CSS Job Trends

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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -87 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,028 1,969 3,077
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.52% 4.02% 4.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.53% 18.03% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 846 1,086 2,644
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +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 7,600 10,919 17,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.27% 22.28% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,595 6,564 14,333
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -73 919 £47,186 -14.21% 595
UK excluding London -79 704 £37,500 -28.57% 534
Work from Home -79 304 £50,000 -9.09% 236
North of England -25 282 £30,500 -32.22% 141
London -75 233 £63,750 -5.56% 155
South East -82 140 £50,000 -16.67% 135
North West -31 123 £31,500 -40.00% 67
Yorkshire -17 121 £30,500 -21.29% 53
Midlands -71 101 £38,750 -22.50% 73
South West -73 70 £40,000 -30.43% 71
East of England -39 62 £40,000 -15.79% 73
West Midlands -36 55 £30,500 -45.05% 27
East Midlands -52 47 £48,750 +27.45% 46
Scotland -81 39 £30,500 -44.55% 26
North East -9 38 £30,500 -40.49% 22
Wales -26 9 £36,120 -23.96% 18
Northern Ireland -29 2 £60,000 - 5
Channel Islands 0 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 60 (5.84%) WordPress
2 58 (5.64%) CMS
3 21 (2.04%) Confluence
4 17 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.17%) nginx
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
6 8 (0.78%) Drupal
7 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) govService
9 3 (0.29%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 29 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (1.26%) Sketch
6 11 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.88%) InVision
8 9 (0.88%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.78%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
11 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.29%) InDesign
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.19%) Windchill
14 1 (0.097%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 16 (1.56%) Shopify
2 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.097%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.097%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.097%) Magento
5 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 497 (48.35%) Azure
2 424 (41.25%) AWS
3 372 (36.19%) GitHub
4 70 (6.81%) Figma
5 63 (6.13%) Serverless
6 53 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.57%) GCP
8 41 (3.99%) Power Platform
9 38 (3.70%) SaaS
10 28 (2.72%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.24%) Power Automate
12 22 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (2.04%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (2.04%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.75%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.65%) Azure Functions
16 16 (1.56%) PaaS
17 13 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 285 (27.72%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.58%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.097%) Firewall
6 1 (0.097%) SSH
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 78 (7.59%) MySQL
3 44 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.09%) Relational Database
5 34 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 28 (2.72%) Power BI
7 20 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.26%) DB2
9 11 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.07%) Looker
10 10 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.39%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.29%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Redis
13 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 431 (41.93%) Git
2 48 (4.67%) JIRA
3 44 (4.28%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.43%) webpack
5 23 (2.24%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.14%) Axure RP
7 21 (2.04%) Selenium
8 14 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.36%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.36%) Vite
9 13 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.17%) Balsamiq
10 12 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.97%) Babel
12 7 (0.68%) JUnit
12 7 (0.68%) Maven
12 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.58%) GitLab
13 6 (0.58%) gulp
13 6 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 283 (27.53%) Multimedia
2 239 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 119 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (8.85%) Finance
5 79 (7.68%) Marketing
6 52 (5.06%) Law
7 45 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.82%) Retail
10 26 (2.53%) Banking
11 24 (2.33%) Legal
12 17 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.07%) Advertising
14 9 (0.88%) Military
15 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
15 7 (0.68%) Electronics
15 7 (0.68%) Games
15 7 (0.68%) Publishing
16 6 (0.58%) Back Office
17 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 585 (56.91%) Developer
2 278 (27.04%) Trainee
3 179 (17.41%) Software Developer
4 161 (15.66%) Senior
5 134 (13.04%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.16%) Trainee Software Developer
7 111 (10.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (10.51%) Senior Developer
9 71 (6.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 56 (5.45%) .NET Developer
11 53 (5.16%) Designer
12 41 (3.99%) React Developer
13 39 (3.79%) Software Engineer
14 37 (3.60%) PHP Developer
15 36 (3.50%) C# Developer
16 35 (3.40%) Administrator
16 35 (3.40%) Lead
16 35 (3.40%) Web Developer
17 31 (3.02%) Web Administrator
18 29 (2.82%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 927 (90.18%) HTML
2 310 (30.16%) React
3 183 (17.80%) .NET
4 124 (12.06%) Node.js
5 104 (10.12%) AngularJS
6 103 (10.02%) RESTful
7 96 (9.34%) HTML5
8 90 (8.75%) Vue
9 80 (7.78%) CSS3
10 77 (7.49%) jQuery
11 65 (6.32%) ASP.NET
12 64 (6.23%) REST
13 52 (5.06%) .NET Core
14 42 (4.09%) Tailwind CSS
15 41 (3.99%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.70%) Laravel
17 37 (3.60%) Sass
18 35 (3.40%) Jest
19 32 (3.11%) GraphQL
20 31 (3.02%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 37 (3.60%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 10 (0.97%) Social Media
11 9 (0.88%) Cybercrime
11 9 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.58%) W3C
14 5 (0.49%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.43%) Linux
2 21 (2.04%) Windows
3 14 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.26%) Android
5 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.39%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (35.89%) Mentoring
2 343 (33.37%) Agile
3 268 (26.07%) Cybersecurity
4 232 (22.57%) User Experience
5 211 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (19.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (17.02%) CI/CD
8 162 (15.76%) Front End Development
9 137 (13.33%) DevOps
10 120 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 120 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (9.82%) Web Development
12 96 (9.34%) UX Design
13 94 (9.14%) Software Engineering
14 86 (8.37%) Analytics
15 85 (8.27%) MVC
16 81 (7.88%) AI
17 73 (7.10%) Scrum
18 72 (7.00%) API Integration
18 72 (7.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 827 (80.45%) JavaScript
2 387 (37.65%) Python
3 224 (21.79%) SQL
4 182 (17.70%) TypeScript
5 168 (16.34%) C#
6 148 (14.40%) R
7 97 (9.44%) Java
8 95 (9.24%) PHP
9 20 (1.95%) C++
10 11 (1.07%) Ruby
11 10 (0.97%) Perl
11 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.78%) C
13 8 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.49%) Bash
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 287 (27.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.14%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.04%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 179 (17.41%) Degree
5 99 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (6.81%) Security Cleared
7 49 (4.77%) SC Cleared
8 17 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.78%) HND
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CCA
14 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.097%) OCP
14 1 (0.097%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (12.45%) Accessibility
2 53 (5.16%) QA
3 52 (5.06%) WCAG
4 27 (2.63%) GDPR
5 8 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.78%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.19%) Section 508
8 2 (0.19%) SLA
9 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.097%) HL7
9 1 (0.097%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (7.88%) Docker
2 15 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.63%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 398 (38.72%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.77%) Google
3 48 (4.67%) Adobe
4 27 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 16 (1.56%) Oracle
6 11 (1.07%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 10 (0.97%) Hotjar
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.78%) SAP
9 8 (0.78%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.49%) Databricks
11 5 (0.49%) Foundry
11 5 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.39%) iManage
12 4 (0.39%) Palo Alto