CSS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 102 54
Rank change year-on-year -62 -48 -9
Permanent jobs citing CSS 726 932 3,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.08% 3.13% 4.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.09% 18.63% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 643 560 2,250
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +5.71% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,547 5,003 14,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.24% 16.81% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 3,143 10,854
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CSS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CSS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK excluding London

CSS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
North of England -49 207 £45,000 -5.26% 224
South East -18 176 £50,000 -9.09% 245
East of England +22 114 £47,500 +26.67% 158
North West -41 113 £45,000 -14.29% 110
Midlands -56 110 £45,000 +2.86% 153
South West -46 86 £50,000 -13.04% 110
Yorkshire -23 61 £48,750 +21.88% 77
West Midlands -40 60 £45,000 -5.26% 64
East Midlands -55 50 £55,000 +37.50% 89
North East -31 33 £52,000 +46.48% 37
Wales -36 17 £45,000 -33.33% 57
Scotland -73 13 £30,500 -53.08% 123
Northern Ireland -28 3 £60,000 - 64
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 81 (11.16%) WordPress
2 36 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 32 (4.41%) CMS
4 10 (1.38%) Apache
5 9 (1.24%) Confluence
5 9 (1.24%) IIS
6 6 (0.83%) nginx
7 5 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.41%) govService
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) JBoss
9 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (2.48%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.93%) Adobe Illustrator
4 10 (1.38%) InDesign
5 8 (1.10%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (1.10%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.69%) Sketch
8 4 (0.55%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (0.41%) Trello
10 2 (0.28%) InVision
11 1 (0.14%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 15 (2.07%) Shopify
2 6 (0.83%) Magento
3 4 (0.55%) Line 50
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 324 (44.63%) Azure
2 240 (33.06%) AWS
3 181 (24.93%) GitHub
4 99 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (6.75%) Power Platform
6 44 (6.06%) Azure AI
6 44 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 44 (6.06%) SaaS
7 39 (5.37%) Figma
8 34 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 30 (4.13%) PowerApps
11 25 (3.44%) Serverless
12 23 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (2.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 20 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (2.75%) OneDrive
14 18 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 123 (16.94%) Internet
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
2 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.55%) VoIP
2 4 (0.55%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.41%) SSL
4 2 (0.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 114 (15.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (12.67%) MySQL
4 85 (11.71%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.34%) Power BI
6 39 (5.37%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.10%) Metadata
13 7 (0.96%) GIS
13 7 (0.96%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.83%) FileMaker
14 6 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.41%) Redis
16 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
16 2 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 203 (27.96%) Git
2 30 (4.13%) JIRA
3 13 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.10%) Selenium
5 7 (0.96%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) JUnit
6 5 (0.69%) Storybook
7 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.55%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.55%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.55%) Vite
8 3 (0.41%) Mocha
8 3 (0.41%) MSI
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) Subversion
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 169 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 99 (13.64%) Multimedia
3 72 (9.92%) Marketing
4 68 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.13%) Finance
6 36 (4.96%) Advertising
7 24 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.52%) Games
11 10 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.83%) Automotive
12 6 (0.83%) Banking
12 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.83%) Legal
12 6 (0.83%) Retail
13 5 (0.69%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) French Language
14 3 (0.41%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.41%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 473 (65.15%) Developer
2 135 (18.60%) .NET Developer
3 98 (13.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 92 (12.67%) Software Developer
5 91 (12.53%) Trainee
6 80 (11.02%) Senior
7 64 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 56 (7.71%) Software Engineer
9 52 (7.16%) C# Developer
10 50 (6.89%) C# Software Developer
11 49 (6.75%) Web Developer
12 43 (5.92%) Designer
13 42 (5.79%) PHP Developer
14 38 (5.23%) Administrator
15 35 (4.82%) Trainee Administrator
15 35 (4.82%) Web Administrator
16 34 (4.68%) Trainee Developer
17 32 (4.41%) .NET Software Developer
18 29 (3.99%) C# .NET Developer
18 29 (3.99%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (92.15%) HTML
2 262 (36.09%) .NET
3 141 (19.42%) React
4 139 (19.15%) .NET Core
5 122 (16.80%) ASP.NET
6 112 (15.43%) jQuery
7 102 (14.05%) ASP.NET Core
8 85 (11.71%) Vue
9 83 (11.43%) Node.js
10 80 (11.02%) HTML5
11 69 (9.50%) AngularJS
12 64 (8.82%) RESTful
13 62 (8.54%) CSS3
14 61 (8.40%) Entity Framework
15 56 (7.71%) REST
16 53 (7.30%) JSON
17 42 (5.79%) ML.NET
18 40 (5.51%) Laravel
19 33 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
20 30 (4.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (2.89%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.62%) Social Media
5 17 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.93%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.93%) Graphic Design
7 13 (1.79%) Digital TV
7 13 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.27%) Linux
2 28 (3.86%) Windows
3 10 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.69%) Unix
5 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
6 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (36.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 226 (31.13%) Agile
3 196 (27.00%) CI/CD
4 135 (18.60%) AI
5 130 (17.91%) DevOps
6 127 (17.49%) Web Development
7 116 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (15.84%) User Experience
9 112 (15.43%) Mentoring
10 85 (11.71%) Machine Learning
11 84 (11.57%) Computer Science
12 82 (11.29%) Software Engineering
13 70 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
15 64 (8.82%) Front End Development
15 64 (8.82%) OO
16 63 (8.68%) MVC
17 56 (7.71%) SEO
18 53 (7.30%) Clean Code
19 52 (7.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 443 (61.02%) JavaScript
2 331 (45.59%) SQL
3 250 (34.44%) C#
4 200 (27.55%) Python
5 153 (21.07%) PHP
6 103 (14.19%) TypeScript
7 58 (7.99%) R
8 57 (7.85%) Java
9 30 (4.13%) C++
10 20 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.83%) VBA
12 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.55%) Bash
13 4 (0.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.41%) Bicep
14 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.28%) VB
16 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (16.12%) Degree
2 93 (12.81%) AWS Certification
3 91 (12.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 91 (12.53%) Azure Certification
3 91 (12.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 68 (9.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.65%) Security Cleared
6 11 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.54%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.96%) QA
3 17 (2.34%) GDPR
4 10 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.24%) WCAG
6 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.69%) SLA
7 4 (0.55%) ISO 14001
7 4 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (14.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.07%) Terraform
3 3 (0.41%) Plesk
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.28%) Nagios
4 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 264 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.40%) Adobe
3 22 (3.03%) Facebook
4 19 (2.62%) Google
5 15 (2.07%) Oracle
6 12 (1.65%) YouTube
7 7 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.83%) WooCommerce
9 5 (0.69%) Splunk
10 4 (0.55%) Apple
10 4 (0.55%) Sage
10 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.41%) Granicus
11 3 (0.41%) Pega
11 3 (0.41%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.28%) New Relic
12 2 (0.28%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.28%) Red Hat