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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 110 94
Rank change year-on-year -60 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing CSS 264 308 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.43% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.27% 9.33% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 213 310
10th Percentile £338 £382 £325
25th Percentile £410 £419 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £788 £775
England median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £32.75 £35.75 £28.51
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% +15.40% -49.29%
75th Percentile £50.63 £41.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £52.50 £42.55 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £54.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.33% -4.57% -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 4,209 3,301 4,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.61% 26.03% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,307 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +45.46% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -21 39 £540 -1.82% 56
East London -3 3 £410 -21.90% 18
West London -21 2 - - 7
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 14 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (3.03%) CMS
4 6 (2.27%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) Camunda
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) Kentico
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Adobe XD
2 9 (3.41%) Sketch
3 4 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
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%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Magento
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.03%) Azure
2 61 (23.11%) AWS
3 31 (11.74%) GitHub
4 24 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.09%) Serverless
5 23 (8.71%) Figma
6 22 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 18 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.68%) GCP
9 14 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.55%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.03%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.65%) npm
13 6 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (2.27%) Yarn
14 5 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.14%) Network Security
2 3 (1.14%) SMS
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
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%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (7.58%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.55%) MySQL
6 10 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.03%) Power BI
8 7 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.52%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.52%) Redis
10 4 (1.52%) Tableau
11 3 (1.14%) Big Data
11 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.76%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.76%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 59 (22.35%) Git
2 22 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.58%) JIRA
4 19 (7.20%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.82%) GitLab
6 12 (4.55%) JUnit
7 11 (4.17%) webpack
8 10 (3.79%) Maven
8 10 (3.79%) Mockito
8 10 (3.79%) Vite
9 9 (3.41%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.27%) Selenium
11 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.89%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.89%) MSTest
11 5 (1.89%) Postman
12 3 (1.14%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.14%) Spinnaker
12 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.14%) tSQLt
General
1 60 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.80%) Finance
3 39 (14.77%) Banking
4 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.68%) Marketing
7 14 (5.30%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.55%) Front Office
9 7 (2.65%) Retail
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.89%) Publishing
11 3 (1.14%) Advertising
11 3 (1.14%) Games
11 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.14%) Military
12 2 (0.76%) Automotive
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (60.98%) Developer
2 47 (17.80%) Senior
3 28 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (10.61%) Senior Developer
4 27 (10.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (7.58%) React Developer
6 17 (6.44%) Designer
6 17 (6.44%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 10 (3.79%) Python Developer
9 9 (3.41%) Consultant
9 9 (3.41%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.03%) C# Developer
10 8 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 8 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow Developer
10 8 (3.03%) UI Developer
11 7 (2.65%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.65%) Senior Designer
11 7 (2.65%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (87.50%) HTML
2 127 (48.11%) React
3 75 (28.41%) AngularJS
4 61 (23.11%) REST
5 52 (19.70%) HTML5
6 42 (15.91%) Node.js
7 41 (15.53%) RESTful
8 36 (13.64%) .NET
9 33 (12.50%) CSS3
10 29 (10.98%) Redux
10 29 (10.98%) Spring
11 26 (9.85%) Vue
12 22 (8.33%) Jest
12 22 (8.33%) Sass
13 21 (7.95%) Spring Boot
14 18 (6.82%) JSON
15 16 (6.06%) jQuery
16 15 (5.68%) SOAP
17 14 (5.30%) Next.js
17 14 (5.30%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.27%) CMDB
7 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.89%) Derivative
8 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.14%) PropTech
10 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.03%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.77%) Agile
2 86 (32.58%) CI/CD
3 71 (26.89%) User Experience
4 58 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (19.32%) DevOps
6 48 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 44 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (14.77%) Microservices
9 38 (14.39%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 31 (11.74%) Test Automation
12 30 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (11.36%) Design Patterns
13 27 (10.23%) AI
13 27 (10.23%) Scrum
14 25 (9.47%) Analytics
14 25 (9.47%) UX Design
15 23 (8.71%) Unit Testing
16 20 (7.58%) SDLC
16 20 (7.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 191 (72.35%) JavaScript
2 85 (32.20%) TypeScript
3 69 (26.14%) SQL
4 60 (22.73%) Java
5 48 (18.18%) Python
6 28 (10.61%) C#
7 9 (3.41%) Ruby
8 8 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.27%) JSX
11 5 (1.89%) ABAP
12 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.14%) Go
14 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.76%) PHP
15 1 (0.38%) Bash
15 1 (0.38%) C
15 1 (0.38%) C++
15 1 (0.38%) F#
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.55%) Degree
4 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) CCNP
5 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 27 (10.23%) WCAG
3 22 (8.33%) QA
4 9 (3.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.52%) SLA
6 3 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (15.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) Terraform
3 3 (1.14%) Grafana
3 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (12.50%) Adobe
2 23 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.82%) Oracle
4 12 (4.55%) Google
4 12 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.79%) SAP
7 6 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Qualtrics
8 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.14%) Symantec
10 2 (0.76%) Aruba
10 2 (0.76%) Botify
10 2 (0.76%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco
10 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.76%) Sybase
10 2 (0.76%) Telerik