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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 115 63
Rank change year-on-year -74 -52 +3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,103 1,311 3,043
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.65% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.43% 15.04% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 932 815 2,016
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,600 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,576 8,719 16,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 17.61% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 5,725 12,012
10th Percentile £40,775 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £106,250
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 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 17 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 August 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 -55 1,012 £50,000 -9.09% 454
UK excluding London -38 827 £50,000 - 397
Work from Home -43 520 £55,000 +3.77% 211
South East +8 220 £50,000 +11.11% 104
North of England -38 219 £50,000 -1.96% 92
London -104 217 £60,000 -11.11% 145
East of England +17 127 £48,130 +13.25% 36
South West -28 111 £51,250 -2.38% 44
Midlands -59 111 £47,500 - 68
North West -51 108 £47,500 -9.52% 44
Yorkshire -5 60 £50,000 +11.11% 36
West Midlands -48 57 £45,000 -5.26% 34
East Midlands -56 54 £50,000 +5.26% 34
North East -18 51 £53,500 +100.00% 16
Wales -53 26 £45,000 -33.33% 17
Scotland -58 10 £31,500 -59.35% 28
Northern Ireland -72 3 £60,000 - 12

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
1 100 (9.07%) WordPress
2 53 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.62%) CMS
4 27 (2.45%) IIS
5 24 (2.18%) Confluence
6 18 (1.63%) Apache
7 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.82%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) JBoss
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.36%) Moodle
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.091%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.091%) PegaRULES
13 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.45%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.45%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.91%) InDesign
6 9 (0.82%) Sketch
7 8 (0.73%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.27%) InVision
10 3 (0.27%) Trello
11 2 (0.18%) Elementor
12 1 (0.091%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 24 (2.18%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.54%) Magento
4 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Line 50
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.091%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 440 (39.89%) Azure
2 307 (27.83%) AWS
3 222 (20.13%) GitHub
4 154 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (7.52%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (6.89%) Azure AI
7 74 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 72 (6.53%) Figma
9 57 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (4.71%) SaaS
11 50 (4.53%) Power Automate
12 49 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (4.17%) GCP
13 46 (4.17%) PowerApps
14 34 (3.08%) Serverless
15 31 (2.81%) Google Analytics
16 30 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 20 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 105 (9.52%) Internet
2 10 (0.91%) Intranet
3 7 (0.63%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.36%) HTTP
5 4 (0.36%) Network Security
5 4 (0.36%) VoIP
5 4 (0.36%) WAN
6 3 (0.27%) DNS
6 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) Firewall
7 2 (0.18%) SMS
8 1 (0.091%) AMQP
8 1 (0.091%) Broadband
8 1 (0.091%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (16.05%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 149 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 145 (13.15%) MySQL
5 68 (6.17%) Relational Database
6 67 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
7 58 (5.26%) Power BI
8 32 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.18%) Metadata
13 11 (1.00%) MariaDB
13 11 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.73%) GIS
15 8 (0.73%) Tableau
16 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.63%) Redis
17 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 254 (23.03%) Git
2 57 (5.17%) JIRA
3 40 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.54%) Selenium
6 16 (1.45%) Storybook
7 15 (1.36%) GitLab
7 15 (1.36%) webpack
8 11 (1.00%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.91%) Vite
10 9 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.82%) Maven
10 9 (0.82%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.73%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.73%) Postman
12 7 (0.63%) JUnit
12 7 (0.63%) MSI
13 6 (0.54%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 306 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 120 (10.88%) Marketing
3 115 (10.43%) Finance
4 109 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (6.35%) Multimedia
6 70 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 65 (5.89%) Advertising
8 49 (4.44%) Law
9 37 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.36%) Legal
10 26 (2.36%) Retail
11 19 (1.72%) Games
12 16 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.27%) Banking
14 9 (0.82%) Publishing
15 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.73%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.54%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 706 (64.01%) Developer
2 214 (19.40%) .NET Developer
3 171 (15.50%) Senior
4 130 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 129 (11.70%) Senior Developer
6 98 (8.88%) Software Developer
7 76 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.80%) PHP Developer
9 73 (6.62%) Web Developer
10 69 (6.26%) Designer
11 65 (5.89%) C# Developer
12 64 (5.80%) Trainee
13 58 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
14 53 (4.81%) Lead
15 51 (4.62%) Administrator
16 47 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 47 (4.26%) Web Administrator
17 44 (3.99%) Analyst
18 43 (3.90%) Trainee Administrator
19 41 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,017 (92.20%) HTML
2 383 (34.72%) .NET
3 252 (22.85%) React
4 225 (20.40%) .NET Core
5 209 (18.95%) ASP.NET
6 175 (15.87%) ASP.NET Core
7 143 (12.96%) Node.js
8 138 (12.51%) jQuery
9 136 (12.33%) HTML5
10 124 (11.24%) Vue
11 112 (10.15%) CSS3
12 109 (9.88%) Entity Framework
13 102 (9.25%) RESTful
14 95 (8.61%) AngularJS
15 92 (8.34%) REST
16 80 (7.25%) JSON
17 74 (6.71%) ML.NET
18 62 (5.62%) .NET Framework
18 62 (5.62%) Laravel
19 45 (4.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 31 (2.81%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.72%) Social Media
8 29 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.81%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.18%) Graphic Design
15 11 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
17 9 (0.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.17%) Windows
2 55 (4.99%) Linux
3 27 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.45%) Unix
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (38.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 416 (37.72%) Agile
3 368 (33.36%) CI/CD
4 240 (21.76%) DevOps
5 238 (21.58%) AI
6 209 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 204 (18.50%) User Experience
8 198 (17.95%) Web Development
9 154 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 142 (12.87%) Mentoring
11 133 (12.06%) Software Engineering
12 127 (11.51%) Computer Science
13 126 (11.42%) Machine Learning
14 113 (10.24%) Front End Development
15 100 (9.07%) Clean Code
16 97 (8.79%) Analytics
17 94 (8.52%) OO
18 91 (8.25%) Microservices
19 89 (8.07%) MVC
19 89 (8.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 668 (60.56%) JavaScript
2 469 (42.52%) SQL
3 388 (35.18%) C#
4 213 (19.31%) PHP
5 198 (17.95%) TypeScript
6 194 (17.59%) Python
7 97 (8.79%) Java
8 48 (4.35%) R
9 46 (4.17%) C++
10 32 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.18%) VBA
13 11 (1.00%) Ruby
14 10 (0.91%) Bicep
15 9 (0.82%) Go
16 8 (0.73%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.63%) VBScript
18 6 (0.54%) Dart
19 5 (0.45%) Perl
20 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 186 (16.86%) Degree
2 102 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (6.80%) Security Cleared
4 65 (5.89%) SC Cleared
5 62 (5.62%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.35%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.091%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (14.69%) Accessibility
2 68 (6.17%) WCAG
3 59 (5.35%) QA
4 41 (3.72%) GDPR
5 14 (1.27%) SLA
6 10 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.73%) PERC
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.18%) WAI
10 2 (0.18%) WAI-ARIA
11 1 (0.091%) NIST
11 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (16.32%) Docker
2 13 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 121 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.17%) Terraform
3 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.091%) Ansible
8 1 (0.091%) Kibana
8 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 369 (33.45%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.07%) Adobe
3 49 (4.44%) Google
4 42 (3.81%) Facebook
5 25 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 22 (1.99%) Oracle
7 21 (1.90%) YouTube
8 10 (0.91%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.82%) Sage
9 9 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.82%) Splunk
10 8 (0.73%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.63%) iManage
12 6 (0.54%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.54%) New Relic
12 6 (0.54%) TikTok
12 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.45%) Pinterest