CSS Job Trends in Manchester

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 41
Rank change year-on-year -31 -23 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 78 112 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.46% 5.09% 5.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.85% 19.02% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 67 81 170
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -0.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 492 589 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.18% 26.78% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 415 410 944
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,250 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +10.62% -1.74%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

CSS job vacancy trend in Manchester

CSS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in Manchester

CSS
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Bolton +27 10 £30,000 -33.33%
Stockport -7 1 £60,000 +9.09%
CSS
North West

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 18 (23.08%) WordPress
2 8 (10.26%) CMS
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (3.85%) nginx
4 2 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.56%) CICS
4 2 (2.56%) JBoss
5 1 (1.28%) Confluence
5 1 (1.28%) PegaRULES
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.18%) AWS
1 29 (37.18%) Azure
2 17 (21.79%) GitHub
3 7 (8.97%) GCP
3 7 (8.97%) Google Analytics
4 6 (7.69%) Figma
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.56%) Datadog
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.28%) Kontent
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.95%) Internet
2 3 (3.85%) HTTP
3 2 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.82%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.56%) DB2
6 2 (2.56%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (55.13%) Git
2 8 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (3.85%) Eclipse
3 3 (3.85%) IntelliJ
3 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) JUnit
4 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.56%) Subversion
5 1 (1.28%) gulp
5 1 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Multimedia
3 12 (15.38%) Marketing
4 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Finance
6 4 (5.13%) Advertising
6 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) French Language
7 3 (3.85%) Italian Language
7 3 (3.85%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (3.85%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.56%) Games
8 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.28%) Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (47.44%) Developer
2 14 (17.95%) Trainee
3 12 (15.38%) Senior
3 12 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Software Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Coordinator
5 7 (8.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (8.97%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Designer
6 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Graduate
6 6 (7.69%) HTML CSS Designer
6 6 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Web Designer
7 5 (6.41%) Lead
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Trainee Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (93.59%) HTML
2 22 (28.21%) React
3 17 (21.79%) AngularJS
4 15 (19.23%) RESTful
5 14 (17.95%) CSS3
6 12 (15.38%) .NET
7 11 (14.10%) HTML5
8 8 (10.26%) Vue
9 7 (8.97%) Spring
9 7 (8.97%) Spring Boot
10 6 (7.69%) Kafka
10 6 (7.69%) REST
11 5 (6.41%) Node.js
12 4 (5.13%) Laravel
12 4 (5.13%) SOAP
13 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
13 3 (3.85%) gRPC
13 3 (3.85%) J2EE
13 3 (3.85%) jQuery
13 3 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.56%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Android
1 3 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Agile
2 24 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 24 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 21 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (21.79%) User Experience
5 15 (19.23%) AI
6 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (16.67%) Microservices
8 12 (15.38%) Front End Development
8 12 (15.38%) OOP
8 12 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 11 (14.10%) Clean Code
9 11 (14.10%) Web Development
10 10 (12.82%) Analytics
10 10 (12.82%) Scrum
11 9 (11.54%) Responsive Web Design
12 8 (10.26%) Content Management
12 8 (10.26%) TDD
13 7 (8.97%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 62 (79.49%) JavaScript
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 22 (28.21%) SQL
4 16 (20.51%) Java
5 15 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 14 (17.95%) PHP
7 9 (11.54%) R
8 7 (8.97%) C#
9 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) AWS Certification
1 14 (17.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 14 (17.95%) Azure Certification
1 14 (17.95%) Degree
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (2.56%) cPanel
1 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.56%) Nagios
1 2 (2.56%) Plesk
1 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Google
3 3 (3.85%) Adobe
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) Pega
4 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.56%) New Relic
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow