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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 109 59
Rank change year-on-year -81 -50 +6
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,049 1,362 3,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.78% 3.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.26% 15.34% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 900 853 2,561
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -5.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
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 10,221 8,876 19,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 18.10% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,636 5,869 14,655
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -68 959 £50,000 -9.09% 264
UK excluding London -51 784 £50,000 - 249
Work from Home -47 493 £55,000 +1.85% 104
North of England -56 208 £50,000 - 63
London -99 206 £60,000 -14.29% 63
South East -4 205 £50,000 +8.11% 73
East of England +18 123 £47,500 +18.75% 26
North West -46 111 £45,000 -14.29% 30
Midlands -61 106 £47,500 - 37
South West -28 102 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Yorkshire -16 56 £50,000 +25.00% 22
West Midlands -44 56 £45,000 -10.00% 13
East Midlands -47 50 £50,000 +11.11% 24
North East -28 41 £57,500 +101.75% 14
Wales -43 26 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Scotland -66 11 £31,250 -60.94% 14
Northern Ireland -60 3 £60,000 -

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 98 (9.34%) WordPress
2 52 (4.96%) CMS
3 49 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 23 (2.19%) IIS
5 21 (2.00%) Confluence
6 13 (1.24%) Apache
7 10 (0.95%) Drupal
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) Moodle
12 2 (0.19%) nginx
13 1 (0.095%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.095%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.095%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
13 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.53%) Photoshop
3 13 (1.24%) Adobe XD
3 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.95%) InDesign
6 9 (0.86%) Sketch
7 8 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.29%) Elementor
9 3 (0.29%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (2.19%) Shopify
2 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
4 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.095%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 430 (40.99%) Azure
2 286 (27.26%) AWS
3 218 (20.78%) GitHub
4 152 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.72%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.15%) Azure AI
7 70 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 66 (6.29%) Figma
9 52 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
10 51 (4.86%) SaaS
11 47 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (4.39%) GCP
13 44 (4.19%) Power Automate
14 41 (3.91%) PowerApps
15 33 (3.15%) Serverless
16 31 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (2.57%) Google Analytics
18 24 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 22 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
20 20 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 103 (9.82%) Internet
2 10 (0.95%) Intranet
3 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.48%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.38%) Network Security
4 4 (0.38%) VoIP
4 4 (0.38%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.29%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.095%) AMQP
7 1 (0.095%) Broadband
7 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (16.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 164 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 148 (14.11%) MongoDB
4 128 (12.20%) MySQL
5 59 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 58 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (5.43%) Power BI
8 31 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.05%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.05%) Metadata
12 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.86%) Tableau
15 7 (0.67%) GIS
15 7 (0.67%) Redis
16 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 225 (21.45%) Git
2 54 (5.15%) JIRA
3 36 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.43%) Selenium
6 14 (1.33%) GitLab
7 13 (1.24%) webpack
8 11 (1.05%) Storybook
9 9 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.76%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.76%) Postman
10 8 (0.76%) Vite
11 7 (0.67%) JUnit
11 7 (0.67%) Maven
11 7 (0.67%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.48%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.48%) MSI
13 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 282 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.34%) Marketing
3 107 (10.20%) Finance
4 100 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.48%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.10%) Advertising
7 62 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.96%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.24%) Law
9 34 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.67%) Retail
11 23 (2.19%) Legal
12 19 (1.81%) Games
13 11 (1.05%) Banking
13 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.57%) Automotive
15 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 668 (63.68%) Developer
2 210 (20.02%) .NET Developer
3 154 (14.68%) Senior
4 130 (12.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 117 (11.15%) Senior Developer
6 92 (8.77%) Software Developer
7 72 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 65 (6.20%) Designer
8 65 (6.20%) Web Developer
9 64 (6.10%) Trainee
10 63 (6.01%) PHP Developer
11 61 (5.82%) C# Developer
12 57 (5.43%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (4.96%) Administrator
14 48 (4.58%) Lead
15 47 (4.48%) Web Administrator
16 45 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 43 (4.10%) Trainee Administrator
18 42 (4.00%) Analyst
19 40 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 966 (92.09%) HTML
2 370 (35.27%) .NET
3 236 (22.50%) React
4 213 (20.31%) .NET Core
5 199 (18.97%) ASP.NET
6 172 (16.40%) ASP.NET Core
7 139 (13.25%) Node.js
8 132 (12.58%) jQuery
9 122 (11.63%) HTML5
10 119 (11.34%) Vue
11 103 (9.82%) Entity Framework
12 102 (9.72%) CSS3
13 100 (9.53%) RESTful
14 89 (8.48%) AngularJS
15 82 (7.82%) REST
16 79 (7.53%) JSON
17 73 (6.96%) ML.NET
18 55 (5.24%) Laravel
19 53 (5.05%) .NET Framework
20 44 (4.19%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.76%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.29%) Social Media
9 23 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.91%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.91%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.33%) Graphic Design
14 13 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.86%) Robotics
16 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.05%) Windows
2 47 (4.48%) Linux
3 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Android
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (40.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 385 (36.70%) Agile
3 343 (32.70%) CI/CD
4 232 (22.12%) AI
5 231 (22.02%) DevOps
6 199 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (18.11%) User Experience
8 180 (17.16%) Web Development
9 135 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (12.87%) Mentoring
10 131 (12.49%) Machine Learning
11 128 (12.20%) Computer Science
12 121 (11.53%) Software Engineering
13 113 (10.77%) Front End Development
14 95 (9.06%) Analytics
15 89 (8.48%) OO
16 87 (8.29%) Clean Code
17 86 (8.20%) Microservices
18 82 (7.82%) MVC
19 79 (7.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 622 (59.29%) JavaScript
2 466 (44.42%) SQL
3 374 (35.65%) C#
4 203 (19.35%) PHP
5 190 (18.11%) Python
6 180 (17.16%) TypeScript
7 93 (8.87%) Java
8 48 (4.58%) R
9 44 (4.19%) C++
10 32 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.14%) VBA
13 9 (0.86%) Bicep
14 8 (0.76%) Go
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 5 (0.48%) Dart
16 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.38%) Perl
17 4 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 179 (17.06%) Degree
2 103 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (5.82%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (5.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 59 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 57 (5.43%) Security Cleared
7 49 (4.67%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (12.87%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.58%) QA
3 46 (4.39%) WCAG
4 38 (3.62%) GDPR
5 13 (1.24%) SLA
6 11 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.76%) PERC
9 7 (0.67%) GRC
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.095%) NIST
12 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 163 (15.54%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 114 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.76%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
3 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Puppet
5 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.095%) Kibana
5 1 (0.095%) Nagios
Vendors
1 350 (33.37%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.77%) Adobe
3 41 (3.91%) Facebook
3 41 (3.91%) Google
4 30 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.00%) Oracle
5 21 (2.00%) YouTube
6 11 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
7 9 (0.86%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.76%) Sage
9 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.67%) iManage
10 6 (0.57%) TikTok
10 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
11 5 (0.48%) Apple
11 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.48%) Splunk
12 4 (0.38%) SAP