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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 93 58
Rank change year-on-year -95 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,003 1,438 3,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 3.26% 3.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.05% 16.45% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 847 947 2,873
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -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 9,079 8,739 20,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 19.83% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,680 6,107 15,743
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -76 917 £50,000 -9.09% 485
UK excluding London -73 712 £45,000 -14.29% 420
Work from Home -65 368 £52,500 -4.55% 204
North of England -44 233 £41,500 -7.78% 105
London -80 222 £59,886 -11.28% 134
South East -41 161 £50,000 -16.67% 103
North West -42 119 £40,000 -20.00% 55
Midlands -61 108 £45,000 - 65
East of England +3 105 £47,500 +18.75% 72
Yorkshire -16 83 £41,770 +11.39% 34
South West -62 77 £46,250 -22.92% 42
West Midlands -37 63 £42,039 -11.50% 25
East Midlands -58 45 £55,000 +41.94% 40
North East -26 31 £47,500 -2.56% 16
Scotland -86 17 £30,500 -49.17% 20
Wales -40 9 £45,000 -25.00% 14
Northern Ireland -36 3 £60,000 - 8
Channel Islands - 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
1 104 (10.37%) WordPress
2 52 (5.18%) CMS
3 45 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.50%) Confluence
5 13 (1.30%) IIS
6 11 (1.10%) Drupal
7 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.80%) nginx
8 7 (0.70%) Apache
9 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 3 (0.30%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.100%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.100%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.100%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.60%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.00%) Chatbot
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.50%) InVision
9 4 (0.40%) InDesign
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.100%) Elementor
11 1 (0.100%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.100%) Trello
11 1 (0.100%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (1.99%) Shopify
2 9 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.100%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.100%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.100%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 439 (43.77%) Azure
2 373 (37.19%) AWS
3 272 (27.12%) GitHub
4 97 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (6.38%) Figma
6 63 (6.28%) Power Platform
7 51 (5.08%) GCP
8 47 (4.69%) SaaS
9 40 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
11 37 (3.69%) Power Automate
12 36 (3.59%) Serverless
13 35 (3.49%) PowerApps
14 34 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.79%) Azure AI
15 28 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
16 27 (2.69%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 19 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 196 (19.54%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.100%) AMQP
6 1 (0.100%) Broadband
6 1 (0.100%) DNS
6 1 (0.100%) Firewall
6 1 (0.100%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.100%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (13.96%) SQL Server
2 105 (10.47%) MySQL
3 74 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 55 (5.48%) Power BI
6 43 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.49%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.90%) DB2
12 9 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.80%) Tableau
14 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
15 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.60%) GIS
16 5 (0.50%) Looker
16 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 316 (31.51%) Git
2 47 (4.69%) JIRA
3 38 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.69%) webpack
5 16 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.40%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.40%) Selenium
7 12 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.20%) Storybook
8 10 (1.00%) Balsamiq
8 10 (1.00%) GitLab
8 10 (1.00%) Vite
9 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.70%) JUnit
11 6 (0.60%) Babel
12 5 (0.50%) Maven
12 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
13 4 (0.40%) MLflow
13 4 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 256 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 177 (17.65%) Multimedia
3 118 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.77%) Finance
5 90 (8.97%) Marketing
6 42 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.19%) Law
7 36 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 27 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.59%) Legal
9 26 (2.59%) Retail
10 22 (2.19%) Advertising
11 15 (1.50%) Banking
12 13 (1.30%) Games
13 9 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.60%) Local Government
15 5 (0.50%) Automotive
15 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 605 (60.32%) Developer
2 180 (17.95%) Trainee
3 148 (14.76%) Senior
4 133 (13.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 133 (13.26%) Software Developer
5 111 (11.07%) Senior Developer
6 105 (10.47%) .NET Developer
7 70 (6.98%) Trainee Developer
8 62 (6.18%) Administrator
8 62 (6.18%) Designer
9 61 (6.08%) C# Developer
10 57 (5.68%) Trainee Software Developer
10 57 (5.68%) Web Administrator
11 55 (5.48%) C# Software Developer
12 53 (5.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 53 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 53 (5.28%) Trainee Administrator
13 52 (5.18%) PHP Developer
13 52 (5.18%) Web Developer
14 41 (4.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (91.03%) HTML
2 269 (26.82%) React
3 248 (24.73%) .NET
4 119 (11.86%) jQuery
5 115 (11.47%) Node.js
6 114 (11.37%) HTML5
6 114 (11.37%) Vue
7 105 (10.47%) RESTful
8 103 (10.27%) .NET Core
9 99 (9.87%) AngularJS
10 97 (9.67%) CSS3
11 95 (9.47%) ASP.NET
12 65 (6.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 65 (6.48%) REST
13 61 (6.08%) JSON
14 48 (4.79%) Entity Framework
14 48 (4.79%) Laravel
15 44 (4.39%) Tailwind CSS
16 41 (4.09%) Sass
17 40 (3.99%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.59%) Mobile App
3 31 (3.09%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.89%) Social Media
11 16 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.90%) Digital TV
14 9 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.80%) Graphic Design
15 8 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.69%) Linux
2 26 (2.59%) Windows
3 15 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Android
5 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.40%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.100%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (30.81%) Agile
2 295 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 242 (24.13%) Mentoring
4 217 (21.64%) CI/CD
5 196 (19.54%) User Experience
6 185 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (16.15%) DevOps
8 161 (16.05%) Web Development
9 152 (15.15%) AI
10 133 (13.26%) Cybersecurity
11 124 (12.36%) Computer Science
11 124 (12.36%) Front End Development
12 123 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (10.37%) Software Engineering
14 94 (9.37%) Clean Code
15 81 (8.08%) Analytics
15 81 (8.08%) Scrum
16 79 (7.88%) Responsive Web Design
16 79 (7.88%) UX Design
17 78 (7.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 704 (70.19%) JavaScript
2 335 (33.40%) SQL
3 293 (29.21%) Python
4 240 (23.93%) C#
5 183 (18.25%) TypeScript
6 168 (16.75%) PHP
7 110 (10.97%) R
8 86 (8.57%) Java
9 31 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.79%) C++
11 12 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.10%) VBA
13 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.50%) Bash
13 5 (0.50%) Bicep
13 5 (0.50%) Dart
13 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.50%) VBScript
14 4 (0.40%) SOQL
14 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (18.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 176 (17.55%) AWS Certification
3 175 (17.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 175 (17.45%) Azure Certification
4 168 (16.75%) Degree
5 100 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (4.59%) Security Cleared
7 35 (3.49%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.100%) ISEB
13 1 (0.100%) OCA
13 1 (0.100%) OCP
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.57%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.19%) WCAG
3 40 (3.99%) QA
4 28 (2.79%) GDPR
5 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.10%) SLA
6 7 (0.70%) GRC
6 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.70%) PERC
7 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.100%) NCSC
9 1 (0.100%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (9.27%) Docker
2 12 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.50%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) cPanel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.100%) Grafana
5 1 (0.100%) Kibana
5 1 (0.100%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 353 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.08%) Adobe
3 40 (3.99%) Google
4 18 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.40%) Oracle
6 10 (1.00%) Facebook
7 9 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.80%) HubSpot
8 8 (0.80%) Sage
8 8 (0.80%) SAP
8 8 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.70%) iManage
9 7 (0.70%) YouTube
10 6 (0.60%) Apple
10 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.60%) Splunk
11 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.50%) TikTok
12 4 (0.40%) Databricks