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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 96 57
Rank change year-on-year -80 -39 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,053 1,303 3,826
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 3.11% 4.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.08% 15.36% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 888 1,034 2,893
10th Percentile £28,100 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,156 £75,000 £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 8,714 8,483 20,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 20.26% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,370 6,481 15,723
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 24 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 24 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 -69 956 £45,000 -18.18% 376
UK excluding London -62 747 £40,000 -23.81% 324
Work from Home -80 340 £52,500 -7.08% 236
North of England -20 260 £30,500 -32.22% 68
London -71 234 £60,000 -14.29% 115
South East -75 149 £50,000 -16.67% 98
North West -24 128 £31,750 -36.50% 34
Midlands -43 122 £42,039 -6.58% 44
Yorkshire -13 101 £30,500 -18.67% 22
East of England -9 98 £42,500 - 58
South West -69 78 £40,000 -33.33% 34
West Midlands -15 75 £32,500 -35.00% 23
East Midlands -62 47 £52,500 +40.00% 20
North East -22 31 £30,500 -34.05% 12
Scotland -80 26 £30,500 -49.17% 16
Wales -32 12 £40,120 -28.99% 8
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 8
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 (10.26%) WordPress
2 43 (4.08%) CMS
3 41 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.52%) Confluence
5 9 (0.85%) IIS
5 9 (0.85%) nginx
6 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.47%) Drupal
9 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.095%) Camunda
12 1 (0.095%) Moodle
Applications
1 25 (2.37%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.04%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.95%) Sketch
5 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.76%) InVision
7 7 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Windchill
9 1 (0.095%) Elementor
9 1 (0.095%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.52%) Shopify
2 11 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) Line 50
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.095%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 498 (47.29%) Azure
2 448 (42.55%) AWS
3 346 (32.86%) GitHub
4 77 (7.31%) Figma
5 74 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 55 (5.22%) GCP
8 44 (4.18%) SaaS
9 43 (4.08%) Serverless
10 37 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.13%) Google Analytics
11 33 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 33 (3.13%) PowerApps
12 32 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 32 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 18 (1.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 281 (26.69%) Internet
2 7 (0.66%) HTTP
2 7 (0.66%) Intranet
3 4 (0.38%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) VoIP
5 2 (0.19%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.095%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 99 (9.40%) MySQL
3 51 (4.84%) Power BI
4 39 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 23 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.14%) DB2
10 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.76%) Tableau
12 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.66%) Looker
13 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
13 6 (0.57%) Metadata
14 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 406 (38.56%) Git
2 53 (5.03%) JIRA
3 47 (4.46%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 19 (1.80%) Axure RP
5 19 (1.80%) webpack
6 17 (1.61%) Selenium
7 14 (1.33%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.14%) Storybook
9 11 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.04%) Vite
10 9 (0.85%) Babel
11 8 (0.76%) GitLab
12 7 (0.66%) Maven
13 6 (0.57%) JUnit
13 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.47%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 267 (25.36%) Multimedia
2 240 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 127 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.16%) Finance
5 85 (8.07%) Marketing
6 52 (4.94%) Law
7 48 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.47%) Retail
10 24 (2.28%) Legal
11 23 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.80%) Banking
13 11 (1.04%) Advertising
14 7 (0.66%) Games
15 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.47%) Military
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.38%) Back Office
17 4 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 593 (56.32%) Developer
2 271 (25.74%) Trainee
3 167 (15.86%) Software Developer
4 144 (13.68%) Senior
5 117 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 109 (10.35%) Trainee Developer
7 104 (9.88%) Senior Developer
8 95 (9.02%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.31%) Administrator
10 72 (6.84%) Web Administrator
11 70 (6.65%) Trainee Administrator
12 62 (5.89%) Designer
13 61 (5.79%) .NET Developer
14 60 (5.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 56 (5.32%) C# Developer
16 54 (5.13%) PHP Developer
17 50 (4.75%) Web Developer
18 48 (4.56%) C# Software Developer
19 46 (4.37%) Software Engineer
20 44 (4.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 960 (91.17%) HTML
2 292 (27.73%) React
3 191 (18.14%) .NET
4 117 (11.11%) Node.js
5 104 (9.88%) jQuery
5 104 (9.88%) Vue
6 101 (9.59%) RESTful
7 99 (9.40%) AngularJS
8 90 (8.55%) HTML5
9 75 (7.12%) CSS3
10 60 (5.70%) .NET Core
11 55 (5.22%) ASP.NET
12 51 (4.84%) REST
13 48 (4.56%) JSON
14 45 (4.27%) Tailwind CSS
15 43 (4.08%) Laravel
16 40 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.70%) Sass
18 33 (3.13%) React Native
19 32 (3.04%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.80%) Social Media
8 18 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.66%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.09%) Linux
1 22 (2.09%) Windows
2 11 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.66%) Android
4 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.28%) Unix
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 310 (29.44%) Agile
3 234 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 208 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
5 195 (18.52%) User Experience
6 185 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 182 (17.28%) CI/CD
8 161 (15.29%) Web Development
9 145 (13.77%) DevOps
10 134 (12.73%) Front End Development
11 127 (12.06%) Computer Science
12 122 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (10.83%) AI
14 99 (9.40%) Software Engineering
15 93 (8.83%) Scrum
16 92 (8.74%) Analytics
17 87 (8.26%) Clean Code
18 81 (7.69%) UX Design
19 78 (7.41%) MVC
20 72 (6.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 802 (76.16%) JavaScript
2 372 (35.33%) Python
3 294 (27.92%) SQL
4 188 (17.85%) C#
4 188 (17.85%) TypeScript
5 163 (15.48%) R
6 155 (14.72%) PHP
7 93 (8.83%) Java
8 29 (2.75%) C++
9 28 (2.66%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.95%) VBA
12 7 (0.66%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.57%) Bash
14 5 (0.47%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Dart
14 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.38%) Ruby
15 4 (0.38%) SOQL
15 4 (0.38%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 273 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 267 (25.36%) AWS Certification
2 267 (25.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 267 (25.36%) Azure Certification
3 179 (17.00%) Degree
4 105 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.13%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.27%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.19%) ISEB
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.095%) OCA
11 1 (0.095%) OCP
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (11.49%) Accessibility
2 41 (3.89%) WCAG
3 40 (3.80%) QA
4 29 (2.75%) GDPR
5 11 (1.04%) SLA
6 10 (0.95%) PERC
7 8 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.66%) GRC
9 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.095%) HL7
11 1 (0.095%) NCSC
11 1 (0.095%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (7.22%) Docker
2 12 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.99%) Terraform
3 3 (0.28%) Argo
3 3 (0.28%) Plesk
4 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
4 2 (0.19%) cPanel
4 2 (0.19%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Nagios
4 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.095%) Kibana
Vendors
1 411 (39.03%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.55%) Adobe
3 48 (4.56%) Google
4 20 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle
7 8 (0.76%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.66%) Sage
9 6 (0.57%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.57%) iManage
9 6 (0.57%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.57%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.57%) SAP
10 5 (0.47%) Apple
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
11 4 (0.38%) Concur
11 4 (0.38%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.38%) TikTok