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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 135 58
Rank change year-on-year -83 -77 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,006 1,156 2,767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 2.32% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.53% 13.81% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 801 677 1,400
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -1.87%

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 11,798 8,373 15,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 16.82% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,342 5,331 9,807
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 16 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 9 October 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 -68 934 £52,500 -4.55% 776
UK excluding London -58 762 £50,000 +11.11% 405
Work from Home -51 459 £55,000 - 331
South East +16 222 £47,500 +11.76% 92
North of England -60 210 £52,000 +18.86% 94
London -110 195 £60,000 -11.11% 428
East of England -6 110 £47,500 -8.65% 33
South West -32 96 £53,125 +32.81% 42
North West -69 93 £51,000 - 52
Midlands -86 90 £50,000 +5.26% 62
North East -12 74 £57,500 +88.52% 16
East Midlands -65 50 £50,000 -3.85% 22
Yorkshire -50 43 £50,000 +33.33% 28
West Midlands -68 40 £50,000 +11.11% 40
Wales -68 26 £40,756 -39.62% 15
Scotland -50 8 £37,500 +22.95% 48

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 52 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.57%) WordPress
3 40 (3.98%) CMS
4 39 (3.88%) IIS
5 27 (2.68%) Confluence
6 18 (1.79%) Apache
7 10 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.89%) Drupal
9 7 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.60%) JBoss
10 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.60%) Moodle
10 6 (0.60%) nginx
11 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.099%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.099%) Kentico
13 1 (0.099%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle 10gAS
13 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.99%) Photoshop
3 19 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.29%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.80%) InDesign
7 8 (0.80%) Sketch
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (0.50%) Elementor
10 4 (0.40%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.20%) InVision
12 2 (0.20%) Trello
13 1 (0.099%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 24 (2.39%) Shopify
2 6 (0.60%) Magento
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Line 50
4 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.099%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 341 (33.90%) Azure
2 214 (21.27%) AWS
3 165 (16.40%) GitHub
4 140 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.46%) Azure AI
7 71 (7.06%) Power Platform
8 55 (5.47%) Power Automate
9 53 (5.27%) Figma
10 51 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
11 50 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (4.77%) PowerApps
13 32 (3.18%) SaaS
14 30 (2.98%) GCP
14 30 (2.98%) Google Analytics
14 30 (2.98%) Serverless
15 21 (2.09%) iPaaS
16 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.27%) Internet
2 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.80%) Intranet
3 8 (0.80%) SSL
4 7 (0.70%) DNS
4 7 (0.70%) Wireshark
5 6 (0.60%) HTTP
6 4 (0.40%) Profibus
6 4 (0.40%) SMS
7 3 (0.30%) 4G
7 3 (0.30%) 5G
7 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.30%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) SSH
7 3 (0.30%) VoIP
8 2 (0.20%) Firewall
9 1 (0.099%) AMQP
9 1 (0.099%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.099%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 160 (15.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (14.31%) MongoDB
4 123 (12.23%) MySQL
5 91 (9.05%) Relational Database
6 72 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
7 51 (5.07%) Power BI
8 34 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.49%) Redis
11 14 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.39%) Metadata
12 12 (1.19%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.09%) GIS
13 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
14 7 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.70%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.30%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 204 (20.28%) Git
2 42 (4.17%) JIRA
3 40 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.09%) GitLab
5 17 (1.69%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 15 (1.49%) Selenium
8 14 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (1.39%) Storybook
8 14 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (1.09%) Vite
10 9 (0.89%) Maven
11 8 (0.80%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.70%) MSI
12 7 (0.70%) NUnit
12 7 (0.70%) Postman
13 6 (0.60%) JUnit
13 6 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 315 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 136 (13.52%) Marketing
3 110 (10.93%) Finance
4 105 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
6 99 (9.84%) Public Sector
7 55 (5.47%) Advertising
8 47 (4.67%) Law
9 31 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.58%) Retail
11 24 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.19%) Legal
13 20 (1.99%) Multimedia
14 19 (1.89%) Games
15 18 (1.79%) Banking
16 14 (1.39%) Automotive
17 11 (1.09%) Publishing
18 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.89%) Local Government
19 9 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 652 (64.81%) Developer
2 213 (21.17%) .NET Developer
3 189 (18.79%) Senior
4 139 (13.82%) Senior Developer
5 119 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (7.26%) Web Developer
7 71 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 68 (6.76%) Software Developer
9 55 (5.47%) PHP Developer
10 50 (4.97%) C# Developer
11 49 (4.87%) Designer
12 47 (4.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 43 (4.27%) Lead
14 39 (3.88%) Consultant
15 36 (3.58%) Analyst
16 30 (2.98%) C# .NET Developer
17 29 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (2.88%) Junior
17 29 (2.88%) UX Designer
18 26 (2.58%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 912 (90.66%) HTML
2 368 (36.58%) .NET
3 229 (22.76%) .NET Core
4 220 (21.87%) React
5 219 (21.77%) ASP.NET
6 178 (17.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 152 (15.11%) Node.js
8 138 (13.72%) REST
9 128 (12.72%) HTML5
10 126 (12.52%) Entity Framework
11 120 (11.93%) jQuery
12 105 (10.44%) CSS3
13 94 (9.34%) RESTful
13 94 (9.34%) Vue
14 81 (8.05%) AngularJS
15 80 (7.95%) .NET Framework
16 70 (6.96%) ML.NET
17 69 (6.86%) JSON
18 52 (5.17%) Laravel
19 45 (4.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
1 47 (4.67%) Onboarding
2 40 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (3.68%) Marketing Technology
5 36 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.49%) Algorithms
9 23 (2.29%) Social Media
10 19 (1.89%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.79%) Robotics
12 16 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.19%) Blog
13 12 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.09%) Animation
14 11 (1.09%) CMDB
14 11 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.06%) Windows
2 58 (5.77%) Linux
3 26 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.50%) Unix
4 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.30%) AIX
5 3 (0.30%) Debian
5 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.099%) Android
6 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.099%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (39.36%) Agile
2 384 (38.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 373 (37.08%) CI/CD
4 254 (25.25%) AI
5 232 (23.06%) DevOps
6 207 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (18.69%) User Experience
8 165 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (14.61%) Web Development
10 135 (13.42%) Mentoring
11 132 (13.12%) Software Engineering
12 128 (12.72%) Test Automation
13 106 (10.54%) Front End Development
14 104 (10.34%) Machine Learning
15 94 (9.34%) Computer Science
16 85 (8.45%) Clean Code
17 84 (8.35%) Microservices
17 84 (8.35%) UX Design
18 83 (8.25%) Analytics
18 83 (8.25%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 627 (62.33%) JavaScript
2 383 (38.07%) SQL
3 362 (35.98%) C#
4 215 (21.37%) TypeScript
5 153 (15.21%) Python
6 146 (14.51%) PHP
7 77 (7.65%) Java
8 28 (2.78%) C++
9 22 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.79%) VB.NET
11 17 (1.69%) Ruby
11 17 (1.69%) VBA
12 15 (1.49%) Go
13 11 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.80%) Bicep
15 6 (0.60%) Bash
15 6 (0.60%) VBScript
16 5 (0.50%) Perl
17 4 (0.40%) C
17 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 159 (15.81%) Degree
2 111 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 97 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 80 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.89%) DBS Check
6 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.50%) HNC
10 4 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.40%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (17.99%) Accessibility
2 91 (9.05%) WCAG
3 81 (8.05%) QA
4 31 (3.08%) GDPR
5 15 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) NCSC
7 7 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.40%) WAI
8 4 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.099%) PERC
10 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 185 (18.39%) Docker
2 12 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 119 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.50%) Nagios
4 4 (0.40%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Plesk
7 1 (0.099%) Ansible
7 1 (0.099%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Consul
7 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 301 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.56%) Adobe
3 43 (4.27%) Google
4 40 (3.98%) Facebook
5 29 (2.88%) Oracle
6 22 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.09%) YouTube
8 13 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.19%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.80%) Splunk
13 7 (0.70%) WooCommerce
14 6 (0.60%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.50%) iManage
15 5 (0.50%) New Relic
15 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.50%) Sage
15 5 (0.50%) TikTok