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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -67 +14 -22
Contract jobs citing CSS 265 388 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.78% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 10.67% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 229 288
10th Percentile £350 £306 £319
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -3.37% -5.45%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £775 £740
England median daily rate £480 £488 £484
% change year-on-year -1.49% +0.78% -7.86%
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% -11.32%

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 3,835 3,636 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 26.01% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,381 3,446
10th Percentile £363 £380 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -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 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -9 50 £550 - 41
West London -16 5 £350 -14.43% 17
East London -1 3 £450 - 18
South London -10 2 £775 +6.90% 8
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 (4.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.64%) CMS
3 6 (2.26%) Confluence
3 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.13%) Joomla!
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Camunda
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.75%) WordPress
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Kentico
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.26%) Sketch
3 4 (1.51%) Trello
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.13%) InVision
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.38%) InDesign
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.75%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.04%) AWS
1 69 (26.04%) Azure
2 42 (15.85%) GitHub
3 25 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (8.30%) Figma
5 21 (7.92%) GCP
6 17 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.04%) Serverless
8 15 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.53%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.77%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.40%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.64%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.26%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.26%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.89%) npm
15 5 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) HTTP
2 3 (1.13%) SMS
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) LAN
3 2 (0.75%) Network Security
3 2 (0.75%) OSPF
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) RTMP
3 2 (0.75%) SSL
3 2 (0.75%) 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 37 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.30%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 17 (6.42%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.91%) MySQL
7 10 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.51%) Power BI
10 4 (1.51%) Redis
11 3 (1.13%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.13%) DB2
11 3 (1.13%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.13%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.75%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 76 (28.68%) Git
2 24 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.92%) JIRA
4 20 (7.55%) Cypress.io
5 15 (5.66%) GitLab
6 14 (5.28%) JUnit
7 13 (4.91%) webpack
8 12 (4.53%) Mockito
9 9 (3.40%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.40%) Maven
9 9 (3.40%) Selenium
10 6 (2.26%) Postman
11 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.89%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.89%) Storybook
12 4 (1.51%) Snyk
12 4 (1.51%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.51%) Vite
13 3 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.13%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.87%) Finance
3 34 (12.83%) Banking
4 26 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.28%) Marketing
7 11 (4.15%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.77%) Front Office
9 4 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.51%) Military
9 4 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Publishing
10 3 (1.13%) Advertising
10 3 (1.13%) Automotive
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 168 (63.40%) Developer
2 42 (15.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 33 (12.45%) Senior
4 31 (11.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (7.55%) Senior Developer
6 19 (7.17%) React Developer
7 16 (6.04%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.66%) Designer
9 13 (4.91%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 11 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.77%) Consultant
12 9 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Lead
13 8 (3.02%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (3.02%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.64%) Backend Developer
15 6 (2.26%) Applications Developer
15 6 (2.26%) Senior Backend Developer
15 6 (2.26%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (90.19%) HTML
2 133 (50.19%) React
3 83 (31.32%) AngularJS
4 61 (23.02%) REST
5 54 (20.38%) HTML5
6 46 (17.36%) Node.js
7 44 (16.60%) RESTful
8 35 (13.21%) Spring
9 32 (12.08%) CSS3
10 31 (11.70%) Vue
11 25 (9.43%) .NET
11 25 (9.43%) JSON
12 24 (9.06%) Jest
13 23 (8.68%) Spring Boot
14 21 (7.92%) Sass
15 18 (6.79%) Redux
16 17 (6.42%) SOAP
17 16 (6.04%) Bootstrap
17 16 (6.04%) jQuery
17 16 (6.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.91%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.02%) CMDB
6 7 (2.64%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.64%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.26%) Derivative
8 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.51%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.13%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.40%) Linux
2 5 (1.89%) Unix
3 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.13%) CentOS
5 2 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (44.91%) Agile
2 93 (35.09%) CI/CD
3 81 (30.57%) User Experience
4 71 (26.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (21.51%) Front End Development
6 56 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (18.11%) DevOps
8 40 (15.09%) UX Design
9 37 (13.96%) Containerisation
10 36 (13.58%) Software Engineering
11 35 (13.21%) Microservices
12 34 (12.83%) Scrum
13 29 (10.94%) Design Patterns
14 27 (10.19%) Analytics
15 24 (9.06%) Test Automation
15 24 (9.06%) Unit Testing
16 23 (8.68%) SDLC
17 22 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (8.30%) TDD
18 21 (7.92%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 201 (75.85%) JavaScript
2 80 (30.19%) TypeScript
3 73 (27.55%) Java
4 68 (25.66%) SQL
5 48 (18.11%) Python
6 16 (6.04%) C#
7 12 (4.53%) Ruby
8 9 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.64%) JSX
10 6 (2.26%) PHP
11 5 (1.89%) ABAP
11 5 (1.89%) C
11 5 (1.89%) C++
11 5 (1.89%) Groovy
12 4 (1.51%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.51%) Go
12 4 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.13%) COBOL
13 3 (1.13%) Perl
13 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.30%) Degree
4 16 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.13%) MCP
6 2 (0.75%) CCNP
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.96%) Accessibility
2 22 (8.30%) QA
3 17 (6.42%) WCAG
4 8 (3.02%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) NCSC
5 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (18.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (14.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.02%) Terraform
3 7 (2.64%) Argo
4 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (10.94%) Adobe
2 23 (8.68%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.30%) Oracle
4 17 (6.42%) Google
5 14 (5.28%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.77%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.02%) SAP
7 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.89%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.89%) OutSystems
8 5 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.75%) Aruba
10 2 (0.75%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco
10 2 (0.75%) Marketo
10 2 (0.75%) Symantec
10 2 (0.75%) Zend