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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 97 57
Rank change year-on-year -81 -40 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,060 1,310 3,829
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 3.12% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.16% 15.36% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 891 1,041 2,896
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +6.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £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 8,716 8,530 20,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 20.34% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,368 6,510 15,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 23 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 23 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 -62 963 £45,000 -18.18% 373
UK excluding London -55 753 £40,000 -23.81% 323
Work from Home -68 344 £52,500 -7.08% 169
North of England -20 263 £31,000 -31.11% 65
London -74 235 £60,000 -14.29% 116
South East -67 150 £50,000 -16.67% 94
North West -19 128 £31,750 -36.50% 31
Midlands -40 122 £42,039 -6.58% 47
Yorkshire -3 104 £30,500 -18.67% 21
East of England -9 100 £42,500 -5.56% 54
South West -63 78 £40,000 -33.33% 36
West Midlands -21 75 £32,500 -35.00% 27
East Midlands -54 47 £52,500 +40.00% 19
North East -31 31 £30,500 -34.05% 13
Scotland -79 26 £30,500 -49.17% 16
Wales -28 12 £40,120 -28.99% 11
Northern Ireland -36 3 £60,000 - 9
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
1 110 (10.38%) WordPress
2 44 (4.15%) CMS
3 41 (3.87%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.42%) Confluence
5 9 (0.85%) IIS
5 9 (0.85%) nginx
6 8 (0.75%) 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 (0.094%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.094%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.094%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (2.45%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.13%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.94%) Sketch
5 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.75%) InVision
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) InDesign
9 2 (0.19%) Windchill
10 1 (0.094%) Elementor
10 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.51%) 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 (0.094%) 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
1 502 (47.36%) Azure
2 454 (42.83%) AWS
3 352 (33.21%) GitHub
4 77 (7.26%) Figma
5 74 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 57 (5.38%) GCP
8 47 (4.43%) Serverless
9 44 (4.15%) SaaS
10 37 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.11%) Google Analytics
11 33 (3.11%) Power Automate
11 33 (3.11%) PowerApps
12 32 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 32 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.79%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (1.79%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 283 (26.70%) 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 (0.094%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (13.02%) SQL Server
2 100 (9.43%) MySQL
3 51 (4.81%) Power BI
4 39 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (2.83%) NoSQL
8 23 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.13%) DB2
10 10 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.75%) Tableau
12 7 (0.66%) Looker
13 6 (0.57%) 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
1 409 (38.58%) Git
2 52 (4.91%) JIRA
3 47 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 19 (1.79%) Axure RP
5 19 (1.79%) webpack
6 17 (1.60%) Selenium
7 14 (1.32%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.13%) Storybook
9 11 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.04%) Vite
10 9 (0.85%) Babel
11 8 (0.75%) 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
1 269 (25.38%) Multimedia
2 241 (22.74%) Social Skills
3 128 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.09%) Finance
5 87 (8.21%) Marketing
6 52 (4.91%) Law
7 48 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (3.58%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.45%) Retail
10 24 (2.26%) Legal
11 23 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.79%) 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
1 597 (56.32%) Developer
2 273 (25.75%) Trainee
3 168 (15.85%) Software Developer
4 146 (13.77%) Senior
5 118 (11.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 110 (10.38%) Trainee Developer
7 106 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 96 (9.06%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.26%) Administrator
10 72 (6.79%) Web Administrator
11 70 (6.60%) Trainee Administrator
12 62 (5.85%) Designer
13 60 (5.66%) .NET Developer
13 60 (5.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 55 (5.19%) C# Developer
14 55 (5.19%) PHP Developer
15 50 (4.72%) Web Developer
16 47 (4.43%) C# Software Developer
17 45 (4.25%) Lead
17 45 (4.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 965 (91.04%) HTML
2 297 (28.02%) React
3 191 (18.02%) .NET
4 117 (11.04%) Node.js
5 106 (10.00%) Vue
6 104 (9.81%) jQuery
7 101 (9.53%) RESTful
8 98 (9.25%) AngularJS
9 90 (8.49%) HTML5
10 75 (7.08%) CSS3
11 60 (5.66%) .NET Core
12 55 (5.19%) ASP.NET
13 50 (4.72%) REST
14 48 (4.53%) JSON
15 46 (4.34%) Tailwind CSS
16 44 (4.15%) Laravel
17 40 (3.77%) .NET Framework
18 39 (3.68%) Sass
19 33 (3.11%) React Native
20 32 (3.02%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.15%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (3.21%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.89%) Social Media
8 19 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.66%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.08%) Linux
1 22 (2.08%) 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 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (31.13%) Mentoring
2 314 (29.62%) Agile
3 234 (22.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 210 (19.81%) Cybersecurity
5 194 (18.30%) User Experience
6 188 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 186 (17.55%) CI/CD
8 161 (15.19%) Web Development
9 147 (13.87%) DevOps
10 136 (12.83%) Front End Development
11 127 (11.98%) Computer Science
12 123 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (10.66%) AI
14 99 (9.34%) Software Engineering
15 93 (8.77%) Scrum
16 92 (8.68%) Analytics
17 89 (8.40%) Clean Code
18 81 (7.64%) UX Design
19 78 (7.36%) MVC
20 72 (6.79%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 808 (76.23%) JavaScript
2 377 (35.57%) Python
3 295 (27.83%) SQL
4 189 (17.83%) TypeScript
5 188 (17.74%) C#
6 164 (15.47%) R
7 156 (14.72%) PHP
8 93 (8.77%) Java
9 29 (2.74%) C++
10 28 (2.64%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.94%) VBA
13 7 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.57%) Bash
15 5 (0.47%) Bicep
15 5 (0.47%) Dart
15 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.38%) Ruby
16 4 (0.38%) SOQL
16 4 (0.38%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 275 (25.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 269 (25.38%) AWS Certification
2 269 (25.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 269 (25.38%) Azure Certification
3 179 (16.89%) Degree
4 105 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.09%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.25%) 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 (0.094%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.094%) OCA
11 1 (0.094%) OCP
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 41 (3.87%) QA
3 40 (3.77%) WCAG
4 29 (2.74%) GDPR
5 11 (1.04%) SLA
6 10 (0.94%) PERC
7 8 (0.75%) 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 (0.094%) HL7
11 1 (0.094%) NCSC
11 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (7.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.26%) Terraform
3 4 (0.38%) 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
1 413 (38.96%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.60%) Adobe
3 48 (4.53%) Google
4 20 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle
7 8 (0.75%) 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