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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 78 123 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.94% 3.71% 5.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.21% 16.92% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 67 114
10th Percentile £28,025 - £39,475
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% -24.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,250 £67,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 386 727 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.57% 21.96% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 87 385 527
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,971
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 6
Glasgow -9 16 £30,500 -33.70% 11
Edinburgh -31 11 £30,500 -52.16% 23
Renfrewshire -7 4 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Fife +10 3 £45,000 - 1
Stirling - 3 - -
Aberdeen +9 2 £30,000 -45.45% 9
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -4 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 49 (62.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 66 (84.62%) AWS
2 65 (83.33%) Azure
3 52 (66.67%) GCP
4 12 (15.38%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) npm
5 7 (8.97%) Yarn
6 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.56%) Siteimprove
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.28%) SaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (65.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (65.38%) Maven
2 50 (64.10%) Bitbucket
2 50 (64.10%) JIRA
2 50 (64.10%) Selenium
3 49 (62.82%) Cucumber
3 49 (62.82%) GitLab
3 49 (62.82%) SonarQube
3 49 (62.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (15.38%) Git
5 8 (10.26%) webpack
6 7 (8.97%) Cypress.io
6 7 (8.97%) Vite
7 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.56%) JUnit
8 1 (1.28%) Ant
8 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.28%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.28%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.28%) Protractor
8 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (75.64%) Finance
2 58 (74.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 50 (64.10%) Banking
4 12 (15.38%) Multimedia
5 9 (11.54%) Law
5 9 (11.54%) Marketing
6 4 (5.13%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (78.21%) Software Engineer
2 12 (15.38%) Trainee
3 7 (8.97%) Developer
4 5 (6.41%) Software Developer
4 5 (6.41%) Trainee Developer
4 5 (6.41%) Trainee Software Developer
5 2 (2.56%) Administrator
5 2 (2.56%) Java Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Trainee Administrator
5 2 (2.56%) Web Administrator
6 1 (1.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (1.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Java Developer
6 1 (1.28%) Lead
6 1 (1.28%) Senior
6 1 (1.28%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (98.72%) HTML
2 60 (76.92%) React
3 54 (69.23%) Kafka
4 52 (66.67%) Spring
4 52 (66.67%) Spring Boot
5 50 (64.10%) Hibernate
6 49 (62.82%) JPA
6 49 (62.82%) Redux
7 7 (8.97%) Jest
8 3 (3.85%) .NET
9 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.56%) J2EE
9 2 (2.56%) JSON
9 2 (2.56%) REST
9 2 (2.56%) RESTful
10 1 (1.28%) Bootstrap
10 1 (1.28%) HTML5
10 1 (1.28%) Node.js
10 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (62.82%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (62.82%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (79.49%) Agile
2 61 (78.21%) Software Engineering
3 59 (75.64%) CI/CD
3 59 (75.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (74.36%) SDLC
5 56 (71.79%) Clean Code
6 55 (70.51%) TDD
7 54 (69.23%) Microservices
8 53 (67.95%) DevOps
8 53 (67.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 52 (66.67%) Front End Development
9 52 (66.67%) Test Automation
10 50 (64.10%) Containerisation
11 49 (62.82%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (12.82%) Mentoring
13 9 (11.54%) Community of Practice
13 9 (11.54%) Visualisation
14 8 (10.26%) Operational Stability
15 7 (8.97%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 77 (98.72%) JavaScript
2 61 (78.21%) Java
3 52 (66.67%) SQL
4 12 (15.38%) Python
4 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.97%) R
6 2 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 12 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (15.38%) Azure Certification
1 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.56%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (62.82%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (65.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (62.82%) Solace
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) Splunk