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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 111 104
Rank change year-on-year -61 -7 -18
Contract jobs citing CSS 264 315 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 2.49% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.32% 9.53% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 211 303
10th Percentile £338 £375 £325
25th Percentile £412 £431 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £770
England median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £28.51
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -49.29%
75th Percentile £50.63 £41.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £52.50 £42.55 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.05% +5.00% -15.38%

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 4,180 3,305 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.80% 26.17% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,311 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £544
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.01%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -17 41 £530 -3.64% 56
East London -5 2 £375 -28.57% 18
West London -16 2 - - 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 (4.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) Joomla!
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.76%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) Mule
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Adobe XD
2 9 (3.41%) Sketch
3 4 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.52%) Trello
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.14%) InVision
4 3 (1.14%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.17%) Azure
2 65 (24.62%) AWS
3 31 (11.74%) GitHub
4 26 (9.85%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.47%) Serverless
6 23 (8.71%) Figma
7 19 (7.20%) Power Platform
8 18 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (5.68%) GCP
10 13 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.17%) Power Automate
11 11 (4.17%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.03%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.65%) npm
14 6 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.27%) Yarn
15 5 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.14%) Firewall
1 3 (1.14%) HTTP
1 3 (1.14%) Network Security
1 3 (1.14%) SMS
2 2 (0.76%) BGP
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%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) VLAN
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.95%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.20%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.92%) MySQL
6 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.27%) Power BI
9 6 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.52%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.14%) Big Data
11 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.14%) Redis
12 2 (0.76%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.76%) Tableau
12 2 (0.76%) Text Mining
13 1 (0.38%) Metabase
13 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (23.11%) Git
2 24 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.20%) Cypress.io
3 19 (7.20%) JIRA
4 18 (6.82%) GitLab
5 12 (4.55%) JUnit
6 11 (4.17%) webpack
7 10 (3.79%) Maven
7 10 (3.79%) Mockito
8 9 (3.41%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.41%) Vite
9 6 (2.27%) Selenium
10 5 (1.89%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.89%) MSTest
10 5 (1.89%) Postman
11 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.14%) Gradle
12 3 (1.14%) Mocha
12 3 (1.14%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.14%) tSQLt
General
1 62 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.56%) Finance
3 37 (14.02%) Banking
4 27 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.30%) Marketing
7 13 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.55%) Front Office
9 7 (2.65%) Retail
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Publishing
11 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Advertising
12 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.14%) Military
13 2 (0.76%) Automotive
13 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.76%) Law
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (61.74%) Developer
2 45 (17.05%) Senior
3 30 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (10.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 27 (10.23%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.33%) React Developer
7 17 (6.44%) Designer
7 17 (6.44%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.68%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.17%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.41%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.03%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.03%) Consultant
11 8 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.65%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.65%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.65%) Senior Designer
12 7 (2.65%) Senior React Developer
12 7 (2.65%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (87.12%) HTML
2 129 (48.86%) React
3 76 (28.79%) AngularJS
4 60 (22.73%) REST
5 53 (20.08%) HTML5
6 44 (16.67%) RESTful
7 42 (15.91%) Node.js
8 35 (13.26%) .NET
9 33 (12.50%) CSS3
10 28 (10.61%) Spring
11 27 (10.23%) Redux
11 27 (10.23%) Vue
12 22 (8.33%) Jest
12 22 (8.33%) Sass
13 21 (7.95%) Spring Boot
14 17 (6.44%) JSON
15 15 (5.68%) jQuery
15 15 (5.68%) Next.js
15 15 (5.68%) Tailwind CSS
16 14 (5.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.03%) CMDB
4 8 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.89%) Derivative
7 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.14%) PropTech
9 2 (0.76%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.65%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (40.15%) Agile
2 91 (34.47%) CI/CD
3 73 (27.65%) User Experience
4 59 (22.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (20.08%) DevOps
6 51 (19.32%) Front End Development
7 46 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (14.77%) Microservices
9 38 (14.39%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 33 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 31 (11.74%) Design Patterns
13 28 (10.61%) AI
13 28 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (10.61%) Scrum
14 26 (9.85%) UX Design
15 24 (9.09%) Analytics
16 23 (8.71%) Unit Testing
17 21 (7.95%) Responsive Web Design
18 20 (7.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 191 (72.35%) JavaScript
2 86 (32.58%) TypeScript
3 65 (24.62%) SQL
4 59 (22.35%) Java
5 51 (19.32%) Python
6 27 (10.23%) C#
7 9 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.41%) Ruby
8 6 (2.27%) JSX
8 6 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.89%) ABAP
10 3 (1.14%) Go
10 3 (1.14%) PHP
10 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) F#
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.55%) Degree
4 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) CCNP
5 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.05%) Accessibility
2 27 (10.23%) WCAG
3 21 (7.95%) QA
4 9 (3.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.52%) SLA
6 3 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.14%) Grafana
3 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (11.36%) Adobe
2 25 (9.47%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.44%) Oracle
4 12 (4.55%) Google
5 10 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.41%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.41%) SAP
7 6 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.14%) Symantec
10 2 (0.76%) Botify
10 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
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%) Sybase
10 2 (0.76%) Workday