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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -70 +10 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 33 149 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.19% 4.78% 5.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 21.94% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27 95 120
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £32,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £42,250 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +4.35%

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 327 679 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.81% 21.80% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 117 387 502
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +6.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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
Edinburgh -42 18 £30,500 -51.20% 20
Glasgow -3 10 £30,500 -35.79% 16
Aberdeen 0 5 £30,000 -55.88% 13
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 2 (6.06%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 28 (84.85%) AWS
2 27 (81.82%) Azure
3 20 (60.61%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) npm
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.06%) Siteimprove
5 2 (6.06%) Yarn
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (75.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (60.61%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) webpack
3 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.06%) Vite
4 1 (3.03%) Ant
4 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.03%) Jasmine
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Protractor
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (72.73%) Multimedia
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.12%) Law
2 4 (12.12%) Marketing
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (72.73%) Trainee
2 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Trainee Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Trainee Software Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Trainee Web Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Trainee Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Web Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (96.97%) HTML
2 10 (30.30%) React
3 4 (12.12%) Kafka
3 4 (12.12%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.06%) Jest
4 2 (6.06%) Spring
4 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.03%) HTML5
5 1 (3.03%) J2EE
5 1 (3.03%) JMS
5 1 (3.03%) jQuery
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 22 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 7 (21.21%) Agile
2 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) Web Development
3 5 (15.15%) TDD
4 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.12%) Community of Practice
4 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (12.12%) Microservices
4 4 (12.12%) SDLC
4 4 (12.12%) Visualisation
5 3 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 3 (9.09%) Operational Stability
5 3 (9.09%) User Experience
6 2 (6.06%) Clean Code
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) Regtech
6 2 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (72.73%) Python
3 11 (33.33%) R
4 6 (18.18%) Java
4 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) AWS Certification
1 24 (72.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 24 (72.73%) Azure Certification
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.06%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.03%) Splunk