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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 126 61
Rank change year-on-year -64 -65 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,112 1,257 3,076
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 2.52% 3.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.32% 13.97% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 926 767 1,848
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 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.39% -4.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 11,930 9,000 17,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.97% 18.03% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,690 5,866 12,126
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £108,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 25 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 25 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 -55 1,025 £50,000 -9.09% 392
UK excluding London -37 844 £50,000 - 349
Work from Home -38 517 £55,000 - 152
South East +16 234 £49,875 +17.35% 90
North of England -34 229 £50,000 -4.76% 83
London -114 212 £59,886 -11.28% 118
East of England +7 129 £48,130 -3.74% 37
South West -15 110 £52,500 +10.53% 42
North West -55 110 £47,500 -13.64% 46
Midlands -63 103 £47,500 - 69
North East -6 60 £57,500 +130.00% 15
Yorkshire -24 59 £50,000 +17.65% 26
East Midlands -56 52 £50,000 +0.50% 44
West Midlands -58 51 £45,000 -5.26% 25
Wales -59 28 £41,750 -38.15% 9
Scotland -57 10 £31,500 -60.63% 18
Northern Ireland -80 1 £31,000 -1.59% 5

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 95 (8.54%) WordPress
2 58 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.78%) CMS
4 32 (2.88%) IIS
5 26 (2.34%) Confluence
6 17 (1.53%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.63%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) JBoss
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.090%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.44%) Adobe XD
3 16 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.90%) InDesign
6 9 (0.81%) Sketch
7 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (0.27%) Elementor
9 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.18%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.18%) InVision
10 2 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (2.25%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
4 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 440 (39.57%) Azure
2 308 (27.70%) AWS
3 228 (20.50%) GitHub
4 160 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.01%) Azure AI
7 75 (6.74%) Power Platform
8 65 (5.85%) Figma
9 59 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
10 57 (5.13%) Power Automate
11 54 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (4.41%) GCP
12 49 (4.41%) PowerApps
13 46 (4.14%) SaaS
14 34 (3.06%) Serverless
15 33 (2.97%) Google Analytics
16 27 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 21 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 107 (9.62%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) Intranet
3 8 (0.72%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.36%) DNS
5 4 (0.36%) HTTP
5 4 (0.36%) Network Security
5 4 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) Firewall
7 2 (0.18%) Profibus
8 1 (0.090%) AMQP
8 1 (0.090%) Broadband
8 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.090%) WAN
8 1 (0.090%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 148 (13.31%) MongoDB
3 148 (13.31%) MySQL
4 84 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 76 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (4.95%) Power BI
7 32 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (1.17%) Metadata
11 11 (0.99%) MariaDB
11 11 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
12 9 (0.81%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.81%) GIS
13 8 (0.72%) Tableau
14 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.63%) Redis
15 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 257 (23.11%) Git
2 52 (4.68%) JIRA
3 42 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.53%) Storybook
6 16 (1.44%) Selenium
7 15 (1.35%) GitLab
8 12 (1.08%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.99%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.90%) Axure RP
11 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.81%) Maven
11 9 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.72%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.72%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.72%) webpack
13 7 (0.63%) MSI
13 7 (0.63%) Postman
14 6 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 328 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 121 (10.88%) Marketing
3 119 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.07%) Finance
5 93 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (7.73%) Public Sector
7 71 (6.38%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.58%) Advertising
9 53 (4.77%) Law
10 41 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.79%) Retail
12 25 (2.25%) Legal
13 20 (1.80%) Games
13 20 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.35%) Banking
15 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Local Government
17 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 718 (64.57%) Developer
2 219 (19.69%) .NET Developer
3 177 (15.92%) Senior
4 136 (12.23%) Senior Developer
5 134 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 95 (8.54%) Software Developer
7 80 (7.19%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.74%) Web Developer
9 73 (6.56%) PHP Developer
10 69 (6.21%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.76%) Trainee
12 62 (5.58%) Designer
13 56 (5.04%) Lead
14 53 (4.77%) C# Software Developer
15 50 (4.50%) Administrator
16 47 (4.23%) Web Administrator
17 46 (4.14%) Analyst
18 45 (4.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19 43 (3.87%) Trainee Administrator
20 37 (3.33%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,024 (92.09%) HTML
2 391 (35.16%) .NET
3 250 (22.48%) React
4 237 (21.31%) .NET Core
5 218 (19.60%) ASP.NET
6 179 (16.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 147 (13.22%) Node.js
8 140 (12.59%) jQuery
9 136 (12.23%) HTML5
10 120 (10.79%) Vue
11 117 (10.52%) Entity Framework
12 116 (10.43%) CSS3
13 104 (9.35%) REST
14 95 (8.54%) RESTful
15 89 (8.00%) AngularJS
16 78 (7.01%) JSON
17 74 (6.65%) ML.NET
18 70 (6.29%) .NET Framework
19 60 (5.40%) Laravel
20 45 (4.05%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 32 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.61%) Social Media
8 27 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.80%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.17%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (1.08%) Robotics
16 10 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.31%) Windows
2 57 (5.13%) Linux
3 26 (2.34%) 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 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (38.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 424 (38.13%) Agile
3 377 (33.90%) CI/CD
4 245 (22.03%) DevOps
5 239 (21.49%) AI
6 219 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (18.79%) Web Development
8 206 (18.53%) User Experience
9 173 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 150 (13.49%) Mentoring
11 146 (13.13%) Software Engineering
12 123 (11.06%) Machine Learning
13 116 (10.43%) Computer Science
14 108 (9.71%) Front End Development
15 107 (9.62%) Clean Code
16 102 (9.17%) Test Automation
17 98 (8.81%) OO
18 96 (8.63%) Scrum
19 93 (8.36%) Analytics
19 93 (8.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 684 (61.51%) JavaScript
2 454 (40.83%) SQL
3 394 (35.43%) C#
4 200 (17.99%) TypeScript
5 197 (17.72%) Python
6 196 (17.63%) PHP
7 95 (8.54%) Java
8 48 (4.32%) R
9 42 (3.78%) C++
10 32 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.44%) Go
11 16 (1.44%) Ruby
12 15 (1.35%) VBA
13 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.17%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.90%) Bicep
15 7 (0.63%) Dart
15 7 (0.63%) VBScript
16 5 (0.45%) Perl
17 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (16.55%) Degree
2 94 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 93 (8.36%) Security Cleared
4 79 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.67%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.31%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.27%) HNC
12 2 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.18%) HND
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.090%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.090%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (15.47%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.74%) WCAG
3 68 (6.12%) QA
4 39 (3.51%) GDPR
5 13 (1.17%) SLA
6 12 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.72%) PERC
9 7 (0.63%) GRC
9 7 (0.63%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.090%) NIST
12 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 185 (16.64%) Docker
2 16 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.45%) Nagios
4 4 (0.36%) Puppet
5 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.090%) Ansible
7 1 (0.090%) Consul
7 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 382 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.19%) Adobe
3 48 (4.32%) Google
4 42 (3.78%) Facebook
5 27 (2.43%) Oracle
6 24 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.89%) YouTube
8 13 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.08%) OneLogin
10 10 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
11 9 (0.81%) Splunk
12 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.63%) Sage
14 6 (0.54%) iManage
14 6 (0.54%) TikTok
14 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
15 5 (0.45%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.45%) New Relic
15 5 (0.45%) Pinterest