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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -74 -1 -27
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,018 2,190 2,345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 4.08% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.53% 19.00% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 833 1,141 2,009
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -4.55% +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 7,005 11,529 13,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 21.46% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,207 6,782 11,292
10th Percentile £35,650 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,105
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 January 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 11 January 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 -69 910 £47,000 -14.55% 840
UK excluding London -73 691 £35,000 -33.33% 797
Work from Home -71 313 £50,000 -9.09% 375
North of England -17 274 £30,500 -39.00% 170
London -54 243 £62,500 -7.41% 143
South East -92 128 £50,000 -16.67% 228
Yorkshire -5 121 £30,500 -28.24% 68
North West -28 115 £34,000 -35.24% 75
Midlands -63 95 £37,500 -25.00% 110
East of England -41 73 £50,000 - 121
South West -68 69 £33,750 -41.30% 105
West Midlands -35 52 £30,500 -44.55% 39
East Midlands -58 44 £45,000 +15.38% 71
North East -3 38 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Scotland -66 37 £30,500 -39.30% 26
Wales -22 13 £41,750 -12.11% 41
Northern Ireland -15 3 £31,500 -30.00% 13
Channel Islands +3 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 58 (5.70%) WordPress
2 54 (5.30%) CMS
3 25 (2.46%) Confluence
4 14 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.98%) nginx
6 9 (0.88%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.69%) Apache
8 6 (0.59%) Drupal
9 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.29%) govService
10 3 (0.29%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.20%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Mendix
11 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 32 (3.14%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.67%) Sketch
5 12 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.98%) InVision
6 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.98%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.79%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.29%) InDesign
8 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.20%) Windchill
10 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.18%) Shopify
3 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 491 (48.23%) Azure
2 410 (40.28%) AWS
3 361 (35.46%) GitHub
4 73 (7.17%) Figma
5 62 (6.09%) Serverless
6 46 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (4.52%) GCP
7 36 (3.54%) SaaS
8 33 (3.24%) Power Platform
9 24 (2.36%) Google Analytics
9 24 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.57%) Azure Functions
12 15 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 274 (26.92%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
6 1 (0.098%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 91 (8.94%) MySQL
3 47 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 39 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.67%) Power BI
8 13 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.28%) DB2
9 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.79%) GIS
10 8 (0.79%) Looker
11 6 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.49%) Metadata
12 5 (0.49%) Redis
13 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 425 (41.75%) Git
2 51 (5.01%) JIRA
3 44 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 31 (3.05%) webpack
5 23 (2.26%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.26%) Selenium
6 22 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.18%) Balsamiq
10 11 (1.08%) Babel
11 10 (0.98%) gulp
11 10 (0.98%) Vite
12 9 (0.88%) GitLab
13 8 (0.79%) JUnit
13 8 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
13 8 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 278 (27.31%) Multimedia
2 257 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 110 (10.81%) Finance
4 101 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (7.86%) Marketing
6 71 (6.97%) Law
7 50 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 42 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.14%) Banking
10 31 (3.05%) Retail
11 26 (2.55%) Legal
12 15 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.18%) Advertising
14 11 (1.08%) Publishing
15 10 (0.98%) Games
16 9 (0.88%) Military
17 7 (0.69%) Aeronautics
17 7 (0.69%) Electronics
18 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 580 (56.97%) Developer
2 272 (26.72%) Trainee
3 177 (17.39%) Software Developer
4 152 (14.93%) Senior
5 129 (12.67%) Trainee Developer
6 120 (11.79%) Trainee Software Developer
7 109 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 99 (9.72%) Senior Developer
9 70 (6.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 56 (5.50%) .NET Developer
11 55 (5.40%) Designer
12 42 (4.13%) C# Developer
12 42 (4.13%) PHP Developer
12 42 (4.13%) React Developer
13 40 (3.93%) Lead
14 36 (3.54%) Software Engineer
15 33 (3.24%) Web Developer
16 32 (3.14%) Administrator
17 31 (3.05%) Web Administrator
18 29 (2.85%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 911 (89.49%) HTML
2 311 (30.55%) React
3 181 (17.78%) .NET
4 127 (12.48%) Node.js
5 106 (10.41%) AngularJS
6 103 (10.12%) RESTful
7 102 (10.02%) HTML5
8 83 (8.15%) CSS3
9 82 (8.06%) Vue
10 78 (7.66%) ASP.NET
11 73 (7.17%) jQuery
12 68 (6.68%) REST
13 60 (5.89%) .NET Core
14 45 (4.42%) .NET Framework
15 37 (3.63%) GraphQL
15 37 (3.63%) Tailwind CSS
15 37 (3.63%) XML
16 35 (3.44%) JSON
17 34 (3.34%) Jest
17 34 (3.34%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 36 (3.54%) Mobile App
3 34 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.98%) Motion Graphics
10 10 (0.98%) Social Media
11 8 (0.79%) Cybercrime
11 8 (0.79%) W3C
12 7 (0.69%) Digital TV
13 6 (0.59%) CMDB
13 6 (0.59%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.49%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.65%) Linux
2 26 (2.55%) Windows
3 11 (1.08%) Android
3 11 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (35.56%) Agile
2 360 (35.36%) Mentoring
3 259 (25.44%) Cybersecurity
4 237 (23.28%) User Experience
5 206 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (19.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 170 (16.70%) CI/CD
8 169 (16.60%) Front End Development
9 138 (13.56%) DevOps
10 118 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (10.41%) Computer Science
12 104 (10.22%) Web Development
13 102 (10.02%) MVC
14 101 (9.92%) UX Design
15 85 (8.35%) Software Engineering
16 73 (7.17%) Scrum
17 71 (6.97%) Analytics
17 71 (6.97%) OOP
18 68 (6.68%) Wireframes
19 67 (6.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 822 (80.75%) JavaScript
2 373 (36.64%) Python
3 204 (20.04%) SQL
4 179 (17.58%) C#
4 179 (17.58%) TypeScript
5 147 (14.44%) R
6 107 (10.51%) Java
7 88 (8.64%) PHP
8 27 (2.65%) C++
9 13 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.18%) Ruby
11 11 (1.08%) Perl
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.79%) C
14 7 (0.69%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 281 (27.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 273 (26.82%) Azure Certification
3 272 (26.72%) AWS Certification
3 272 (26.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 169 (16.60%) Degree
5 88 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (6.68%) Security Cleared
7 42 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 19 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.79%) HND
11 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.20%) CCA
13 2 (0.20%) MCP
14 1 (0.098%) OCP
14 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.97%) Accessibility
2 58 (5.70%) QA
3 56 (5.50%) WCAG
4 29 (2.85%) GDPR
5 8 (0.79%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 4 (0.39%) Section 508
8 3 (0.29%) SLA
9 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.098%) NCSC
10 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (8.84%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.75%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.098%) Nagios
Vendors
1 386 (37.92%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.89%) Adobe
3 43 (4.22%) Google
4 27 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.87%) Oracle
7 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 10 (0.98%) Cisco
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.79%) SAP
9 8 (0.79%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.59%) Hotjar
11 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.49%) Databricks
12 5 (0.49%) Foundry
12 5 (0.49%) Meraki
12 5 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud