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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 98 58
Rank change year-on-year -91 -40 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 999 1,287 3,825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.11% 3.04% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.42% 15.39% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,025 2,881
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.62% +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 8,745 8,364 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.73% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 6,401 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -69 906 £47,500 -13.64% 369
UK excluding London -67 696 £43,250 -17.62% 309
Work from Home -65 328 £52,500 -7.08% 163
North of England -38 232 £31,500 -30.00% 67
London -67 230 £60,000 -14.29% 120
South East -64 151 £50,000 -16.67% 100
North West -37 118 £37,500 -25.00% 32
Midlands -37 116 £42,500 -5.56% 34
East of England -1 94 £45,000 +5.88% 55
Yorkshire -28 88 £30,500 -18.67% 21
West Midlands -20 70 £37,500 -25.00% 15
South West -68 69 £45,000 -25.00% 32
East Midlands -49 46 £52,500 +40.00% 18
North East -24 26 £30,500 -34.05% 14
Scotland -84 22 £30,500 -49.17% 14
Wales -37 10 £41,870 -25.89% 6
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 10
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 95 (9.51%) WordPress
2 44 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.30%) CMS
4 16 (1.60%) Confluence
5 10 (1.00%) IIS
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.90%) nginx
7 7 (0.70%) Apache
8 6 (0.60%) Drupal
9 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 3 (0.30%) Liferay
10 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.10%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 23 (2.30%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.10%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.00%) Sketch
5 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.80%) InVision
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) Elementor
9 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.10%) Trello
9 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Shopify
2 11 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.40%) Line 50
3 4 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 456 (45.65%) Azure
2 405 (40.54%) AWS
3 304 (30.43%) GitHub
4 73 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (7.11%) Figma
6 63 (6.31%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.61%) GCP
8 42 (4.20%) SaaS
9 41 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (4.10%) Serverless
10 35 (3.50%) Power Automate
10 35 (3.50%) PowerApps
11 34 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 32 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.20%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.90%) Entra ID
15 19 (1.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 239 (23.92%) 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 2 (0.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.01%) SQL Server
2 100 (10.01%) MySQL
3 55 (5.51%) Power BI
4 40 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.20%) DB2
10 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.80%) Tableau
12 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
12 7 (0.70%) Looker
13 6 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.50%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.50%) Metadata
14 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 356 (35.64%) Git
2 52 (5.21%) JIRA
3 47 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.80%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.80%) Selenium
6 17 (1.70%) webpack
7 15 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.30%) Balsamiq
9 12 (1.20%) Storybook
10 11 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.10%) Vite
11 9 (0.90%) Babel
12 8 (0.80%) GitLab
13 7 (0.70%) JUnit
13 7 (0.70%) Maven
14 5 (0.50%) Gradle
14 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 242 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 224 (22.42%) Multimedia
3 125 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (11.01%) Finance
5 83 (8.31%) Marketing
6 51 (5.11%) Law
7 47 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.50%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.50%) Retail
10 24 (2.40%) Legal
11 21 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.80%) Banking
13 11 (1.10%) Advertising
14 7 (0.70%) Games
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.40%) Back Office
17 4 (0.40%) Military
18 3 (0.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 573 (57.36%) Developer
2 229 (22.92%) Trainee
3 154 (15.42%) Software Developer
4 143 (14.31%) Senior
5 121 (12.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 105 (10.51%) Senior Developer
7 94 (9.41%) Trainee Developer
8 81 (8.11%) Trainee Software Developer
9 63 (6.31%) Administrator
10 62 (6.21%) Designer
11 58 (5.81%) Web Administrator
12 57 (5.71%) .NET Developer
12 57 (5.71%) C# Developer
13 56 (5.61%) Trainee Administrator
14 55 (5.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 54 (5.41%) PHP Developer
16 50 (5.01%) C# Software Developer
17 49 (4.90%) Web Developer
18 43 (4.30%) Lead
19 42 (4.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (90.79%) HTML
2 287 (28.73%) React
3 190 (19.02%) .NET
4 117 (11.71%) Node.js
5 110 (11.01%) jQuery
6 103 (10.31%) Vue
7 100 (10.01%) RESTful
8 99 (9.91%) AngularJS
9 96 (9.61%) HTML5
10 82 (8.21%) CSS3
11 62 (6.21%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.31%) JSON
13 52 (5.21%) ASP.NET
13 52 (5.21%) REST
14 43 (4.30%) Laravel
14 43 (4.30%) Tailwind CSS
15 39 (3.90%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.80%) Sass
17 33 (3.30%) Bootstrap
18 32 (3.20%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (3.40%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.90%) Social Media
6 19 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.80%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
13 7 (0.70%) Cybercrime
13 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.50%) Windows
2 23 (2.30%) Linux
3 13 (1.30%) 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 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (30.73%) Agile
2 291 (29.13%) Mentoring
3 234 (23.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 196 (19.62%) User Experience
5 183 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (17.82%) CI/CD
6 178 (17.82%) Cybersecurity
7 143 (14.31%) DevOps
7 143 (14.31%) Web Development
8 128 (12.81%) Computer Science
9 127 (12.71%) Front End Development
10 118 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (11.71%) AI
12 95 (9.51%) Software Engineering
13 94 (9.41%) Scrum
14 90 (9.01%) Clean Code
15 88 (8.81%) Analytics
16 80 (8.01%) UX Design
17 75 (7.51%) MVC
18 72 (7.21%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 749 (74.97%) JavaScript
2 332 (33.23%) Python
3 297 (29.73%) SQL
4 190 (19.02%) C#
5 189 (18.92%) TypeScript
6 156 (15.62%) PHP
7 135 (13.51%) R
8 96 (9.61%) Java
9 32 (3.20%) C++
9 32 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.10%) VBA
12 7 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.60%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Bicep
14 5 (0.50%) Dart
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.50%) VBScript
15 4 (0.40%) SOQL
15 4 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 230 (23.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 224 (22.42%) AWS Certification
2 224 (22.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 224 (22.42%) Azure Certification
3 177 (17.72%) Degree
4 107 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (5.51%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
13 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.10%) OCA
13 1 (0.10%) OCP
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.31%) Accessibility
2 40 (4.00%) QA
2 40 (4.00%) WCAG
3 27 (2.70%) GDPR
4 11 (1.10%) SLA
5 9 (0.90%) PERC
6 8 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.70%) GRC
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.10%) HL7
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (7.41%) Docker
2 13 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.90%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Argo
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
4 2 (0.20%) cPanel
4 2 (0.20%) Grafana
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 373 (37.34%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.11%) Adobe
3 46 (4.60%) Google
4 20 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.90%) Oracle
7 8 (0.80%) Sage
8 7 (0.70%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.70%) iManage
9 6 (0.60%) Apple
9 6 (0.60%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.60%) SAP
10 5 (0.50%) Databricks
10 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.50%) TikTok
11 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.40%) New Relic