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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 76 109
Rank change year-on-year -65 +33 -45
Contract jobs citing CSS 265 498 506
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 3.14% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 11.68% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 324 357
10th Percentile £319 £309 £313
25th Percentile £383 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £591 £643 £638
90th Percentile £675 £793 £725
England median daily rate £436 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.75% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £30.42 £39.43 £34.41
25th Percentile £33.25 £41.19 £45.71
Median hourly rate £34.50 £44.75 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% -35.24% -7.91%
75th Percentile £41.96 £47.69 £75.58
90th Percentile £53.32 £49.08 £76.73
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%

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 3,471 4,265 5,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.11% 26.92% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,351 2,820 4,112
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 40
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.12 £34.58
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.50 £39.02
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £72.41
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +5 65 £525 -4.55% 62
West London -25 5 £365 -27.00% 42
East London +4 4 £530 +9.28% 42
South London -10 2 £775 +37.17% 20
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 10 (3.77%) Confluence
2 9 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.89%) CMS
4 4 (1.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.75%) Apache
6 2 (0.75%) Appian
6 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) CICS
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Sketch
2 8 (3.02%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.38%) InDesign
4 1 (0.38%) InVision
4 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.13%) Shopify
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.06%) Azure
2 53 (20.00%) AWS
3 32 (12.08%) GitHub
4 19 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.79%) GCP
6 17 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (6.04%) Figma
8 12 (4.53%) Power Automate
9 11 (4.15%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.40%) Serverless
11 8 (3.02%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.02%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.64%) npm
12 7 (2.64%) SaaS
13 6 (2.26%) Google Analytics
13 6 (2.26%) PaaS
14 5 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.89%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.77%) HTTP
2 5 (1.89%) DNS
3 3 (1.13%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.38%) DKIM
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.34%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.55%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 17 (6.42%) Redis
5 15 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.53%) MySQL
7 9 (3.40%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.26%) Power BI
9 4 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.51%) DB2
9 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.51%) Spark SQL
9 4 (1.51%) Tableau
10 3 (1.13%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.13%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 84 (31.70%) Git
2 25 (9.43%) JIRA
3 23 (8.68%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.92%) webpack
5 12 (4.53%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.77%) Maven
7 9 (3.40%) JUnit
7 9 (3.40%) Mockito
8 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.64%) GitLab
8 7 (2.64%) Jasmine
8 7 (2.64%) Postman
8 7 (2.64%) Selenium
8 7 (2.64%) SoapUI
8 7 (2.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.26%) Karma Test Runner
9 6 (2.26%) Protractor
9 6 (2.26%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.26%) XCTest
General
1 100 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.91%) Finance
3 32 (12.08%) Banking
4 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.17%) Marketing
7 9 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.89%) Front Office
10 5 (1.89%) Retail
11 4 (1.51%) Military
12 3 (1.13%) Automotive
12 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Legal
12 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.75%) Local Government
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 157 (59.25%) Developer
2 39 (14.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (8.68%) Lead
3 23 (8.68%) Senior
4 19 (7.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 19 (7.17%) React Developer
5 18 (6.79%) Angular Developer
6 15 (5.66%) Designer
7 13 (4.91%) .NET Developer
8 12 (4.53%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 11 (4.15%) Python Developer
9 11 (4.15%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.15%) UX Designer
10 9 (3.40%) Consultant
10 9 (3.40%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 8 (3.02%) Applications Developer
11 8 (3.02%) Technical Leader
12 7 (2.64%) Software Developer
12 7 (2.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (90.94%) HTML
2 112 (42.26%) React
3 69 (26.04%) HTML5
3 69 (26.04%) REST
4 68 (25.66%) AngularJS
5 47 (17.74%) RESTful
6 42 (15.85%) Node.js
7 39 (14.72%) .NET
8 38 (14.34%) CSS3
9 32 (12.08%) Spring
10 29 (10.94%) Bootstrap
11 28 (10.57%) jQuery
11 28 (10.57%) JSON
12 26 (9.81%) Web Services
13 25 (9.43%) Vue
14 22 (8.30%) Jest
14 22 (8.30%) Sass
15 20 (7.55%) SOAP
16 18 (6.79%) Next.js
17 17 (6.42%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.04%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.15%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.40%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (3.40%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.02%) Reinsurance
8 6 (2.26%) Derivative
8 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.13%) CMDB
10 3 (1.13%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.13%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.91%) Android
1 13 (4.91%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.15%) Linux
3 9 (3.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.13%) CentOS
5 3 (1.13%) Windows
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (52.83%) Agile
2 85 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 70 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (26.42%) User Experience
4 58 (21.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (21.13%) Front End Development
6 53 (20.00%) DevOps
7 41 (15.47%) Scrum
8 37 (13.96%) UX Design
9 35 (13.21%) Microservices
10 30 (11.32%) Web Development
11 29 (10.94%) Responsive Web Design
12 26 (9.81%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.81%) SDLC
12 26 (9.81%) Unit Testing
13 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.06%) Software Engineering
15 23 (8.68%) Analytics
16 22 (8.30%) Code Quality
16 22 (8.30%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 215 (81.13%) JavaScript
2 76 (28.68%) TypeScript
3 68 (25.66%) SQL
4 61 (23.02%) Java
5 44 (16.60%) Python
6 31 (11.70%) C#
7 11 (4.15%) C++
7 11 (4.15%) PHP
8 9 (3.40%) Groovy
8 9 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.02%) Ruby
10 7 (2.64%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.89%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.89%) Bicep
11 5 (1.89%) C
12 4 (1.51%) COBOL
12 4 (1.51%) JSX
13 3 (1.13%) Bash
13 3 (1.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.57%) Degree
4 17 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 28 (10.57%) QA
3 13 (4.91%) WCAG
4 7 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.51%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 40 (15.09%) Docker
2 10 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.64%) Argo
3 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) Kibana
4 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (12.45%) Oracle
2 28 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.42%) Google
4 14 (5.28%) Adobe
5 12 (4.53%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.02%) OutSystems
7 7 (2.64%) Amplitude
7 7 (2.64%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.26%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.26%) Splunk
9 4 (1.51%) Foundry
9 4 (1.51%) Palantir
9 4 (1.51%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.13%) SAP
11 2 (0.75%) Optimizely