CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 135 57
Rank change year-on-year -85 -78 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,015 1,156 2,846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.34% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.45% 13.73% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 818 677 1,435
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,006 8,418 16,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.01% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 5,380 10,048
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,911 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,167
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CSS job vacancy trend in the UK

CSS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 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
England -61 943 £52,500 -4.55% 656
UK excluding London -52 763 £50,000 +5.26% 412
Work from Home -52 482 £55,000 - 329
South East +11 227 £47,500 +11.76% 77
North of England -66 202 £52,000 +9.47% 109
London -108 202 £60,000 -7.69% 313
East of England +6 114 £47,500 -5.00% 34
South West -29 100 £53,125 +32.81% 42
North West -82 88 £51,000 -2.86% 63
Midlands -85 87 £50,000 +2.56% 69
North East -13 71 £57,500 +88.52% 15
East Midlands -64 48 £50,000 +0.50% 30
Yorkshire -45 43 £50,000 +29.03% 34
West Midlands -76 39 £50,000 +11.11% 39
Wales -66 25 £38,500 -42.96% 19
Scotland -45 8 £37,500 -25.00% 44

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 56 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 45 (4.43%) WordPress
3 40 (3.94%) CMS
3 40 (3.94%) IIS
4 29 (2.86%) Confluence
5 18 (1.77%) Apache
6 10 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.79%) Drupal
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.69%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.59%) JBoss
9 6 (0.59%) Moodle
9 6 (0.59%) nginx
10 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.099%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.099%) Kentico
12 1 (0.099%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.97%) Photoshop
4 15 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.79%) InDesign
7 8 (0.79%) Sketch
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
9 4 (0.39%) Elementor
9 4 (0.39%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.20%) InVision
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Magento
3 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.099%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 353 (34.78%) Azure
2 218 (21.48%) AWS
3 165 (16.26%) GitHub
4 143 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.68%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.39%) Azure AI
8 60 (5.91%) Power Automate
9 56 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (5.22%) Figma
10 53 (5.22%) PowerApps
11 51 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (3.45%) GCP
12 35 (3.45%) SaaS
13 31 (3.05%) Google Analytics
14 30 (2.96%) Serverless
15 17 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 17 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.12%) Internet
2 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.89%) Intranet
4 8 (0.79%) SSL
5 7 (0.69%) DNS
5 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Network Security
7 4 (0.39%) Profibus
7 4 (0.39%) SMS
7 4 (0.39%) VoIP
8 3 (0.30%) 4G
8 3 (0.30%) 5G
8 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.20%) Firewall
10 1 (0.099%) AMQP
10 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.099%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 164 (16.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 145 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 130 (12.81%) MySQL
5 91 (8.97%) Relational Database
6 75 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (5.62%) Power BI
8 33 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.48%) Metadata
11 14 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.38%) Redis
12 12 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.08%) GIS
13 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
14 8 (0.79%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.59%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 203 (20.00%) Git
2 45 (4.43%) JIRA
3 41 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.07%) GitLab
5 17 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.67%) Selenium
6 16 (1.58%) Claude Code
6 16 (1.58%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.38%) Storybook
8 13 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.99%) Vite
10 9 (0.89%) Maven
11 8 (0.79%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.69%) MSI
12 7 (0.69%) Postman
12 7 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.69%) webpack
13 6 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 328 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 122 (12.02%) Marketing
3 112 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.56%) Finance
5 95 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 88 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (5.42%) Advertising
8 48 (4.73%) Law
9 34 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.86%) Retail
11 24 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.17%) Legal
13 19 (1.87%) Games
14 18 (1.77%) Multimedia
15 17 (1.67%) Banking
16 13 (1.28%) Automotive
17 11 (1.08%) Publishing
18 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.89%) Aviation
19 9 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 668 (65.81%) Developer
2 213 (20.99%) .NET Developer
3 190 (18.72%) Senior
4 142 (13.99%) Senior Developer
5 120 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 77 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 75 (7.39%) Software Developer
8 71 (7.00%) Web Developer
9 59 (5.81%) PHP Developer
10 55 (5.42%) C# Developer
11 49 (4.83%) Designer
12 46 (4.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 46 (4.53%) Lead
13 42 (4.14%) Analyst
14 31 (3.05%) C# .NET Developer
14 31 (3.05%) C# Software Developer
15 30 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 29 (2.86%) Junior
16 29 (2.86%) UX Designer
17 27 (2.66%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 939 (92.51%) HTML
2 377 (37.14%) .NET
3 232 (22.86%) .NET Core
4 227 (22.36%) React
5 219 (21.58%) ASP.NET
6 177 (17.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 151 (14.88%) Node.js
8 134 (13.20%) HTML5
9 128 (12.61%) jQuery
10 125 (12.32%) Entity Framework
11 116 (11.43%) REST
12 108 (10.64%) CSS3
13 100 (9.85%) Vue
14 98 (9.66%) RESTful
15 81 (7.98%) .NET Framework
16 80 (7.88%) AngularJS
17 78 (7.68%) JSON
18 70 (6.90%) ML.NET
19 55 (5.42%) Laravel
20 45 (4.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.96%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.76%) Social Media
7 26 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 26 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.87%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.77%) Robotics
12 17 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
13 16 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.58%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.18%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (1.08%) Animation
16 11 (1.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.40%) Windows
2 61 (6.01%) Linux
3 29 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Unix
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) AIX
7 3 (0.30%) Debian
8 2 (0.20%) Android
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (39.51%) Agile
2 388 (38.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 371 (36.55%) CI/CD
4 236 (23.25%) AI
5 234 (23.05%) DevOps
6 216 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 203 (20.00%) User Experience
8 173 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (14.68%) Web Development
10 140 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 135 (13.30%) Mentoring
12 124 (12.22%) Test Automation
13 108 (10.64%) Machine Learning
14 106 (10.44%) Front End Development
15 104 (10.25%) Computer Science
16 90 (8.87%) Clean Code
16 90 (8.87%) UX Design
17 88 (8.67%) Analytics
18 85 (8.37%) Scrum
19 84 (8.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 621 (61.18%) JavaScript
2 407 (40.10%) SQL
3 375 (36.95%) C#
4 215 (21.18%) TypeScript
5 155 (15.27%) PHP
6 138 (13.60%) Python
7 82 (8.08%) Java
8 32 (3.15%) C++
9 25 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.87%) VBA
11 17 (1.67%) Ruby
11 17 (1.67%) VB.NET
12 15 (1.48%) Go
13 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.79%) Bicep
15 7 (0.69%) VBScript
16 6 (0.59%) Bash
17 5 (0.49%) C
17 5 (0.49%) Perl
18 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (16.65%) Degree
2 107 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 92 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 86 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) HNC
10 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.39%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (18.23%) Accessibility
2 89 (8.77%) WCAG
3 79 (7.78%) QA
4 36 (3.55%) GDPR
5 15 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.99%) SLA
7 7 (0.69%) NCSC
8 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.39%) PERC
8 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.30%) WAI
9 3 (0.30%) WAI-ARIA
10 1 (0.099%) GRC
10 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (18.42%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 120 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.49%) Nagios
4 4 (0.39%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Plesk
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.099%) Ansible
7 1 (0.099%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Consul
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 310 (30.54%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.29%) Adobe
3 45 (4.43%) Google
4 40 (3.94%) Facebook
5 29 (2.86%) Oracle
6 22 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.07%) YouTube
8 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.18%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Splunk
13 7 (0.69%) WooCommerce
14 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.59%) iManage
14 6 (0.59%) Sage
14 6 (0.59%) TikTok
15 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.49%) New Relic
15 5 (0.49%) Red Hat