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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 103 56
Rank change year-on-year -84 -47 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,007 1,360 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 3.04% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.54% 15.57% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 852 852 2,949
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
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 9,557 8,733 21,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 19.53% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,146 5,718 16,540
10th Percentile £40,125 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,271 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -70 923 £50,000 -9.09% 371
UK excluding London -62 727 £47,500 -5.00% 368
Work from Home -51 421 £55,000 - 155
London -93 220 £60,000 -11.11% 95
North of England -54 205 £45,000 -5.26% 88
South East -20 179 £50,000 -9.09% 92
East of England +19 114 £47,500 +26.67% 49
North West -39 112 £45,000 -14.29% 49
Midlands -57 109 £45,000 - 48
South West -48 87 £50,000 -13.04% 44
Yorkshire -19 60 £50,000 +25.00% 26
West Midlands -44 58 £45,000 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -52 51 £55,000 +37.50% 30
North East -31 33 £52,000 +46.48% 13
Wales -39 17 £45,000 -33.33% 13
Scotland -69 13 £30,500 -54.81% 19
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 20

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 49 (4.87%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.77%) CMS
4 19 (1.89%) Confluence
5 16 (1.59%) IIS
6 11 (1.09%) Apache
6 11 (1.09%) Drupal
7 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
9 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.89%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.29%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.99%) InDesign
5 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.40%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.099%) Elementor
10 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 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
1 422 (41.91%) Azure
2 319 (31.68%) AWS
3 238 (23.63%) GitHub
4 126 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 65 (6.45%) Figma
7 51 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
8 49 (4.87%) Azure AI
9 48 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
10 47 (4.67%) SaaS
11 46 (4.57%) GCP
12 45 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (3.97%) Power Automate
14 39 (3.87%) Serverless
15 37 (3.67%) PowerApps
16 35 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (2.78%) Google Analytics
18 22 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 20 (1.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 137 (13.60%) 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%) AMQP
6 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.19%) SQL Server
2 122 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 115 (11.42%) MySQL
4 98 (9.73%) MongoDB
5 57 (5.66%) Power BI
6 51 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 50 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (2.48%) 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
1 263 (26.12%) 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%) Storybook
7 11 (1.09%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.99%) Vite
9 7 (0.70%) 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
2 113 (11.22%) Multimedia
3 110 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (10.92%) Marketing
4 99 (9.83%) Finance
5 56 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.17%) Advertising
7 38 (3.77%) Law
8 37 (3.67%) 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
1 618 (61.37%) Developer
2 154 (15.29%) .NET Developer
3 145 (14.40%) Senior
4 125 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 114 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 110 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 110 (10.92%) Trainee
7 65 (6.45%) Designer
7 65 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 61 (6.06%) C# Developer
9 57 (5.66%) C# Software Developer
10 54 (5.36%) Web Developer
11 51 (5.06%) Administrator
12 49 (4.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 49 (4.87%) PHP Developer
13 47 (4.67%) Lead
14 46 (4.57%) Web Administrator
15 43 (4.27%) Trainee Administrator
16 42 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 38 (3.77%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (91.16%) HTML
2 302 (29.99%) .NET
3 245 (24.33%) React
4 155 (15.39%) .NET Core
5 138 (13.70%) ASP.NET
6 129 (12.81%) jQuery
7 122 (12.12%) Node.js
8 119 (11.82%) Vue
9 116 (11.52%) HTML5
10 113 (11.22%) ASP.NET Core
11 99 (9.83%) RESTful
12 98 (9.73%) CSS3
13 93 (9.24%) AngularJS
14 78 (7.75%) REST
15 73 (7.25%) Entity Framework
16 69 (6.85%) JSON
17 48 (4.77%) Laravel
18 45 (4.47%) .NET Framework
19 44 (4.37%) ML.NET
19 44 (4.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (3.28%) Cloud Native
2 33 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.38%) Social Media
7 22 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.39%) Graphic Design
12 13 (1.29%) Digital TV
13 12 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.79%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
15 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
1 350 (34.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 340 (33.76%) Agile
3 276 (27.41%) CI/CD
4 196 (19.46%) User Experience
5 193 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (18.97%) AI
7 190 (18.87%) DevOps
8 177 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 161 (15.99%) Web Development
10 134 (13.31%) Computer Science
11 126 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (11.32%) Front End Development
13 107 (10.63%) Software Engineering
14 102 (10.13%) Machine Learning
15 85 (8.44%) Analytics
15 85 (8.44%) Clean Code
16 79 (7.85%) Responsive Web Design
17 78 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
17 78 (7.75%) Microservices
18 77 (7.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 636 (63.16%) JavaScript
2 403 (40.02%) SQL
3 302 (29.99%) C#
4 235 (23.34%) Python
5 184 (18.27%) PHP
6 173 (17.18%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.14%) Java
8 71 (7.05%) 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
2 109 (10.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 107 (10.63%) AWS Certification
3 107 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 105 (10.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 105 (10.43%) Azure Certification
5 44 (4.37%) Security Cleared
6 36 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 45 (4.47%) QA
3 40 (3.97%) WCAG
4 33 (3.28%) 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
1 124 (12.31%) Docker
2 14 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.09%) 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
1 337 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.35%) Adobe
3 38 (3.77%) Google
4 28 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 25 (2.48%) Facebook
6 17 (1.69%) Oracle
7 13 (1.29%) YouTube
8 10 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.89%) iManage
10 8 (0.79%) Sage
11 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.60%) Splunk
12 6 (0.60%) TikTok
12 6 (0.60%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
14 4 (0.40%) OneLogin