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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 137 59
Rank change year-on-year -87 -78 +3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,013 1,156 2,734
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.35% 3.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 13.94% 17.42%
Number of salaries quoted 804 676 1,386
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £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% -0.38%

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 11,884 8,291 15,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.08% 16.87% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,351 5,274 9,725
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -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 12 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 12 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 -71 940 £52,500 -1.41% 659
UK excluding London -63 771 £50,000 +11.11% 363
Work from Home -58 463 £55,000 - 295
South East +13 223 £47,500 +11.76% 82
North of England -55 216 £52,000 +22.35% 83
London -125 192 £60,000 -11.11% 348
East of England -1 111 £47,500 -12.04% 32
South West -33 96 £53,750 +43.33% 38
North West -72 93 £51,000 -1.45% 47
Midlands -91 90 £50,000 +5.26% 56
North East -13 78 £57,500 +88.52% 10
East Midlands -60 50 £50,000 -3.85% 20
Yorkshire -60 45 £50,000 +33.33% 28
West Midlands -67 40 £55,000 +22.22% 36
Wales -58 27 £43,013 -36.28% 13
Scotland -58 8 £37,500 +22.95% 42

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 56 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.64%) WordPress
3 41 (4.05%) CMS
4 39 (3.85%) IIS
5 27 (2.67%) Confluence
6 18 (1.78%) Apache
7 10 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.99%) Drupal
8 7 (0.69%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.59%) JBoss
9 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.59%) Moodle
9 6 (0.59%) nginx
10 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.099%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.099%) govService
12 1 (0.099%) Kentico
12 1 (0.099%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 21 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.97%) Photoshop
3 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.79%) InDesign
7 8 (0.79%) Sketch
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (0.59%) Elementor
10 4 (0.39%) 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 23 (2.27%) Shopify
2 5 (0.49%) Magento
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.099%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 343 (33.86%) Azure
2 214 (21.13%) AWS
3 164 (16.19%) GitHub
4 140 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (7.90%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.40%) Azure AI
7 73 (7.21%) Power Platform
8 58 (5.73%) Power Automate
9 54 (5.33%) Figma
10 53 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
11 51 (5.03%) PowerApps
12 49 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (3.06%) Google Analytics
13 31 (3.06%) SaaS
13 31 (3.06%) Serverless
14 30 (2.96%) GCP
15 21 (2.07%) iPaaS
16 20 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.23%) Internet
2 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.89%) SSL
4 8 (0.79%) DNS
4 8 (0.79%) Intranet
5 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Profibus
7 4 (0.39%) SMS
8 3 (0.30%) 4G
8 3 (0.30%) 5G
8 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Firewall
9 2 (0.20%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) VoIP
10 1 (0.099%) AMQP
10 1 (0.099%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.099%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 160 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (14.22%) MongoDB
4 125 (12.34%) MySQL
5 91 (8.98%) Relational Database
6 73 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (5.13%) Power BI
8 34 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.58%) Redis
11 14 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.38%) Metadata
12 12 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.09%) GIS
13 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
14 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.69%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 2 (0.20%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 207 (20.43%) Git
2 41 (4.05%) JIRA
3 40 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.07%) GitLab
5 17 (1.68%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (1.48%) Selenium
6 15 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (1.38%) Storybook
8 12 (1.18%) Vite
9 9 (0.89%) Maven
10 8 (0.79%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.69%) MSI
11 7 (0.69%) NUnit
11 7 (0.69%) Postman
12 6 (0.59%) PHPUnit
12 6 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 320 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 138 (13.62%) Marketing
3 110 (10.86%) Finance
4 107 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.43%) Advertising
7 47 (4.64%) Law
8 30 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.57%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.47%) Retail
11 22 (2.17%) Legal
12 20 (1.97%) Multimedia
13 19 (1.88%) Games
14 18 (1.78%) Banking
15 14 (1.38%) Automotive
16 11 (1.09%) Publishing
17 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.89%) Local Government
18 9 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 657 (64.86%) Developer
2 214 (21.13%) .NET Developer
3 193 (19.05%) Senior
4 142 (14.02%) Senior Developer
5 115 (11.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (7.21%) Web Developer
7 71 (7.01%) Software Developer
8 69 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.53%) PHP Developer
10 51 (5.03%) Designer
11 50 (4.94%) C# Developer
12 49 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 44 (4.34%) Lead
14 39 (3.85%) Consultant
15 37 (3.65%) Analyst
16 30 (2.96%) C# .NET Developer
17 29 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (2.86%) Junior
17 29 (2.86%) UX Designer
18 27 (2.67%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 919 (90.72%) HTML
2 366 (36.13%) .NET
3 226 (22.31%) .NET Core
4 220 (21.72%) ASP.NET
5 218 (21.52%) React
6 180 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 153 (15.10%) Node.js
8 141 (13.92%) REST
9 130 (12.83%) HTML5
10 124 (12.24%) Entity Framework
11 123 (12.14%) jQuery
12 107 (10.56%) CSS3
13 94 (9.28%) RESTful
14 89 (8.79%) Vue
15 82 (8.09%) AngularJS
16 79 (7.80%) .NET Framework
17 70 (6.91%) ML.NET
18 69 (6.81%) JSON
19 53 (5.23%) Laravel
20 46 (4.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
2 47 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.65%) Marketing Technology
6 36 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.57%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 22 (2.17%) Social Media
11 19 (1.88%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.78%) Robotics
13 16 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.18%) Blog
14 12 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.09%) Animation
15 11 (1.09%) CMDB
15 11 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.02%) Windows
2 57 (5.63%) Linux
3 27 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) AIX
6 3 (0.30%) Debian
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) macOS
8 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (39.98%) Agile
2 380 (37.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 378 (37.31%) CI/CD
4 253 (24.98%) AI
5 232 (22.90%) DevOps
6 209 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (18.66%) User Experience
8 168 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 148 (14.61%) Web Development
10 138 (13.62%) Mentoring
11 133 (13.13%) Test Automation
12 130 (12.83%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.66%) Front End Development
14 104 (10.27%) Machine Learning
15 94 (9.28%) Computer Science
16 85 (8.39%) Clean Code
17 84 (8.29%) Analytics
17 84 (8.29%) Microservices
17 84 (8.29%) SEO
17 84 (8.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 633 (62.49%) JavaScript
2 383 (37.81%) SQL
3 364 (35.93%) C#
4 214 (21.13%) TypeScript
5 151 (14.91%) Python
6 148 (14.61%) PHP
7 76 (7.50%) Java
8 28 (2.76%) C++
9 22 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.68%) Ruby
10 17 (1.68%) VB.NET
10 17 (1.68%) VBA
11 14 (1.38%) Go
12 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.79%) Bicep
14 6 (0.59%) Bash
14 6 (0.59%) VBScript
15 5 (0.49%) Perl
16 4 (0.39%) C
16 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (15.79%) Degree
2 113 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 80 (7.90%) 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 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.49%) HNC
11 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.39%) HND
12 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.099%) City & Guilds
13 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (18.26%) Accessibility
2 92 (9.08%) WCAG
3 84 (8.29%) QA
4 30 (2.96%) GDPR
5 15 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.69%) NCSC
8 6 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.39%) WAI
9 4 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.099%) PERC
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (18.16%) Docker
2 13 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.49%) Nagios
4 4 (0.39%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.20%) Plesk
7 1 (0.099%) Ansible
7 1 (0.099%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Consul
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 305 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.42%) Adobe
3 44 (4.34%) Google
4 40 (3.95%) Facebook
5 30 (2.96%) Oracle
6 22 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.07%) YouTube
8 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.18%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Splunk
12 8 (0.79%) WooCommerce
13 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
14 5 (0.49%) iManage
14 5 (0.49%) New Relic
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.39%) TikTok