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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 118 94
Rank change year-on-year -53 -24 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 262 293 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 2.33% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.24% 8.95% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 212 323
10th Percentile £334 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £662 £650
90th Percentile £709 £788 £774
England median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £28.65 - £30.66
25th Percentile £37.13 £33.25 £33.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.66 £42.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -8.21% -37.61%
75th Percentile £63.38 £43.26 £47.49
90th Percentile £69.15 £43.72 £49.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -30.23% -21.82% -6.38%

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 4,198 3,272 4,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.73% 26.07% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 2,298 3,357
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 25
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +42.51% -44.18%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.80
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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -20 35 £540 -1.82% 43
East London -4 4 £410 -21.90% 11
West London - 2 - - 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 18 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (4.58%) CMS
4 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.91%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.15%) Kentico
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.15%) WordPress
6 2 (0.76%) Camunda
6 2 (0.76%) Drupal
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.91%) Sketch
3 4 (1.53%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.53%) Trello
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.76%) InVision
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Magento
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.81%) Azure
2 55 (20.99%) AWS
3 25 (9.54%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (8.78%) Serverless
6 22 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (7.63%) Figma
8 19 (7.25%) GitHub
9 17 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.49%) Power Automate
10 16 (6.11%) PowerApps
11 14 (5.34%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.58%) GCP
13 11 (4.20%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.29%) npm
14 6 (2.29%) OneDrive
14 6 (2.29%) Yarn
15 5 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) Firewall
1 3 (1.15%) Intranet
1 3 (1.15%) Network Security
1 3 (1.15%) SMS
2 2 (0.76%) BGP
2 2 (0.76%) HTTP
2 2 (0.76%) LAN
2 2 (0.76%) OSPF
2 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.76%) RTMP
2 2 (0.76%) SSL
2 2 (0.76%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) DHCP
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) FTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) VLAN
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.36%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (7.63%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.73%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.58%) MySQL
7 9 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.44%) Power BI
8 8 (3.05%) Big Data
8 8 (3.05%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.91%) Tableau
12 4 (1.53%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.53%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.53%) Presto
12 4 (1.53%) Redis
13 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (17.94%) Git
2 24 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.63%) JIRA
4 16 (6.11%) GitLab
5 12 (4.58%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.82%) JUnit
7 9 (3.44%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.44%) Mockito
7 9 (3.44%) Vite
7 9 (3.44%) webpack
8 7 (2.67%) Maven
9 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.91%) MSTest
9 5 (1.91%) Selenium
10 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.15%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.15%) Mocha
11 3 (1.15%) NUnit
11 3 (1.15%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.15%) tSQLt
General
1 64 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.79%) Finance
3 38 (14.50%) Banking
4 25 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.11%) Marketing
7 15 (5.73%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.58%) Front Office
9 8 (3.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.91%) Publishing
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Legal
12 3 (1.15%) Games
12 3 (1.15%) Local Government
13 2 (0.76%) Automotive
13 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 159 (60.69%) Developer
2 41 (15.65%) Senior
3 28 (10.69%) Senior Developer
4 24 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 21 (8.02%) React Developer
7 14 (5.34%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.34%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.58%) Designer
9 10 (3.82%) Software Developer
10 9 (3.44%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.05%) Architect
11 8 (3.05%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.05%) Consultant
11 8 (3.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.05%) UI Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) Senior React Developer
12 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (87.02%) HTML
2 115 (43.89%) React
3 74 (28.24%) AngularJS
4 62 (23.66%) REST
5 49 (18.70%) HTML5
6 42 (16.03%) .NET
7 38 (14.50%) RESTful
8 36 (13.74%) Node.js
9 32 (12.21%) CSS3
10 28 (10.69%) Redux
11 23 (8.78%) Spring
12 22 (8.40%) Vue
13 21 (8.02%) SOAP
14 19 (7.25%) jQuery
14 19 (7.25%) JSON
15 16 (6.11%) OAuth
15 16 (6.11%) Spring Boot
16 14 (5.34%) .NET Framework
16 14 (5.34%) Jest
16 14 (5.34%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.91%) CMDB
6 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.91%) Derivative
6 5 (1.91%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.53%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) PropTech
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.05%) Unix
2 8 (3.05%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Android
3 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.98%) Agile
2 75 (28.63%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.10%) User Experience
4 56 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.08%) DevOps
7 42 (16.03%) Front End Development
8 37 (14.12%) Scrum
8 37 (14.12%) Software Engineering
8 37 (14.12%) Test Automation
9 35 (13.36%) Microservices
10 34 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (11.83%) AI
12 30 (11.45%) Design Patterns
13 29 (11.07%) Analytics
14 25 (9.54%) Containerisation
15 24 (9.16%) UX Design
16 22 (8.40%) Unit Testing
17 20 (7.63%) E-Commerce
17 20 (7.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 195 (74.43%) JavaScript
2 76 (29.01%) TypeScript
3 74 (28.24%) SQL
4 55 (20.99%) Java
5 54 (20.61%) Python
6 32 (12.21%) C#
7 10 (3.82%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.82%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.44%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.05%) Ruby
10 5 (1.91%) ABAP
10 5 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.15%) JSX
11 3 (1.15%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.76%) Go
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) F#
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.20%) Degree
4 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.15%) CCNP
6 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCNA
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.12%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.78%) WCAG
3 21 (8.02%) QA
4 9 (3.44%) GDPR
5 4 (1.53%) SLA
6 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) WAI
8 1 (0.38%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 39 (14.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.96%) Terraform
3 7 (2.67%) Grafana
4 5 (1.91%) Kibana
5 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.45%) Adobe
2 27 (10.31%) Oracle
3 24 (9.16%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.96%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.82%) Google
6 10 (3.82%) SAP
7 6 (2.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 5 (1.91%) Qualtrics
8 5 (1.91%) Workday
9 4 (1.53%) OutSystems
9 4 (1.53%) Splunk
10 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.15%) Symantec
11 2 (0.76%) Botify
11 2 (0.76%) Netskope
11 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.76%) Screaming Frog