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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 64 67
Rank change year-on-year -76 +3 -28
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,017 2,313 2,101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.07% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.60% 18.89% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 824 1,266 1,833
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £64,063 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -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 6,964 12,242 12,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.91% 21.55% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,226 7,400 10,495
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,383 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,787 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -0.10% -0.47%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £107,500
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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -69 904 £47,372 -13.87% 689
UK excluding London -75 682 £37,500 -28.57% 639
Work from Home -67 347 £50,000 -9.09% 255
North of England -25 258 £30,500 -39.00% 185
London -49 245 £65,000 - 186
South East -96 133 £50,000 -14.62% 158
Yorkshire -2 118 £30,500 -28.24% 59
North West -36 109 £42,500 -19.05% 104
Midlands -69 95 £40,000 -20.00% 105
East of England -40 79 £55,000 +10.00% 85
South West -66 67 £39,250 -28.64% 58
West Midlands -38 48 £30,500 -44.55% 65
East Midlands -55 48 £45,000 +13.92% 40
North East -11 31 £30,500 -41.90% 25
Scotland -72 31 £30,500 -39.90% 32
Wales -20 17 £58,750 +23.68% 21
Northern Ireland -9 3 £31,500 -30.00% 7
Channel Islands +4 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 63 (6.19%) CMS
1 63 (6.19%) WordPress
2 23 (2.26%) Confluence
3 14 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 9 (0.88%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.69%) Drupal
5 7 (0.69%) nginx
6 6 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 6 (0.59%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.20%) Mendix
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.098%) Liferay
9 1 (0.098%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 30 (2.95%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 22 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.16%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.67%) Sketch
5 11 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.88%) InVision
6 9 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.79%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.79%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.29%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.20%) Windchill
10 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Shopify
2 17 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.69%) Sprinklr
4 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.098%) Magento
7 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 469 (46.12%) Azure
2 367 (36.09%) AWS
3 312 (30.68%) GitHub
4 76 (7.47%) Figma
5 63 (6.19%) Serverless
6 47 (4.62%) GCP
7 46 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (3.83%) SaaS
9 36 (3.54%) Google Analytics
10 32 (3.15%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.36%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.87%) Azure Functions
12 19 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.77%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (23.01%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) 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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.47%) SQL Server
2 111 (10.91%) MySQL
3 48 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.57%) Power BI
8 12 (1.18%) DB2
9 11 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.98%) GIS
11 8 (0.79%) Metadata
12 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.69%) Looker
12 7 (0.69%) Redis
13 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 396 (38.94%) Git
2 48 (4.72%) JIRA
3 36 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.44%) webpack
5 29 (2.85%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.16%) Selenium
7 21 (2.06%) Axure RP
8 18 (1.77%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.47%) Babel
9 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
10 13 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.08%) Balsamiq
13 9 (0.88%) gulp
14 8 (0.79%) GitLab
14 8 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.79%) Vite
15 7 (0.69%) JUnit
16 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 279 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 239 (23.50%) Multimedia
3 125 (12.29%) Finance
4 105 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (9.14%) Marketing
6 84 (8.26%) Law
7 46 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.93%) Retail
9 38 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (3.15%) Banking
11 24 (2.36%) Legal
12 15 (1.47%) Publishing
13 14 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.28%) Advertising
15 10 (0.98%) Games
16 9 (0.88%) Military
17 7 (0.69%) Aeronautics
18 5 (0.49%) Electronics
19 4 (0.39%) Back Office
19 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 575 (56.54%) Developer
2 232 (22.81%) Trainee
3 162 (15.93%) Senior
4 158 (15.54%) Software Developer
5 120 (11.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 111 (10.91%) Senior Developer
7 108 (10.62%) Trainee Developer
8 99 (9.73%) Trainee Software Developer
9 67 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 60 (5.90%) .NET Developer
11 52 (5.11%) Designer
12 45 (4.42%) C# Developer
12 45 (4.42%) PHP Developer
13 41 (4.03%) Web Developer
14 39 (3.83%) Lead
14 39 (3.83%) React Developer
15 38 (3.74%) Software Engineer
16 37 (3.64%) Graduate
16 37 (3.64%) Graduate Developer
16 37 (3.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 910 (89.48%) HTML
2 310 (30.48%) React
3 201 (19.76%) .NET
4 128 (12.59%) Node.js
5 122 (12.00%) RESTful
6 113 (11.11%) HTML5
7 103 (10.13%) AngularJS
8 88 (8.65%) ASP.NET
8 88 (8.65%) CSS3
9 80 (7.87%) Vue
10 76 (7.47%) jQuery
11 71 (6.98%) REST
12 64 (6.29%) .NET Core
13 56 (5.51%) .NET Framework
14 51 (5.01%) GraphQL
14 51 (5.01%) JSON
15 48 (4.72%) XML
16 45 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
17 40 (3.93%) Laravel
18 38 (3.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.72%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.24%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 19 (1.87%) Data Structures
4 19 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.18%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.18%) Motion Graphics
7 12 (1.18%) Social Media
8 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.79%) Cybercrime
9 8 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (0.79%) W3C
10 7 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.95%) Linux
2 26 (2.56%) 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
1 387 (38.05%) Agile
2 325 (31.96%) Mentoring
3 254 (24.98%) User Experience
4 232 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 216 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
7 170 (16.72%) Front End Development
8 163 (16.03%) CI/CD
9 150 (14.75%) DevOps
10 119 (11.70%) Web Development
11 116 (11.41%) MVC
12 115 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (11.21%) UX Design
14 105 (10.32%) Computer Science
15 88 (8.65%) Analytics
16 86 (8.46%) Software Engineering
17 81 (7.96%) OOP
18 78 (7.67%) Test Automation
19 74 (7.28%) Scrum
20 72 (7.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 821 (80.73%) JavaScript
2 325 (31.96%) Python
3 212 (20.85%) SQL
4 202 (19.86%) C#
5 186 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 125 (12.29%) R
7 108 (10.62%) Java
8 104 (10.23%) PHP
9 34 (3.34%) C++
10 13 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.18%) Perl
11 12 (1.18%) Ruby
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.79%) C
14 6 (0.59%) Go
15 5 (0.49%) Bicep
16 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
16 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 238 (23.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 233 (22.91%) Azure Certification
3 232 (22.81%) AWS Certification
3 232 (22.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 172 (16.91%) Degree
5 90 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (6.39%) Security Cleared
7 41 (4.03%) SC Cleared
8 21 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.79%) HND
11 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.69%) 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
1 143 (14.06%) Accessibility
2 70 (6.88%) QA
3 52 (5.11%) WCAG
4 33 (3.24%) GDPR
5 8 (0.79%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
6 5 (0.49%) Section 508
7 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
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 92 (9.05%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.56%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 339 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.78%) Adobe
3 46 (4.52%) Google
4 35 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.06%) Oracle
7 12 (1.18%) Cisco
8 9 (0.88%) Apple
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.79%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.69%) Ahrefs
11 6 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.49%) Meraki
12 5 (0.49%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.49%) SAP
13 4 (0.39%) Screaming Frog