CSS Job Trends in the City of London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 69 98
Rank change year-on-year -40 +29 -40
Permanent jobs citing CSS 22 107 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.05% 3.95% 2.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.37% 13.58% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17 72 61
10th Percentile £59,950 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,700 £130,000 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -3.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

CSS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 410 788 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 19.49% 29.07% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 347 577 767
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% +6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CSS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CSS

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) dbt
5 2 (9.09%) Figma
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) ClickUp
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Vercel
6 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Airbyte
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Metabase
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) ESLint
3 2 (9.09%) webpack
4 1 (4.55%) Ant
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Vite
General
1 10 (45.45%) Legal
2 7 (31.82%) Law
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Designer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (13.64%) React Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) UI Designer
4 3 (13.64%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (13.64%) UX Designer
5 2 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Mobile Designer
5 2 (9.09%) UI/UX Developer
5 2 (9.09%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) HTML
2 12 (54.55%) React
3 8 (36.36%) .NET
3 8 (36.36%) RESTful
4 7 (31.82%) .NET Core
5 6 (27.27%) .NET Framework
5 6 (27.27%) HTML5
5 6 (27.27%) Node.js
6 5 (22.73%) CSS3
6 5 (22.73%) Entity Framework
7 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 3 (13.64%) WebAssembly
8 2 (9.09%) Vue
9 1 (4.55%) Blazor
9 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
9 1 (4.55%) Jest
9 1 (4.55%) Material-UI
9 1 (4.55%) Next.js
9 1 (4.55%) Sass
9 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.55%) Learning Management System
2 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
2 1 (4.55%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (54.55%) User Experience
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) UX Design
5 8 (36.36%) AI
5 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) Code Quality
6 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 5 (22.73%) Front End Development
8 4 (18.18%) API Development
8 4 (18.18%) Database Optimisation
8 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
9 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 12 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) WCAG
2 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Argo
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe
1 1 (4.55%) Foundry
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Hotjar
1 1 (4.55%) iManage
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow