CSS Job Trends in England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 100 60
Rank change year-on-year -66 -40 -16
Permanent jobs citing CSS 967 1,144 3,171
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.25% 3.07% 3.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.52% 14.69% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 827 904 2,560
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,475
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,725 7,789 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 20.88% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,837 5,902 14,123
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +10.25% -11.11%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CSS job vacancy trend in England

CSS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in England

CSS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -20 266 £31,000 -31.11% 85
London -72 237 £59,886 -14.45% 152
South East -70 153 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -20 128 £31,750 -36.50% 39
Midlands -41 120 £42,039 -6.58% 61
Yorkshire -9 106 £30,500 -18.67% 32
East of England -12 96 £40,000 -15.79% 58
South West -69 78 £40,000 -33.33% 44
West Midlands -23 72 £32,000 -36.00% 31
East Midlands -59 48 £51,250 +36.67% 29
North East -18 32 £30,500 -34.05% 14
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 103 (10.65%) WordPress
2 38 (3.93%) CMS
3 36 (3.72%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.45%) Confluence
5 10 (1.03%) nginx
6 6 (0.62%) Apache
6 6 (0.62%) IIS
6 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) govService
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) Liferay
8 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.21%) CICS
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.10%) Moodle
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (2.90%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.24%) Sketch
4 11 (1.14%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.83%) InVision
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.31%) InDesign
9 2 (0.21%) Windchill
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.65%) Shopify
2 10 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.41%) Magento
4 3 (0.31%) Line 50
5 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 443 (45.81%) Azure
2 395 (40.85%) AWS
3 324 (33.51%) GitHub
4 75 (7.76%) Figma
5 67 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (5.38%) Serverless
7 48 (4.96%) Power Platform
8 46 (4.76%) GCP
9 44 (4.55%) SaaS
10 31 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (2.90%) Google Analytics
13 27 (2.79%) Power Automate
13 27 (2.79%) PowerApps
14 26 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.96%) Amazon S3
17 14 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 14 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 249 (25.75%) Internet
2 7 (0.72%) HTTP
2 7 (0.72%) Intranet
3 4 (0.41%) WAN
4 3 (0.31%) Network Security
4 3 (0.31%) VoIP
5 2 (0.21%) AMQP
5 2 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 93 (9.62%) MySQL
3 40 (4.14%) Power BI
4 36 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 28 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.28%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.24%) DB2
10 10 (1.03%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.72%) Tableau
13 6 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.62%) FileMaker
13 6 (0.62%) Metadata
14 5 (0.52%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.21%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.21%) Hazelcast
15 2 (0.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 373 (38.57%) Git
2 46 (4.76%) JIRA
3 44 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.96%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.86%) Selenium
6 17 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.65%) webpack
8 14 (1.45%) Balsamiq
9 13 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.24%) Vite
11 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.72%) GitLab
12 7 (0.72%) Storybook
12 7 (0.72%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.62%) JUnit
14 5 (0.52%) Maven
14 5 (0.52%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.52%) Subversion
15 4 (0.41%) rollup.js
General
1 236 (24.41%) Multimedia
2 219 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 119 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.82%) Finance
5 84 (8.69%) Marketing
6 45 (4.65%) Law
7 39 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.48%) Retail
10 20 (2.07%) Banking
11 16 (1.65%) Legal
12 11 (1.14%) Advertising
13 7 (0.72%) Games
14 6 (0.62%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.62%) Military
15 5 (0.52%) Back Office
15 5 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.52%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 546 (56.46%) Developer
2 240 (24.82%) Trainee
3 146 (15.10%) Software Developer
4 135 (13.96%) Senior
5 113 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 98 (10.13%) Senior Developer
7 91 (9.41%) Trainee Developer
8 84 (8.69%) Trainee Software Developer
9 72 (7.45%) Administrator
10 67 (6.93%) Web Administrator
11 65 (6.72%) Trainee Administrator
12 60 (6.20%) .NET Developer
13 58 (6.00%) Designer
14 51 (5.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 50 (5.17%) PHP Developer
16 49 (5.07%) C# Developer
17 42 (4.34%) Lead
17 42 (4.34%) Software Engineer
18 41 (4.24%) C# Software Developer
19 40 (4.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 888 (91.83%) HTML
2 267 (27.61%) React
3 181 (18.72%) .NET
4 115 (11.89%) Node.js
5 99 (10.24%) Vue
6 96 (9.93%) RESTful
7 93 (9.62%) jQuery
8 91 (9.41%) AngularJS
9 81 (8.38%) HTML5
10 66 (6.83%) CSS3
11 57 (5.89%) ASP.NET
12 54 (5.58%) .NET Core
13 48 (4.96%) REST
14 44 (4.55%) JSON
14 44 (4.55%) Laravel
15 39 (4.03%) .NET Framework
16 34 (3.52%) Sass
16 34 (3.52%) Tailwind CSS
17 30 (3.10%) Jest
18 29 (3.00%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.31%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
3 29 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 27 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.86%) Social Media
9 16 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.83%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.72%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.62%) Graphic Design
16 5 (0.52%) PKI
17 4 (0.41%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.38%) Linux
2 21 (2.17%) Windows
3 8 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.72%) Android
5 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (30.30%) Mentoring
2 292 (30.20%) Agile
3 213 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 183 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
5 182 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (17.99%) User Experience
7 164 (16.96%) CI/CD
8 145 (14.99%) Web Development
9 136 (14.06%) DevOps
10 112 (11.58%) Front End Development
11 111 (11.48%) Computer Science
11 111 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (10.34%) AI
13 85 (8.79%) Analytics
13 85 (8.79%) Clean Code
14 83 (8.58%) Software Engineering
15 79 (8.17%) Scrum
16 76 (7.86%) UX Design
17 72 (7.45%) MVC
18 67 (6.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 744 (76.94%) JavaScript
2 339 (35.06%) Python
3 269 (27.82%) SQL
4 174 (17.99%) C#
5 171 (17.68%) TypeScript
6 150 (15.51%) R
7 144 (14.89%) PHP
8 84 (8.69%) Java
9 22 (2.28%) C++
9 22 (2.28%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.72%) VBA
12 6 (0.62%) Bash
12 6 (0.62%) Ruby
13 5 (0.52%) Bicep
14 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.41%) SOQL
14 4 (0.41%) SOSL
14 4 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 241 (24.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 236 (24.41%) AWS Certification
2 236 (24.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 236 (24.41%) Azure Certification
3 159 (16.44%) Degree
4 90 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 40 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) ISEB
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.10%) OCA
12 1 (0.10%) OCP
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.24%) Accessibility
2 38 (3.93%) QA
3 37 (3.83%) WCAG
4 29 (3.00%) GDPR
5 11 (1.14%) SLA
6 10 (1.03%) PERC
7 8 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.31%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (8.07%) Docker
2 11 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.69%) Terraform
3 4 (0.41%) Plesk
4 3 (0.31%) Argo
4 3 (0.31%) cPanel
5 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.21%) Ansible
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.21%) Nagios
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 362 (37.44%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.72%) Adobe
3 41 (4.24%) Google
4 21 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.83%) Oracle
8 7 (0.72%) Sage
9 6 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.62%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.62%) SAP
10 5 (0.52%) Apple
10 5 (0.52%) Databricks
10 5 (0.52%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.52%) iManage
10 5 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.41%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.41%) Foundry
11 4 (0.41%) TikTok