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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 92 97
Rank change year-on-year -62 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing CSS 263 381 431
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 2.76% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.82% 10.57% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 221 301
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £631 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £775 £740
England median daily rate £489 £477 £475
% change year-on-year +2.46% +0.42% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £44.38 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £47.19 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £53.75 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +36.08% +15.40% -53.26%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £62.13 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -21.49% +2.98% -12.96%

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 3,856 3,604 4,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.12% 26.09% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,349 3,474
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £772 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -19 47 £540 +2.86% 45
West London -18 4 £358 -12.59% 19
East London +2 3 £450 - 20
South London -11 2 £775 +6.90% 7
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 13 (4.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.66%) CMS
3 6 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Joomla!
6 2 (0.76%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Kentico
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.42%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.28%) Sketch
3 4 (1.52%) Trello
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.14%) InVision
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.38%) InDesign
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.76%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (26.62%) Azure
2 68 (25.86%) AWS
3 42 (15.97%) GitHub
4 25 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (8.37%) Figma
6 21 (7.98%) GCP
7 19 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.08%) Serverless
9 15 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.56%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.80%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.42%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.66%) Amazon Cognito
15 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.28%) npm
15 6 (2.28%) Power Automate
15 6 (2.28%) PowerApps
16 5 (1.90%) SaaS
16 5 (1.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.28%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) SMS
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) OSPF
3 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.76%) RTMP
3 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) DKIM
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.37%) Relational Database
3 19 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.08%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.70%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.94%) MySQL
7 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.28%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.90%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.52%) Power BI
10 4 (1.52%) Redis
11 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.14%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.76%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.76%) DB2
12 2 (0.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 74 (28.14%) Git
2 23 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.60%) JIRA
4 19 (7.22%) Cypress.io
5 15 (5.70%) GitLab
6 14 (5.32%) JUnit
6 14 (5.32%) webpack
7 12 (4.56%) Mockito
8 9 (3.42%) Maven
9 8 (3.04%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.04%) Selenium
10 6 (2.28%) Postman
11 5 (1.90%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.52%) Snyk
12 4 (1.52%) Storybook
12 4 (1.52%) Vite
13 3 (1.14%) Gradle
13 3 (1.14%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.01%) Finance
3 32 (12.17%) Banking
4 27 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.32%) Marketing
7 11 (4.18%) Front Office
7 11 (4.18%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.52%) Military
8 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Publishing
9 3 (1.14%) Advertising
9 3 (1.14%) Automotive
9 3 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 167 (63.50%) Developer
2 42 (15.97%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (12.93%) Senior
4 32 (12.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 21 (7.98%) React Developer
5 21 (7.98%) Senior Developer
6 15 (5.70%) Designer
6 15 (5.70%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.56%) Python Developer
8 11 (4.18%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.80%) Consultant
9 10 (3.80%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.04%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 8 (3.04%) Lead
12 7 (2.66%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.28%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (2.28%) Senior Designer
13 6 (2.28%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (90.11%) HTML
2 134 (50.95%) React
3 81 (30.80%) AngularJS
4 59 (22.43%) REST
5 54 (20.53%) HTML5
6 45 (17.11%) Node.js
7 41 (15.59%) RESTful
8 34 (12.93%) Spring
9 31 (11.79%) CSS3
9 31 (11.79%) Vue
10 25 (9.51%) .NET
11 23 (8.75%) Jest
11 23 (8.75%) JSON
11 23 (8.75%) Spring Boot
12 21 (7.98%) Sass
13 20 (7.60%) Redux
14 17 (6.46%) SOAP
15 16 (6.08%) Bootstrap
16 15 (5.70%) jQuery
16 15 (5.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.94%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.04%) CMDB
6 7 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.66%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.28%) Derivative
8 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.52%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.14%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.14%) PropTech
10 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.04%) Linux
2 5 (1.90%) Unix
3 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.14%) CentOS
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (42.97%) Agile
2 92 (34.98%) CI/CD
3 78 (29.66%) User Experience
4 70 (26.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (21.67%) Front End Development
6 56 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.87%) DevOps
8 39 (14.83%) UX Design
9 37 (14.07%) Containerisation
10 35 (13.31%) Software Engineering
11 34 (12.93%) Microservices
12 31 (11.79%) Scrum
13 30 (11.41%) Design Patterns
14 27 (10.27%) Analytics
15 24 (9.13%) SDLC
15 24 (9.13%) Test Automation
16 23 (8.75%) Unit Testing
17 22 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (7.98%) Responsive Web Design
18 21 (7.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 197 (74.90%) JavaScript
2 82 (31.18%) TypeScript
3 72 (27.38%) Java
4 66 (25.10%) SQL
5 47 (17.87%) Python
6 16 (6.08%) C#
7 12 (4.56%) Ruby
8 9 (3.42%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.66%) JSX
10 6 (2.28%) PHP
11 5 (1.90%) ABAP
11 5 (1.90%) C
11 5 (1.90%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.52%) Go
12 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.14%) COBOL
13 3 (1.14%) Perl
13 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) Degree
4 14 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.14%) MCP
6 2 (0.76%) CCNP
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.07%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.60%) QA
3 17 (6.46%) WCAG
4 8 (3.04%) GDPR
5 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) NCSC
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (18.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.04%) Terraform
3 7 (2.66%) Argo
4 5 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (11.03%) Adobe
2 23 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.37%) Oracle
4 17 (6.46%) Google
5 13 (4.94%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.42%) SAP
7 8 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.90%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.90%) OutSystems
8 5 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.76%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.76%) Netskope
10 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.76%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.76%) Tealium