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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 91 57
Rank change year-on-year -61 -34 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,097 1,333 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 3.26% 4.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.18% 15.19% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,058 2,869
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £61,346 £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 8,321 8,776 19,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 21.48% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,569 15,464
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -58 981 £45,000 -18.18% 514
UK excluding London -54 773 £40,000 -23.81% 423
Work from Home -71 341 £52,500 -4.55% 223
North of England -16 279 £30,500 -32.22% 113
London -76 237 £60,000 -14.29% 154
South East -72 155 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -30 129 £31,500 -39.42% 57
Midlands -29 118 £40,000 -11.11% 59
Yorkshire +5 116 £30,500 -18.67% 34
East of England -14 89 £41,250 -13.16% 72
South West -51 85 £40,000 -33.33% 51
West Midlands -10 70 £31,500 -40.00% 29
East Midlands -47 48 £51,250 +41.38% 30
Scotland -69 35 £30,500 -45.29% 14
North East -10 34 £30,500 -39.00% 22
Wales -31 10 £36,370 -30.72% 17
Northern Ireland -33 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
1 111 (10.12%) WordPress
2 54 (4.92%) CMS
3 28 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.28%) Confluence
5 10 (0.91%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Drupal
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.27%) govService
9 3 (0.27%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) Liferay
9 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.091%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.091%) Moodle
Applications
1 30 (2.73%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.19%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.09%) Sketch
5 10 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.91%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.73%) InVision
7 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
7 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.46%) InDesign
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.18%) Windchill
10 1 (0.091%) Elementor
10 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Shopify
2 12 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.091%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.091%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.091%) Magento
4 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 542 (49.41%) Azure
2 487 (44.39%) AWS
3 392 (35.73%) GitHub
4 81 (7.38%) Figma
5 72 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.47%) Serverless
7 59 (5.38%) GCP
8 46 (4.19%) SaaS
9 43 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 31 (2.83%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 21 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (1.73%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.64%) PaaS
15 18 (1.64%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.64%) PowerApps
16 13 (1.19%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 310 (28.26%) Internet
2 8 (0.73%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 4 (0.36%) WAN
5 3 (0.27%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 101 (9.21%) MySQL
3 48 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 36 (3.28%) Power BI
6 34 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.28%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.19%) DB2
10 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.82%) Looker
12 8 (0.73%) Tableau
13 5 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.27%) FileMaker
15 3 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 452 (41.20%) Git
2 53 (4.83%) JIRA
3 48 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.37%) Cypress.io
5 25 (2.28%) webpack
6 22 (2.01%) Axure RP
7 19 (1.73%) Selenium
8 14 (1.28%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.28%) Vite
9 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.09%) Storybook
11 11 (1.00%) Babel
12 10 (0.91%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.73%) GitLab
14 6 (0.55%) JUnit
14 6 (0.55%) Maven
14 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 298 (27.16%) Multimedia
2 232 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 123 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.30%) Finance
5 86 (7.84%) Marketing
6 53 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (4.65%) Law
8 46 (4.19%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.73%) Retail
10 25 (2.28%) Banking
11 22 (2.01%) Legal
12 21 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.00%) Advertising
14 8 (0.73%) Military
15 7 (0.64%) Games
16 6 (0.55%) Aeronautics
16 6 (0.55%) Back Office
16 6 (0.55%) Electronics
17 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 624 (56.88%) Developer
2 299 (27.26%) Trainee
3 178 (16.23%) Software Developer
4 156 (14.22%) Senior
5 127 (11.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 125 (11.39%) Trainee Developer
7 111 (10.12%) Senior Developer
7 111 (10.12%) Trainee Software Developer
8 78 (7.11%) Administrator
9 74 (6.75%) Web Administrator
10 72 (6.56%) .NET Developer
10 72 (6.56%) Trainee Administrator
11 70 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 69 (6.29%) Designer
13 57 (5.20%) C# Developer
14 51 (4.65%) PHP Developer
15 47 (4.28%) Web Developer
16 45 (4.10%) Lead
17 42 (3.83%) C# Software Developer
18 41 (3.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (91.16%) HTML
2 321 (29.26%) React
3 200 (18.23%) .NET
4 125 (11.39%) Node.js
5 110 (10.03%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.94%) Vue
7 104 (9.48%) RESTful
8 97 (8.84%) jQuery
9 88 (8.02%) HTML5
10 74 (6.75%) CSS3
11 64 (5.83%) ASP.NET
12 59 (5.38%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.20%) REST
14 52 (4.74%) Tailwind CSS
15 44 (4.01%) .NET Framework
15 44 (4.01%) Laravel
16 39 (3.56%) Jest
16 39 (3.56%) Sass
17 35 (3.19%) JSON
17 35 (3.19%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 40 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.28%) Social Media
11 12 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.73%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.64%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
15 6 (0.55%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.64%) Linux
2 16 (1.46%) Windows
3 11 (1.00%) Android
3 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (32.63%) Mentoring
2 349 (31.81%) Agile
3 245 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 238 (21.70%) Cybersecurity
5 216 (19.69%) User Experience
6 207 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 194 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (14.59%) Web Development
9 155 (14.13%) DevOps
9 155 (14.13%) Front End Development
10 127 (11.58%) Computer Science
11 124 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (10.03%) AI
13 98 (8.93%) Software Engineering
14 96 (8.75%) Analytics
15 93 (8.48%) Clean Code
16 91 (8.30%) Scrum
17 89 (8.11%) UX Design
18 87 (7.93%) MVC
19 77 (7.02%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 859 (78.30%) JavaScript
2 410 (37.37%) Python
3 269 (24.52%) SQL
4 192 (17.50%) TypeScript
5 187 (17.05%) C#
6 178 (16.23%) R
7 141 (12.85%) PHP
8 96 (8.75%) Java
9 28 (2.55%) C++
10 16 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.73%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.73%) Ruby
12 7 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.55%) Bash
14 5 (0.46%) Bicep
14 5 (0.46%) Dart
15 4 (0.36%) SOQL
15 4 (0.36%) SOSL
16 3 (0.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 303 (27.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (27.16%) AWS Certification
2 298 (27.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (27.16%) Azure Certification
3 186 (16.96%) Degree
4 106 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.83%) Security Cleared
6 50 (4.56%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 2 (0.18%) CCA
13 1 (0.091%) OCA
13 1 (0.091%) OCP
13 1 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (11.49%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.28%) QA
3 46 (4.19%) WCAG
4 23 (2.10%) GDPR
5 10 (0.91%) PERC
6 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.55%) GRC
7 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.55%) SLA
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) Section 508
10 1 (0.091%) HL7
10 1 (0.091%) NCSC
10 1 (0.091%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (7.66%) Docker
2 9 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.55%) Terraform
3 4 (0.36%) Argo
4 3 (0.27%) cPanel
4 3 (0.27%) Plesk
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.18%) Nagios
5 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.091%) Kibana
Vendors
1 427 (38.92%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.20%) Adobe
3 47 (4.28%) Google
4 25 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.91%) Oracle
6 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.73%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.55%) SAP
10 5 (0.46%) Databricks
10 5 (0.46%) Foundry
10 5 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.36%) Concur
11 4 (0.36%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.36%) New Relic
11 4 (0.36%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.36%) Sage
11 4 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud