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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 54 63
Rank change year-on-year -71 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing CSS 13 115 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.39% 5.06% 5.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 24.47% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 48 103
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,393 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £73,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -58.31% +34.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £33,375 £98,474 £66,250
90th Percentile £40,500 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -4.55%

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 250 470 1,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.57% 20.69% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 158 192 654
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,722 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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
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 25 June 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
Edinburgh -7 8 £30,500 -65.19% 6
Glasgow -3 3 £31,750 -55.44% 6
Fife -9 1 £42,500 -5.56%
Aberdeen -16 1 £37,500 - 1
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 (30.77%) WordPress
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Elementor
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (69.23%) Multimedia
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Trainee
2 6 (46.15%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Trainee Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Administrator
4 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Trainee Administrator
4 3 (23.08%) Trainee Software Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Web Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior
6 1 (7.69%) Junior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 1 (7.69%) PHP WordPress Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (7.69%) Trainee Web Developer
6 1 (7.69%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
3 1 (7.69%) DOM
3 1 (7.69%) Java EE
3 1 (7.69%) JDBC
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) JSF
3 1 (7.69%) JSP
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
3 1 (7.69%) SAX
3 1 (7.69%) Servlets
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Web Development
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
5 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) MVC
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
2 10 (76.92%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) R
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certification
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 9 (69.23%) Azure Certification
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) FIS