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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 57 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 75 213 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.96% 4.88% 4.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.05% 18.59% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14 63 109
10th Percentile - £31,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,938 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.68%

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 374 1,146 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.78% 26.23% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 98 440 566
10th Percentile £39,200 £35,900 £39,125
25th Percentile £49,063 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,938 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for CSS 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Glasgow -10 19 £71,250 +50.00% 13
Lanarkshire - 19 £80,000 - 4
Edinburgh -26 6 £30,500 -53.08% 15
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 2
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 3 £45,000 -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -1 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (65.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 61 (81.33%) AWS
2 58 (77.33%) Azure
3 51 (68.00%) GCP
4 7 (9.33%) npm
4 7 (9.33%) Yarn
5 6 (8.00%) GitHub
6 4 (5.33%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (68.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (68.00%) Maven
2 50 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 50 (66.67%) JIRA
2 50 (66.67%) Selenium
3 49 (65.33%) Cucumber
3 49 (65.33%) GitLab
3 49 (65.33%) SonarQube
3 49 (65.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (10.67%) webpack
5 7 (9.33%) Cypress.io
5 7 (9.33%) Vite
6 6 (8.00%) Git
7 5 (6.67%) JUnit
8 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.33%) Ant
9 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.33%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (81.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 59 (78.67%) Finance
3 50 (66.67%) Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Law
4 9 (12.00%) Marketing
5 6 (8.00%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.67%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (10.67%) Developer
3 6 (8.00%) Trainee
4 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.00%) Senior
5 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (4.00%) Trainee Developer
5 3 (4.00%) Trainee Software Developer
6 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (2.67%) Java Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (1.33%) Junior Developer
7 1 (1.33%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (1.33%) Senior Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Senior Software Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Senior Systems Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Systems Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (94.67%) HTML
2 64 (85.33%) React
3 55 (73.33%) Spring
4 53 (70.67%) Kafka
5 51 (68.00%) Spring Boot
6 50 (66.67%) Hibernate
7 49 (65.33%) JPA
7 49 (65.33%) Redux
8 7 (9.33%) Jest
9 5 (6.67%) .NET
10 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.33%) REST
11 3 (4.00%) HTML5
12 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET
12 2 (2.67%) CSS3
12 2 (2.67%) J2EE
12 2 (2.67%) JSON
12 2 (2.67%) Node.js
12 2 (2.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 49 (65.33%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (65.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.67%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (86.67%) Agile
1 65 (86.67%) Software Engineering
2 62 (82.67%) CI/CD
3 61 (81.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 61 (81.33%) SDLC
4 59 (78.67%) Microservices
5 56 (74.67%) Clean Code
6 54 (72.00%) Front End Development
6 54 (72.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (72.00%) TDD
7 52 (69.33%) DevOps
7 52 (69.33%) Test Automation
8 50 (66.67%) Containerisation
9 49 (65.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (14.67%) Community of Practice
10 11 (14.67%) Operational Stability
10 11 (14.67%) Visualisation
11 7 (9.33%) Async-Await
11 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
11 7 (9.33%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 73 (97.33%) JavaScript
2 66 (88.00%) Java
3 53 (70.67%) SQL
4 14 (18.67%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.00%) Python
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (4.00%) R
8 1 (1.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (8.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (65.33%) QA
System Software
1 50 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (69.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (65.33%) Solace
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.33%) Splunk
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) IBM