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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 84 113
Rank change year-on-year -58 +29 -47
Contract jobs citing CSS 275 467 465
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 3.01% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 11.49% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 294 323
10th Percentile £320 £291 £308
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -2.09% -10.43%
75th Percentile £588 £648 £605
90th Percentile £650 £775 £735
England median daily rate £438 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £29.75 - £34.41
25th Percentile £32.63 £38.25 £45.71
Median hourly rate £34.50 £39.50 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -42.84% -9.64%
75th Percentile £48.67 £40.75 £75.58
90th Percentile £55.64 - £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +21.74% -11.54%

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 3,630 4,066 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.21% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 2,657 3,977
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 37
10th Percentile £31.52 £32.99 £33.80
25th Percentile £37.06 £38.31 £36.84
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -18.53% -1.28%
75th Percentile £62.19 £60.76 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £73.70 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +1 57 £525 -6.67% 165
East London +6 5 £520 +7.22% 47
West London -25 5 £365 -27.00% 47
South London -10 2 £775 +5.98% 30
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 11 (4.00%) Confluence
2 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.18%) CMS
4 5 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Appian
6 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) CICS
7 1 (0.36%) Drupal
7 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Moodle
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Adobe XD
1 9 (3.27%) Sketch
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.36%) InDesign
3 1 (0.36%) InVision
3 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Shopify
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.36%) Azure
2 62 (22.55%) AWS
3 42 (15.27%) GitHub
4 24 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.18%) Figma
5 17 (6.18%) GCP
6 16 (5.82%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.73%) Serverless
8 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.64%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.27%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.91%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.55%) Amazon Cognito
12 7 (2.55%) SaaS
13 6 (2.18%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.18%) Google Analytics
13 6 (2.18%) npm
14 5 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.64%) HTTP
2 5 (1.82%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.36%) DKIM
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.36%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.64%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.91%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.18%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.09%) Redis
7 12 (4.36%) MySQL
8 9 (3.27%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.18%) Power BI
11 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.45%) DB2
12 4 (1.45%) Spark SQL
12 4 (1.45%) Tableau
13 3 (1.09%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.09%) Mixpanel
14 2 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 93 (33.82%) Git
2 26 (9.45%) JIRA
3 25 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.00%) webpack
5 19 (6.91%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.00%) Maven
7 10 (3.64%) JUnit
8 9 (3.27%) Jasmine
8 9 (3.27%) Mockito
8 9 (3.27%) Postman
9 8 (2.91%) GitLab
9 8 (2.91%) Selenium
10 7 (2.55%) REST Assured
10 7 (2.55%) SoapUI
10 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.55%) Vite
11 6 (2.18%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.18%) Mocha
11 6 (2.18%) Protractor
11 6 (2.18%) XCTest
General
1 96 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.09%) Finance
3 34 (12.36%) Banking
4 30 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.18%) Marketing
7 8 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.82%) Legal
9 5 (1.82%) Retail
10 4 (1.45%) Advertising
10 4 (1.45%) Military
11 3 (1.09%) Automotive
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Front Office
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (58.55%) Developer
2 42 (15.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (10.18%) Senior
4 23 (8.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 21 (7.64%) Lead
6 20 (7.27%) React Developer
7 18 (6.55%) Designer
8 16 (5.82%) Angular Developer
9 14 (5.09%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.09%) UX Designer
10 13 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 11 (4.00%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.64%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.64%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Consultant
13 9 (3.27%) UI Developer
14 8 (2.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 8 (2.91%) Software Developer
15 7 (2.55%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (88.73%) HTML
2 120 (43.64%) React
3 72 (26.18%) HTML5
4 71 (25.82%) AngularJS
4 71 (25.82%) REST
5 55 (20.00%) RESTful
6 46 (16.73%) Node.js
7 43 (15.64%) CSS3
8 38 (13.82%) .NET
9 35 (12.73%) Spring
10 32 (11.64%) Bootstrap
11 31 (11.27%) JSON
12 30 (10.91%) Jest
13 28 (10.18%) jQuery
13 28 (10.18%) Vue
14 27 (9.82%) Sass
15 25 (9.09%) Web Services
16 19 (6.91%) Redux
16 19 (6.91%) SOAP
16 19 (6.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.36%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.91%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.91%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.18%) Derivative
8 6 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.18%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.09%) CMDB
11 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.64%) Android
1 10 (3.64%) Apple iOS
1 10 (3.64%) Linux
2 9 (3.27%) Unix
3 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.09%) CentOS
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (52.36%) Agile
2 94 (34.18%) CI/CD
3 75 (27.27%) User Experience
4 71 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (22.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (22.18%) Front End Development
7 48 (17.45%) DevOps
8 40 (14.55%) Scrum
8 40 (14.55%) UX Design
9 36 (13.09%) Microservices
10 32 (11.64%) Responsive Web Design
11 30 (10.91%) Unit Testing
12 28 (10.18%) Test Automation
13 27 (9.82%) Software Engineering
14 26 (9.45%) SDLC
15 25 (9.09%) Code Quality
15 25 (9.09%) TDD
15 25 (9.09%) Web Development
16 23 (8.36%) Computer Science
17 22 (8.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 214 (77.82%) JavaScript
2 84 (30.55%) TypeScript
3 79 (28.73%) SQL
4 64 (23.27%) Java
5 40 (14.55%) Python
6 27 (9.82%) C#
7 9 (3.27%) Groovy
7 9 (3.27%) PHP
7 9 (3.27%) Ruby
8 7 (2.55%) C++
8 7 (2.55%) JSX
8 7 (2.55%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.82%) C
11 4 (1.45%) COBOL
12 3 (1.09%) ABAP
12 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.09%) Perl
13 2 (0.73%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.73%) Degree
4 15 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (20.36%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.55%) QA
3 19 (6.91%) WCAG
4 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.45%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (15.64%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Argo
3 6 (2.18%) Terraform
4 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (12.36%) Oracle
2 24 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.55%) Google
4 15 (5.45%) Adobe
5 12 (4.36%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.55%) Amplitude
6 7 (2.55%) CA Agile Central
6 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.55%) OutSystems
7 6 (2.18%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.18%) SAP
7 6 (2.18%) Splunk
8 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.45%) Foundry
9 4 (1.45%) Palantir
9 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.45%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.09%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.73%) Marketo