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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 89 56
Rank change year-on-year -75 -33 -11
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,088 1,342 3,717
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 3.28% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.76% 15.41% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,062 2,891
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
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 8,526 8,710 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 21.31% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,227 6,591 15,653
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 9 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 9 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 -62 977 £45,000 -18.18% 514
UK excluding London -60 767 £40,000 -23.81% 423
Work from Home -66 351 £50,000 -9.09% 223
North of England -31 272 £31,000 -31.11% 113
London -81 235 £59,886 -14.45% 154
South East -69 157 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -39 125 £31,500 -37.00% 57
Midlands -41 120 £41,020 -8.85% 59
Yorkshire -5 114 £30,500 -18.67% 34
East of England -9 95 £41,250 -13.16% 72
South West -51 82 £40,000 -33.33% 51
West Midlands -18 71 £31,500 -40.00% 29
East Midlands -56 49 £50,000 +33.33% 30
North East -18 33 £30,500 -35.79% 22
Scotland -69 29 £30,500 -49.17% 14
Wales -34 10 £36,370 -30.72% 17
Northern Ireland -36 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 (10.20%) WordPress
2 54 (4.96%) CMS
3 32 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.38%) Confluence
5 10 (0.92%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Drupal
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) IIS
8 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 1 (0.092%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 29 (2.67%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.10%) Sketch
5 11 (1.01%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.83%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.74%) InVision
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
8 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.37%) InDesign
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.092%) Elementor
11 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.38%) Shopify
2 11 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.18%) Magento
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.092%) Line 50
4 1 (0.092%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 522 (47.98%) Azure
2 470 (43.20%) AWS
3 368 (33.82%) GitHub
4 81 (7.44%) Figma
5 74 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.61%) GCP
7 57 (5.24%) Serverless
8 51 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.23%) SaaS
10 32 (2.94%) Google Analytics
11 30 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.21%) PowerApps
15 22 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.84%) Amazon S3
17 19 (1.75%) Entra ID
18 16 (1.47%) PaaS
19 13 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 289 (26.56%) Internet
2 8 (0.74%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.092%) Broadband
7 1 (0.092%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.092%) Network Security
7 1 (0.092%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 105 (9.65%) MySQL
3 47 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (3.95%) Power BI
5 40 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.19%) DB2
10 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.92%) Tableau
13 9 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.83%) Looker
14 6 (0.55%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.37%) FileMaker
16 4 (0.37%) Metadata
17 3 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 424 (38.97%) Git
2 52 (4.78%) JIRA
3 48 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.21%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.11%) webpack
6 21 (1.93%) Axure RP
7 20 (1.84%) Selenium
8 14 (1.29%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.19%) Vite
10 12 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.10%) Storybook
10 12 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.01%) Babel
12 8 (0.74%) GitLab
12 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.64%) Maven
14 6 (0.55%) JUnit
15 5 (0.46%) PHPUnit
15 5 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 276 (25.37%) Multimedia
2 240 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 130 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.93%) Finance
5 87 (8.00%) Marketing
6 53 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (4.60%) Law
8 42 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 28 (2.57%) Retail
10 23 (2.11%) Banking
10 23 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.02%) Legal
12 11 (1.01%) Advertising
13 7 (0.64%) Games
13 7 (0.64%) Military
14 6 (0.55%) Back Office
15 5 (0.46%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.46%) Electronics
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 617 (56.71%) Developer
2 278 (25.55%) Trainee
3 173 (15.90%) Software Developer
4 151 (13.88%) Senior
5 124 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 114 (10.48%) Trainee Developer
7 109 (10.02%) Senior Developer
8 100 (9.19%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.08%) Administrator
10 73 (6.71%) Web Administrator
11 71 (6.53%) Trainee Administrator
12 69 (6.34%) .NET Developer
13 67 (6.16%) Designer
13 67 (6.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 59 (5.42%) C# Developer
15 54 (4.96%) PHP Developer
16 48 (4.41%) Web Developer
17 47 (4.32%) C# Software Developer
17 47 (4.32%) Lead
18 45 (4.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 988 (90.81%) HTML
2 316 (29.04%) React
3 196 (18.01%) .NET
4 122 (11.21%) Node.js
5 107 (9.83%) Vue
6 105 (9.65%) jQuery
7 103 (9.47%) AngularJS
7 103 (9.47%) RESTful
8 90 (8.27%) HTML5
9 73 (6.71%) CSS3
10 63 (5.79%) ASP.NET
11 57 (5.24%) .NET Core
12 53 (4.87%) REST
13 51 (4.69%) Tailwind CSS
14 46 (4.23%) Laravel
15 42 (3.86%) JSON
16 41 (3.77%) .NET Framework
17 40 (3.68%) Sass
18 37 (3.40%) Jest
19 35 (3.22%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.50%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 40 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 36 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.56%) Social Media
11 15 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.74%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.64%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.93%) Linux
2 19 (1.75%) Windows
3 9 (0.83%) Android
4 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.092%) VMS
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (31.62%) Agile
2 339 (31.16%) Mentoring
3 240 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 217 (19.94%) Cybersecurity
5 211 (19.39%) User Experience
6 203 (18.66%) CI/CD
7 199 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (14.89%) Web Development
9 152 (13.97%) DevOps
10 151 (13.88%) Front End Development
11 134 (12.32%) Computer Science
12 128 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (10.66%) AI
14 101 (9.28%) Software Engineering
15 98 (9.01%) Analytics
16 96 (8.82%) Clean Code
17 94 (8.64%) Scrum
18 88 (8.09%) MVC
19 87 (8.00%) UX Design
20 75 (6.89%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 837 (76.93%) JavaScript
2 392 (36.03%) Python
3 284 (26.10%) SQL
4 192 (17.65%) C#
5 190 (17.46%) TypeScript
6 167 (15.35%) R
7 151 (13.88%) PHP
8 99 (9.10%) Java
9 32 (2.94%) C++
10 19 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.64%) Ruby
13 6 (0.55%) Bash
13 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.46%) Bicep
14 5 (0.46%) Dart
14 5 (0.46%) VBA
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 281 (25.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 276 (25.37%) AWS Certification
2 276 (25.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 276 (25.37%) Azure Certification
3 187 (17.19%) Degree
4 111 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.24%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.32%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.092%) CCA
11 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.092%) OCA
11 1 (0.092%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.04%) QA
3 43 (3.95%) WCAG
4 25 (2.30%) GDPR
5 10 (0.92%) PERC
6 9 (0.83%) SLA
7 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.64%) GRC
8 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.092%) HL7
10 1 (0.092%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.092%) NCSC
10 1 (0.092%) NIST
10 1 (0.092%) Section 508
System Software
1 85 (7.81%) Docker
2 9 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.67%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
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 (0.092%) Kibana
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 411 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.70%) Adobe
3 48 (4.41%) Google
4 23 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.92%) Oracle
6 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.55%) SAP
9 5 (0.46%) Databricks
9 5 (0.46%) Foundry
9 5 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.46%) Sage
10 4 (0.37%) Concur
10 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.37%) New Relic
10 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud