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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 65 60
Rank change year-on-year -81 -5 -19
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,020 2,139 2,987
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.60% 4.12% 4.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.89% 18.87% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,101 2,586
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,563
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +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 7,342 11,333 17,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.50% 21.85% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,396 6,627 14,095
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +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 February 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 1 February 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 -75 909 £45,000 -18.18% 633
UK excluding London -73 700 £35,000 -33.33% 562
Work from Home -80 309 £50,000 -9.09% 241
North of England -26 277 £30,500 -32.22% 138
London -72 231 £62,500 -7.41% 176
South East -83 136 £50,000 -16.67% 156
Yorkshire -12 119 £30,500 -23.75% 53
North West -32 119 £31,500 -40.00% 65
Midlands -75 95 £37,500 -25.00% 78
South West -74 73 £39,250 -31.74% 66
East of England -41 68 £42,500 -10.53% 75
West Midlands -38 52 £30,500 -44.55% 30
East Midlands -57 44 £46,250 +18.59% 48
North East -7 39 £30,500 -44.55% 22
Scotland -74 39 £30,500 -43.52% 29
Wales -20 11 £41,750 -12.11% 19
Northern Ireland -21 2 £31,500 - 6
Channel Islands 0 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 57 (5.59%) WordPress
2 54 (5.29%) CMS
3 24 (2.35%) Confluence
4 17 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.08%) nginx
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 7 (0.69%) Drupal
8 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.29%) govService
10 3 (0.29%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) JBoss
10 3 (0.29%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.20%) Mendix
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.84%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (1.37%) Sketch
6 11 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.88%) InVision
8 9 (0.88%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.78%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.29%) InDesign
11 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.20%) Windchill
13 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 497 (48.73%) Azure
2 417 (40.88%) AWS
3 372 (36.47%) GitHub
4 64 (6.27%) Figma
5 61 (5.98%) Serverless
6 53 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (4.41%) GCP
8 38 (3.73%) Power Platform
9 34 (3.33%) SaaS
10 24 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 24 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 20 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.76%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.76%) Azure Functions
14 17 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 283 (27.75%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) DNS
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
6 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.43%) MySQL
3 44 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 35 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 22 (2.16%) Power BI
7 13 (1.27%) DB2
8 12 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.98%) Looker
10 9 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.29%) Redis
13 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 425 (41.67%) Git
2 47 (4.61%) JIRA
3 44 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.55%) webpack
5 23 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.16%) Selenium
7 21 (2.06%) Axure RP
8 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.37%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.08%) Balsamiq
10 11 (1.08%) Vite
11 9 (0.88%) Babel
12 8 (0.78%) GitLab
12 8 (0.78%) gulp
12 8 (0.78%) JUnit
12 8 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
12 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 284 (27.84%) Multimedia
2 246 (24.12%) Social Skills
3 113 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.00%) Finance
5 76 (7.45%) Marketing
6 54 (5.29%) Law
7 47 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.94%) Retail
10 28 (2.75%) Banking
11 24 (2.35%) Legal
12 17 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.08%) Advertising
14 9 (0.88%) Military
14 9 (0.88%) Publishing
15 7 (0.69%) Aeronautics
15 7 (0.69%) Electronics
15 7 (0.69%) Games
16 5 (0.49%) Local Government
16 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 585 (57.35%) Developer
2 278 (27.25%) Trainee
3 177 (17.35%) Software Developer
4 152 (14.90%) Senior
5 134 (13.14%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.25%) Trainee Software Developer
7 106 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 101 (9.90%) Senior Developer
9 69 (6.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 54 (5.29%) .NET Developer
11 49 (4.80%) Designer
12 41 (4.02%) PHP Developer
12 41 (4.02%) React Developer
13 40 (3.92%) C# Developer
14 39 (3.82%) Software Engineer
15 38 (3.73%) Lead
16 34 (3.33%) Administrator
17 33 (3.24%) Web Developer
18 32 (3.14%) Graduate
19 31 (3.04%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (89.51%) HTML
2 306 (30.00%) React
3 183 (17.94%) .NET
4 124 (12.16%) Node.js
5 99 (9.71%) AngularJS
6 97 (9.51%) HTML5
6 97 (9.51%) RESTful
7 85 (8.33%) Vue
8 83 (8.14%) CSS3
9 80 (7.84%) jQuery
10 75 (7.35%) ASP.NET
11 65 (6.37%) REST
12 54 (5.29%) .NET Core
13 41 (4.02%) .NET Framework
14 39 (3.82%) Tailwind CSS
15 36 (3.53%) Laravel
16 35 (3.43%) Jest
17 34 (3.33%) Sass
18 33 (3.24%) GraphQL
19 30 (2.94%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.82%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.88%) Cybercrime
11 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.88%) Social Media
12 8 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.78%) Motion Graphics
13 6 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.45%) Linux
1 25 (2.45%) Windows
2 14 (1.37%) Android
2 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (35.98%) Mentoring
2 349 (34.22%) Agile
3 268 (26.27%) Cybersecurity
4 224 (21.96%) User Experience
5 215 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 170 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 169 (16.57%) Front End Development
9 131 (12.84%) DevOps
10 120 (11.76%) Computer Science
11 119 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (10.00%) Web Development
13 99 (9.71%) MVC
14 94 (9.22%) Software Engineering
15 92 (9.02%) UX Design
16 75 (7.35%) AI
16 75 (7.35%) Analytics
17 70 (6.86%) OOP
18 69 (6.76%) Clean Code
19 68 (6.67%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 826 (80.98%) JavaScript
2 390 (38.24%) Python
3 220 (21.57%) SQL
4 175 (17.16%) TypeScript
5 174 (17.06%) C#
6 148 (14.51%) R
7 105 (10.29%) Java
8 93 (9.12%) PHP
9 27 (2.65%) C++
10 13 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.18%) Ruby
12 11 (1.08%) Perl
12 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.78%) C
13 8 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.39%) Bash
14 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (28.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.35%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.25%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 184 (18.04%) Degree
5 101 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (6.96%) Security Cleared
7 45 (4.41%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.78%) HND
13 4 (0.39%) ISEB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.20%) CCA
15 1 (0.098%) OCA
15 1 (0.098%) OCP
15 1 (0.098%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.16%) Accessibility
2 52 (5.10%) WCAG
3 49 (4.80%) QA
4 26 (2.55%) GDPR
5 8 (0.78%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Section 508
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) HL7
8 1 (0.098%) NCSC
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (7.94%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.65%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Grafana
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Nagios
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 395 (38.73%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.90%) Adobe
3 44 (4.31%) Google
4 26 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.96%) Oracle
6 16 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.78%) Hotjar
9 8 (0.78%) SAP
9 8 (0.78%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.49%) Databricks
11 5 (0.49%) Foundry
12 4 (0.39%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.39%) iManage
12 4 (0.39%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud