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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 90 57
Rank change year-on-year -73 -33 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,077 1,345 3,685
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.34% 3.29% 4.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.79% 15.41% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 902 1,068 2,880
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £53,064
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.65% -7.72%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -4.31%

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 8,419 8,729 20,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.46% 21.33% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,168 6,600 15,578
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,209 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 4 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 4 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 -67 965 £46,186 -16.03% 514
UK excluding London -63 756 £40,000 -23.81% 423
Work from Home -70 340 £52,500 -4.55% 223
North of England -26 270 £30,750 -31.67% 113
London -72 235 £60,000 -14.29% 154
South East -73 156 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -36 125 £31,500 -37.00% 57
Midlands -44 119 £42,039 -6.58% 59
Yorkshire -1 112 £30,500 -18.67% 34
East of England -16 88 £40,000 -15.79% 72
South West -47 81 £40,000 -33.33% 51
West Midlands -12 71 £31,500 -40.00% 29
East Midlands -48 48 £51,250 +41.38% 30
North East -8 33 £30,500 -35.79% 22
Scotland -80 30 £30,500 -47.64% 14
Wales -33 10 £36,370 -30.72% 17
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 4
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
1 112 (10.40%) WordPress
2 56 (5.20%) CMS
3 28 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.39%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 6 (0.56%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.093%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 30 (2.79%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.11%) Sketch
5 11 (1.02%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.84%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.74%) InVision
8 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
9 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.46%) InDesign
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (0.19%) Windchill
12 1 (0.093%) Elementor
12 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.39%) Shopify
2 12 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.093%) Line 50
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 521 (48.38%) Azure
2 469 (43.55%) AWS
3 370 (34.35%) GitHub
4 80 (7.43%) Figma
5 74 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.66%) GCP
7 60 (5.57%) Serverless
8 47 (4.36%) SaaS
9 45 (4.18%) Power Platform
10 31 (2.88%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (1.95%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.86%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.67%) PaaS
16 18 (1.67%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.67%) PowerApps
17 13 (1.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 290 (26.93%) Internet
2 8 (0.74%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.093%) Network Security
7 1 (0.093%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 101 (9.38%) MySQL
3 46 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.71%) Relational Database
5 38 (3.53%) Power BI
6 32 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.30%) DB2
10 12 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.93%) Tableau
13 9 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.84%) Looker
14 5 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.37%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.37%) FileMaker
16 3 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 428 (39.74%) Git
2 53 (4.92%) JIRA
3 49 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.14%) webpack
6 21 (1.95%) Axure RP
7 20 (1.86%) Selenium
8 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.30%) Vite
9 13 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.11%) Storybook
11 11 (1.02%) Babel
12 10 (0.93%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.74%) GitLab
14 7 (0.65%) Maven
15 6 (0.56%) JUnit
15 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 278 (25.81%) Multimedia
2 233 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 126 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.66%) Finance
5 87 (8.08%) Marketing
6 53 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (4.64%) Law
8 42 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 31 (2.88%) Retail
10 26 (2.41%) Banking
11 23 (2.14%) Legal
11 23 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.02%) Advertising
13 7 (0.65%) Games
13 7 (0.65%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Back Office
14 6 (0.56%) Electronics
15 5 (0.46%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 608 (56.45%) Developer
2 279 (25.91%) Trainee
3 169 (15.69%) Software Developer
4 154 (14.30%) Senior
5 124 (11.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (10.68%) Trainee Developer
7 109 (10.12%) Senior Developer
8 101 (9.38%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (7.24%) Administrator
10 74 (6.87%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.69%) Trainee Administrator
12 71 (6.59%) .NET Developer
13 68 (6.31%) Designer
13 68 (6.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 56 (5.20%) C# Developer
15 51 (4.74%) PHP Developer
16 47 (4.36%) Lead
16 47 (4.36%) Web Developer
17 43 (3.99%) C# Software Developer
18 42 (3.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 982 (91.18%) HTML
2 316 (29.34%) React
3 199 (18.48%) .NET
4 123 (11.42%) Node.js
5 107 (9.94%) RESTful
6 106 (9.84%) Vue
7 102 (9.47%) AngularJS
8 98 (9.10%) jQuery
9 89 (8.26%) HTML5
10 74 (6.87%) CSS3
11 64 (5.94%) ASP.NET
12 56 (5.20%) .NET Core
13 53 (4.92%) Tailwind CSS
14 52 (4.83%) REST
15 45 (4.18%) Laravel
16 43 (3.99%) .NET Framework
17 40 (3.71%) Sass
18 39 (3.62%) Jest
19 38 (3.53%) JSON
20 35 (3.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.99%) Mobile App
3 41 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 36 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.32%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.39%) Social Media
11 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.65%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.86%) Linux
2 17 (1.58%) Windows
3 10 (0.93%) Android
3 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (31.94%) Agile
2 341 (31.66%) Mentoring
3 244 (22.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 218 (20.24%) Cybersecurity
5 212 (19.68%) User Experience
6 208 (19.31%) CI/CD
7 197 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (14.58%) DevOps
8 157 (14.58%) Web Development
9 154 (14.30%) Front End Development
10 127 (11.79%) Computer Science
11 125 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (10.58%) AI
13 99 (9.19%) Analytics
14 98 (9.10%) Software Engineering
15 93 (8.64%) Clean Code
15 93 (8.64%) Scrum
16 87 (8.08%) UX Design
17 86 (7.99%) MVC
18 77 (7.15%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 838 (77.81%) JavaScript
2 390 (36.21%) Python
3 272 (25.26%) SQL
4 191 (17.73%) TypeScript
5 186 (17.27%) C#
6 168 (15.60%) R
7 143 (13.28%) PHP
8 95 (8.82%) Java
9 28 (2.60%) C++
10 16 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.65%) Ruby
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
13 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.46%) Bicep
14 5 (0.46%) Dart
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) SOSL
15 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 283 (26.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 278 (25.81%) AWS Certification
2 278 (25.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 278 (25.81%) Azure Certification
3 183 (16.99%) Degree
4 104 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (5.20%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.093%) CCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCP
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.51%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.36%) QA
3 44 (4.09%) WCAG
4 26 (2.41%) GDPR
5 12 (1.11%) PERC
6 8 (0.74%) SLA
7 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
8 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.19%) Section 508
11 1 (0.093%) HL7
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.093%) NCSC
11 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (7.89%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.69%) Terraform
3 3 (0.28%) Argo
3 3 (0.28%) cPanel
3 3 (0.28%) Plesk
4 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
4 2 (0.19%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Nagios
4 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 408 (37.88%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.48%) Adobe
3 46 (4.27%) Google
4 25 (2.32%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle
6 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.56%) SAP
9 5 (0.46%) Databricks
9 5 (0.46%) Foundry
9 5 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.46%) Sage
10 4 (0.37%) Concur
10 4 (0.37%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.37%) New Relic
10 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud