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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 94 58
Rank change year-on-year -96 -36 -13
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,014 1,301 3,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 3.07% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 15.48% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 850 1,032 2,867
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,211 £75,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +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 8,744 8,407 20,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 19.87% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,387 6,443 15,667
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 28 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 28 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 -76 921 £47,500 -13.64% 463
UK excluding London -68 710 £42,500 -19.05% 395
Work from Home -77 331 £52,500 -7.08% 212
North of England -27 240 £31,500 -30.00% 87
London -70 232 £60,000 -14.29% 147
South East -74 148 £50,000 -16.67% 115
North West -28 120 £36,250 -27.50% 47
Midlands -40 119 £42,500 -5.56% 48
East of England -1 95 £45,000 +5.88% 67
Yorkshire -23 92 £30,500 -18.67% 25
South West -73 73 £45,000 -25.00% 43
West Midlands -24 72 £35,000 -30.00% 22
East Midlands -48 47 £52,500 +40.00% 25
North East -31 28 £30,500 -34.05% 15
Scotland -84 23 £30,500 -49.17% 20
Wales -37 10 £41,870 -25.89% 15
Northern Ireland -35 3 £60,000 - 12
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 (9.37%) WordPress
2 43 (4.24%) CMS
2 43 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.58%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) IIS
5 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.89%) nginx
6 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 6 (0.59%) Drupal
7 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) govService
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) Liferay
8 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 1 (0.099%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.099%) Moodle
10 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.37%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.99%) Sketch
5 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.79%) InVision
7 7 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.099%) Elementor
9 1 (0.099%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.099%) Trello
9 1 (0.099%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.58%) Shopify
2 10 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) 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
6 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 465 (45.86%) Azure
2 414 (40.83%) AWS
3 315 (31.07%) GitHub
4 74 (7.30%) Figma
5 73 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (6.11%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.52%) GCP
8 42 (4.14%) SaaS
9 41 (4.04%) Serverless
10 40 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (3.35%) Power Automate
11 34 (3.35%) PowerApps
12 33 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.16%) Google Analytics
14 21 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 249 (24.56%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.69%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 100 (9.86%) MySQL
3 54 (5.33%) Power BI
4 39 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.18%) DB2
10 10 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.79%) Tableau
12 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.69%) FileMaker
12 7 (0.69%) Looker
13 6 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.49%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.49%) Metadata
14 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 370 (36.49%) Git
2 52 (5.13%) JIRA
3 47 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.87%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.78%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.78%) Selenium
5 18 (1.78%) webpack
6 14 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.28%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.18%) Storybook
9 11 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.08%) Vite
10 9 (0.89%) Babel
11 8 (0.79%) GitLab
12 7 (0.69%) JUnit
12 7 (0.69%) Maven
13 5 (0.49%) Gradle
13 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 240 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 235 (23.18%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.65%) Finance
5 85 (8.38%) Marketing
6 52 (5.13%) Law
7 47 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.37%) Legal
9 24 (2.37%) Retail
10 22 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.78%) Banking
12 11 (1.08%) Advertising
13 7 (0.69%) Games
14 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Military
15 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.39%) Back Office
16 4 (0.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 578 (57.00%) Developer
2 240 (23.67%) Trainee
3 158 (15.58%) Software Developer
4 142 (14.00%) Senior
5 120 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 103 (10.16%) Senior Developer
7 100 (9.86%) Trainee Developer
8 87 (8.58%) Trainee Software Developer
9 64 (6.31%) Administrator
10 61 (6.02%) Designer
11 60 (5.92%) .NET Developer
12 59 (5.82%) Web Administrator
13 57 (5.62%) Trainee Administrator
14 55 (5.42%) C# Developer
14 55 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 54 (5.33%) PHP Developer
16 48 (4.73%) Web Developer
17 47 (4.64%) C# Software Developer
18 44 (4.34%) Lead
18 44 (4.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 923 (91.03%) HTML
2 291 (28.70%) React
3 191 (18.84%) .NET
4 117 (11.54%) Node.js
5 105 (10.36%) jQuery
6 102 (10.06%) Vue
7 101 (9.96%) RESTful
8 100 (9.86%) AngularJS
9 94 (9.27%) HTML5
10 80 (7.89%) CSS3
11 62 (6.11%) .NET Core
12 55 (5.42%) ASP.NET
13 51 (5.03%) JSON
13 51 (5.03%) REST
14 43 (4.24%) Laravel
14 43 (4.24%) Tailwind CSS
15 39 (3.85%) .NET Framework
15 39 (3.85%) Sass
16 32 (3.16%) Jest
16 32 (3.16%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.04%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.87%) Social Media
8 18 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.69%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.37%) Windows
2 23 (2.27%) Linux
3 12 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.69%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (30.08%) Agile
2 300 (29.59%) Mentoring
3 235 (23.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 194 (19.13%) User Experience
5 189 (18.64%) Cybersecurity
6 183 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
7 181 (17.85%) CI/CD
8 144 (14.20%) DevOps
8 144 (14.20%) Web Development
9 127 (12.52%) Front End Development
10 124 (12.23%) Computer Science
11 120 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 115 (11.34%) AI
13 97 (9.57%) Software Engineering
14 94 (9.27%) Scrum
15 90 (8.88%) Analytics
16 88 (8.68%) Clean Code
17 79 (7.79%) UX Design
18 76 (7.50%) MVC
19 71 (7.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 763 (75.25%) JavaScript
2 339 (33.43%) Python
3 295 (29.09%) SQL
4 190 (18.74%) TypeScript
5 189 (18.64%) C#
6 154 (15.19%) PHP
7 140 (13.81%) R
8 93 (9.17%) Java
9 31 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.86%) C++
11 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.08%) VBA
13 7 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.59%) Bash
15 5 (0.49%) Bicep
15 5 (0.49%) Dart
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.49%) VBScript
16 4 (0.39%) SOQL
16 4 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 241 (23.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (23.18%) AWS Certification
2 235 (23.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 235 (23.18%) Azure Certification
3 174 (17.16%) Degree
4 103 (10.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.33%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.44%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.099%) OCA
12 1 (0.099%) OCP
12 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.099%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.24%) Accessibility
2 40 (3.94%) QA
2 40 (3.94%) WCAG
3 28 (2.76%) GDPR
4 11 (1.08%) SLA
5 9 (0.89%) PERC
6 8 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.69%) GRC
7 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.099%) HL7
10 1 (0.099%) NCSC
10 1 (0.099%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (7.40%) Docker
2 13 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.87%) 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 (0.099%) Kibana
Vendors
1 379 (37.38%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.00%) Adobe
3 46 (4.54%) Google
4 19 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.89%) Oracle
7 8 (0.79%) Sage
8 7 (0.69%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.69%) iManage
9 6 (0.59%) Apple
9 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.59%) SAP
10 5 (0.49%) Databricks
10 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.49%) TikTok
11 4 (0.39%) Concur
11 4 (0.39%) CrowdStrike