CSS Job Trends in the North of England

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 78 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 269 236 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.87% 3.48% 4.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.46% 18.83% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 248 184 490
10th Percentile - £29,825 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,625 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,372 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.87% - -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,315 1,253 2,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.15% 18.48% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 975 2,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,200 £88,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the North of England

CSS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the North of England

CSS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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 West -25 125 £31,250 -40.48% 59
Yorkshire +2 109 £30,500 -18.67% 36
North East -11 35 £30,500 -39.00% 26
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 39 (14.50%) WordPress
2 14 (5.20%) CMS
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) nginx
3 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.74%) CICS
4 2 (0.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.74%) Sketch
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 169 (62.83%) AWS
2 168 (62.45%) Azure
3 146 (54.28%) GitHub
4 16 (5.95%) Serverless
5 11 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.72%) SaaS
7 9 (3.35%) GCP
8 6 (2.23%) Figma
8 6 (2.23%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.86%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.74%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.74%) Datadog
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 132 (49.07%) Internet
2 6 (2.23%) HTTP
3 2 (0.74%) Intranet
3 2 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.20%) MySQL
2 11 (4.09%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.72%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.49%) Power BI
5 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.74%) DB2
6 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.74%) FileMaker
6 2 (0.74%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.74%) Metadata
7 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 170 (63.20%) Git
2 10 (3.72%) JIRA
3 7 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.86%) JUnit
5 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.12%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.12%) Selenium
7 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.74%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
7 2 (0.74%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) Protractor
General
1 131 (48.70%) Multimedia
2 42 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.18%) Marketing
4 14 (5.20%) Finance
5 11 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.86%) Legal
10 4 (1.49%) Electronics
10 4 (1.49%) Games
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) French Language
11 3 (1.12%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.12%) Law
11 3 (1.12%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.12%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 150 (55.76%) Developer
2 131 (48.70%) Trainee
3 64 (23.79%) Software Developer
4 57 (21.19%) Trainee Developer
5 55 (20.45%) Trainee Software Developer
6 35 (13.01%) Senior
7 29 (10.78%) Administrator
7 29 (10.78%) Senior Developer
8 26 (9.67%) Trainee Administrator
8 26 (9.67%) Web Administrator
9 22 (8.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 22 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (5.95%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.58%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.58%) Python Developer
12 14 (5.20%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 11 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (97.03%) HTML
2 61 (22.68%) React
3 42 (15.61%) .NET
4 23 (8.55%) AngularJS
4 23 (8.55%) RESTful
4 23 (8.55%) Vue
5 22 (8.18%) HTML5
6 19 (7.06%) ASP.NET
7 16 (5.95%) CSS3
8 15 (5.58%) Django
8 15 (5.58%) Flask
9 14 (5.20%) FastAPI
10 11 (4.09%) Node.js
11 10 (3.72%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.72%) Web Services
12 9 (3.35%) Jest
12 9 (3.35%) REST
13 8 (2.97%) .NET Framework
13 8 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (2.97%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.46%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.23%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.12%) Social Media
9 2 (0.74%) Animation
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.74%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.74%) NHS
10 1 (0.37%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.60%) Android
1 7 (2.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (57.25%) Mentoring
2 111 (41.26%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (24.54%) Agile
4 62 (23.05%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.22%) User Experience
6 43 (15.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (14.87%) Web Development
8 38 (14.13%) Front End Development
9 31 (11.52%) DevOps
9 31 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (10.04%) Software Engineering
11 26 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (9.67%) Design Patterns
12 25 (9.29%) OOP
13 19 (7.06%) AI
14 18 (6.69%) Analytics
15 17 (6.32%) E-Commerce
15 17 (6.32%) Scrum
15 17 (6.32%) UX Design
16 15 (5.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 235 (87.36%) JavaScript
2 153 (56.88%) Python
3 74 (27.51%) R
4 40 (14.87%) SQL
5 36 (13.38%) C#
6 30 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.95%) PHP
8 11 (4.09%) Java
9 5 (1.86%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.49%) XAML
11 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Perl
12 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (48.70%) AWS Certification
1 131 (48.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 131 (48.70%) Azure Certification
1 131 (48.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (4.83%) Degree
3 7 (2.60%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.37%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.46%) QA
3 6 (2.23%) GDPR
3 6 (2.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (9.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (5.95%) Terraform
2 3 (1.12%) cPanel
2 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.12%) Plesk
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.74%) Nagios
3 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 142 (52.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.72%) Google
3 5 (1.86%) Oracle
4 4 (1.49%) Adobe
4 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.12%) New Relic
5 3 (1.12%) Pega
5 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Ahrefs
6 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.74%) Hotjar
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.74%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (0.74%) Splunk
7 1 (0.37%) iManage