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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 92 57
Rank change year-on-year -59 -35 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,087 1,350 3,612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.31% 4.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.18% 15.27% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 917 1,072 2,861
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,247 8,841 19,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.56% 21.66% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,044 6,598 15,386
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -56 970 £45,000 -18.18% 514
UK excluding London -57 764 £40,000 -23.81% 423
Work from Home -73 333 £52,500 -4.55% 223
North of England -17 277 £30,500 -32.22% 113
London -70 235 £60,000 -16.08% 154
South East -72 153 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -27 128 £31,250 -37.50% 57
Midlands -36 116 £42,039 -6.58% 59
Yorkshire -6 115 £30,500 -18.67% 34
East of England -18 87 £41,250 -13.16% 72
South West -54 83 £40,000 -33.33% 51
West Midlands -7 70 £31,500 -40.00% 29
East Midlands -56 46 £52,500 +40.00% 30
Scotland -78 35 £30,500 -44.55% 14
North East -9 34 £30,500 -39.00% 22
Wales -28 11 £41,740 -20.50% 17
Northern Ireland -32 3 £60,000 - 4
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
1 112 (10.30%) WordPress
2 55 (5.06%) CMS
3 26 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.20%) Confluence
5 10 (0.92%) nginx
6 7 (0.64%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 30 (2.76%) Adobe XD
2 13 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 12 (1.10%) Sketch
4 10 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
4 10 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.92%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.74%) InVision
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.46%) InDesign
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.18%) Windchill
10 1 (0.092%) Elementor
10 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.38%) Shopify
2 12 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.092%) Magento
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 545 (50.14%) Azure
2 485 (44.62%) AWS
3 394 (36.25%) GitHub
4 81 (7.45%) Figma
5 72 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (5.70%) Serverless
7 59 (5.43%) GCP
8 45 (4.14%) SaaS
9 42 (3.86%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (2.67%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.02%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (1.84%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.75%) PaaS
17 17 (1.56%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.56%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (28.43%) Internet
2 8 (0.74%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 96 (8.83%) MySQL
3 48 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (3.86%) Relational Database
5 35 (3.22%) Power BI
6 34 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.20%) DB2
10 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.83%) Looker
13 8 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.64%) Tableau
15 5 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
16 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 454 (41.77%) Git
2 52 (4.78%) JIRA
3 48 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.39%) Cypress.io
5 25 (2.30%) webpack
6 22 (2.02%) Axure RP
7 19 (1.75%) Selenium
8 14 (1.29%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.29%) Vite
9 13 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.10%) Storybook
11 11 (1.01%) Babel
12 10 (0.92%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.74%) GitLab
14 6 (0.55%) JUnit
14 6 (0.55%) Maven
14 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 298 (27.41%) Multimedia
2 232 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 121 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.38%) Finance
5 82 (7.54%) Marketing
6 52 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.78%) Law
7 46 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.76%) Retail
9 25 (2.30%) Banking
10 23 (2.12%) Legal
11 21 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.01%) Advertising
13 8 (0.74%) Military
14 7 (0.64%) Games
15 6 (0.55%) Aeronautics
15 6 (0.55%) Back Office
15 6 (0.55%) Electronics
16 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 618 (56.85%) Developer
2 299 (27.51%) Trainee
3 179 (16.47%) Software Developer
4 156 (14.35%) Senior
5 128 (11.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 125 (11.50%) Trainee Developer
7 111 (10.21%) Senior Developer
7 111 (10.21%) Trainee Software Developer
8 78 (7.18%) Administrator
9 74 (6.81%) Web Administrator
10 72 (6.62%) Trainee Administrator
11 70 (6.44%) .NET Developer
11 70 (6.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 67 (6.16%) Designer
13 55 (5.06%) C# Developer
14 46 (4.23%) PHP Developer
15 45 (4.14%) Web Developer
16 43 (3.96%) Lead
17 40 (3.68%) C# Software Developer
18 39 (3.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 989 (90.98%) HTML
2 323 (29.71%) React
3 199 (18.31%) .NET
4 125 (11.50%) Node.js
5 110 (10.12%) AngularJS
6 106 (9.75%) RESTful
7 104 (9.57%) Vue
8 94 (8.65%) jQuery
9 88 (8.10%) HTML5
10 74 (6.81%) CSS3
11 65 (5.98%) ASP.NET
12 59 (5.43%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.24%) REST
14 52 (4.78%) Tailwind CSS
15 46 (4.23%) .NET Framework
16 39 (3.59%) Jest
16 39 (3.59%) Laravel
16 39 (3.59%) Sass
17 35 (3.22%) React Native
18 33 (3.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.96%) Mobile App
3 40 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.20%) Social Media
13 11 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.92%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
16 6 (0.55%) Algorithms
16 6 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
16 6 (0.55%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.66%) Linux
2 17 (1.56%) Windows
3 11 (1.01%) Android
3 11 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (33.03%) Mentoring
2 355 (32.66%) Agile
3 245 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 238 (21.90%) Cybersecurity
5 218 (20.06%) User Experience
6 210 (19.32%) CI/CD
7 195 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (14.44%) DevOps
8 157 (14.44%) Front End Development
8 157 (14.44%) Web Development
9 125 (11.50%) Computer Science
10 124 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (10.03%) AI
12 96 (8.83%) Software Engineering
13 93 (8.56%) Analytics
13 93 (8.56%) Clean Code
14 90 (8.28%) Scrum
14 90 (8.28%) UX Design
15 88 (8.10%) MVC
16 77 (7.08%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 854 (78.56%) JavaScript
2 409 (37.63%) Python
3 260 (23.92%) SQL
4 193 (17.76%) TypeScript
5 187 (17.20%) C#
6 178 (16.38%) R
7 133 (12.24%) PHP
8 96 (8.83%) Java
9 28 (2.58%) C++
10 15 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.83%) Ruby
12 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.55%) Bash
15 5 (0.46%) Bicep
15 5 (0.46%) Dart
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) SOSL
17 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 303 (27.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (27.41%) AWS Certification
2 298 (27.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (27.41%) Azure Certification
3 183 (16.84%) Degree
4 105 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.89%) Security Cleared
6 50 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB
12 2 (0.18%) CCA
13 1 (0.092%) OCA
13 1 (0.092%) OCP
13 1 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (11.50%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.42%) QA
3 47 (4.32%) WCAG
4 21 (1.93%) GDPR
5 9 (0.83%) PERC
6 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.64%) SLA
7 6 (0.55%) GRC
7 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) Section 508
10 1 (0.092%) HL7
10 1 (0.092%) NCSC
10 1 (0.092%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (7.64%) Docker
2 11 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.67%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.18%) Nagios
5 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.092%) Kibana
Vendors
1 427 (39.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.97%) Adobe
3 45 (4.14%) Google
4 25 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.01%) Oracle
6 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
9 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.64%) SAP
10 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.46%) Databricks
11 5 (0.46%) Foundry
12 4 (0.37%) Concur
12 4 (0.37%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.37%) New Relic
12 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.37%) Sage
12 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud