (2.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.77%) Apache
3 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.38%) CICS
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.38%) Moodle
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Adobe XD
1 11 (4.21%) Sketch
2 3 (1.15%) InVision
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.15%) Trello
3 2 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.38%) InDesign
4 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Shopify
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.67%) Azure
2 62 (23.75%) AWS
3 41 (15.71%) GitHub
4 25 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (8.05%) Figma
5 21 (8.05%) GCP
6 14 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.21%) Serverless
8 10 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.68%) Amazon Cognito
10 7 (2.68%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.30%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.30%) npm
11 6 (2.30%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.30%) SaaS
12 5 (1.92%) Firebase
12 5 (1.92%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.45%) HTTP
2 4 (1.53%) DNS
3 3 (1.15%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.38%) DKIM
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.01%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.73%) SQL Server
3 23 (8.81%) MongoDB
4 20 (7.66%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.28%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.98%) MySQL
7 12 (4.60%) Redis
8 9 (3.45%) Oracle Database
9 8 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.53%) DB2
12 4 (1.53%) Tableau
13 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.15%) Mixpanel
14 2 (0.77%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 2 (0.77%) Power BI
15 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 90 (34.48%) Git
2 28 (10.73%) JIRA
3 25 (9.58%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.81%) webpack
5 18 (6.90%) Cypress.io
6 15 (5.75%) JUnit
7 13 (4.98%) Mockito
8 10 (3.83%) Maven
9 9 (3.45%) Jasmine
10 8 (3.07%) GitLab
10 8 (3.07%) Postman
10 8 (3.07%) Selenium
11 7 (2.68%) Axure RP
11 7 (2.68%) Vite
12 6 (2.30%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.30%) Karma Test Runner
12 6 (2.30%) Mocha
12 6 (2.30%) Protractor
12 6 (2.30%) SoapUI
12 6 (2.30%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.90%) Finance
3 35 (13.41%) Banking
4 26 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.75%) Marketing
7 11 (4.21%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Front Office
10 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.53%) Military
10 4 (1.53%) Publishing
10 4 (1.53%) Retail
11 3 (1.15%) Advertising
11 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Automotive
12 2 (0.77%) Legal
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 153 (58.62%) Developer
2 39 (14.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (10.34%) Senior
4 22 (8.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 22 (8.43%) Java Developer
5 21 (8.05%) Designer
6 17 (6.51%) React Developer
7 15 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.36%) UX Designer
9 13 (4.98%) Angular Developer
9 13 (4.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 13 (4.98%) Lead
10 10 (3.83%) Consultant
10 10 (3.83%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.45%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.45%) UI Developer
12 8 (3.07%) Software Developer
13 7 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (2.68%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (88.51%) HTML
2 118 (45.21%) React
3 69 (26.44%) AngularJS
3 69 (26.44%) HTML5
4 65 (24.90%) REST
5 49 (18.77%) RESTful
6 45 (17.24%) Node.js
7 43 (16.48%) CSS3
8 36 (13.79%) Spring
9 29 (11.11%) .NET
9 29 (11.11%) JSON
10 27 (10.34%) Bootstrap
10 27 (10.34%) Jest
10 27 (10.34%) Vue
11 26 (9.96%) Sass
12 23 (8.81%) Spring Boot
13 21 (8.05%) jQuery
14 18 (6.90%) Redux
15 17 (6.51%) SOAP
15 17 (6.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.81%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.21%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.07%) Derivative
6 8 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.07%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.15%) CMDB
11 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.15%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.15%) Learning Management System
11 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.83%) Android
1 10 (3.83%) Apple iOS
1 10 (3.83%) Linux
2 8 (3.07%) Unix
3 4 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.15%) CentOS
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (50.19%) Agile
2 94 (36.02%) CI/CD
3 73 (27.97%) User Experience
4 63 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (23.75%) Front End Development
6 44 (16.86%) DevOps
7 42 (16.09%) UX Design
8 38 (14.56%) Microservices
9 33 (12.64%) Scrum
10 30 (11.49%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 28 (10.73%) SDLC
12 28 (10.73%) Unit Testing
13 27 (10.34%) Responsive Web Design
14 23 (8.81%) TDD
14 23 (8.81%) Web Development
15 22 (8.43%) Containerisation
15 22 (8.43%) Design Patterns
16 20 (7.66%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 195 (74.71%) JavaScript
2 85 (32.57%) TypeScript
3 70 (26.82%) SQL
4 68 (26.05%) Java
5 35 (13.41%) Python
6 14 (5.36%) C#
7 9 (3.45%) Ruby
8 8 (3.07%) Groovy
9 7 (2.68%) C++
9 7 (2.68%) JSX
9 7 (2.68%) PHP
9 7 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.92%) ABAP
11 5 (1.92%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.92%) C
11 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.53%) COBOL
13 3 (1.15%) Perl
14 2 (0.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 47 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.05%) Degree
4 16 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (21.07%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.96%) QA
3 22 (8.43%) WCAG
4 6 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.53%) GDPR
6 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (17.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.68%) Argo
3 6 (2.30%) Terraform
4 2 (0.77%) Grafana
4 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Control-M
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (13.41%) Oracle
2 22 (8.43%) Google
3 20 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 18 (6.90%) Adobe
5 12 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.07%) SAP
8 6 (2.30%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.30%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.92%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.92%) Splunk
10 4 (1.53%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.15%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.77%) Marketo
12 2 (0.77%) Zend