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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 128 85
Rank change year-on-year -95 -43 +14
Contract jobs citing CSS 237 304 470
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 2.24% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.18% 8.59% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 215 354
10th Percentile £356 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £385 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -8.61% -5.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £788 £775
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile - £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 £58.75 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 4,574 3,537 4,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.64% 26.08% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 2,469 3,189
10th Percentile £390 £370 £377
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 £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -51 21 £404 -26.59% 20
South London - 6 £550 - 5
East London +1 4 £410 -22.64% 12
West London -18 3 - - 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 24 (10.13%) CMS
2 20 (8.44%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.38%) Confluence
5 5 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.27%) Kentico
7 3 (1.27%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.27%) WordPress
8 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.84%) Camunda
8 2 (0.84%) Drupal
8 2 (0.84%) IIS
8 2 (0.84%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.42%) Moodle
9 1 (0.42%) nginx
9 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.27%) Sketch
2 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Shopify
2 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.32%) Azure
2 50 (21.10%) AWS
3 28 (11.81%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (8.44%) Power Automate
5 20 (8.44%) Serverless
6 19 (8.02%) Figma
7 18 (7.59%) GitHub
8 17 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.17%) PowerApps
9 16 (6.75%) GCP
10 11 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.38%) Google Analytics
12 7 (2.95%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.95%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.95%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.95%) SaaS
13 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) HTTP
2 5 (2.11%) 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 40 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.59%) MySQL
4 16 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.64%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.22%) Power BI
7 9 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.38%) Tableau
9 6 (2.53%) Big Data
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.11%) Metadata
10 5 (2.11%) Redis
11 4 (1.69%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.69%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.69%) Presto
11 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (22.36%) Git
2 27 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.44%) Cypress.io
4 17 (7.17%) GitLab
5 14 (5.91%) JIRA
5 14 (5.91%) Maven
5 14 (5.91%) Storybook
6 10 (4.22%) Vite
7 8 (3.38%) JUnit
8 7 (2.95%) MSTest
8 7 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.11%) Gradle
9 5 (2.11%) Jasmine
9 5 (2.11%) Mocha
9 5 (2.11%) Mockito
9 5 (2.11%) tSQLt
9 5 (2.11%) webpack
10 4 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (1.69%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 77 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.72%) Finance
3 34 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.50%) Banking
5 25 (10.55%) Marketing
6 24 (10.13%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.49%) Retail
8 11 (4.64%) Publishing
9 10 (4.22%) Investment Banking
9 10 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.53%) Front Office
10 6 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.27%) Games
12 3 (1.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 128 (54.01%) Developer
2 36 (15.19%) Senior
3 26 (10.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (9.70%) React Developer
5 22 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 19 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.91%) Architect
7 14 (5.91%) Consultant
8 12 (5.06%) Designer
8 12 (5.06%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.64%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Angular Developer
10 9 (3.80%) Lead
11 8 (3.38%) Low-Code Developer
11 8 (3.38%) UI Developer
11 8 (3.38%) Web Developer
12 7 (2.95%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.95%) CRM Specialist
12 7 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (2.95%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (84.81%) HTML
2 91 (38.40%) React
3 70 (29.54%) REST
4 58 (24.47%) HTML5
5 49 (20.68%) RESTful
6 47 (19.83%) AngularJS
7 46 (19.41%) CSS3
8 42 (17.72%) .NET
9 30 (12.66%) Redux
10 29 (12.24%) OAuth
11 28 (11.81%) Node.js
12 23 (9.70%) SOAP
13 22 (9.28%) jQuery
14 21 (8.86%) Jest
14 21 (8.86%) Spring
15 19 (8.02%) Spring Boot
16 18 (7.59%) Kafka
17 17 (7.17%) Playwright
17 17 (7.17%) Sass
18 16 (6.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.38%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.69%) CMDB
7 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.27%) Equities
8 3 (1.27%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.64%) Windows
2 10 (4.22%) Linux
3 8 (3.38%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (44.30%) Agile
2 87 (36.71%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.63%) User Experience
5 53 (22.36%) DevOps
6 52 (21.94%) Microservices
7 48 (20.25%) Front End Development
7 48 (20.25%) Test Automation
8 45 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (18.57%) Scrum
10 32 (13.50%) AI
11 31 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (11.81%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.39%) Clean Code
13 27 (11.39%) Code Quality
13 27 (11.39%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (10.55%) API Integration
15 24 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (9.70%) Analytics
17 22 (9.28%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 181 (76.37%) JavaScript
2 79 (33.33%) SQL
3 74 (31.22%) TypeScript
4 40 (16.88%) Java
5 38 (16.03%) Python
6 33 (13.92%) C#
7 12 (5.06%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.06%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.22%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.11%) PHP
9 5 (2.11%) Ruby
9 5 (2.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.27%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) CFML
12 1 (0.42%) F#
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.64%) Degree
4 10 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.53%) 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 46 (19.41%) Accessibility
2 35 (14.77%) QA
3 29 (12.24%) WCAG
4 9 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.95%) GDPR
6 4 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.69%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.42%) WAI
8 1 (0.42%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 40 (16.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.75%) Terraform
3 13 (5.49%) Grafana
4 7 (2.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (11.39%) Microsoft
1 27 (11.39%) Oracle
2 22 (9.28%) Adobe
3 16 (6.75%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.49%) Google
5 9 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.38%) Optimizely
6 8 (3.38%) OutSystems
7 7 (2.95%) Braze
8 4 (1.69%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.69%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.69%) Splunk
8 4 (1.69%) Tealium
8 4 (1.69%) Workday
9 3 (1.27%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.27%) SAP
10 2 (0.84%) IBM
10 2 (0.84%) Sybase
10 2 (0.84%) Veracode