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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 124 73
Rank change year-on-year -15 -51 -26
Permanent jobs citing CSS 52 76 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.79% 2.11% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.37% 17.59% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 40 48 120
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £57,188 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +30.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,000 - £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -

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 621 432 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.39% 12.01% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 479 268 648
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,275 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,250 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +13.67% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

CSS
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 August 2026.

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 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
Oxfordshire -19 22 £52,500 -16.00% 4
Buckinghamshire -6 17 £60,000 +50.00% 13
Berkshire -13 13 £52,250 -36.67% 6
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 7 (13.46%) IIS
2 6 (11.54%) WordPress
3 3 (5.77%) Moodle
4 2 (3.85%) Confluence
5 1 (1.92%) Apache
5 1 (1.92%) CMS
5 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (7.69%) InDesign
1 4 (7.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 10 (19.23%) GitHub
4 8 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) Azure AI
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (7.69%) Figma
8 3 (5.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (5.77%) GCP
8 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.77%) Serverless
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Internet
2 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) MySQL
2 13 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
4 7 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
5 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Redis
7 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) Claude Code
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (11.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Mocha
4 2 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) JUnit
5 1 (1.92%) Storybook
General
1 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Multimedia
3 7 (13.46%) Advertising
4 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.69%) Marketing
4 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (71.15%) Developer
2 19 (36.54%) .NET Developer
3 10 (19.23%) PHP Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.54%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 6 (11.54%) VB.NET Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Web Developer
6 5 (9.62%) .NET Web Developer
6 5 (9.62%) VB.NET Web Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Designer
7 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Graphic Designer
8 3 (5.77%) Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Digital Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior PHP Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (98.08%) HTML
2 21 (40.38%) .NET
3 19 (36.54%) ASP.NET
4 14 (26.92%) .NET Core
5 13 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (21.15%) Laravel
7 8 (15.38%) Entity Framework
7 8 (15.38%) jQuery
8 7 (13.46%) LINQ
9 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 6 (11.54%) LESS
9 6 (11.54%) React
10 5 (9.62%) HTML5
10 5 (9.62%) ML.NET
10 5 (9.62%) Node.js
10 5 (9.62%) REST
11 3 (5.77%) CSS3
11 3 (5.77%) OAuth
11 3 (5.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (13.46%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.69%) Graphic Design
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Social Media
4 3 (5.77%) Animation
4 3 (5.77%) CMDB
4 3 (5.77%) e-Learning
4 3 (5.77%) Learning Management System
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.77%) SCORM
4 3 (5.77%) TM Forum
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (32.69%) Web Development
4 16 (30.77%) DevOps
5 15 (28.85%) User Experience
6 13 (25.00%) Agile
6 13 (25.00%) AI
7 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
8 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.38%) Unit Testing
9 7 (13.46%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 7 (13.46%) Video Advertising
10 6 (11.54%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.54%) MVC
10 6 (11.54%) Project Management
11 5 (9.62%) ITIL
11 5 (9.62%) Machine Learning
11 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) JavaScript
2 20 (38.46%) SQL
3 15 (28.85%) C#
4 11 (21.15%) PHP
5 10 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 7 (13.46%) Python
7 6 (11.54%) VB.NET
8 5 (9.62%) Java
9 2 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) SLA
3 3 (5.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Adobe
2 7 (13.46%) Facebook
2 7 (13.46%) YouTube
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow