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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 115 61
Rank change year-on-year -74 -54 +5
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,113 1,300 3,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.62% 3.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.44% 15.09% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 934 808 1,935
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,425 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,659 8,617 16,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 17.37% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,829 5,629 11,599
10th Percentile £40,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -57 1,018 £50,000 -9.09% 507
UK excluding London -40 834 £50,000 - 399
Work from Home -42 523 £55,000 - 199
South East +9 221 £50,000 +11.11% 103
North of England -37 221 £50,000 -2.91% 103
London -97 217 £60,000 -11.11% 186
East of England +6 129 £48,130 +6.96% 40
South West -20 113 £52,500 - 46
Midlands -66 110 £45,000 -5.26% 68
North West -56 108 £47,500 -9.52% 54
Yorkshire +2 60 £50,000 +14.29% 35
West Midlands -53 57 £45,000 -5.26% 31
North East -14 53 £52,000 +94.39% 16
East Midlands -57 53 £50,000 +5.26% 37
Wales -52 27 £43,370 -35.75% 12
Scotland -55 10 £31,500 -60.63% 24
Northern Ireland -72 3 £60,000 +90.48% 7

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 99 (8.89%) WordPress
2 56 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.13%) CMS
4 30 (2.70%) IIS
5 24 (2.16%) Confluence
6 18 (1.62%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.81%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) JBoss
9 6 (0.54%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.53%) Adobe XD
3 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.90%) InDesign
5 10 (0.90%) Sketch
6 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.27%) InVision
8 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Elementor
10 1 (0.090%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (2.25%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
3 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.090%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.090%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 443 (39.80%) Azure
2 313 (28.12%) AWS
3 225 (20.22%) GitHub
4 157 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (7.64%) GitHub Copilot
6 77 (6.92%) Azure AI
6 77 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 73 (6.56%) Figma
8 59 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
9 53 (4.76%) Power Automate
10 50 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (4.31%) GCP
11 48 (4.31%) PowerApps
11 48 (4.31%) SaaS
12 35 (3.14%) Serverless
13 30 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (2.61%) Google Analytics
15 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 22 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 20 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 105 (9.43%) Internet
2 10 (0.90%) Intranet
3 7 (0.63%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.45%) HTTP
6 4 (0.36%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) VoIP
6 4 (0.36%) WAN
7 3 (0.27%) DNS
7 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
9 1 (0.090%) AMQP
9 1 (0.090%) Broadband
9 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (16.62%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 149 (13.39%) MongoDB
3 149 (13.39%) MySQL
4 73 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 68 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
6 59 (5.30%) Power BI
7 32 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.17%) Metadata
12 11 (0.99%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.81%) GIS
15 8 (0.72%) Tableau
16 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.63%) Redis
17 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 259 (23.27%) Git
2 55 (4.94%) JIRA
3 41 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.53%) Selenium
6 15 (1.35%) GitLab
6 15 (1.35%) webpack
7 14 (1.26%) Storybook
8 11 (0.99%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.90%) Vite
10 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.81%) Maven
10 9 (0.81%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.72%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.72%) Postman
12 7 (0.63%) JUnit
12 7 (0.63%) MSI
12 7 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 317 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 119 (10.69%) Finance
3 116 (10.42%) Marketing
4 113 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (6.83%) Public Sector
7 71 (6.38%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.57%) Advertising
9 52 (4.67%) Law
10 35 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.52%) Legal
12 27 (2.43%) Retail
13 19 (1.71%) Games
14 16 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.17%) Banking
16 9 (0.81%) Publishing
17 8 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.72%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.72%) Local Government
17 8 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 719 (64.60%) Developer
2 217 (19.50%) .NET Developer
3 180 (16.17%) Senior
4 136 (12.22%) Senior Developer
5 129 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 102 (9.16%) Software Developer
7 76 (6.83%) PHP Developer
8 75 (6.74%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.74%) Web Developer
9 70 (6.29%) Designer
10 67 (6.02%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.75%) Trainee
12 57 (5.12%) C# Software Developer
13 56 (5.03%) Lead
14 50 (4.49%) Administrator
14 50 (4.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 47 (4.22%) Web Administrator
16 44 (3.95%) Analyst
17 43 (3.86%) Trainee Administrator
18 38 (3.41%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,028 (92.36%) HTML
2 390 (35.04%) .NET
3 254 (22.82%) React
4 234 (21.02%) .NET Core
5 214 (19.23%) ASP.NET
6 176 (15.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 144 (12.94%) jQuery
8 143 (12.85%) Node.js
9 140 (12.58%) HTML5
10 125 (11.23%) Vue
11 117 (10.51%) CSS3
12 112 (10.06%) Entity Framework
13 99 (8.89%) RESTful
14 94 (8.45%) AngularJS
14 94 (8.45%) REST
15 79 (7.10%) JSON
16 74 (6.65%) ML.NET
17 64 (5.75%) .NET Framework
17 64 (5.75%) Laravel
18 44 (3.95%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 42 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.61%) Social Media
8 28 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.25%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.80%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.17%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.12%) Windows
2 55 (4.94%) Linux
3 27 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (38.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 426 (38.27%) Agile
3 370 (33.24%) CI/CD
4 247 (22.19%) DevOps
5 239 (21.47%) AI
6 217 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (18.60%) User Experience
7 207 (18.60%) Web Development
8 163 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 136 (12.22%) Software Engineering
11 128 (11.50%) Computer Science
12 126 (11.32%) Machine Learning
13 115 (10.33%) Front End Development
14 103 (9.25%) Clean Code
15 97 (8.72%) OO
16 94 (8.45%) Analytics
16 94 (8.45%) MVC
17 93 (8.36%) Scrum
18 92 (8.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 681 (61.19%) JavaScript
2 465 (41.78%) SQL
3 395 (35.49%) C#
4 215 (19.32%) PHP
5 200 (17.97%) Python
6 197 (17.70%) TypeScript
7 98 (8.81%) Java
8 48 (4.31%) R
9 46 (4.13%) C++
10 32 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.26%) VBA
12 13 (1.17%) Go
12 13 (1.17%) Ruby
12 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.90%) Bicep
13 10 (0.90%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.63%) VBScript
15 6 (0.54%) Dart
16 5 (0.45%) Perl
17 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (17.07%) Degree
2 103 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (7.28%) Security Cleared
4 71 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.30%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.090%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (14.82%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.38%) WCAG
3 61 (5.48%) QA
4 43 (3.86%) GDPR
5 13 (1.17%) SLA
6 10 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.72%) PERC
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.27%) WAI
10 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.090%) NIST
12 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 181 (16.26%) Docker
2 13 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.32%) Terraform
3 9 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.090%) Ansible
8 1 (0.090%) Kibana
8 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 373 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.19%) Adobe
3 45 (4.04%) Google
4 42 (3.77%) Facebook
5 24 (2.16%) Oracle
6 23 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.89%) YouTube
8 10 (0.90%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.81%) Sage
9 9 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.81%) Splunk
10 8 (0.72%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.63%) iManage
12 6 (0.54%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.54%) New Relic
12 6 (0.54%) TikTok
12 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.45%) Atlassian