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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 110 56
Rank change year-on-year -77 -54 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,028 1,356 3,993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.87% 3.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.36% 15.29% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 879 850 2,879
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,813 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 9,921 8,871 21,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.26% 18.77% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,422 5,861 16,161
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 17 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 3 July 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 -67 937 £50,000 -9.09% 423
UK excluding London -55 757 £50,000 - 362
Work from Home -49 464 £55,000 - 210
London -101 209 £60,000 -14.29% 129
South East -2 199 £50,000 - 98
North of England -53 199 £50,000 +2.56% 88
East of England +19 118 £48,760 +30.03% 52
Midlands -51 112 £46,250 +2.78% 53
North West -57 109 £45,000 -14.29% 49
South West -48 92 £53,125 -7.61% 38
West Midlands -39 60 £45,000 -5.26% 23
Yorkshire -21 54 £50,000 +33.33% 24
East Midlands -45 52 £50,000 +11.11% 30
North East -29 36 £57,500 +61.97% 16
Wales -32 22 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Scotland -71 12 £31,000 -57.97% 23
Northern Ireland -41 3 £60,000 - 7

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 99 (9.63%) WordPress
2 51 (4.96%) CMS
3 48 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.85%) Confluence
4 19 (1.85%) IIS
5 11 (1.07%) Drupal
6 10 (0.97%) Apache
7 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
12 1 (0.097%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.097%) JBoss
12 1 (0.097%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.097%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.75%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.17%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.97%) InDesign
7 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.78%) Sketch
9 7 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.29%) Elementor
10 3 (0.29%) InVision
10 3 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (2.24%) Shopify
2 7 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.58%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.097%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.097%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.097%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 429 (41.73%) Azure
2 292 (28.40%) AWS
3 226 (21.98%) GitHub
4 145 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (7.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 68 (6.61%) Azure AI
6 68 (6.61%) Power Platform
7 64 (6.23%) Figma
8 51 (4.96%) SaaS
9 50 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
10 48 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (4.47%) GCP
12 42 (4.09%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.79%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.60%) Serverless
15 34 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (2.53%) Google Analytics
17 23 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 114 (11.09%) Internet
2 10 (0.97%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
3 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) HTTP
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.097%) AMQP
6 1 (0.097%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 157 (15.27%) SQL Server
3 133 (12.94%) MongoDB
4 121 (11.77%) MySQL
5 57 (5.54%) Power BI
5 57 (5.54%) Relational Database
6 53 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.97%) MariaDB
11 9 (0.88%) Metadata
11 9 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
11 9 (0.88%) Tableau
12 8 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.68%) GIS
14 6 (0.58%) FileMaker
15 5 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 230 (22.37%) Git
2 52 (5.06%) JIRA
3 33 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.26%) Selenium
6 12 (1.17%) GitLab
6 12 (1.17%) webpack
7 11 (1.07%) Storybook
8 9 (0.88%) Vite
9 8 (0.78%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.78%) Postman
10 6 (0.58%) JUnit
10 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.49%) Balsamiq
11 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.49%) Maven
11 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
12 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 275 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 113 (10.99%) Marketing
3 104 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.02%) Finance
5 83 (8.07%) Multimedia
6 56 (5.45%) Advertising
6 56 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.31%) Law
8 34 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.63%) Retail
10 24 (2.33%) Legal
11 17 (1.65%) Games
12 11 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.97%) Banking
14 8 (0.78%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.58%) Automotive
16 6 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 645 (62.74%) Developer
2 196 (19.07%) .NET Developer
3 150 (14.59%) Senior
4 124 (12.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 114 (11.09%) Senior Developer
6 100 (9.73%) Software Developer
7 79 (7.68%) Trainee
8 72 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 63 (6.13%) Designer
10 62 (6.03%) C# Developer
11 59 (5.74%) Web Developer
12 57 (5.54%) C# Software Developer
13 56 (5.45%) PHP Developer
14 51 (4.96%) Administrator
15 48 (4.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 48 (4.67%) Lead
16 46 (4.47%) Web Administrator
17 43 (4.18%) Trainee Administrator
18 41 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 38 (3.70%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 944 (91.83%) HTML
2 349 (33.95%) .NET
3 237 (23.05%) React
4 197 (19.16%) .NET Core
5 181 (17.61%) ASP.NET
6 155 (15.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 134 (13.04%) jQuery
8 129 (12.55%) Node.js
9 121 (11.77%) Vue
10 120 (11.67%) HTML5
11 101 (9.82%) CSS3
12 96 (9.34%) RESTful
13 94 (9.14%) Entity Framework
14 88 (8.56%) AngularJS
15 79 (7.68%) REST
16 75 (7.30%) JSON
17 65 (6.32%) ML.NET
18 51 (4.96%) Laravel
19 48 (4.67%) .NET Framework
20 45 (4.38%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 31 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.33%) Social Media
9 23 (2.24%) Virtual Team
10 22 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.95%) Digital TV
11 20 (1.95%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.36%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
17 8 (0.78%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.78%) Robotics
18 7 (0.68%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.38%) Windows
2 42 (4.09%) Linux
3 21 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) AIX
8 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.097%) Debian
9 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (38.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 365 (35.51%) Agile
3 321 (31.23%) CI/CD
4 216 (21.01%) AI
4 216 (21.01%) DevOps
5 192 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (18.29%) User Experience
7 168 (16.34%) Web Development
8 146 (14.20%) Mentoring
9 133 (12.94%) Computer Science
10 126 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (12.06%) Machine Learning
12 118 (11.48%) Software Engineering
13 115 (11.19%) Front End Development
14 89 (8.66%) Analytics
15 86 (8.37%) Clean Code
16 85 (8.27%) OO
17 82 (7.98%) Microservices
18 79 (7.68%) Responsive Web Design
19 78 (7.59%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 622 (60.51%) JavaScript
2 442 (43.00%) SQL
3 350 (34.05%) C#
4 203 (19.75%) Python
5 195 (18.97%) PHP
6 176 (17.12%) TypeScript
7 90 (8.75%) Java
8 55 (5.35%) R
9 41 (3.99%) C++
10 33 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.26%) VBA
13 8 (0.78%) Bicep
13 8 (0.78%) Go
14 7 (0.68%) VBScript
15 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.49%) Dart
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.49%) Ruby
16 4 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 185 (18.00%) Degree
2 107 (10.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (7.39%) AWS Certification
3 76 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 74 (7.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 74 (7.20%) Azure Certification
5 51 (4.96%) Security Cleared
6 43 (4.18%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.35%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.67%) QA
3 38 (3.70%) WCAG
4 36 (3.50%) GDPR
5 13 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.17%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.68%) GRC
8 7 (0.68%) PERC
9 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.39%) NCSC
11 1 (0.097%) NIST
11 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 146 (14.20%) Docker
2 15 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 100 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.43%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.097%) Grafana
5 1 (0.097%) Kibana
5 1 (0.097%) Nagios
5 1 (0.097%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.097%) Puppet
Vendors
1 344 (33.46%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.91%) Adobe
3 37 (3.60%) Google
4 36 (3.50%) Facebook
5 30 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.85%) YouTube
7 18 (1.75%) Oracle
8 10 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 8 (0.78%) Sage
10 7 (0.68%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.68%) iManage
11 6 (0.58%) Apple
11 6 (0.58%) OneLogin
11 6 (0.58%) TikTok
11 6 (0.58%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.49%) SAP
12 5 (0.49%) Splunk