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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 102 57
Rank change year-on-year -86 -45 -8
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,007 1,368 4,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 3.07% 3.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.56% 15.67% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 851 858 2,916
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,532 8,731 21,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.59% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,115 5,717 16,403
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,200 £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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -73 922 £50,000 -9.09% 466
UK excluding London -62 726 £47,500 -5.00% 442
Work from Home -54 416 £55,000 - 223
London -94 220 £59,886 -11.28% 124
North of England -49 207 £45,000 -5.26% 113
South East -18 176 £50,000 -9.09% 99
East of England +22 114 £47,500 +26.67% 53
North West -41 113 £45,000 -14.29% 61
Midlands -56 110 £45,000 +2.86% 65
South West -46 86 £50,000 -13.04% 55
Yorkshire -23 61 £48,750 +21.88% 32
West Midlands -40 60 £45,000 -5.26% 27
East Midlands -55 50 £55,000 +37.50% 38
North East -31 33 £52,000 +46.48% 20
Wales -36 17 £45,000 -33.33% 18
Scotland -73 13 £30,500 -53.08% 24
Northern Ireland -28 3 £60,000 - 21

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 97 (9.63%) WordPress
2 48 (4.77%) CMS
2 48 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.89%) Confluence
4 16 (1.59%) IIS
5 11 (1.09%) Apache
5 11 (1.09%) Drupal
6 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) govService
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Liferay
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.79%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.39%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.99%) InDesign
6 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.70%) Sketch
8 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.40%) InVision
10 3 (0.30%) Trello
11 1 (0.099%) Elementor
11 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.28%) Shopify
2 8 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.099%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.099%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 423 (42.01%) Azure
2 324 (32.17%) AWS
3 244 (24.23%) GitHub
4 122 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (6.55%) Figma
5 66 (6.55%) Power Platform
6 50 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
7 48 (4.77%) Azure AI
8 47 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (4.67%) SaaS
9 46 (4.57%) GCP
10 45 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.87%) Power Automate
12 38 (3.77%) Serverless
13 36 (3.57%) PowerApps
14 35 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.78%) Google Analytics
16 22 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 20 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 144 (14.30%) Internet
2 8 (0.79%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
3 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.30%) SSL
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.19%) SQL Server
2 117 (11.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 116 (11.52%) MySQL
4 94 (9.33%) MongoDB
5 57 (5.66%) Power BI
6 51 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 50 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.09%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.89%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.89%) Tableau
14 8 (0.79%) Metadata
14 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.70%) GIS
16 6 (0.60%) FileMaker
16 6 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 269 (26.71%) Git
2 56 (5.56%) JIRA
3 36 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.29%) GitLab
5 13 (1.29%) Selenium
5 13 (1.29%) webpack
6 12 (1.19%) Axure RP
6 12 (1.19%) Storybook
7 10 (0.99%) Vite
8 8 (0.79%) Balsamiq
9 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.60%) JUnit
11 5 (0.50%) Maven
11 5 (0.50%) Postman
11 5 (0.50%) Subversion
12 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.40%) gulp
12 4 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 272 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 120 (11.92%) Multimedia
3 111 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (10.53%) Marketing
5 96 (9.53%) Finance
6 57 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.97%) Advertising
8 38 (3.77%) Law
8 38 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.58%) Legal
11 25 (2.48%) Retail
12 14 (1.39%) Games
13 11 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.99%) Banking
15 8 (0.79%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.79%) Local Government
16 6 (0.60%) Automotive
16 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 616 (61.17%) Developer
2 150 (14.90%) .NET Developer
3 143 (14.20%) Senior
4 125 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 117 (11.62%) Software Developer
5 117 (11.62%) Trainee
6 108 (10.72%) Senior Developer
7 66 (6.55%) Designer
8 65 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 61 (6.06%) C# Developer
10 57 (5.66%) C# Software Developer
11 54 (5.36%) Web Developer
12 51 (5.06%) Administrator
13 49 (4.87%) PHP Developer
14 48 (4.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 48 (4.77%) Lead
15 46 (4.57%) Web Administrator
16 43 (4.27%) Trainee Administrator
17 41 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 41 (4.07%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 917 (91.06%) HTML
2 298 (29.59%) .NET
3 244 (24.23%) React
4 150 (14.90%) .NET Core
5 133 (13.21%) ASP.NET
6 129 (12.81%) jQuery
7 120 (11.92%) Node.js
8 118 (11.72%) Vue
9 115 (11.42%) HTML5
10 108 (10.72%) ASP.NET Core
11 99 (9.83%) RESTful
12 97 (9.63%) CSS3
13 93 (9.24%) AngularJS
14 77 (7.65%) REST
15 69 (6.85%) Entity Framework
15 69 (6.85%) JSON
16 48 (4.77%) Laravel
17 46 (4.57%) .NET Framework
18 43 (4.27%) ML.NET
18 43 (4.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.38%) Social Media
8 22 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.49%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.39%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.29%) Digital TV
14 11 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.79%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.77%) Linux
1 38 (3.77%) Windows
2 20 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.50%) Android
4 5 (0.50%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.099%) AIX
8 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (34.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 336 (33.37%) Agile
3 269 (26.71%) CI/CD
4 197 (19.56%) User Experience
5 191 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (18.77%) AI
7 186 (18.47%) Mentoring
8 185 (18.37%) DevOps
9 161 (15.99%) Web Development
10 134 (13.31%) Computer Science
11 125 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (11.32%) Front End Development
13 106 (10.53%) Software Engineering
14 101 (10.03%) Machine Learning
15 86 (8.54%) Clean Code
16 85 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
17 84 (8.34%) Analytics
18 79 (7.85%) Responsive Web Design
19 77 (7.65%) Microservices
19 77 (7.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 643 (63.85%) JavaScript
2 397 (39.42%) SQL
3 297 (29.49%) C#
4 242 (24.03%) Python
5 184 (18.27%) PHP
6 173 (17.18%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.14%) Java
8 75 (7.45%) R
9 38 (3.77%) C++
10 33 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.29%) VBA
12 8 (0.79%) Bicep
13 7 (0.70%) VBScript
14 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.50%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Dart
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.40%) SOQL
15 4 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 184 (18.27%) Degree
2 116 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 114 (11.32%) AWS Certification
4 112 (11.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 112 (11.12%) Azure Certification
5 107 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.47%) Security Cleared
7 37 (3.67%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.31%) Accessibility
2 46 (4.57%) QA
3 41 (4.07%) WCAG
4 32 (3.18%) GDPR
5 13 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.09%) SLA
7 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.70%) GRC
8 7 (0.70%) PERC
9 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.099%) NIST
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (12.21%) Docker
2 14 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.99%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.099%) Grafana
5 1 (0.099%) Kibana
5 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 339 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.45%) Adobe
3 38 (3.77%) Google
4 26 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.28%) Facebook
6 17 (1.69%) Oracle
7 12 (1.19%) YouTube
8 10 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.89%) iManage
10 8 (0.79%) Sage
10 8 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Splunk
12 6 (0.60%) TikTok
12 6 (0.60%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
14 4 (0.40%) ServiceNow