CSS Job Trends in Scotland

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 65 67
Rank change year-on-year -61 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 10 99 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.30% 4.00% 4.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.07% 22.25% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7 35 62
10th Percentile £28,200 £31,250 £31,375
25th Percentile £29,000 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -59.35% +40.91% -
75th Percentile £37,500 £98,474 £66,875
90th Percentile £42,250 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 246 445 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.34% 17.97% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 162 170 532
10th Percentile £41,375 £31,250 £37,293
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,842 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

CSS job vacancy trend in Scotland

CSS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in Scotland

CSS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Glasgow 0 6 £31,000 -52.31% 12
Edinburgh -3 2 £31,250 -65.28% 6
Fife -9 1 £42,500 -5.56%
Aberdeen -16 1 £37,500 -
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (40.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Trainee
2 3 (30.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Trainee Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Web Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Executive
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing Executive
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing Executive
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Marketing Executive
4 1 (10.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (10.00%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (10.00%) JDBC
5 1 (10.00%) JPA
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) JSF
5 1 (10.00%) JSP
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Sass
5 1 (10.00%) Servlets
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Web Development
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (10.00%) SEO
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft