CSS Job Trends in London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 195 123 92
Rank change year-on-year -72 -31 -34
Permanent jobs citing CSS 237 380 733
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 2.94% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 10.97% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 188 267 580
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,886 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,750 £105,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,115 3,464 5,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.10% 26.83% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,172 2,498 4,712
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £129,875 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CSS job vacancy trend in London

CSS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for CSS in London

CSS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the London 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
Central London -31 31 £75,000 - 53
West London -17 9 £31,500 -21.25% 11
East London -18 6 £30,500 -61.88% 13
South London +13 3 £30,000 -11.76% 4
North London - 1 £60,000 - 2
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 13 (5.49%) WordPress
2 12 (5.06%) Confluence
3 10 (4.22%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.11%) CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Liferay
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) IIS
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Moodle
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (7.17%) Adobe XD
2 7 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.11%) Sketch
4 4 (1.69%) InVision
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.27%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (43.88%) Azure
2 86 (36.29%) AWS
3 73 (30.80%) GitHub
4 31 (13.08%) Figma
4 31 (13.08%) GCP
5 19 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.91%) Google Analytics
7 14 (5.91%) Serverless
8 13 (5.49%) Power Platform
9 12 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.64%) PaaS
11 10 (4.22%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.53%) Azure App Service
13 6 (2.53%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.53%) SaaS
14 5 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.30%) Internet
2 4 (1.69%) Intranet
2 4 (1.69%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) AMQP
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.22%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.22%) DB2
6 8 (3.38%) Power BI
7 7 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.95%) Tableau
8 5 (2.11%) MySQL
9 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.42%) Looker
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (33.33%) Git
2 33 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.97%) JIRA
4 16 (6.75%) Axure RP
5 13 (5.49%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.49%) Selenium
6 12 (5.06%) Balsamiq
6 12 (5.06%) webpack
7 10 (4.22%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.22%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.22%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.95%) Vite
9 4 (1.69%) ESLint
9 4 (1.69%) GitLab
9 4 (1.69%) Maven
9 4 (1.69%) MLflow
9 4 (1.69%) Storybook
10 3 (1.27%) Subversion
10 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (17.30%) Multimedia
4 32 (13.50%) Finance
5 31 (13.08%) Law
6 30 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (9.70%) Marketing
8 19 (8.02%) Public Sector
9 18 (7.59%) Banking
9 18 (7.59%) Retail
10 10 (4.22%) Legal
10 10 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.53%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.69%) Back Office
13 3 (1.27%) Advertising
14 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.42%) Front Office
15 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (45.57%) Developer
2 50 (21.10%) Senior
3 45 (18.99%) Trainee
4 28 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.97%) Designer
5 26 (10.97%) Senior Developer
5 26 (10.97%) UX Designer
6 21 (8.86%) Lead
7 20 (8.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (8.44%) Software Developer
8 18 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 18 (7.59%) React Developer
9 15 (6.33%) Trainee Developer
10 14 (5.91%) Administrator
10 14 (5.91%) Analyst
10 14 (5.91%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.49%) Lead Developer
11 13 (5.49%) Trainee Software Developer
12 12 (5.06%) Trainee Administrator
12 12 (5.06%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (91.98%) HTML
2 93 (39.24%) React
3 46 (19.41%) Node.js
4 36 (15.19%) RESTful
5 32 (13.50%) .NET
6 29 (12.24%) HTML5
7 26 (10.97%) CSS3
8 25 (10.55%) Vue
9 21 (8.86%) AngularJS
10 15 (6.33%) REST
11 14 (5.91%) Jest
11 14 (5.91%) Spring
12 13 (5.49%) GraphQL
13 11 (4.64%) .NET Framework
13 11 (4.64%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (4.22%) Gherkin
14 10 (4.22%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (3.80%) JSON
16 8 (3.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.70%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (9.28%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.17%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.69%) Social Media
10 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.27%) Derivative
10 3 (1.27%) Equities
10 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.84%) CMDB
11 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
12 1 (0.42%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.80%) Windows
2 5 (2.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.27%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.55%) Agile
2 77 (32.49%) User Experience
3 73 (30.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 72 (30.38%) Mentoring
5 68 (28.69%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (24.47%) CI/CD
7 50 (21.10%) UX Design
8 46 (19.41%) DevOps
9 44 (18.57%) AI
9 44 (18.57%) Analytics
9 44 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (17.72%) Computer Science
11 36 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (14.77%) Front End Development
13 32 (13.50%) Microservices
14 30 (12.66%) Web Development
15 29 (12.24%) Responsive Web Design
16 28 (11.81%) Scrum
17 27 (11.39%) Wireframes
18 26 (10.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 191 (80.59%) JavaScript
2 67 (28.27%) TypeScript
3 60 (25.32%) Python
4 53 (22.36%) SQL
5 39 (16.46%) Java
6 31 (13.08%) C#
7 30 (12.66%) R
8 11 (4.64%) PHP
9 8 (3.38%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.11%) Bicep
11 3 (1.27%) RPG
11 3 (1.27%) Ruby
12 2 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.84%) Go
12 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.84%) SOQL
12 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.84%) VB
12 2 (0.84%) VBA
12 2 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (26.16%) Degree
2 46 (19.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (17.30%) AWS Certification
3 41 (17.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 41 (17.30%) Azure Certification
4 30 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (11.39%) SC Cleared
5 27 (11.39%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.27%) ISEB
6 3 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.03%) Accessibility
2 28 (11.81%) WCAG
3 12 (5.06%) GDPR
4 10 (4.22%) PERC
4 10 (4.22%) QA
5 6 (2.53%) SLA
6 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (11.39%) Docker
2 8 (3.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.38%) Terraform
3 2 (0.84%) Ansible
3 2 (0.84%) Argo
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 86 (36.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.13%) Adobe
3 17 (7.17%) Google
4 8 (3.38%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.95%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.11%) Databricks
6 5 (2.11%) iManage
7 4 (1.69%) Concur
7 4 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.69%) Foundry
7 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.69%) Pinterest
7 4 (1.69%) Sage
7 4 (1.69%) TikTok
8 3 (1.27%) Hotjar
8 3 (1.27%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.27%) IBM
8 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow