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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 89 100
Rank change year-on-year -60 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing CSS 263 372 427
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 2.73% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 10.37% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 215 300
10th Percentile £350 £328 £318
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £748
England median daily rate £475 £477 £483
% change year-on-year -0.42% -1.14% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £27.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -53.26%
75th Percentile £55.63 £41.88 £56.80
90th Percentile £60.50 £42.55 £66.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% +2.50% -11.11%

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 3,867 3,589 4,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.99% 26.30% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,609 2,349 3,487
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.93%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -23 45 £525 - 55
West London -15 4 £358 -12.59% 22
East London +1 3 £450 - 19
South London -12 2 £775 +6.90% 5
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 12 (4.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 8 (3.04%) CMS
3 6 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.90%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Joomla!
6 2 (0.76%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Kentico
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.80%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.28%) Sketch
3 4 (1.52%) Trello
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.14%) InVision
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.38%) InDesign
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (27.38%) Azure
2 70 (26.62%) AWS
3 41 (15.59%) GitHub
4 24 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.98%) Figma
6 20 (7.60%) GCP
7 17 (6.46%) Serverless
8 16 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.18%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.80%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.42%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.66%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.28%) npm
14 6 (2.28%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.28%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.90%) SaaS
15 5 (1.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.28%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) SMS
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) OSPF
3 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.76%) RTMP
3 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 2 (0.76%) 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 35 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.60%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.60%) Relational Database
3 19 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.56%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.56%) MySQL
5 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.28%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.28%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.52%) Power BI
8 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.14%) DB2
8 3 (1.14%) Mixpanel
8 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.76%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 72 (27.38%) Git
2 24 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.75%) JIRA
4 18 (6.84%) Cypress.io
5 16 (6.08%) GitLab
6 14 (5.32%) JUnit
7 12 (4.56%) Mockito
7 12 (4.56%) webpack
8 10 (3.80%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.42%) Maven
9 9 (3.42%) Selenium
10 6 (2.28%) Postman
11 5 (1.90%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.90%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.52%) Snyk
12 4 (1.52%) Vite
13 3 (1.14%) Gradle
13 3 (1.14%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.14%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.01%) Finance
3 29 (11.03%) Banking
4 28 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.32%) Marketing
7 11 (4.18%) Front Office
8 10 (3.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.52%) Legal
9 4 (1.52%) Military
9 4 (1.52%) Publishing
10 3 (1.14%) Advertising
11 2 (0.76%) Automotive
11 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 167 (63.50%) Developer
2 41 (15.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (13.69%) Senior
4 31 (11.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 21 (7.98%) React Developer
5 21 (7.98%) Senior Developer
6 16 (6.08%) Designer
7 15 (5.70%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.80%) Consultant
11 9 (3.42%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.04%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.04%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 7 (2.66%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.66%) Lead
13 7 (2.66%) Senior Designer
14 6 (2.28%) UI Developer
14 6 (2.28%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (89.73%) HTML
2 129 (49.05%) React
3 80 (30.42%) AngularJS
4 61 (23.19%) REST
5 48 (18.25%) HTML5
5 48 (18.25%) Node.js
6 39 (14.83%) RESTful
7 33 (12.55%) Spring
7 33 (12.55%) Vue
8 29 (11.03%) CSS3
9 26 (9.89%) .NET
10 23 (8.75%) Spring Boot
11 22 (8.37%) Jest
12 21 (7.98%) JSON
13 20 (7.60%) Redux
13 20 (7.60%) Sass
14 19 (7.22%) SOAP
15 16 (6.08%) Web Services
16 15 (5.70%) Tailwind CSS
17 14 (5.32%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.94%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.04%) CMDB
6 8 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.66%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.28%) Derivative
8 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.90%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.90%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.14%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.14%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.66%) Linux
2 5 (1.90%) Unix
3 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.14%) CentOS
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.83%) Agile
2 92 (34.98%) CI/CD
3 76 (28.90%) User Experience
4 69 (26.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (19.77%) Front End Development
7 49 (18.63%) DevOps
8 38 (14.45%) UX Design
9 37 (14.07%) Software Engineering
10 36 (13.69%) Containerisation
11 35 (13.31%) Microservices
12 33 (12.55%) Design Patterns
13 31 (11.79%) Scrum
14 26 (9.89%) Analytics
15 25 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.51%) Test Automation
15 25 (9.51%) Unit Testing
16 23 (8.75%) Responsive Web Design
17 22 (8.37%) AI
17 22 (8.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 193 (73.38%) JavaScript
2 81 (30.80%) TypeScript
3 73 (27.76%) Java
4 65 (24.71%) SQL
5 50 (19.01%) Python
6 20 (7.60%) C#
7 9 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.42%) Ruby
8 7 (2.66%) JSX
9 6 (2.28%) Groovy
9 6 (2.28%) PHP
10 5 (1.90%) ABAP
10 5 (1.90%) C
11 4 (1.52%) C++
11 4 (1.52%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.14%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.14%) COBOL
12 3 (1.14%) Perl
12 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) Degree
4 13 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) CCNP
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.07%) Accessibility
2 19 (7.22%) QA
2 19 (7.22%) WCAG
3 8 (3.04%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.76%) NCSC
4 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (18.63%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (15.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.04%) Terraform
3 7 (2.66%) Argo
4 5 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (11.03%) Adobe
2 23 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.60%) Oracle
4 16 (6.08%) Google
5 12 (4.56%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.80%) SAP
7 9 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.90%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.76%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.76%) Cisco
11 2 (0.76%) Marketo
11 2 (0.76%) Sybase
11 2 (0.76%) Symantec
11 2 (0.76%) Zend