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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 98 58
Rank change year-on-year -86 -40 -9
Permanent jobs citing CSS 997 1,380 3,980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 3.12% 3.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.56% 15.79% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 836 873 2,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £64,063 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,437 8,741 21,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 19.77% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,006 5,723 16,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,850 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -75 913 £50,000 -9.09% 341
UK excluding London -67 718 £47,500 -5.00% 302
Work from Home -62 404 £53,712 -2.34% 181
London -86 218 £59,773 -11.45% 104
North of England -46 209 £45,000 -10.00% 77
South East -33 174 £50,000 -9.09% 76
North West -41 113 £45,000 -14.29% 44
East of England +14 110 £45,000 +20.00% 45
Midlands -52 108 £45,000 +5.88% 42
South West -46 85 £48,750 -15.22% 35
Yorkshire -22 62 £50,000 +25.00% 23
West Midlands -43 61 £45,000 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -51 47 £55,000 +37.50% 24
North East -26 34 £52,000 +46.48% 10
Wales -37 16 £45,000 -32.08% 10
Scotland -67 13 £30,500 -53.08% 17
Northern Ireland -32 3 £60,000 - 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 97 (9.73%) WordPress
2 49 (4.91%) CMS
3 48 (4.81%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.71%) Confluence
5 16 (1.60%) IIS
6 11 (1.10%) Apache
6 11 (1.10%) Drupal
7 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
9 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.71%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.40%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.90%) InDesign
5 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.40%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.31%) Shopify
2 9 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.60%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 417 (41.83%) Azure
2 328 (32.90%) AWS
3 241 (24.17%) GitHub
4 119 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 64 (6.42%) Figma
7 47 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.61%) SaaS
9 43 (4.31%) GCP
10 42 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (4.21%) GitHub Copilot
11 41 (4.11%) Azure AI
12 40 (4.01%) Power Automate
13 38 (3.81%) Serverless
14 37 (3.71%) PowerApps
15 35 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.71%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 20 (2.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 148 (14.84%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
3 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.30%) SSL
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 115 (11.53%) MySQL
3 106 (10.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 85 (8.53%) MongoDB
5 58 (5.82%) Power BI
6 49 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 48 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.90%) Tableau
14 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.70%) GIS
15 7 (0.70%) Metadata
16 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.60%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 275 (27.58%) Git
2 54 (5.42%) JIRA
3 33 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.30%) GitLab
5 13 (1.30%) Selenium
5 13 (1.30%) webpack
6 12 (1.20%) Axure RP
7 11 (1.10%) Storybook
8 10 (1.00%) Vite
9 8 (0.80%) Balsamiq
10 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.50%) JUnit
11 5 (0.50%) Maven
11 5 (0.50%) Postman
11 5 (0.50%) Subversion
12 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.40%) ESLint
12 4 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.40%) MLflow
General
1 270 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 126 (12.64%) Multimedia
3 113 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (10.43%) Marketing
5 95 (9.53%) Finance
6 54 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (3.81%) Law
8 35 (3.51%) Advertising
8 35 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.61%) Legal
9 26 (2.61%) Retail
10 14 (1.40%) Games
11 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.00%) Banking
13 8 (0.80%) Legal Technology
13 8 (0.80%) Local Government
14 6 (0.60%) Automotive
14 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 605 (60.68%) Developer
2 140 (14.04%) Senior
3 139 (13.94%) .NET Developer
4 125 (12.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 124 (12.44%) Trainee
6 120 (12.04%) Software Developer
7 107 (10.73%) Senior Developer
8 65 (6.52%) Designer
9 63 (6.32%) Software Engineer
10 61 (6.12%) C# Developer
11 57 (5.72%) C# Software Developer
12 52 (5.22%) Web Developer
13 51 (5.12%) Administrator
14 50 (5.02%) PHP Developer
15 48 (4.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 47 (4.71%) Lead
17 46 (4.61%) Web Administrator
18 43 (4.31%) Trainee Administrator
19 42 (4.21%) Trainee Developer
20 39 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (90.67%) HTML
2 286 (28.69%) .NET
3 245 (24.57%) React
4 137 (13.74%) .NET Core
5 127 (12.74%) jQuery
6 122 (12.24%) ASP.NET
7 118 (11.84%) Vue
8 117 (11.74%) Node.js
9 114 (11.43%) HTML5
10 97 (9.73%) ASP.NET Core
10 97 (9.73%) RESTful
11 96 (9.63%) CSS3
12 94 (9.43%) AngularJS
13 76 (7.62%) REST
14 67 (6.72%) JSON
15 66 (6.62%) Entity Framework
16 49 (4.91%) Laravel
17 44 (4.41%) .NET Framework
18 42 (4.21%) Tailwind CSS
19 37 (3.71%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.41%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (3.01%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.31%) Social Media
9 22 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.30%) Graphic Design
13 11 (1.10%) Digital TV
13 11 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.80%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.70%) Podcast
15 7 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.61%) Linux
2 34 (3.41%) Windows
3 20 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.50%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (32.70%) Agile
1 326 (32.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 253 (25.38%) CI/CD
3 195 (19.56%) Mentoring
3 195 (19.56%) User Experience
4 189 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
5 181 (18.15%) DevOps
6 179 (17.95%) AI
7 159 (15.95%) Web Development
8 131 (13.14%) Computer Science
9 123 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 114 (11.43%) Front End Development
11 103 (10.33%) Software Engineering
12 93 (9.33%) Machine Learning
13 92 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
14 86 (8.63%) Clean Code
15 85 (8.53%) Analytics
16 77 (7.72%) Responsive Web Design
17 76 (7.62%) Scrum
17 76 (7.62%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 643 (64.49%) JavaScript
2 389 (39.02%) SQL
3 284 (28.49%) C#
4 244 (24.47%) Python
5 183 (18.36%) PHP
6 167 (16.75%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.23%) Java
8 82 (8.22%) R
9 37 (3.71%) C++
10 34 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.30%) VBA
12 7 (0.70%) VBScript
13 6 (0.60%) Bicep
14 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.50%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Dart
14 5 (0.50%) Perl
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (18.05%) Degree
2 125 (12.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 121 (12.14%) AWS Certification
4 119 (11.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 119 (11.94%) Azure Certification
5 104 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.21%) Security Cleared
7 33 (3.31%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.10%) OCA
12 1 (0.10%) OCP
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.24%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.71%) QA
3 40 (4.01%) WCAG
4 30 (3.01%) GDPR
5 13 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.10%) SLA
7 9 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.70%) GRC
8 7 (0.70%) PERC
9 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 111 (11.13%) Docker
2 14 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.71%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 335 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.52%) Adobe
3 37 (3.71%) Google
4 26 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.01%) Facebook
6 18 (1.81%) Oracle
7 11 (1.10%) YouTube
8 10 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.90%) iManage
10 8 (0.80%) Sage
10 8 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Splunk
12 6 (0.60%) TikTok
12 6 (0.60%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
14 4 (0.40%) Palo Alto