CSS Job Trends

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -77 -1 -26
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,022 2,192 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 4.09% 4.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.37% 18.95% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,145 1,983
10th Percentile £27,650 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £58,400
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -5.82% +1.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -4.55% +4.76%

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 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 18 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 15 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
England -68 910 £47,000 -14.55% 802
UK excluding London -72 693 £35,000 -33.33% 757
Work from Home -73 317 £50,000 -9.09% 342
North of England -23 276 £30,500 -39.00% 165
London -54 242 £61,250 -9.26% 146
South East -99 124 £50,000 -16.67% 218
Yorkshire -5 121 £30,500 -26.06% 63
North West -31 116 £34,500 -34.29% 78
Midlands -67 101 £40,000 -20.00% 101
East of England -39 71 £45,000 -10.00% 112
South West -74 68 £36,000 -37.39% 101
West Midlands -42 55 £30,500 -44.55% 37
East Midlands -61 47 £45,000 +17.65% 64
North East 0 39 £30,500 -39.00% 25
Scotland -64 38 £30,500 -39.30% 25
Wales -15 13 £41,750 -12.11% 37
Northern Ireland -16 3 £31,500 - 13
Channel Islands +3 1 £90,000 -

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 58 (5.68%) WordPress
2 56 (5.48%) CMS
3 26 (2.54%) Confluence
4 14 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.08%) nginx
6 9 (0.88%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.68%) Apache
7 7 (0.68%) Drupal
8 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) govService
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.098%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 32 (3.13%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 16 (1.57%) Sketch
6 13 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (1.08%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.98%) InVision
8 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 8 (0.78%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.29%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) Windchill
13 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.27%) Shopify
3 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 494 (48.34%) Azure
2 413 (40.41%) AWS
3 370 (36.20%) GitHub
4 71 (6.95%) Figma
5 64 (6.26%) Serverless
6 48 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (3.91%) GCP
8 35 (3.42%) SaaS
9 34 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 25 (2.45%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.35%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.66%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.66%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.57%) Azure Functions
14 16 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.27%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 281 (27.50%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
6 1 (0.098%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (12.04%) SQL Server
2 92 (9.00%) MySQL
3 47 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 38 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.25%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.76%) Power BI
8 13 (1.27%) DB2
9 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.88%) Looker
12 8 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.68%) GIS
14 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.49%) Metadata
14 5 (0.49%) Redis
15 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 427 (41.78%) Git
2 52 (5.09%) JIRA
3 44 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 31 (3.03%) webpack
5 23 (2.25%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.25%) Selenium
6 22 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.17%) Balsamiq
9 12 (1.17%) Vite
10 11 (1.08%) Babel
11 10 (0.98%) gulp
12 9 (0.88%) GitLab
13 8 (0.78%) JUnit
13 8 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
13 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 284 (27.79%) Multimedia
2 248 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 113 (11.06%) Finance
4 106 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.95%) Marketing
6 61 (5.97%) Law
7 49 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 42 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.13%) Banking
10 31 (3.03%) Retail
11 26 (2.54%) Legal
12 14 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.08%) Advertising
13 11 (1.08%) Publishing
14 10 (0.98%) Games
15 9 (0.88%) Military
16 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
16 7 (0.68%) Electronics
17 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 586 (57.34%) Developer
2 278 (27.20%) Trainee
3 183 (17.91%) Software Developer
4 148 (14.48%) Senior
5 134 (13.11%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.23%) Trainee Software Developer
7 102 (9.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 95 (9.30%) Senior Developer
9 72 (7.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 56 (5.48%) .NET Developer
11 52 (5.09%) Designer
12 43 (4.21%) C# Developer
13 42 (4.11%) PHP Developer
13 42 (4.11%) React Developer
14 40 (3.91%) Lead
15 37 (3.62%) Software Engineer
16 32 (3.13%) Administrator
17 31 (3.03%) Web Administrator
18 29 (2.84%) Graduate Developer
18 29 (2.84%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 916 (89.63%) HTML
2 307 (30.04%) React
3 184 (18.00%) .NET
4 120 (11.74%) Node.js
5 106 (10.37%) AngularJS
6 101 (9.88%) HTML5
7 95 (9.30%) RESTful
8 83 (8.12%) CSS3
9 82 (8.02%) Vue
10 77 (7.53%) ASP.NET
11 73 (7.14%) jQuery
12 69 (6.75%) REST
13 60 (5.87%) .NET Core
14 46 (4.50%) .NET Framework
15 38 (3.72%) GraphQL
16 37 (3.62%) Tailwind CSS
17 35 (3.42%) Laravel
17 35 (3.42%) XML
18 34 (3.33%) Jest
19 33 (3.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.28%) Product Ownership
2 38 (3.72%) Mobile App
3 34 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 19 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.98%) Social Media
12 9 (0.88%) Motion Graphics
13 8 (0.78%) Cybercrime
13 8 (0.78%) W3C
14 7 (0.68%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.59%) CMDB
15 6 (0.59%) Digital TV
16 5 (0.49%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.74%) Linux
2 26 (2.54%) Windows
3 11 (1.08%) Android
3 11 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 359 (35.13%) Agile
3 265 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
4 229 (22.41%) User Experience
5 199 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (18.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 172 (16.83%) Front End Development
8 166 (16.24%) CI/CD
9 134 (13.11%) DevOps
10 119 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (10.76%) Computer Science
12 101 (9.88%) MVC
13 98 (9.59%) Web Development
14 93 (9.10%) UX Design
15 88 (8.61%) Software Engineering
16 72 (7.05%) Analytics
16 72 (7.05%) Scrum
17 71 (6.95%) OOP
18 70 (6.85%) Clean Code
18 70 (6.85%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 827 (80.92%) JavaScript
2 381 (37.28%) Python
3 210 (20.55%) SQL
4 182 (17.81%) TypeScript
5 179 (17.51%) C#
6 148 (14.48%) R
7 106 (10.37%) Java
8 90 (8.81%) PHP
9 27 (2.64%) C++
10 13 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.17%) Ruby
12 11 (1.08%) Perl
13 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.78%) C
15 7 (0.68%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
17 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
17 4 (0.39%) Bash
17 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (28.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.30%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.20%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 172 (16.83%) Degree
5 92 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (6.85%) Security Cleared
7 43 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.78%) HND
11 7 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.20%) CCA
13 2 (0.20%) MCP
14 1 (0.098%) OCP
14 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 56 (5.48%) WCAG
3 51 (4.99%) QA
4 28 (2.74%) GDPR
5 8 (0.78%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.29%) Section 508
7 3 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) HL7
8 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.098%) NCSC
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (8.22%) Docker
2 14 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.74%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.098%) Nagios
Vendors
1 392 (38.36%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.58%) Adobe
3 44 (4.31%) Google
4 25 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.86%) Oracle
7 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.88%) Cisco
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.78%) SAP
9 8 (0.78%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.68%) Hotjar
10 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.49%) Ahrefs
12 5 (0.49%) Databricks
12 5 (0.49%) Foundry
12 5 (0.49%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.49%) Meraki