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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 122 93
Rank change year-on-year -93 -29 -1
Contract jobs citing CSS 237 315 466
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 2.32% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.27% 8.86% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 222 354
10th Percentile £356 £313 £338
25th Percentile £405 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £638
90th Percentile £650 £786 £768
England median daily rate £468 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.89% -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% +93.10%

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 4,493 3,554 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.67% 26.13% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,965 2,481 3,294
10th Percentile £391 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £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 £787 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -53 22 £400 -23.15% 16
South London - 6 £550 - 3
East London +2 4 £410 -22.64% 7
West London -15 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 21 (8.86%) CMS
2 20 (8.44%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (3.80%) Confluence
5 5 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.27%) Kentico
6 3 (1.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.84%) Camunda
7 2 (0.84%) Drupal
7 2 (0.84%) IIS
7 2 (0.84%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.42%) Apache
8 1 (0.42%) Mule
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Photoshop
1 3 (1.27%) Sketch
1 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.43%) Azure
2 50 (21.10%) AWS
3 26 (10.97%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.86%) Serverless
6 20 (8.44%) Power Automate
7 18 (7.59%) Figma
8 17 (7.17%) PowerApps
9 16 (6.75%) GitHub
10 15 (6.33%) GCP
11 12 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.95%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.95%) OneDrive
14 6 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.53%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.38%) HTTP
2 5 (2.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.42%) DHCP
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) Skype
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) VLAN
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.57%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.17%) MySQL
3 17 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 15 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.64%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.80%) Power BI
7 8 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.95%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.95%) Tableau
9 6 (2.53%) Big Data
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.11%) Metadata
10 5 (2.11%) Redis
11 4 (1.69%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.69%) EDRMS
11 4 (1.69%) Presto
11 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (21.52%) Git
2 25 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.02%) Cypress.io
4 18 (7.59%) JIRA
5 15 (6.33%) GitLab
6 13 (5.49%) Maven
7 12 (5.06%) Storybook
8 10 (4.22%) Vite
9 8 (3.38%) JUnit
9 8 (3.38%) MSTest
10 7 (2.95%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.53%) Mocha
11 6 (2.53%) tSQLt
11 6 (2.53%) webpack
12 5 (2.11%) Gradle
12 5 (2.11%) Jasmine
12 5 (2.11%) Mockito
12 5 (2.11%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.41%) Finance
3 34 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.92%) Banking
5 23 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 21 (8.86%) Marketing
7 14 (5.91%) Retail
8 10 (4.22%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.95%) Front Office
9 7 (2.95%) Publishing
10 5 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.69%) Local Government
12 3 (1.27%) Games
12 3 (1.27%) Legal
13 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 130 (54.85%) Developer
2 36 (15.19%) Senior
3 24 (10.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (9.70%) React Developer
5 21 (8.86%) Senior Developer
6 18 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.91%) Architect
7 14 (5.91%) Consultant
8 13 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Designer
10 9 (3.80%) Angular Developer
10 9 (3.80%) UI Developer
11 8 (3.38%) Low-Code Developer
11 8 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) Web Developer
12 7 (2.95%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.95%) Campaign Specialist
12 7 (2.95%) Software Developer
12 7 (2.95%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (84.39%) HTML
2 92 (38.82%) React
3 71 (29.96%) REST
4 55 (23.21%) HTML5
5 50 (21.10%) AngularJS
5 50 (21.10%) RESTful
6 44 (18.57%) .NET
7 43 (18.14%) CSS3
8 31 (13.08%) Redux
9 30 (12.66%) Node.js
10 28 (11.81%) OAuth
11 24 (10.13%) SOAP
12 22 (9.28%) jQuery
13 21 (8.86%) Spring
14 20 (8.44%) Jest
14 20 (8.44%) Spring Boot
15 17 (7.17%) Tailwind CSS
15 17 (7.17%) Vue
16 16 (6.75%) Kafka
16 16 (6.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.91%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.22%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.11%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.11%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.27%) CMDB
10 3 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.27%) Equities
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.84%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.22%) Windows
2 9 (3.80%) Linux
3 8 (3.38%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (44.30%) Agile
2 87 (36.71%) CI/CD
3 60 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (24.47%) User Experience
5 55 (23.21%) DevOps
6 52 (21.94%) Microservices
7 50 (21.10%) Test Automation
8 46 (19.41%) Front End Development
9 45 (18.99%) Scrum
10 42 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (13.92%) AI
12 32 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (13.08%) Software Engineering
14 27 (11.39%) Clean Code
15 26 (10.97%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (10.13%) API Integration
16 24 (10.13%) UX Design
17 23 (9.70%) Code Quality
18 22 (9.28%) Design Patterns
19 21 (8.86%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 179 (75.53%) JavaScript
2 79 (33.33%) SQL
3 76 (32.07%) TypeScript
4 43 (18.14%) Java
5 42 (17.72%) Python
6 36 (15.19%) C#
7 14 (5.91%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.49%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.11%) Ruby
10 5 (2.11%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.27%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.42%) F#
13 1 (0.42%) Groovy
13 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.64%) Degree
4 10 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) CCNA
6 1 (0.42%) CCNP
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.99%) Accessibility
2 35 (14.77%) QA
3 30 (12.66%) WCAG
4 7 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.95%) GDPR
5 4 (1.69%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) WAI
7 1 (0.42%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 40 (16.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.33%) Terraform
3 12 (5.06%) Grafana
4 7 (2.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (2.11%) Kibana
5 5 (2.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.66%) Oracle
2 26 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.86%) Adobe
4 16 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.80%) Google
6 8 (3.38%) OutSystems
7 7 (2.95%) Braze
7 7 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.53%) Optimizely
9 5 (2.11%) SAP
9 5 (2.11%) Workday
10 4 (1.69%) Splunk
11 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.27%) Qualtrics
11 3 (1.27%) Sybase
12 2 (0.84%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.84%) ESRI
12 2 (0.84%) IBM
12 2 (0.84%) Tealium
12 2 (0.84%) Veracode