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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 46 75
Rank change year-on-year -66 +29 -30
Permanent jobs citing CSS 70 210 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 4.94% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.99% 25.99% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 57 116 151
10th Percentile £26,500 £38,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £59,500 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £59,684
% change year-on-year -18.18% -7.85% +3.80%

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 467 808 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.27% 19.00% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 356 465 949
10th Percentile £36,688 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +4.42%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 6 January 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 6 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
Bristol -13 35 £30,500 -49.17% 17
Devon 0 11 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Somerset -15 8 £27,000 -36.47% 6
Wiltshire -25 7 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Gloucestershire +3 4 £55,000 +0.99% 9
Dorset -32 4 £65,000 +30.00% 9
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 2 (2.86%) WordPress
2 1 (1.43%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.86%) Windchill
3 1 (1.43%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) AWS
3 23 (32.86%) GitHub
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Serverless
5 2 (2.86%) Figma
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.43%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.43%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) GIS
4 1 (1.43%) Looker
4 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (41.43%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (30.00%) Multimedia
2 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Marketing
4 5 (7.14%) Military
5 4 (5.71%) Aeronautics
5 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Electronics
7 2 (2.86%) Finance
7 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Developer
2 21 (30.00%) Trainee
3 19 (27.14%) Software Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Designer
4 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Trainee Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Trainee Software Developer
5 7 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.14%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior
8 3 (4.29%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (2.86%) React Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (1.43%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (92.86%) HTML
2 12 (17.14%) .NET
3 8 (11.43%) React
4 7 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 7 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.71%) Autofac
6 4 (5.71%) CSS3
6 4 (5.71%) HTML5
7 3 (4.29%) REST
7 3 (4.29%) Vue
8 2 (2.86%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.86%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.86%) Flask
8 2 (2.86%) LAMP
8 2 (2.86%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Motion Graphics
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 20 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.29%) Agile
7 8 (11.43%) MVC
8 7 (10.00%) B2B
8 7 (10.00%) B2B Marketing
8 7 (10.00%) Demand Generation
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
9 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.14%) Front End Development
9 5 (7.14%) User Experience
10 4 (5.71%) Computer Science
10 4 (5.71%) Dependency Injection
10 4 (5.71%) Mathematics
10 4 (5.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (91.43%) JavaScript
2 27 (38.57%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) C#
3 13 (18.57%) R
4 12 (17.14%) SQL
5 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.43%) T-SQL
7 7 (10.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.29%) Java
8 3 (4.29%) PHP
9 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.43%) Perl
10 1 (1.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 21 (30.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 21 (30.00%) Azure Certification
1 21 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (25.71%) Degree
3 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) OCA
6 1 (1.43%) OCP
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Oracle
3 7 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Siemens
5 1 (1.43%) WooCommerce