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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 63 71
Rank change year-on-year -80 +8 -31
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,033 2,306 2,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 4.13% 4.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.56% 19.14% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,255 1,865
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -4.55% +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 7,097 12,048 13,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 21.55% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,295 7,220 10,713
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,383 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 -73 921 £47,000 -14.55% 1,338
UK excluding London -79 694 £37,500 -28.57% 1,266
Work from Home -64 342 £50,000 -9.09% 690
North of England -24 270 £30,500 -37.44% 327
London -56 249 £65,000 - 232
South East -94 136 £50,000 -16.05% 326
Yorkshire -4 122 £30,500 -28.24% 126
North West -32 114 £42,500 -19.05% 169
Midlands -74 90 £37,500 -25.00% 218
East of England -48 79 £50,000 - 185
South West -66 68 £38,500 -30.00% 133
West Midlands -44 48 £30,500 -44.55% 119
East Midlands -62 43 £45,000 +13.92% 91
North East 0 34 £30,500 -41.90% 35
Scotland -70 33 £30,500 -39.60% 51
Wales -12 16 £50,000 +5.26% 35
Northern Ireland -15 3 £31,500 -30.00% 13
Channel Islands +4 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 61 (5.91%) WordPress
2 59 (5.71%) CMS
3 25 (2.42%) Confluence
4 15 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.77%) Apache
6 8 (0.77%) nginx
7 6 (0.58%) Drupal
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.39%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
11 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (2.90%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.65%) Sketch
5 11 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.87%) InVision
8 8 (0.77%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.77%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.77%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.29%) InDesign
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.097%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 18 (1.74%) Shopify
2 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.097%) Magento
5 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.097%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 485 (46.95%) Azure
2 387 (37.46%) AWS
3 330 (31.95%) GitHub
4 77 (7.45%) Figma
5 68 (6.58%) Serverless
6 50 (4.84%) GCP
7 47 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (3.68%) SaaS
9 34 (3.29%) Google Analytics
10 33 (3.19%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.32%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.84%) Azure Functions
13 18 (1.74%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.65%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 247 (23.91%) Internet
2 11 (1.06%) HTTP
3 6 (0.58%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.097%) Firewall
6 1 (0.097%) SSH
6 1 (0.097%) SSL
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (13.17%) SQL Server
2 109 (10.55%) MySQL
3 47 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 47 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.65%) Power BI
6 13 (1.26%) DB2
7 11 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.97%) GIS
9 8 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.77%) Looker
10 7 (0.68%) Metadata
11 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.48%) Redis
11 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 412 (39.88%) Git
2 51 (4.94%) JIRA
3 40 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.39%) webpack
5 30 (2.90%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.23%) Selenium
7 21 (2.03%) Axure RP
8 17 (1.65%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.55%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.45%) Babel
11 14 (1.36%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.06%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.97%) gulp
14 8 (0.77%) GitLab
14 8 (0.77%) JUnit
14 8 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.77%) Vite
15 5 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 284 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 252 (24.39%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.20%) Finance
4 102 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (8.71%) Marketing
6 83 (8.03%) Law
7 48 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.19%) Banking
9 33 (3.19%) Retail
10 25 (2.42%) Legal
11 14 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.36%) Publishing
12 12 (1.16%) Advertising
13 10 (0.97%) Games
14 9 (0.87%) Military
15 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
16 6 (0.58%) Electronics
17 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 594 (57.50%) Developer
2 245 (23.72%) Trainee
3 169 (16.36%) Senior
4 166 (16.07%) Software Developer
5 124 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (11.13%) Senior Developer
6 115 (11.13%) Trainee Developer
7 106 (10.26%) Trainee Software Developer
8 70 (6.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 59 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 52 (5.03%) Designer
11 45 (4.36%) C# Developer
12 44 (4.26%) PHP Developer
13 41 (3.97%) React Developer
14 40 (3.87%) Lead
14 40 (3.87%) Web Developer
15 38 (3.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (3.58%) Graduate
16 37 (3.58%) Graduate Developer
16 37 (3.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 921 (89.16%) HTML
2 322 (31.17%) React
3 199 (19.26%) .NET
4 135 (13.07%) Node.js
5 126 (12.20%) RESTful
6 112 (10.84%) HTML5
7 110 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 89 (8.62%) CSS3
9 87 (8.42%) ASP.NET
10 83 (8.03%) Vue
11 78 (7.55%) jQuery
12 72 (6.97%) REST
13 63 (6.10%) .NET Core
14 55 (5.32%) .NET Framework
15 50 (4.84%) GraphQL
16 47 (4.55%) JSON
17 45 (4.36%) XML
18 44 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
19 40 (3.87%) Jest
20 39 (3.78%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.29%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Motion Graphics
8 11 (1.06%) Social Media
9 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.77%) Cybercrime
10 8 (0.77%) W3C
11 7 (0.68%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.58%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.90%) Linux
2 26 (2.52%) Windows
3 11 (1.06%) Android
3 11 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (37.75%) Agile
2 338 (32.72%) Mentoring
3 255 (24.69%) User Experience
4 236 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (22.27%) Cybersecurity
6 226 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (16.94%) Front End Development
8 172 (16.65%) CI/CD
9 152 (14.71%) DevOps
10 122 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (11.33%) Web Development
12 116 (11.23%) MVC
13 114 (11.04%) UX Design
14 110 (10.65%) Computer Science
15 87 (8.42%) Software Engineering
16 83 (8.03%) Analytics
17 82 (7.94%) OOP
18 78 (7.55%) Test Automation
19 77 (7.45%) Scrum
20 71 (6.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 832 (80.54%) JavaScript
2 342 (33.11%) Python
3 213 (20.62%) SQL
4 198 (19.17%) C#
5 191 (18.49%) TypeScript
6 132 (12.78%) R
7 114 (11.04%) Java
8 103 (9.97%) PHP
9 34 (3.29%) C++
10 13 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.16%) Perl
11 12 (1.16%) Ruby
12 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.77%) C
14 5 (0.48%) Bicep
14 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (24.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 246 (23.81%) Azure Certification
3 245 (23.72%) AWS Certification
3 245 (23.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 176 (17.04%) Degree
5 94 (9.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (6.49%) Security Cleared
7 41 (3.97%) SC Cleared
8 21 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.77%) HND
11 7 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CCA
13 2 (0.19%) MCP
14 1 (0.097%) OCP
14 1 (0.097%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.84%) Accessibility
2 67 (6.49%) QA
3 53 (5.13%) WCAG
4 31 (3.00%) GDPR
5 8 (0.77%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.48%) PERC
6 5 (0.48%) Section 508
7 3 (0.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.097%) HL7
9 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.097%) NCSC
9 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (8.91%) Docker
2 15 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.61%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.097%) Nagios
Vendors
1 354 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.00%) Adobe
3 45 (4.36%) Google
4 32 (3.10%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.84%) Oracle
7 12 (1.16%) Cisco
8 10 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.87%) Apple
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.77%) Allen-Bradley
10 8 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.77%) Toshiba
11 6 (0.58%) Ahrefs
11 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.58%) SAP
12 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.48%) Meraki
12 5 (0.48%) OpenAI