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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 123 91
Rank change year-on-year -88 -32 +7
Contract jobs citing CSS 236 310 462
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 2.28% 2.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 8.75% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 220 351
10th Percentile £357 £313 £338
25th Percentile £405 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £579 £638 £638
90th Percentile £653 £788 £775
England median daily rate £473 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £30.08 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £56.25 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £72.08 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +93.10%

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 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -48 22 £400 -27.27% 16
South London - 6 £550 - 3
East London +3 4 £410 -22.64% 8
West London -18 1 - - 12
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 22 (9.32%) CMS
2 20 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (3.81%) Confluence
5 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.27%) Kentico
6 3 (1.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (1.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.85%) Camunda
7 2 (0.85%) Drupal
7 2 (0.85%) IIS
7 2 (0.85%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.42%) Apache
8 1 (0.42%) Mule
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.27%) Sketch
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Shopify
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.27%) Azure
2 50 (21.19%) AWS
3 26 (11.02%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.90%) Serverless
6 20 (8.47%) Power Automate
7 19 (8.05%) Figma
8 18 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.20%) GitHub
9 17 (7.20%) PowerApps
10 16 (6.78%) GCP
11 12 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.97%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.97%) OneDrive
14 6 (2.54%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.54%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.81%) HTTP
2 5 (2.12%) Intranet
3 1 (0.42%) DHCP
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) Skype
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) VLAN
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.22%) SQL Server
2 26 (11.02%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.20%) MySQL
4 16 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.78%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.66%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.81%) Power BI
7 7 (2.97%) Tableau
8 6 (2.54%) Big Data
9 5 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.12%) Metadata
9 5 (2.12%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.12%) Redis
10 4 (1.69%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.69%) EDRMS
10 4 (1.69%) Presto
10 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (21.61%) Git
2 26 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.05%) Cypress.io
4 16 (6.78%) JIRA
5 15 (6.36%) GitLab
6 13 (5.51%) Maven
7 12 (5.08%) Storybook
8 10 (4.24%) Vite
9 8 (3.39%) JUnit
9 8 (3.39%) MSTest
10 7 (2.97%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.54%) Mocha
11 6 (2.54%) tSQLt
12 5 (2.12%) Gradle
12 5 (2.12%) Jasmine
12 5 (2.12%) Mockito
12 5 (2.12%) SonarQube
12 5 (2.12%) webpack
13 4 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.64%) Finance
3 35 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.41%) Banking
5 23 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 21 (8.90%) Marketing
7 14 (5.93%) Retail
8 10 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.39%) Publishing
10 6 (2.54%) Front Office
10 6 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.69%) Local Government
12 3 (1.27%) Games
13 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.85%) Law
13 2 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (54.24%) Developer
2 35 (14.83%) Senior
3 24 (10.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (9.75%) React Developer
5 21 (8.90%) Senior Developer
6 19 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.93%) Consultant
8 13 (5.51%) Architect
8 13 (5.51%) Designer
8 13 (5.51%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.81%) Angular Developer
10 8 (3.39%) Low-Code Developer
10 8 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.39%) UI Developer
10 8 (3.39%) Web Developer
11 7 (2.97%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.97%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.97%) Campaign Specialist
11 7 (2.97%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (84.32%) HTML
2 90 (38.14%) React
3 72 (30.51%) REST
4 56 (23.73%) HTML5
5 51 (21.61%) RESTful
6 50 (21.19%) AngularJS
7 44 (18.64%) CSS3
8 43 (18.22%) .NET
9 30 (12.71%) Redux
10 29 (12.29%) Node.js
11 28 (11.86%) OAuth
12 25 (10.59%) SOAP
13 22 (9.32%) jQuery
14 21 (8.90%) Spring
15 20 (8.47%) Jest
15 20 (8.47%) Spring Boot
16 17 (7.20%) Tailwind CSS
17 16 (6.78%) Kafka
17 16 (6.78%) Playwright
17 16 (6.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.39%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.12%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.12%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.69%) CMDB
8 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.69%) Equities
9 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.66%) Windows
2 10 (4.24%) Linux
3 8 (3.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (45.34%) Agile
2 87 (36.86%) CI/CD
3 59 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (24.15%) User Experience
5 54 (22.88%) DevOps
6 53 (22.46%) Microservices
7 48 (20.34%) Test Automation
8 46 (19.49%) Scrum
9 45 (19.07%) Front End Development
10 44 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (13.14%) AI
12 31 (13.14%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.44%) Clean Code
14 26 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (10.59%) Code Quality
16 24 (10.17%) API Integration
16 24 (10.17%) UX Design
17 22 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (8.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 181 (76.69%) JavaScript
2 80 (33.90%) SQL
3 74 (31.36%) TypeScript
4 43 (18.22%) Java
5 41 (17.37%) Python
6 35 (14.83%) C#
7 14 (5.93%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.51%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.24%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.12%) Ruby
10 5 (2.12%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.27%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.85%) Bash
14 1 (0.42%) F#
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.42%) R
14 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.08%) Degree
4 10 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) CCNA
6 1 (0.42%) CCNP
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.07%) Accessibility
2 36 (15.25%) QA
3 30 (12.71%) WCAG
4 8 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.97%) GDPR
6 4 (1.69%) SLA
7 3 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.85%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) WAI
9 1 (0.42%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 42 (17.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.78%) Terraform
3 12 (5.08%) Grafana
4 7 (2.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.12%) Kibana
5 5 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (11.86%) Oracle
2 27 (11.44%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.32%) Adobe
4 17 (7.20%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.24%) Google
6 8 (3.39%) OutSystems
7 7 (2.97%) Braze
7 7 (2.97%) Optimizely
7 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.12%) Workday
9 4 (1.69%) SAP
9 4 (1.69%) Splunk
10 3 (1.27%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.27%) Qualtrics
10 3 (1.27%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.27%) Sybase
10 3 (1.27%) Tealium
11 2 (0.85%) IBM
11 2 (0.85%) Veracode