CSS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 61 62
Rank change year-on-year -78 +1 -28
Permanent jobs citing CSS 48 169 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.36% 3.90% 4.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.20% 19.70% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25 97 117
10th Percentile £27,350 £38,750 £41,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £83,750 £95,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 338 858 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.58% 19.79% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 216 501 634
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £42,798
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,856
Median % change year-on-year - -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £94,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CSS

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Berkshire -49 30 £82,500 +6.45% 90
Oxfordshire +9 10 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Buckinghamshire -21 8 £32,500 -29.35% 36
CSS
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) Azure
2 27 (56.25%) AWS
3 18 (37.50%) GCP
4 11 (22.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (18.75%) Cloudflare
6 7 (14.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (14.58%) SonarCloud
7 6 (12.50%) GitHub
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.33%) SaaS
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.08%) npm
9 1 (2.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) MySQL
2 15 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (68.75%) Git
2 7 (14.58%) MSBuild
2 7 (14.58%) NUnit
2 7 (14.58%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (14.58%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (14.58%) TeamCity
2 7 (14.58%) Visual Studio
3 6 (12.50%) Jasmine
4 4 (8.33%) git-flow
4 4 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.08%) gulp
5 1 (2.08%) Mocha
5 1 (2.08%) PostCSS
5 1 (2.08%) rollup.js
5 1 (2.08%) Subversion
5 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Law
2 14 (29.17%) Marketing
3 7 (14.58%) Retail
4 6 (12.50%) Games
5 2 (4.17%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (72.92%) Developer
2 28 (58.33%) Senior
3 27 (56.25%) Senior Developer
4 25 (52.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (31.25%) Senior Web Developer
6 15 (31.25%) Web Developer
7 14 (29.17%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 8 (16.67%) .NET Developer
9 7 (14.58%) Architect
9 7 (14.58%) Technical Architect
10 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (4.17%) Junior Developer
11 2 (4.17%) PHP Developer
11 2 (4.17%) Software Support Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (95.83%) HTML
2 31 (64.58%) React
3 23 (47.92%) RESTful
4 21 (43.75%) .NET
5 15 (31.25%) ASP.NET
6 14 (29.17%) Node.js
7 10 (20.83%) HTML5
8 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 9 (18.75%) Bootstrap
8 9 (18.75%) CSS3
8 9 (18.75%) Vue
9 8 (16.67%) Jest
9 8 (16.67%) REST
10 7 (14.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (14.58%) gRPC
10 7 (14.58%) JSON
10 7 (14.58%) XML
11 5 (10.42%) Material-UI
12 4 (8.33%) AWS CDK
12 4 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Online Games
2 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) DevOps
1 27 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 25 (52.08%) Agile
4 22 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (43.75%) Design Patterns
6 17 (35.42%) User Experience
6 17 (35.42%) Web Development
7 15 (31.25%) MVC
7 15 (31.25%) UX Design
8 14 (29.17%) Containerisation
8 14 (29.17%) Customer Engagement
8 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
9 12 (25.00%) Event-Driven
9 12 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (22.92%) Microservices
11 10 (20.83%) Mobile First
12 8 (16.67%) API Integration
12 8 (16.67%) Code Quality
13 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (85.42%) JavaScript
2 22 (45.83%) C#
3 18 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 10 (20.83%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) PHP
6 3 (6.25%) Python
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (41.67%) QA
2 7 (14.58%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Rollbar