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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -62 +23 -40
Contract jobs citing CSS 282 455 468
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 2.89% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.55% 11.11% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 282 328
10th Percentile £320 £275 £311
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -7.83%
75th Percentile £603 £641 £620
90th Percentile £659 £775 £741
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £29.41 £38.73 £34.41
25th Percentile £32.00 £39.44 £45.71
Median hourly rate £34.50 £41.25 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -40.30% -9.64%
75th Percentile £49.83 £42.44 £75.58
90th Percentile £56.80 £42.78 £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% -11.54%

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 3,737 4,094 5,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.03% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,544 2,689 3,886
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £670 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -6.83%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +7 60 £523 -4.95% 114
East London +9 5 £520 +7.22% 50
West London -25 5 £365 -26.63% 48
South London -12 2 £775 +5.98% 28
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 11 (3.90%) Confluence
2 8 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.48%) CMS
4 5 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) Appian
6 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Moodle
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.55%) Adobe XD
1 10 (3.55%) Sketch
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.71%) InVision
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.35%) InDesign
4 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
4 1 (0.35%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.72%) Azure
2 65 (23.05%) AWS
3 42 (14.89%) GitHub
4 23 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (7.09%) Figma
5 20 (7.09%) GCP
6 17 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.03%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.61%) Serverless
8 11 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.90%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.55%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.84%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.48%) Amazon Cognito
12 7 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.48%) npm
12 7 (2.48%) SaaS
13 6 (2.13%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.19%) HTTP
2 4 (1.42%) DNS
3 3 (1.06%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.35%) DKIM
4 1 (0.35%) FTP
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.06%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.45%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.09%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.61%) MySQL
7 12 (4.26%) Redis
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.84%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.13%) Power BI
10 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.42%) DB2
11 4 (1.42%) Spark SQL
11 4 (1.42%) Tableau
12 3 (1.06%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.06%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 94 (33.33%) Git
2 27 (9.57%) JIRA
3 23 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.16%) webpack
4 18 (6.38%) Cypress.io
5 12 (4.26%) JUnit
6 11 (3.90%) Mockito
7 10 (3.55%) Maven
8 9 (3.19%) Jasmine
8 9 (3.19%) Selenium
9 8 (2.84%) GitLab
9 8 (2.84%) Postman
10 7 (2.48%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.48%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.48%) Vite
11 6 (2.13%) Axure RP
11 6 (2.13%) Mocha
11 6 (2.13%) Protractor
11 6 (2.13%) SoapUI
11 6 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 68 (24.11%) Finance
3 34 (12.06%) Banking
4 30 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.67%) Marketing
7 9 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.77%) Front Office
9 5 (1.77%) Legal
9 5 (1.77%) Retail
10 4 (1.42%) Advertising
10 4 (1.42%) Military
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (59.93%) Developer
2 43 (15.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (10.28%) Senior
4 24 (8.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (7.09%) Designer
6 19 (6.74%) React Developer
7 18 (6.38%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.32%) Angular Developer
8 15 (5.32%) Lead
9 14 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.96%) UX Designer
10 12 (4.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 11 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) Consultant
12 10 (3.55%) UI Developer
13 9 (3.19%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.19%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.19%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.84%) Applications Developer
15 7 (2.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (88.65%) HTML
2 124 (43.97%) React
3 72 (25.53%) REST
4 71 (25.18%) AngularJS
5 70 (24.82%) HTML5
6 56 (19.86%) RESTful
7 48 (17.02%) Node.js
8 42 (14.89%) CSS3
9 38 (13.48%) .NET
10 35 (12.41%) Spring
11 31 (10.99%) JSON
11 31 (10.99%) Vue
12 30 (10.64%) Bootstrap
13 28 (9.93%) Jest
13 28 (9.93%) Sass
14 27 (9.57%) jQuery
15 24 (8.51%) Web Services
16 21 (7.45%) Spring Boot
17 20 (7.09%) Redux
18 18 (6.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.80%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.84%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.48%) Derivative
7 7 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.55%) Linux
2 9 (3.19%) Android
2 9 (3.19%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.84%) Unix
4 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (51.06%) Agile
2 96 (34.04%) CI/CD
3 76 (26.95%) User Experience
4 70 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (23.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 63 (22.34%) Front End Development
7 50 (17.73%) DevOps
8 41 (14.54%) UX Design
9 38 (13.48%) Microservices
9 38 (13.48%) Scrum
10 31 (10.99%) Software Engineering
11 30 (10.64%) Responsive Web Design
11 30 (10.64%) Test Automation
12 29 (10.28%) SDLC
13 27 (9.57%) Unit Testing
14 25 (8.87%) Web Development
15 24 (8.51%) Code Quality
15 24 (8.51%) Design Patterns
15 24 (8.51%) TDD
16 23 (8.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 215 (76.24%) JavaScript
2 86 (30.50%) TypeScript
3 79 (28.01%) SQL
4 66 (23.40%) Java
5 39 (13.83%) Python
6 25 (8.87%) C#
7 10 (3.55%) Ruby
8 8 (2.84%) Groovy
8 8 (2.84%) PHP
9 7 (2.48%) C++
9 7 (2.48%) JSX
9 7 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.77%) ABAP
11 5 (1.77%) C
12 4 (1.42%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.42%) COBOL
13 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 2 (0.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.16%) Degree
4 15 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (20.21%) Accessibility
2 30 (10.64%) QA
3 20 (7.09%) WCAG
4 6 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (15.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.48%) Argo
3 6 (2.13%) Terraform
4 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (12.41%) Oracle
2 25 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.74%) Google
4 16 (5.67%) Adobe
5 12 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.84%) SAP
7 7 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.13%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.77%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.77%) Splunk
10 4 (1.42%) Foundry
10 4 (1.42%) Palantir
10 4 (1.42%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.71%) Marketo