CSS Job Trends in the South East

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 144 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -101 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 231 161 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.34% 1.80% 4.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.69% 15.38% 24.06%
Number of salaries quoted 197 110 395
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £78,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,668
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.43% -8.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,687 1,047 2,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.81% 11.72% 18.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 716 1,929
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CSS job vacancy trend in the South East

CSS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the South East over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the South East

CSS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Thames Valley 0 58 £55,000 -26.67% 17
East Sussex +12 50 £47,500 +8.57% 11
Surrey +7 38 £55,000 -31.25% 12
Hampshire -29 37 £52,500 +16.67% 15
Oxfordshire -19 26 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Kent -25 23 £29,000 -3.33% 6
Buckinghamshire +10 20 £57,500 +43.75% 9
West Sussex -4 18 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Berkshire -8 12 £52,250 -36.67% 4
Isle of Wight +12 7 £50,000 +5.26% 3
CSS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (6.06%) WordPress
2 11 (4.76%) IIS
3 7 (3.03%) Apache
4 4 (1.73%) CMS
5 3 (1.30%) Confluence
5 3 (1.30%) Moodle
6 1 (0.43%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.73%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (1.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (1.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.73%) InDesign
3 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.43%) Elementor
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Shopify
2 3 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (38.53%) Azure
2 52 (22.51%) AWS
3 45 (19.48%) GitHub
4 42 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (11.69%) Azure AI
6 25 (10.82%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (5.63%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.63%) SaaS
8 9 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.46%) GCP
10 7 (3.03%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.16%) Figma
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.73%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.73%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 3 (1.30%) Serverless
14 1 (0.43%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.18%) Internet
2 6 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.60%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 49 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 49 (21.21%) MySQL
3 45 (19.48%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 15 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.63%) Power BI
7 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.30%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.87%) Redis
9 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (16.02%) Git
2 9 (3.90%) Claude Code
3 8 (3.46%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (3.46%) PHPUnit
3 8 (3.46%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.60%) Selenium
5 4 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.30%) JIRA
6 3 (1.30%) Postman
6 3 (1.30%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) GitLab
7 2 (0.87%) Mocha
7 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.43%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.43%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.43%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) JUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.52%) Advertising
4 15 (6.49%) Marketing
5 14 (6.06%) Finance
6 12 (5.19%) Multimedia
7 11 (4.76%) Games
7 11 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.90%) Law
10 5 (2.16%) Aviation
11 4 (1.73%) Automotive
12 3 (1.30%) Retail
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.43%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.43%) Electronics
14 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (76.62%) Developer
2 83 (35.93%) .NET Developer
3 39 (16.88%) Web Developer
4 32 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 28 (12.12%) Senior
6 25 (10.82%) Senior Developer
7 24 (10.39%) C# Developer
8 23 (9.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (8.66%) .NET Software Developer
10 18 (7.79%) C# .NET Developer
10 18 (7.79%) C# Software Developer
10 18 (7.79%) PHP Developer
11 16 (6.93%) Software Developer
12 14 (6.06%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (5.19%) .NET Software Engineer
13 12 (5.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 10 (4.33%) Applications Engineer
15 8 (3.46%) VB.NET Developer
16 7 (3.03%) Lead
16 7 (3.03%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (96.97%) HTML
2 133 (57.58%) .NET
3 68 (29.44%) ASP.NET
4 67 (29.00%) jQuery
5 60 (25.97%) ASP.NET Core
6 58 (25.11%) .NET Core
7 36 (15.58%) React
8 34 (14.72%) Entity Framework
9 28 (12.12%) Vue
10 25 (10.82%) ML.NET
11 24 (10.39%) AngularJS
12 21 (9.09%) HTML5
13 20 (8.66%) Laravel
14 18 (7.79%) JSON
14 18 (7.79%) LESS
15 16 (6.93%) CSS3
16 15 (6.49%) XML
17 13 (5.63%) Ajax
17 13 (5.63%) Sass
18 12 (5.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.33%) Robotics
5 9 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.16%) Digital TV
6 5 (2.16%) Social Media
7 4 (1.73%) CMDB
7 4 (1.73%) Graphic Design
7 4 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.30%) Animation
8 3 (1.30%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.30%) EPoS
8 3 (1.30%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) SCORM
8 3 (1.30%) TM Forum
8 3 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.52%) Linux
2 19 (8.23%) Windows
3 3 (1.30%) Debian
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (42.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 74 (32.03%) Agile
3 68 (29.44%) CI/CD
4 63 (27.27%) AI
4 63 (27.27%) Web Development
5 61 (26.41%) DevOps
6 56 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (19.48%) Software Engineering
8 39 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (16.88%) Machine Learning
9 38 (16.45%) Computer Science
10 37 (16.02%) User Experience
11 34 (14.72%) SEO
12 28 (12.12%) MVC
13 26 (11.26%) OOP
14 23 (9.96%) Analytics
15 20 (8.66%) Clean Code
15 20 (8.66%) OO
15 20 (8.66%) SDLC
16 18 (7.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 143 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 127 (54.98%) SQL
3 99 (42.86%) C#
4 64 (27.71%) PHP
5 40 (17.32%) Python
6 22 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.23%) C++
8 12 (5.19%) Java
9 8 (3.46%) VB.NET
10 5 (2.16%) R
11 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (24.68%) Degree
2 32 (13.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.19%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) SLA
4 5 (2.16%) WCAG
5 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (21.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.90%) Terraform
3 4 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (31.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.93%) Facebook
3 15 (6.49%) Google
4 12 (5.19%) YouTube
5 9 (3.90%) Adobe
6 8 (3.46%) Oracle
7 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.30%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.87%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.87%) WooCommerce