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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 95 57
Rank change year-on-year -87 -38 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,003 1,443 3,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 3.28% 3.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.05% 16.41% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 847 950 2,873
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.76% -7.90%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -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 9,074 8,793 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.97% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,676 6,147 15,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,472 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -82 915 £50,000 -9.09% 482
UK excluding London -74 709 £45,000 -14.29% 407
Work from Home -72 365 £52,500 -4.55% 580
North of England -43 229 £40,000 -11.11% 102
London -90 221 £59,886 -11.28% 142
South East -34 160 £50,000 -16.67% 105
North West -41 118 £40,000 -20.00% 54
Midlands -66 110 £45,000 - 59
East of England -2 105 £47,500 +18.75% 68
Yorkshire -18 80 £40,000 +6.67% 32
South West -52 76 £47,500 -20.83% 40
West Midlands -48 64 £42,039 -11.50% 19
East Midlands -64 46 £55,000 +41.94% 40
North East -26 31 £47,500 -2.56% 16
Scotland -86 17 £30,500 -49.17% 19
Wales -35 10 £43,500 -27.50% 13
Northern Ireland -34 3 £60,000 - 8
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
1 103 (10.27%) WordPress
2 51 (5.08%) CMS
3 44 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.50%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) IIS
6 11 (1.10%) Drupal
7 8 (0.80%) Apache
7 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.80%) nginx
8 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) govService
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Liferay
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.100%) Moodle
11 1 (0.100%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.69%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.00%) Photoshop
4 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (0.80%) Sketch
6 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.60%) InVision
8 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
10 1 (0.100%) Elementor
10 1 (0.100%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.100%) Trello
10 1 (0.100%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (1.99%) Shopify
2 9 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.100%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.100%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.100%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 444 (44.27%) Azure
2 370 (36.89%) AWS
3 273 (27.22%) GitHub
4 99 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (6.28%) Figma
5 63 (6.28%) Power Platform
6 52 (5.18%) GCP
7 43 (4.29%) SaaS
8 39 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (3.59%) Power Automate
9 36 (3.59%) Serverless
10 35 (3.49%) PowerApps
11 34 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (2.79%) Azure AI
12 28 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 27 (2.69%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 197 (19.64%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.100%) AMQP
5 1 (0.100%) Broadband
5 1 (0.100%) DNS
5 1 (0.100%) Firewall
5 1 (0.100%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.100%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (13.96%) SQL Server
2 107 (10.67%) MySQL
3 75 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 55 (5.48%) Power BI
6 42 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.49%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.90%) DB2
12 9 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.80%) Tableau
14 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
15 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.50%) GIS
16 5 (0.50%) Looker
16 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 317 (31.61%) Git
2 48 (4.79%) JIRA
3 39 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.69%) webpack
5 16 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.40%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.40%) Selenium
7 12 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.20%) Storybook
8 10 (1.00%) Balsamiq
8 10 (1.00%) Vite
9 9 (0.90%) GitLab
10 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.70%) JUnit
12 6 (0.60%) Babel
13 5 (0.50%) Maven
13 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
14 4 (0.40%) ESLint
14 4 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 257 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 176 (17.55%) Multimedia
3 119 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.07%) Finance
5 87 (8.67%) Marketing
6 43 (4.29%) Law
7 41 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.59%) Retail
10 25 (2.49%) Legal
10 25 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.19%) Advertising
12 14 (1.40%) Banking
13 13 (1.30%) Games
14 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.60%) Local Government
16 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
17 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 606 (60.42%) Developer
2 181 (18.05%) Trainee
3 150 (14.96%) Senior
4 133 (13.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 133 (13.26%) Software Developer
5 112 (11.17%) Senior Developer
6 103 (10.27%) .NET Developer
7 70 (6.98%) Trainee Developer
8 62 (6.18%) Administrator
9 61 (6.08%) Designer
10 60 (5.98%) C# Developer
11 57 (5.68%) Trainee Software Developer
11 57 (5.68%) Web Administrator
12 54 (5.38%) PHP Developer
12 54 (5.38%) Web Developer
13 53 (5.28%) C# Software Developer
13 53 (5.28%) Trainee Administrator
14 52 (5.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 51 (5.08%) Software Engineer
16 41 (4.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 912 (90.93%) HTML
2 272 (27.12%) React
3 245 (24.43%) .NET
4 122 (12.16%) jQuery
5 118 (11.76%) Node.js
6 113 (11.27%) HTML5
7 109 (10.87%) Vue
8 106 (10.57%) RESTful
9 105 (10.47%) .NET Core
10 101 (10.07%) AngularJS
11 95 (9.47%) ASP.NET
11 95 (9.47%) CSS3
12 64 (6.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 61 (6.08%) REST
14 60 (5.98%) JSON
15 48 (4.79%) Entity Framework
16 47 (4.69%) Laravel
17 43 (4.29%) Tailwind CSS
18 41 (4.09%) Sass
19 39 (3.89%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.59%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.69%) Social Media
12 16 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.90%) Digital TV
14 9 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.69%) Linux
2 25 (2.49%) Windows
3 14 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Android
5 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.40%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.100%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (31.21%) Agile
2 294 (29.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 244 (24.33%) Mentoring
4 218 (21.73%) CI/CD
5 195 (19.44%) User Experience
6 187 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (16.25%) DevOps
8 161 (16.05%) Web Development
9 145 (14.46%) AI
10 134 (13.36%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (12.56%) Computer Science
12 124 (12.36%) Front End Development
13 120 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 102 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 95 (9.47%) Clean Code
16 84 (8.37%) Scrum
17 83 (8.28%) Analytics
18 80 (7.98%) UX Design
19 78 (7.78%) Responsive Web Design
20 77 (7.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 711 (70.89%) JavaScript
2 336 (33.50%) SQL
3 293 (29.21%) Python
4 239 (23.83%) C#
5 184 (18.34%) TypeScript
6 169 (16.85%) PHP
7 111 (11.07%) R
8 89 (8.87%) Java
9 31 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 30 (2.99%) C++
11 12 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.10%) VBA
13 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.50%) Bash
13 5 (0.50%) Bicep
13 5 (0.50%) Dart
13 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.50%) VBScript
14 4 (0.40%) SOQL
14 4 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 182 (18.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 177 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 176 (17.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 176 (17.55%) Azure Certification
4 170 (16.95%) Degree
5 102 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (4.69%) Security Cleared
7 36 (3.59%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.100%) ISEB
13 1 (0.100%) OCA
13 1 (0.100%) OCP
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.19%) WCAG
3 40 (3.99%) QA
4 28 (2.79%) GDPR
5 12 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.10%) SLA
7 7 (0.70%) GRC
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) PERC
8 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.100%) HL7
10 1 (0.100%) NCSC
10 1 (0.100%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (9.07%) Docker
2 12 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.50%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) cPanel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.100%) Ansible
5 1 (0.100%) Argo
5 1 (0.100%) Grafana
5 1 (0.100%) Kibana
5 1 (0.100%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 354 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.98%) Adobe
3 40 (3.99%) Google
4 18 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.40%) Oracle
6 10 (1.00%) Facebook
7 8 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 8 (0.80%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.80%) Sage
7 8 (0.80%) SAP
7 8 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.70%) iManage
8 7 (0.70%) YouTube
9 6 (0.60%) Apple
9 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.50%) Splunk
10 5 (0.50%) TikTok
11 4 (0.40%) Databricks