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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 124 92
Rank change year-on-year -78 -32 -2
Contract jobs citing CSS 229 294 477
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 2.32% 2.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.24% 8.77% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 206 356
10th Percentile £306 £313 £350
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -3.80% -6.68%
75th Percentile £582 £647 £632
90th Percentile £708 £781 £750
England median daily rate £475 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -31.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £56.25 £37.82 -
90th Percentile £72.08 £46.47 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -25.00% -24.53% +8.16%

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 4,368 3,351 4,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.39% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,346 3,460
10th Percentile £381 £379 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -42 26 £530 +0.95% 21
East London 0 4 £410 -21.90% 10
South London - 3 £850 - 2
West London - 2 - - 15
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 19 (8.30%) CMS
2 18 (7.86%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.49%) Confluence
5 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.18%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.75%) Kentico
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.31%) WordPress
8 2 (0.87%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.87%) Camunda
8 2 (0.87%) Drupal
8 2 (0.87%) IIS
8 2 (0.87%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.44%) Moodle
9 1 (0.44%) Mule
9 1 (0.44%) nginx
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.44%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.31%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.31%) Sketch
2 3 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.44%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.58%) Azure
2 44 (19.21%) AWS
3 27 (11.79%) Power Platform
4 21 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.17%) Serverless
5 18 (7.86%) Power Automate
6 17 (7.42%) PowerApps
7 14 (6.11%) Figma
8 13 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.80%) GitHub
10 8 (3.49%) GCP
11 7 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.06%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.62%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.62%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.62%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) Intranet
2 4 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) Network Security
3 2 (0.87%) RTMP
4 1 (0.44%) BGP
4 1 (0.44%) DHCP
4 1 (0.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) OSPF
4 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.78%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.42%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.80%) MySQL
6 10 (4.37%) Power BI
7 7 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.06%) Big Data
7 7 (3.06%) Oracle Database
7 7 (3.06%) Tableau
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.18%) Metadata
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.75%) EDRMS
9 4 (1.75%) Presto
9 4 (1.75%) Redis
9 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 43 (18.78%) Git
2 24 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.42%) JIRA
4 14 (6.11%) GitLab
5 10 (4.37%) Vite
6 9 (3.93%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.93%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.93%) Maven
7 8 (3.49%) MSTest
8 7 (3.06%) JUnit
9 6 (2.62%) Mocha
9 6 (2.62%) tSQLt
9 6 (2.62%) webpack
10 5 (2.18%) Mockito
10 5 (2.18%) Storybook
11 4 (1.75%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
12 3 (1.31%) Spinnaker
General
1 68 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.21%) Finance
3 38 (16.59%) Banking
4 27 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.17%) Marketing
6 19 (8.30%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.11%) Retail
8 13 (5.68%) Investment Banking
9 10 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.93%) Front Office
11 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Publishing
12 3 (1.31%) Games
12 3 (1.31%) Legal
12 3 (1.31%) Local Government
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 131 (57.21%) Developer
2 34 (14.85%) Senior
3 24 (10.48%) React Developer
4 19 (8.30%) Senior Developer
5 18 (7.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 18 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (6.11%) Consultant
6 14 (6.11%) Software Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) Designer
7 9 (3.93%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) UI Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Angular Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Architect
8 8 (3.49%) Low-Code Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Software Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Web Developer
9 7 (3.06%) Braze Specialist
9 7 (3.06%) Campaign Specialist
9 7 (3.06%) CRM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (83.84%) HTML
2 91 (39.74%) React
3 58 (25.33%) REST
4 55 (24.02%) AngularJS
5 46 (20.09%) .NET
6 45 (19.65%) HTML5
7 37 (16.16%) RESTful
8 31 (13.54%) CSS3
8 31 (13.54%) Redux
9 25 (10.92%) Node.js
10 24 (10.48%) OAuth
11 22 (9.61%) SOAP
12 21 (9.17%) Spring
13 18 (7.86%) jQuery
13 18 (7.86%) Spring Boot
14 17 (7.42%) Tailwind CSS
15 16 (6.99%) JSON
16 15 (6.55%) SPFx
16 15 (6.55%) Web Services
17 14 (6.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.93%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.18%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.18%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.31%) Derivative
8 3 (1.31%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.31%) Equities
9 2 (0.87%) CMDB
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.93%) Linux
1 9 (3.93%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Unix
3 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (44.10%) Agile
2 68 (29.69%) CI/CD
3 54 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (23.58%) User Experience
4 46 (20.09%) DevOps
5 44 (19.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (18.78%) Scrum
7 39 (17.03%) Microservices
7 39 (17.03%) Test Automation
8 35 (15.28%) Front End Development
9 34 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.54%) AI
11 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.04%) Workflow
13 22 (9.61%) Design Patterns
13 22 (9.61%) UX Design
14 21 (9.17%) Web Development
15 20 (8.73%) API Integration
15 20 (8.73%) Clean Code
15 20 (8.73%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 169 (73.80%) JavaScript
2 76 (33.19%) SQL
3 71 (31.00%) TypeScript
4 51 (22.27%) Python
5 46 (20.09%) Java
6 36 (15.72%) C#
7 14 (6.11%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.68%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.18%) Ruby
10 5 (2.18%) Scala
11 3 (1.31%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) Bash
13 1 (0.44%) F#
13 1 (0.44%) Go
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.37%) Degree
4 7 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) CCNP
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CCNA
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.59%) Accessibility
2 31 (13.54%) QA
3 22 (9.61%) WCAG
4 8 (3.49%) GDPR
5 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.75%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.44%) WAI
8 1 (0.44%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 35 (15.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.11%) Terraform
3 7 (3.06%) Grafana
3 7 (3.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (2.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (12.23%) Oracle
2 21 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.73%) Adobe
4 14 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.49%) OutSystems
5 8 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.06%) Braze
7 5 (2.18%) SAP
7 5 (2.18%) Workday
8 4 (1.75%) Google
8 4 (1.75%) Qualtrics
8 4 (1.75%) Splunk
9 3 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Sybase
10 2 (0.87%) ESRI
10 2 (0.87%) Marketo
10 2 (0.87%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.87%) Symantec
11 1 (0.44%) dotdigital