CSS Job Trends in the South West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 78 45
Rank change year-on-year -57 -33 +26
Permanent jobs citing CSS 76 86 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.99% 3.19% 4.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.95% 18.03% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 63 72 365
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,125 £71,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 587 477 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.64% 17.68% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 427 379 1,529
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,677 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CSS

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Bristol -27 34 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Devon -9 15 £45,000 -33.33% 12
Dorset -14 10 £45,000 -16.28% 2
Wiltshire -25 5 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Gloucestershire -28 4 £47,500 -2.90% 3
Somerset -31 4 £37,500 -51.61% 7
Cornwall - 4 £32,000 -
CSS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (6.58%) WordPress
2 2 (2.63%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Joomla!
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.63%) InDesign
2 2 (2.63%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.32%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.32%) Elementor
3 1 (1.32%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.32%) Sketch
3 1 (1.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Eloqua
1 2 (2.63%) Shopify
2 1 (1.32%) Magento
2 1 (1.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) Azure
2 23 (30.26%) GitHub
3 18 (23.68%) AWS
4 7 (9.21%) Figma
5 6 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (6.58%) Azure AI
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.63%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.63%) Serverless
10 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (1.32%) Canva
10 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
3 8 (10.53%) MySQL
4 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.95%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.63%) GIS
7 1 (1.32%) Power BI
7 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) Git
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.32%) MSTest
3 1 (1.32%) NUnit
3 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (17.11%) Marketing
2 12 (15.79%) Multimedia
3 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Advertising
5 2 (2.63%) Automotive
5 2 (2.63%) Electronics
5 2 (2.63%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (60.53%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (18.42%) Software Developer
4 12 (15.79%) Trainee
5 11 (14.47%) .NET Developer
6 9 (11.84%) Senior
7 7 (9.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Designer
9 5 (6.58%) Digital Designer
9 5 (6.58%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Digital Director
11 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Trainee Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (86.84%) HTML
2 21 (27.63%) .NET
2 21 (27.63%) React
3 17 (22.37%) RESTful
4 16 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 16 (21.05%) ASP.NET
5 14 (18.42%) Vue
6 10 (13.16%) .NET Core
7 9 (11.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 9 (11.84%) Tailwind CSS
8 8 (10.53%) Node.js
8 8 (10.53%) Sass
9 7 (9.21%) CSS3
9 7 (9.21%) HTML5
9 7 (9.21%) jQuery
10 6 (7.89%) .NET Framework
10 6 (7.89%) Bootstrap
10 6 (7.89%) REST
11 5 (6.58%) Jest
11 5 (6.58%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Graphic Design
1 6 (7.89%) Mobile App
1 6 (7.89%) Social Media
2 5 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.95%) Photography
4 2 (2.63%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (22.37%) CI/CD
3 13 (17.11%) Agile
3 13 (17.11%) Web Development
4 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.47%) Digital Marketing
5 11 (14.47%) Front End Development
5 11 (14.47%) User Experience
6 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 6 (7.89%) AI
8 6 (7.89%) API Development
8 6 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (7.89%) CRM
8 6 (7.89%) DevOps
8 6 (7.89%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (6.58%) Machine Learning
9 5 (6.58%) MVC
9 5 (6.58%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 58 (76.32%) JavaScript
2 27 (35.53%) TypeScript
3 21 (27.63%) C#
3 21 (27.63%) Python
4 16 (21.05%) PHP
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 9 (11.84%) R
6 3 (3.95%) Java
7 2 (2.63%) VB
8 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) AWS Certification
1 12 (15.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (9.21%) Degree
3 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) OCA
4 1 (1.32%) OCP
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Plesk
Vendors
1 23 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Adobe
3 2 (2.63%) Facebook
3 2 (2.63%) SAP
3 2 (2.63%) WooCommerce
4 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle
4 1 (1.32%) Siemens