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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 87 56
Rank change year-on-year -64 -31 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,074 1,406 3,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.42% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.19% 15.78% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,083 2,882
10th Percentile £27,950 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,625
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +0.69% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,298 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,140 8,911 19,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.58% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,959 6,575 15,343
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -58 960 £45,000 -18.18% 509
UK excluding London -65 755 £40,000 -23.81% 422
Work from Home -82 326 £52,500 -4.55% 228
North of England -15 277 £30,500 -32.22% 113
London -77 231 £60,000 -14.29% 151
South East -71 153 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -27 131 £31,500 -38.24% 56
Midlands -49 113 £42,039 -6.58% 59
Yorkshire +6 112 £30,500 -18.67% 35
South West -58 84 £40,000 -33.33% 51
East of England -18 81 £41,250 -13.16% 72
West Midlands -11 68 £31,500 -40.00% 28
East Midlands -57 45 £52,500 +40.00% 31
Scotland -75 35 £30,500 -44.55% 14
North East -11 34 £30,500 -39.00% 22
Wales -27 10 £36,370 -27.26% 17
Northern Ireland -32 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
1 112 (10.43%) WordPress
2 55 (5.12%) CMS
3 22 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.30%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 7 (0.65%) Apache
7 5 (0.47%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.093%) Moodle
Applications
1 30 (2.79%) Adobe XD
2 13 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 12 (1.12%) Sketch
4 11 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.74%) InVision
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.47%) InDesign
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.19%) Windchill
10 1 (0.093%) Elementor
10 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.40%) Shopify
2 12 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Magento
5 1 (0.093%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 539 (50.19%) Azure
2 478 (44.51%) AWS
3 391 (36.41%) GitHub
4 81 (7.54%) Figma
5 69 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.68%) Serverless
7 60 (5.59%) GCP
8 44 (4.10%) SaaS
9 40 (3.72%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.79%) Google Analytics
11 27 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.05%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.86%) Entra ID
15 19 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (1.68%) PaaS
17 16 (1.49%) Power Automate
17 16 (1.49%) PowerApps
18 13 (1.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (28.77%) Internet
2 8 (0.74%) HTTP
3 4 (0.37%) Intranet
3 4 (0.37%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.55%) SQL Server
2 93 (8.66%) MySQL
3 47 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.07%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.07%) Power BI
6 24 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.21%) DB2
9 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.84%) Looker
12 8 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.65%) Tableau
14 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
15 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 454 (42.27%) Git
2 50 (4.66%) JIRA
3 48 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.42%) webpack
5 23 (2.14%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 19 (1.77%) Selenium
7 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.30%) Vite
8 13 (1.21%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.02%) Babel
10 11 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.84%) Storybook
12 8 (0.74%) GitLab
13 6 (0.56%) JUnit
13 6 (0.56%) Maven
13 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 300 (27.93%) Multimedia
2 225 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 120 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (9.22%) Finance
5 81 (7.54%) Marketing
6 53 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (4.84%) Law
8 47 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 32 (2.98%) Retail
10 25 (2.33%) Legal
11 24 (2.23%) Banking
12 20 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.93%) Advertising
14 9 (0.84%) Military
15 8 (0.74%) Games
16 7 (0.65%) Aeronautics
17 6 (0.56%) Back Office
17 6 (0.56%) Electronics
18 5 (0.47%) Publishing
18 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 606 (56.42%) Developer
2 298 (27.75%) Trainee
3 175 (16.29%) Software Developer
4 157 (14.62%) Senior
5 125 (11.64%) Trainee Developer
6 124 (11.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 111 (10.34%) Trainee Software Developer
8 110 (10.24%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.17%) Administrator
10 74 (6.89%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.70%) Trainee Administrator
12 70 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 68 (6.33%) .NET Developer
14 66 (6.15%) Designer
15 49 (4.56%) C# Developer
16 44 (4.10%) Web Developer
17 41 (3.82%) Lead
17 41 (3.82%) PHP Developer
18 40 (3.72%) React Developer
19 39 (3.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 982 (91.43%) HTML
2 321 (29.89%) React
3 193 (17.97%) .NET
4 123 (11.45%) Node.js
5 112 (10.43%) AngularJS
6 104 (9.68%) RESTful
7 99 (9.22%) Vue
8 88 (8.19%) jQuery
9 87 (8.10%) HTML5
10 73 (6.80%) CSS3
11 64 (5.96%) ASP.NET
12 58 (5.40%) .NET Core
12 58 (5.40%) REST
13 48 (4.47%) Tailwind CSS
14 43 (4.00%) .NET Framework
15 38 (3.54%) Sass
16 37 (3.45%) Laravel
17 35 (3.26%) Jest
18 32 (2.98%) ASP.NET Core
18 32 (2.98%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.03%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 32 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.21%) Social Media
13 11 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.65%) Virtual Team
17 6 (0.56%) Algorithms
17 6 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
17 6 (0.56%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.77%) Linux
2 18 (1.68%) Windows
3 12 (1.12%) Android
3 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (32.87%) Agile
2 349 (32.50%) Mentoring
3 238 (22.16%) Cybersecurity
4 237 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 223 (20.76%) User Experience
6 205 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 195 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (14.53%) DevOps
9 155 (14.43%) Front End Development
9 155 (14.43%) Web Development
10 124 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (11.27%) Computer Science
12 105 (9.78%) AI
13 95 (8.85%) Analytics
13 95 (8.85%) Software Engineering
14 91 (8.47%) Scrum
14 91 (8.47%) UX Design
15 88 (8.19%) Clean Code
16 83 (7.73%) MVC
17 77 (7.17%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 851 (79.24%) JavaScript
2 402 (37.43%) Python
3 253 (23.56%) SQL
4 189 (17.60%) TypeScript
5 179 (16.67%) C#
6 178 (16.57%) R
7 124 (11.55%) PHP
8 92 (8.57%) Java
9 24 (2.23%) C++
10 14 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.84%) Ruby
13 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) Bash
16 4 (0.37%) Bicep
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) SOSL
17 3 (0.28%) RPG
17 3 (0.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 303 (28.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (27.75%) AWS Certification
2 298 (27.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (27.75%) Azure Certification
3 178 (16.57%) Degree
4 101 (9.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (6.05%) Security Cleared
6 48 (4.47%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 2 (0.19%) CCA
15 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.093%) OCA
15 1 (0.093%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.92%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.56%) QA
3 48 (4.47%) WCAG
4 21 (1.96%) GDPR
5 9 (0.84%) PERC
6 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.56%) GRC
7 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.56%) SLA
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) Section 508
10 1 (0.093%) HL7
10 1 (0.093%) NCSC
10 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (7.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.70%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 421 (39.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.93%) Adobe
3 46 (4.28%) Google
4 26 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.21%) Oracle
6 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
9 7 (0.65%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.65%) SAP
10 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.56%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.47%) Databricks
11 5 (0.47%) Foundry
12 4 (0.37%) Concur
12 4 (0.37%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.37%) iManage
12 4 (0.37%) New Relic
12 4 (0.37%) Sage
12 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud