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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 109 59
Rank change year-on-year -84 -50 +10
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,051 1,364 3,568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.77% 3.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.28% 15.31% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 903 854 2,503
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,825 £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 10,220 8,907 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.06% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,645 5,894 14,339
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -74 962 £50,000 -9.09% 257
UK excluding London -50 787 £50,000 - 241
Work from Home -47 494 £55,000 - 101
North of England -37 209 £50,000 - 61
London -110 205 £60,000 -14.29% 65
South East 0 203 £50,000 +8.11% 74
East of England +10 125 £47,500 +18.75% 26
North West -46 111 £46,250 -11.90% 28
Midlands -64 106 £47,500 - 35
South West -27 105 £52,500 -4.55% 28
Yorkshire -6 56 £50,000 +25.00% 22
West Midlands -42 56 £45,000 -10.00% 13
East Midlands -52 50 £50,000 +11.11% 22
North East -19 42 £56,250 +97.37% 13
Wales -44 26 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Scotland -66 10 £31,500 -60.63% 14
Northern Ireland -59 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 (9.32%) WordPress
2 52 (4.95%) CMS
3 48 (4.57%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.28%) IIS
5 21 (2.00%) Confluence
6 13 (1.24%) Apache
7 10 (0.95%) Drupal
8 7 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
12 1 (0.095%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.095%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.095%) JBoss
12 1 (0.095%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.52%) 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
8 7 (0.67%) 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%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 428 (40.72%) Azure
2 287 (27.31%) AWS
3 217 (20.65%) GitHub
4 151 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 69 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 66 (6.28%) Figma
9 51 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (4.85%) SaaS
10 47 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (4.28%) GCP
12 44 (4.19%) Power Automate
13 41 (3.90%) PowerApps
14 33 (3.14%) Serverless
15 31 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.66%) Google Analytics
17 24 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 102 (9.71%) 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
1 175 (16.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 163 (15.51%) SQL Server
3 148 (14.08%) MongoDB
4 130 (12.37%) MySQL
5 60 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 59 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (5.33%) Power BI
8 31 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.14%) Metadata
11 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.05%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.76%) Tableau
15 7 (0.67%) GIS
15 7 (0.67%) Redis
16 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 228 (21.69%) Git
2 54 (5.14%) JIRA
3 37 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.43%) Selenium
6 14 (1.33%) GitLab
7 13 (1.24%) webpack
8 12 (1.14%) Storybook
9 9 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.76%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.76%) Maven
10 8 (0.76%) Postman
10 8 (0.76%) Vite
11 7 (0.67%) JUnit
11 7 (0.67%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.48%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.48%) MSI
13 4 (0.38%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
General
1 282 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 120 (11.42%) Marketing
3 107 (10.18%) Finance
4 99 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.47%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.09%) Advertising
7 62 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.95%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.24%) Law
9 34 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.66%) 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
15 6 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 670 (63.75%) Developer
2 211 (20.08%) .NET Developer
3 156 (14.84%) Senior
4 130 (12.37%) Full-Stack Developer
5 118 (11.23%) Senior Developer
6 91 (8.66%) Software Developer
7 73 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 65 (6.18%) Designer
8 65 (6.18%) Web Developer
9 64 (6.09%) Trainee
10 62 (5.90%) PHP Developer
11 61 (5.80%) C# Developer
12 57 (5.42%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (4.95%) Administrator
14 47 (4.47%) Lead
14 47 (4.47%) Web Administrator
15 45 (4.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 43 (4.09%) Trainee Administrator
17 42 (4.00%) Analyst
18 40 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (92.10%) HTML
2 368 (35.01%) .NET
3 237 (22.55%) React
4 213 (20.27%) .NET Core
5 200 (19.03%) ASP.NET
6 172 (16.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 140 (13.32%) Node.js
8 132 (12.56%) jQuery
9 121 (11.51%) HTML5
10 119 (11.32%) Vue
11 103 (9.80%) Entity Framework
12 101 (9.61%) CSS3
12 101 (9.61%) RESTful
13 90 (8.56%) AngularJS
14 82 (7.80%) REST
15 79 (7.52%) JSON
16 73 (6.95%) ML.NET
17 54 (5.14%) Laravel
18 53 (5.04%) .NET Framework
19 43 (4.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (3.71%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.28%) Social Media
8 24 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.90%) Digital TV
10 18 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.33%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.86%) Robotics
16 8 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.95%) Windows
2 49 (4.66%) Linux
3 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Android
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
8 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (40.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 386 (36.73%) Agile
3 347 (33.02%) CI/CD
4 232 (22.07%) AI
5 230 (21.88%) DevOps
6 200 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (18.27%) User Experience
8 180 (17.13%) Web Development
9 136 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (12.84%) Mentoring
11 130 (12.37%) Machine Learning
12 126 (11.99%) Computer Science
13 122 (11.61%) Software Engineering
14 112 (10.66%) Front End Development
15 95 (9.04%) Analytics
16 89 (8.47%) OO
17 88 (8.37%) Clean Code
18 86 (8.18%) Microservices
19 83 (7.90%) MVC
20 80 (7.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 625 (59.47%) JavaScript
2 463 (44.05%) SQL
3 373 (35.49%) C#
4 201 (19.12%) PHP
5 190 (18.08%) Python
6 184 (17.51%) TypeScript
7 94 (8.94%) Java
8 48 (4.57%) R
9 45 (4.28%) C++
10 32 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.14%) VBA
13 9 (0.86%) Bicep
13 9 (0.86%) Ruby
14 8 (0.76%) Go
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 5 (0.48%) Dart
16 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 177 (16.84%) Degree
2 102 (9.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (5.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 59 (5.61%) Azure Certification
6 58 (5.52%) Security Cleared
7 49 (4.66%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
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 (12.84%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.57%) QA
3 47 (4.47%) WCAG
4 39 (3.71%) 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
1 166 (15.79%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 115 (10.94%) 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
1 349 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.85%) Adobe
3 42 (4.00%) Google
4 41 (3.90%) Facebook
5 30 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.09%) Oracle
7 21 (2.00%) YouTube
8 11 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.76%) Sage
11 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.67%) iManage
12 6 (0.57%) TikTok
12 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.48%) Apple
13 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.48%) Splunk
14 4 (0.38%) SAP