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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 120 61
Rank change year-on-year -68 -59 +5
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,119 1,269 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.54% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.51% 14.99% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 935 782 1,913
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £31,250
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 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £85,000 £81,000
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 10,652 8,463 16,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.95% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,775 5,498 11,466
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 14 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 14 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 -52 1,029 £50,000 -9.09% 513
UK excluding London -28 843 £50,000 - 405
Work from Home -37 522 £55,000 - 217
South East +14 228 £49,875 +10.83% 97
North of England -34 226 £50,000 -4.76% 103
London -101 217 £60,000 -11.11% 187
East of England +6 130 £47,500 -5.00% 43
South West -15 113 £52,500 +5.00% 48
North West -53 109 £47,500 -9.52% 59
Midlands -55 108 £45,000 -5.26% 72
Yorkshire -10 60 £50,000 +11.11% 32
North East -17 57 £53,500 +114.00% 16
West Midlands -43 56 £45,000 -10.00% 29
East Midlands -57 52 £50,000 +11.11% 43
Wales -56 26 £45,000 -33.33% 12
Scotland -58 10 £31,500 -60.63% 28
Northern Ireland -67 2 £45,500 +44.44% 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 (8.85%) WordPress
2 57 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 45 (4.02%) CMS
4 30 (2.68%) IIS
5 24 (2.14%) Confluence
6 17 (1.52%) Apache
7 9 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.089%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.089%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 22 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.61%) Adobe XD
3 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.43%) Photoshop
5 11 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.89%) InDesign
6 10 (0.89%) Sketch
7 8 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (0.27%) Elementor
9 3 (0.27%) InVision
9 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.27%) Trello
10 2 (0.18%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.089%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 27 (2.41%) 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
4 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 443 (39.59%) Azure
2 315 (28.15%) AWS
3 227 (20.29%) GitHub
4 158 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (6.97%) Azure AI
7 76 (6.79%) Power Platform
8 71 (6.34%) Figma
9 60 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
10 55 (4.92%) Power Automate
11 51 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (4.38%) GCP
13 48 (4.29%) PowerApps
14 45 (4.02%) SaaS
15 34 (3.04%) Serverless
16 33 (2.95%) Google Analytics
17 29 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 22 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 106 (9.47%) Internet
2 9 (0.80%) Intranet
3 8 (0.71%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.45%) HTTP
6 4 (0.36%) DNS
6 4 (0.36%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) VoIP
7 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
9 1 (0.089%) AMQP
9 1 (0.089%) Broadband
9 1 (0.089%) Profibus
9 1 (0.089%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 151 (13.49%) MySQL
4 149 (13.32%) MongoDB
5 77 (6.88%) Relational Database
6 72 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (5.00%) Power BI
8 32 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.16%) Metadata
13 11 (0.98%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.89%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.80%) GIS
16 8 (0.71%) Tableau
17 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
17 7 (0.63%) Redis
18 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 256 (22.88%) Git
2 53 (4.74%) JIRA
3 41 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.52%) Selenium
6 15 (1.34%) GitLab
6 15 (1.34%) Storybook
7 12 (1.07%) Axure RP
7 12 (1.07%) webpack
8 11 (0.98%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.80%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.80%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.80%) Maven
9 9 (0.80%) PHPUnit
10 8 (0.71%) Postman
10 8 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (0.71%) Vite
11 7 (0.63%) JUnit
11 7 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 324 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 121 (10.81%) Finance
3 120 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (10.63%) Marketing
5 92 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (7.42%) Public Sector
7 71 (6.34%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.54%) Advertising
9 55 (4.92%) Law
10 38 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.50%) Legal
11 28 (2.50%) Retail
12 20 (1.79%) Games
13 19 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.25%) Banking
15 10 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.80%) Local Government
16 9 (0.80%) Publishing
17 8 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.71%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 718 (64.16%) Developer
2 217 (19.39%) .NET Developer
3 177 (15.82%) Senior
4 134 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 130 (11.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 100 (8.94%) Software Developer
7 77 (6.88%) Software Engineer
8 76 (6.79%) Web Developer
9 75 (6.70%) PHP Developer
10 70 (6.26%) C# Developer
11 68 (6.08%) Designer
12 64 (5.72%) Trainee
13 57 (5.09%) C# Software Developer
13 57 (5.09%) Lead
14 50 (4.47%) Administrator
15 47 (4.20%) Web Administrator
16 46 (4.11%) Analyst
17 45 (4.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 43 (3.84%) Trainee Administrator
19 37 (3.31%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,031 (92.14%) HTML
2 392 (35.03%) .NET
3 253 (22.61%) React
4 239 (21.36%) .NET Core
5 214 (19.12%) ASP.NET
6 176 (15.73%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (12.96%) jQuery
7 145 (12.96%) Node.js
8 135 (12.06%) HTML5
9 121 (10.81%) Vue
10 117 (10.46%) Entity Framework
11 116 (10.37%) CSS3
12 97 (8.67%) REST
13 93 (8.31%) AngularJS
13 93 (8.31%) RESTful
14 79 (7.06%) JSON
15 74 (6.61%) ML.NET
16 68 (6.08%) .NET Framework
17 61 (5.45%) Laravel
18 43 (3.84%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 41 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (3.22%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.59%) Social Media
9 25 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.79%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.16%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.89%) Blog
16 10 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.09%) Windows
2 55 (4.92%) Linux
3 26 (2.32%) 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 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.089%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (38.25%) Agile
2 423 (37.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 374 (33.42%) CI/CD
4 245 (21.89%) DevOps
5 240 (21.45%) AI
6 220 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (18.95%) Web Development
8 207 (18.50%) User Experience
9 171 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 148 (13.23%) Mentoring
11 143 (12.78%) Software Engineering
12 125 (11.17%) Computer Science
13 124 (11.08%) Machine Learning
14 111 (9.92%) Front End Development
15 106 (9.47%) Clean Code
16 100 (8.94%) OO
17 94 (8.40%) Analytics
17 94 (8.40%) Scrum
18 93 (8.31%) MVC
19 92 (8.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 684 (61.13%) JavaScript
2 465 (41.55%) SQL
3 401 (35.84%) C#
4 209 (18.68%) PHP
5 200 (17.87%) Python
6 198 (17.69%) TypeScript
7 99 (8.85%) Java
8 48 (4.29%) R
9 46 (4.11%) C++
10 32 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.34%) Go
12 14 (1.25%) Ruby
12 14 (1.25%) VBA
13 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.98%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.89%) Bicep
16 7 (0.63%) Dart
16 7 (0.63%) VBScript
17 5 (0.45%) Perl
18 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (17.34%) Degree
2 101 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 89 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 78 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.27%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.98%) 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%) HNC
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 (0.089%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.089%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (14.92%) Accessibility
2 72 (6.43%) WCAG
3 63 (5.63%) QA
4 40 (3.57%) GDPR
5 14 (1.25%) SLA
6 10 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.71%) PERC
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.089%) NIST
13 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 181 (16.18%) Docker
2 14 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.08%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.40%) Terraform
3 10 (0.89%) 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 (0.089%) Ansible
8 1 (0.089%) Kibana
8 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 377 (33.69%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.24%) Adobe
3 49 (4.38%) Google
4 42 (3.75%) Facebook
5 25 (2.23%) Oracle
6 23 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.88%) YouTube
8 11 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.89%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.80%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.80%) Sage
10 9 (0.80%) Splunk
11 8 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.63%) iManage
13 6 (0.54%) New Relic
13 6 (0.54%) TikTok
13 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
14 5 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.45%) Red Hat