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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 94 58
Rank change year-on-year -77 -36 -13
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,068 1,335 3,786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 3.21% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.31% 15.50% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 895 1,053 2,892
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £31,525
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,188 £76,250 £68,750
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 8,678 8,613 20,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 20.70% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,324 6,523 15,742
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,250
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 18 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 18 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 -60 967 £45,000 -18.18% 503
UK excluding London -65 754 £40,000 -23.81% 427
Work from Home -76 346 £50,000 -9.09% 193
North of England -16 267 £31,000 -31.11% 95
London -72 237 £59,886 -14.45% 146
South East -70 153 £50,000 -16.67% 114
North West -21 128 £31,750 -36.50% 44
Midlands -41 119 £42,039 -6.58% 68
Yorkshire -19 107 £30,750 -18.00% 32
East of England -14 96 £40,000 -15.79% 63
South West -65 78 £40,000 -33.33% 56
West Midlands -23 71 £32,500 -35.00% 33
East Midlands -54 48 £51,250 +36.67% 34
North East -18 32 £30,500 -35.79% 19
Scotland -83 27 £30,500 -49.17% 22
Wales -31 12 £40,120 -24.30% 19
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 5
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
1 108 (10.11%) WordPress
2 45 (4.21%) CMS
3 37 (3.46%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.94%) nginx
6 6 (0.56%) Apache
6 6 (0.56%) IIS
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Drupal
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
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.094%) Camunda
11 1 (0.094%) Mendix
11 1 (0.094%) Moodle
Applications
1 28 (2.62%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.12%) Sketch
4 11 (1.03%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.75%) InVision
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.28%) InDesign
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.094%) Elementor
11 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.50%) Shopify
2 10 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Line 50
5 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.094%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.094%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 504 (47.19%) Azure
2 457 (42.79%) AWS
3 355 (33.24%) GitHub
4 79 (7.40%) Figma
5 76 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (5.43%) GCP
7 55 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 52 (4.87%) Serverless
9 44 (4.12%) SaaS
10 33 (3.09%) Google Analytics
11 32 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.62%) Power Automate
14 28 (2.62%) PowerApps
15 21 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.87%) Entra ID
17 19 (1.78%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 282 (26.40%) Internet
2 7 (0.66%) HTTP
2 7 (0.66%) Intranet
3 4 (0.37%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
5 2 (0.19%) VoIP
6 1 (0.094%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.92%) SQL Server
2 101 (9.46%) MySQL
3 47 (4.40%) Power BI
4 39 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 30 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.12%) DB2
10 10 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.75%) Tableau
12 7 (0.66%) Looker
13 6 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.56%) Metadata
14 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.47%) FileMaker
14 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 410 (38.39%) Git
2 52 (4.87%) JIRA
3 47 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.97%) webpack
6 19 (1.78%) Axure RP
6 19 (1.78%) Selenium
7 14 (1.31%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.12%) Storybook
8 12 (1.12%) Vite
9 11 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.84%) Babel
11 8 (0.75%) GitLab
12 7 (0.66%) Maven
12 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.56%) JUnit
14 5 (0.47%) Gradle
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 269 (25.19%) Multimedia
2 241 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 131 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.30%) Finance
5 88 (8.24%) Marketing
6 52 (4.87%) Law
7 48 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.43%) Retail
10 24 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.15%) Legal
12 21 (1.97%) Banking
13 11 (1.03%) Advertising
14 7 (0.66%) Games
15 6 (0.56%) Back Office
15 6 (0.56%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.56%) Military
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.37%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 602 (56.37%) Developer
2 273 (25.56%) Trainee
3 168 (15.73%) Software Developer
4 147 (13.76%) Senior
5 120 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 110 (10.30%) Trainee Developer
7 108 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 96 (8.99%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.21%) Administrator
10 72 (6.74%) Web Administrator
11 70 (6.55%) Trainee Administrator
12 64 (5.99%) .NET Developer
13 63 (5.90%) Designer
14 62 (5.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 56 (5.24%) C# Developer
16 55 (5.15%) PHP Developer
17 49 (4.59%) Web Developer
18 48 (4.49%) C# Software Developer
19 47 (4.40%) Lead
20 45 (4.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 974 (91.20%) HTML
2 303 (28.37%) React
3 194 (18.16%) .NET
4 120 (11.24%) Node.js
5 105 (9.83%) Vue
6 104 (9.74%) jQuery
7 102 (9.55%) RESTful
8 101 (9.46%) AngularJS
9 91 (8.52%) HTML5
10 75 (7.02%) CSS3
11 59 (5.52%) ASP.NET
12 57 (5.34%) .NET Core
13 51 (4.78%) REST
14 46 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
15 45 (4.21%) JSON
16 44 (4.12%) Laravel
17 41 (3.84%) .NET Framework
18 39 (3.65%) Sass
19 35 (3.28%) Jest
20 33 (3.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 27 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.78%) Social Media
10 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.75%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.25%) Linux
2 21 (1.97%) Windows
3 8 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.66%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (30.99%) Mentoring
2 325 (30.43%) Agile
3 236 (22.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 211 (19.76%) Cybersecurity
5 199 (18.63%) User Experience
6 192 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (17.70%) CI/CD
8 161 (15.07%) Web Development
9 151 (14.14%) DevOps
10 138 (12.92%) Front End Development
11 128 (11.99%) Computer Science
12 125 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (10.77%) AI
14 99 (9.27%) Software Engineering
15 96 (8.99%) Analytics
16 94 (8.80%) Scrum
17 92 (8.61%) Clean Code
18 82 (7.68%) MVC
18 82 (7.68%) UX Design
19 73 (6.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 816 (76.40%) JavaScript
2 381 (35.67%) Python
3 289 (27.06%) SQL
4 192 (17.98%) TypeScript
5 191 (17.88%) C#
6 164 (15.36%) R
7 153 (14.33%) PHP
8 97 (9.08%) Java
9 30 (2.81%) C++
10 22 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.66%) VBA
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) Ruby
15 5 (0.47%) Bicep
15 5 (0.47%) Dart
15 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 275 (25.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 269 (25.19%) AWS Certification
2 269 (25.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 269 (25.19%) Azure Certification
3 179 (16.76%) Degree
4 106 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.06%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
10 4 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.094%) CCA
11 1 (0.094%) OCA
11 1 (0.094%) OCP
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (11.33%) Accessibility
2 43 (4.03%) QA
3 41 (3.84%) WCAG
4 29 (2.72%) GDPR
5 11 (1.03%) SLA
6 10 (0.94%) PERC
7 8 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.66%) GRC
9 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.094%) HL7
12 1 (0.094%) NCSC
12 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (7.68%) Docker
2 11 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.43%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.094%) Kibana
Vendors
1 409 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.99%) Adobe
3 48 (4.49%) Google
4 22 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.84%) Oracle
7 8 (0.75%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.56%) Sage
8 6 (0.56%) SAP
9 5 (0.47%) Databricks
9 5 (0.47%) iManage
9 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.37%) Concur
10 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.37%) Pinterest
10 4 (0.37%) TikTok