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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 123 90
Rank change year-on-year -88 -33 +4
Contract jobs citing CSS 235 316 477
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 2.32% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.24% 8.88% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 223 364
10th Percentile £374 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £389 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £524
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -9.31% -4.77%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £638
90th Percentile £658 £785 £764
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% -33.33%
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% +52.17%

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 4,486 3,560 4,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.65% 26.09% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,474 3,339
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -38.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -43 24 £408 -22.05% 10
South London - 6 £550 - 4
East London +1 4 £410 -22.64% 8
West London -19 1 - - 9
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 20 (8.51%) CMS
2 18 (7.66%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (3.83%) Confluence
5 5 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.13%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.70%) Kentico
6 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.28%) WordPress
8 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.85%) Camunda
8 2 (0.85%) Drupal
8 2 (0.85%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.43%) Apache
9 1 (0.43%) Moodle
9 1 (0.43%) Mule
9 1 (0.43%) nginx
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.28%) Sketch
1 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.85%) Magento
1 2 (0.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.38%) Azure
2 49 (20.85%) AWS
3 25 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.94%) Serverless
5 18 (7.66%) Power Automate
6 17 (7.23%) Figma
7 16 (6.81%) PowerApps
8 15 (6.38%) GCP
9 14 (5.96%) GitHub
10 12 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.98%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.55%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.55%) SaaS
14 5 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) HTTP
2 5 (2.13%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) Skype
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.72%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.23%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.81%) MySQL
5 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.68%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.40%) Power BI
8 7 (2.98%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.98%) Tableau
9 6 (2.55%) Big Data
10 5 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.13%) Metadata
11 4 (1.70%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.70%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.70%) Presto
11 4 (1.70%) Redis
11 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (21.70%) Git
2 24 (10.21%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.66%) Cypress.io
3 18 (7.66%) JIRA
4 14 (5.96%) GitLab
5 13 (5.53%) Maven
6 11 (4.68%) Storybook
7 10 (4.26%) Vite
8 8 (3.40%) JUnit
8 8 (3.40%) MSTest
9 7 (2.98%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.55%) Mocha
10 6 (2.55%) tSQLt
10 6 (2.55%) webpack
11 5 (2.13%) Gradle
11 5 (2.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (2.13%) Mockito
11 5 (2.13%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (1.70%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.15%) Finance
3 33 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.04%) Banking
4 23 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.51%) Marketing
6 14 (5.96%) Retail
7 10 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Front Office
9 5 (2.13%) Publishing
9 5 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Local Government
11 3 (1.28%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 130 (55.32%) Developer
2 35 (14.89%) Senior
3 26 (11.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 25 (10.64%) React Developer
5 20 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 18 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.96%) Consultant
8 13 (5.53%) Architect
8 13 (5.53%) Designer
8 13 (5.53%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.53%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Angular Developer
9 9 (3.83%) UI Developer
10 8 (3.40%) Lead
10 8 (3.40%) Low-Code Developer
10 8 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Web Developer
11 7 (2.98%) Braze Specialist
11 7 (2.98%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (84.26%) HTML
2 94 (40.00%) React
3 70 (29.79%) REST
4 56 (23.83%) HTML5
5 50 (21.28%) AngularJS
6 49 (20.85%) RESTful
7 45 (19.15%) .NET
8 43 (18.30%) CSS3
9 32 (13.62%) Redux
10 29 (12.34%) Node.js
11 26 (11.06%) OAuth
12 24 (10.21%) SOAP
13 21 (8.94%) jQuery
13 21 (8.94%) Spring
14 20 (8.51%) Jest
14 20 (8.51%) Spring Boot
15 17 (7.23%) Tailwind CSS
15 17 (7.23%) Vue
16 15 (6.38%) Kafka
16 15 (6.38%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.40%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.13%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.28%) CMDB
11 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.28%) Equities
11 3 (1.28%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.83%) Linux
1 9 (3.83%) Windows
2 8 (3.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (44.68%) Agile
2 84 (35.74%) CI/CD
3 60 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (24.68%) User Experience
5 54 (22.98%) DevOps
6 51 (21.70%) Microservices
7 49 (20.85%) Test Automation
8 46 (19.57%) Front End Development
9 44 (18.72%) Scrum
10 43 (18.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (13.62%) AI
12 31 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (13.19%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.49%) Clean Code
14 25 (10.64%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (10.64%) UX Design
15 23 (9.79%) API Integration
15 23 (9.79%) Code Quality
15 23 (9.79%) Design Patterns
16 22 (9.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 177 (75.32%) JavaScript
2 78 (33.19%) TypeScript
3 77 (32.77%) SQL
4 44 (18.72%) Java
5 42 (17.87%) Python
6 35 (14.89%) C#
7 14 (5.96%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.53%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.13%) Ruby
10 5 (2.13%) Scala
11 3 (1.28%) PHP
11 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.68%) Degree
4 10 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CCNA
6 1 (0.43%) CCNP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.15%) Accessibility
2 34 (14.47%) QA
3 29 (12.34%) WCAG
4 7 (2.98%) GDPR
5 6 (2.55%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.70%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.85%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) WAI
8 1 (0.43%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 39 (16.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.38%) Terraform
3 11 (4.68%) Grafana
4 7 (2.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.13%) Kibana
6 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.77%) Oracle
2 24 (10.21%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.51%) Adobe
4 16 (6.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.40%) Google
5 8 (3.40%) OutSystems
6 7 (2.98%) Braze
6 7 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.13%) Optimizely
7 5 (2.13%) SAP
7 5 (2.13%) Workday
8 4 (1.70%) Splunk
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.28%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.28%) Sybase
10 2 (0.85%) ESRI
10 2 (0.85%) IBM
10 2 (0.85%) Marketo
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Veracode