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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 36 65
Rank change year-on-year -68 +29 -22
Permanent jobs citing CSS 39 159 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.38% 6.30% 6.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.85% 27.18% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 37 105 140
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £43,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £51,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.20% -17.07% +23.00%
75th Percentile £32,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £85,152 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -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 329 585 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.61% 23.18% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 126 333 577
10th Percentile - £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,938 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £88,051 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,856
% change year-on-year - +1.79% -5.40%

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 January 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 21 January 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 -45 27 £30,500 -52.16% 12
Glasgow -7 7 £30,500 -40.20% 12
Aberdeen -1 5 £30,000 -55.88% 8
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 (5.13%) WordPress
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 37 (94.87%) AWS
1 37 (94.87%) Azure
2 28 (71.79%) GitHub
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.13%) Siteimprove
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (84.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (71.79%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (84.62%) Multimedia
2 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Tech for Good
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (84.62%) Trainee
2 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 18 (46.15%) Trainee Developer
3 13 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 13 (33.33%) Trainee Software Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Trainee Web Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Web Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Trainee Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Web Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Junior
7 1 (2.56%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) HTML
2 8 (20.51%) React
3 5 (12.82%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Cybersecurity
1 31 (79.49%) Mentoring
2 7 (17.95%) Web Development
3 3 (7.69%) Agile
3 3 (7.69%) Microservices
3 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
3 3 (7.69%) TDD
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Front End Development
4 2 (5.13%) Roadmaps
4 2 (5.13%) User Experience
5 1 (2.56%) AI
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.56%) Data Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) Data Governance
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.56%) Fund Management
5 1 (2.56%) MVC
5 1 (2.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) JavaScript
2 34 (87.18%) Python
3 15 (38.46%) R
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (84.62%) AWS Certification
1 33 (84.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 33 (84.62%) Azure Certification
1 33 (84.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.13%) CCA
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (87.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) FIS