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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -76 +6 -30
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,039 2,285 2,173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 4.10% 4.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.69% 19.05% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 840 1,236 1,866
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £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 7,075 11,992 13,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 21.52% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,291 7,171 10,747
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £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 27 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 27 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 -71 925 £46,625 -15.23% 1,360
UK excluding London -78 697 £37,500 -28.57% 1,179
Work from Home -65 342 £50,000 -9.09% 755
North of England -24 271 £30,500 -37.44% 344
London -51 251 £63,750 -1.92% 335
South East -98 136 £50,000 -16.67% 290
Yorkshire +2 123 £30,500 -28.24% 117
North West -37 114 £42,500 -19.05% 195
Midlands -67 90 £37,500 -25.00% 191
East of England -41 79 £50,000 - 155
South West -76 69 £37,250 -32.27% 121
West Midlands -43 49 £30,500 -44.55% 106
East Midlands -59 42 £44,000 +12.82% 80
North East +1 34 £30,500 -41.90% 35
Scotland -68 34 £30,500 -39.90% 53
Wales -21 16 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Northern Ireland -13 3 £31,500 -30.00% 14
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 (5.87%) WordPress
2 60 (5.77%) CMS
3 25 (2.41%) Confluence
4 15 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.87%) nginx
5 9 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.77%) Apache
6 8 (0.77%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.58%) Drupal
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.096%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 30 (2.89%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.64%) Sketch
5 12 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.87%) InVision
7 9 (0.87%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.77%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
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 (0.096%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 18 (1.73%) 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 (0.096%) Magento
5 1 (0.096%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 492 (47.35%) Azure
2 394 (37.92%) AWS
3 337 (32.44%) GitHub
4 76 (7.31%) Figma
5 67 (6.45%) Serverless
6 50 (4.81%) GCP
7 47 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (3.66%) SaaS
9 33 (3.18%) Google Analytics
9 33 (3.18%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.83%) Azure Functions
12 18 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.64%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (1.64%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (1.44%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 253 (24.35%) 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 (0.096%) Firewall
6 1 (0.096%) SSH
6 1 (0.096%) SSL
6 1 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 110 (10.59%) MySQL
3 47 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 20 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.64%) Power BI
7 13 (1.25%) DB2
8 11 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.96%) GIS
10 9 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.77%) Looker
12 7 (0.67%) Metadata
13 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.48%) Redis
13 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.38%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 419 (40.33%) Git
2 51 (4.91%) JIRA
3 40 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.37%) webpack
5 29 (2.79%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.21%) Selenium
7 21 (2.02%) Axure RP
8 17 (1.64%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.54%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.44%) Babel
11 14 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.06%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.96%) gulp
14 9 (0.87%) Vite
15 8 (0.77%) GitLab
15 8 (0.77%) JUnit
15 8 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
15 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 284 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 258 (24.83%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.13%) Finance
4 101 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (8.66%) Marketing
6 83 (7.99%) Law
7 48 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.18%) Banking
10 32 (3.08%) Retail
11 25 (2.41%) Legal
12 14 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.35%) Publishing
13 12 (1.15%) Advertising
14 10 (0.96%) Games
15 9 (0.87%) Military
16 7 (0.67%) Aeronautics
17 6 (0.58%) Electronics
18 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 596 (57.36%) Developer
2 251 (24.16%) Trainee
3 169 (16.27%) Senior
3 169 (16.27%) Software Developer
4 123 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 118 (11.36%) Trainee Developer
6 114 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 109 (10.49%) Trainee Software Developer
8 70 (6.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 59 (5.68%) .NET Developer
10 52 (5.00%) Designer
11 45 (4.33%) C# Developer
12 44 (4.23%) PHP Developer
13 41 (3.95%) React Developer
14 40 (3.85%) Lead
14 40 (3.85%) Web Developer
15 37 (3.56%) Graduate
15 37 (3.56%) Graduate Developer
15 37 (3.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 37 (3.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (89.12%) HTML
2 322 (30.99%) React
3 199 (19.15%) .NET
4 134 (12.90%) Node.js
5 125 (12.03%) RESTful
6 112 (10.78%) HTML5
7 110 (10.59%) AngularJS
8 89 (8.57%) CSS3
9 87 (8.37%) ASP.NET
10 84 (8.08%) Vue
11 78 (7.51%) jQuery
12 72 (6.93%) REST
13 63 (6.06%) .NET Core
14 55 (5.29%) .NET Framework
15 49 (4.72%) GraphQL
16 47 (4.52%) JSON
17 45 (4.33%) XML
18 44 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
19 40 (3.85%) Laravel
20 39 (3.75%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.27%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.02%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.06%) Motion Graphics
8 11 (1.06%) Social Media
9 10 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.77%) Cybercrime
10 8 (0.77%) W3C
11 7 (0.67%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.58%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.98%) Linux
2 26 (2.50%) 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 (37.54%) Agile
2 344 (33.11%) Mentoring
3 255 (24.54%) User Experience
4 237 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
5 235 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
6 225 (21.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (16.84%) Front End Development
8 172 (16.55%) CI/CD
9 152 (14.63%) DevOps
10 122 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (11.26%) Web Development
12 116 (11.16%) MVC
13 113 (10.88%) UX Design
14 111 (10.68%) Computer Science
15 87 (8.37%) Software Engineering
16 82 (7.89%) OOP
17 81 (7.80%) Analytics
18 77 (7.41%) Scrum
18 77 (7.41%) Test Automation
19 71 (6.83%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 838 (80.65%) JavaScript
2 349 (33.59%) Python
3 212 (20.40%) SQL
4 198 (19.06%) C#
5 190 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 136 (13.09%) R
7 114 (10.97%) Java
8 104 (10.01%) PHP
9 34 (3.27%) C++
10 13 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.15%) Perl
11 12 (1.15%) Ruby
12 10 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.77%) C
14 6 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.48%) Bicep
16 4 (0.38%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.38%) ActionScript 3.0
16 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 259 (24.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 252 (24.25%) Azure Certification
3 251 (24.16%) AWS Certification
3 251 (24.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 177 (17.04%) Degree
5 94 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (6.45%) Security Cleared
7 41 (3.95%) SC Cleared
8 21 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.77%) HND
11 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.67%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.38%) ISEB
12 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CCA
13 2 (0.19%) MCP
14 1 (0.096%) OCP
14 1 (0.096%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.67%) Accessibility
2 68 (6.54%) QA
3 53 (5.10%) WCAG
4 31 (2.98%) 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 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.096%) HL7
9 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.096%) NCSC
9 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (9.05%) Docker
2 15 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.60%) Terraform
3 4 (0.38%) Argo
3 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.096%) Nagios
Vendors
1 361 (34.74%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.87%) Adobe
3 45 (4.33%) Google
4 32 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.83%) Oracle
7 12 (1.15%) Cisco
8 10 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.77%) Allen-Bradley
10 8 (0.77%) Apple
10 8 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.77%) Toshiba
11 6 (0.58%) Ahrefs
11 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
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