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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 99 58
Rank change year-on-year -90 -41 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 997 1,279 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.11% 3.02% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.41% 15.35% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,018 2,890
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,475
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 £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 8,740 8,331 20,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 19.69% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,384 6,370 15,763
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 1 May 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 May 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 -67 904 £47,500 -13.64% 402
UK excluding London -66 694 £42,500 -19.05% 319
Work from Home -76 324 £52,500 -7.08% 174
London -85 230 £60,000 -14.29% 134
North of England -31 229 £31,500 -30.00% 72
South East -63 150 £50,000 -16.67% 98
North West -30 115 £37,500 -25.00% 34
Midlands -43 115 £42,500 -5.56% 36
East of England +1 96 £45,000 +5.88% 60
Yorkshire -25 87 £30,500 -18.67% 24
South West -73 70 £45,000 -25.00% 35
West Midlands -29 69 £36,250 -27.50% 18
East Midlands -49 46 £52,500 +35.48% 17
North East -27 27 £30,500 -34.05% 14
Scotland -89 22 £30,500 -49.17% 15
Wales -36 10 £41,870 -25.89% 8
Northern Ireland -36 3 £60,000 - 4
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 (9.53%) WordPress
2 44 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.31%) 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 22 (2.21%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.10%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.90%) Sketch
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 15 (1.50%) Shopify
2 11 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.50%) 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 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 456 (45.74%) Azure
2 404 (40.52%) AWS
3 302 (30.29%) GitHub
4 74 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (7.02%) Figma
6 63 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.62%) GCP
8 41 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (4.01%) SaaS
9 40 (4.01%) Serverless
10 35 (3.51%) Power Automate
10 35 (3.51%) PowerApps
11 34 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 32 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.21%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.91%) Entra ID
15 19 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 238 (23.87%) 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
5 1 (0.10%) DNS
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 100 (10.03%) MySQL
3 55 (5.52%) Power BI
4 41 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.91%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.41%) 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%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.50%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.50%) Metadata
14 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 356 (35.71%) Git
2 52 (5.22%) JIRA
3 47 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.81%) Axure RP
4 18 (1.81%) Cypress.io
4 18 (1.81%) Selenium
5 17 (1.71%) webpack
6 15 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.30%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.20%) Storybook
9 11 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.10%) Vite
10 9 (0.90%) Babel
11 8 (0.80%) GitLab
12 7 (0.70%) JUnit
12 7 (0.70%) Maven
13 5 (0.50%) Gradle
13 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 240 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 223 (22.37%) Multimedia
3 124 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.93%) Finance
5 83 (8.32%) Marketing
6 51 (5.12%) Law
7 46 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.51%) Retail
10 24 (2.41%) Legal
11 21 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.81%) 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
18 3 (0.30%) Electronics
18 3 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 571 (57.27%) Developer
2 228 (22.87%) Trainee
3 153 (15.35%) Software Developer
4 143 (14.34%) Senior
5 122 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 105 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 93 (9.33%) Trainee Developer
8 80 (8.02%) Trainee Software Developer
9 63 (6.32%) Administrator
9 63 (6.32%) Designer
10 58 (5.82%) Web Administrator
11 57 (5.72%) .NET Developer
11 57 (5.72%) C# Developer
12 56 (5.62%) Trainee Administrator
13 54 (5.42%) PHP Developer
14 53 (5.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 50 (5.02%) C# Software Developer
16 49 (4.91%) Web Developer
17 42 (4.21%) Lead
17 42 (4.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (90.87%) HTML
2 282 (28.28%) React
3 192 (19.26%) .NET
4 117 (11.74%) Node.js
5 112 (11.23%) jQuery
6 103 (10.33%) Vue
7 100 (10.03%) RESTful
8 99 (9.93%) AngularJS
9 97 (9.73%) HTML5
10 83 (8.32%) CSS3
11 63 (6.32%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.32%) JSON
13 52 (5.22%) ASP.NET
13 52 (5.22%) REST
14 43 (4.31%) Laravel
14 43 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
15 39 (3.91%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.81%) Sass
17 33 (3.31%) Bootstrap
18 32 (3.21%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.01%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.41%) Mobile App
4 33 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.91%) Social Media
7 19 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.80%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.70%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.41%) Windows
2 23 (2.31%) 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
1 303 (30.39%) Agile
2 289 (28.99%) Mentoring
3 236 (23.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 197 (19.76%) User Experience
5 181 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (17.85%) Cybersecurity
7 177 (17.75%) CI/CD
8 143 (14.34%) Web Development
9 142 (14.24%) DevOps
10 129 (12.94%) Computer Science
11 125 (12.54%) Front End Development
12 117 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (11.63%) AI
14 93 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 92 (9.23%) Scrum
16 88 (8.83%) Analytics
16 88 (8.83%) Clean Code
17 81 (8.12%) UX Design
18 75 (7.52%) MVC
19 72 (7.22%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 747 (74.92%) JavaScript
2 331 (33.20%) Python
3 297 (29.79%) SQL
4 190 (19.06%) C#
5 188 (18.86%) TypeScript
6 156 (15.65%) PHP
7 135 (13.54%) R
8 96 (9.63%) Java
9 32 (3.21%) C++
9 32 (3.21%) 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
1 229 (22.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 224 (22.47%) AWS Certification
3 223 (22.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 223 (22.37%) Azure Certification
4 178 (17.85%) Degree
5 107 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (5.52%) Security Cleared
7 46 (4.61%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.20%) ISEB
14 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.10%) OCA
14 1 (0.10%) OCP
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.23%) Accessibility
2 40 (4.01%) QA
2 40 (4.01%) WCAG
3 27 (2.71%) 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 (7.42%) Docker
2 13 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.81%) 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
1 371 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.22%) Adobe
3 46 (4.61%) Google
4 20 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.00%) Oracle
7 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.80%) Sage
9 7 (0.70%) Hotjar
9 7 (0.70%) iManage
10 6 (0.60%) Apple
10 6 (0.60%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.60%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.60%) SAP
11 5 (0.50%) Databricks
11 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.50%) TikTok
12 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.40%) New Relic