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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 125 92
Rank change year-on-year -102 -33 -3
Contract jobs citing CSS 220 303 481
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 2.28% 2.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 8.64% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 214 366
10th Percentile £373 £313 £359
25th Percentile £405 £386 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.86% -6.27%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £630
90th Percentile £706 £784 £761
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £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% -28.57%
75th Percentile £56.25 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £72.08 £45.66 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +33.33%

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 4,412 3,505 4,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 26.40% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 2,440 3,490
10th Percentile £382 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 24 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +13.46% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £62.81 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £81.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 25 £535 +1.90% 31
East London +1 4 £410 -21.90% 9
South London - 3 £850 - 3
West London -22 1 - - 16
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 (8.64%) CMS
2 17 (7.73%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (3.64%) Confluence
5 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.27%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.82%) Kentico
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.91%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.91%) Drupal
8 2 (0.91%) IIS
9 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.45%) Apache
9 1 (0.45%) Moodle
9 1 (0.45%) Mule
9 1 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.45%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.36%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.36%) Sketch
2 3 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.00%) Azure
2 40 (18.18%) AWS
3 25 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 21 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (9.09%) Serverless
6 17 (7.73%) Power Automate
7 16 (7.27%) PowerApps
8 14 (6.36%) Figma
9 11 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.00%) GitHub
10 8 (3.64%) GCP
11 7 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.18%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.73%) SaaS
13 5 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) Intranet
2 4 (1.82%) HTTP
3 2 (0.91%) Firewall
3 2 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.91%) RTMP
4 1 (0.45%) BGP
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) OSPF
4 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.45%) SSL
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (19.55%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.00%) MySQL
6 8 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.64%) Power BI
7 7 (3.18%) Big Data
7 7 (3.18%) Oracle Database
7 7 (3.18%) Tableau
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.27%) Metadata
9 4 (1.82%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.82%) EDRMS
9 4 (1.82%) Presto
9 4 (1.82%) Redis
9 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (19.09%) Git
2 24 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.73%) JIRA
4 14 (6.36%) GitLab
5 11 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.55%) Vite
7 8 (3.64%) Maven
7 8 (3.64%) MSTest
8 7 (3.18%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.18%) JUnit
9 6 (2.73%) Mocha
9 6 (2.73%) Storybook
9 6 (2.73%) tSQLt
9 6 (2.73%) webpack
10 5 (2.27%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.82%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (1.82%) Mockito
11 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.36%) Moq
General
1 66 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.00%) Finance
3 38 (17.27%) Banking
4 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.09%) Marketing
6 18 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.36%) Retail
8 13 (5.91%) Investment Banking
9 10 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.09%) Front Office
11 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.82%) Publishing
12 3 (1.36%) Games
12 3 (1.36%) Legal
12 3 (1.36%) Local Government
13 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 125 (56.82%) Developer
2 32 (14.55%) Senior
3 24 (10.91%) React Developer
4 20 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 18 (8.18%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (6.36%) Consultant
8 13 (5.91%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.09%) Angular Developer
10 9 (4.09%) Architect
10 9 (4.09%) Designer
10 9 (4.09%) UI Developer
11 8 (3.64%) Low-Code Developer
11 8 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.64%) Web Developer
12 7 (3.18%) Braze Specialist
12 7 (3.18%) C# Developer
12 7 (3.18%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (82.73%) HTML
2 87 (39.55%) React
3 60 (27.27%) REST
4 51 (23.18%) AngularJS
5 46 (20.91%) .NET
5 46 (20.91%) HTML5
6 40 (18.18%) RESTful
7 33 (15.00%) CSS3
8 32 (14.55%) Redux
9 26 (11.82%) Node.js
10 24 (10.91%) OAuth
11 22 (10.00%) SOAP
12 21 (9.55%) Spring
13 18 (8.18%) jQuery
13 18 (8.18%) Spring Boot
14 17 (7.73%) Tailwind CSS
15 15 (6.82%) JSON
15 15 (6.82%) SPFx
15 15 (6.82%) Web Services
16 14 (6.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.64%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.82%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.36%) Derivative
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.36%) Equities
9 2 (0.91%) CMDB
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Linux
1 9 (4.09%) Windows
2 8 (3.64%) Unix
3 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.09%) Agile
2 71 (32.27%) CI/CD
3 52 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (23.64%) User Experience
4 47 (21.36%) DevOps
5 43 (19.55%) Scrum
6 42 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (18.64%) Microservices
7 41 (18.64%) Test Automation
8 35 (15.91%) Front End Development
9 32 (14.55%) Software Engineering
10 29 (13.18%) AI
11 27 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.91%) UX Design
13 23 (10.45%) Design Patterns
14 21 (9.55%) Clean Code
14 21 (9.55%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (9.55%) Web Development
14 21 (9.55%) Workflow
15 20 (9.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 165 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 75 (34.09%) SQL
3 73 (33.18%) TypeScript
4 46 (20.91%) Java
4 46 (20.91%) Python
5 35 (15.91%) C#
6 14 (6.36%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.27%) Ruby
9 5 (2.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.36%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.45%) F#
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.00%) Degree
4 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.91%) CCNP
6 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CCNA
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 32 (14.55%) QA
3 24 (10.91%) WCAG
4 7 (3.18%) GDPR
5 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.82%) SLA
7 2 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) WAI
8 1 (0.45%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 35 (15.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 24 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.82%) Terraform
3 8 (3.64%) Grafana
4 7 (3.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (12.73%) Oracle
2 21 (9.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.18%) Adobe
4 14 (6.36%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.64%) OutSystems
6 7 (3.18%) Braze
6 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.27%) SAP
7 5 (2.27%) Workday
8 4 (1.82%) Google
8 4 (1.82%) Splunk
9 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.36%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.36%) Sybase
10 2 (0.91%) ESRI
10 2 (0.91%) Marketo
10 2 (0.91%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) Symantec
11 1 (0.45%) Pardot