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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 77 64
Rank change year-on-year -81 -13 -21
Permanent jobs citing CSS 986 1,730 3,192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.73% 4.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.78% 16.96% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,066 2,703
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,126 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 7,713 10,202 18,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.98% 22.02% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,655 6,504 14,591
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -73 881 £47,500 -13.64% 697
UK excluding London -77 678 £40,000 -23.81% 650
Work from Home -84 302 £50,000 -9.09% 289
North of England -25 260 £30,500 -32.22% 169
London -71 223 £67,500 -1.82% 164
South East -85 141 £50,000 -16.67% 142
North West -37 115 £34,500 -34.29% 81
Yorkshire -7 110 £30,500 -18.67% 63
Midlands -61 100 £40,000 -20.00% 95
South West -71 72 £40,000 -33.33% 87
East of England -47 60 £40,000 -15.79% 99
West Midlands -31 56 £30,500 -46.96% 35
East Midlands -61 44 £52,500 +37.25% 59
North East -7 35 £30,500 -34.05% 29
Scotland -79 35 £30,500 -44.55% 35
Wales -26 8 £36,120 -23.96% 31
Northern Ireland -26 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 60 (6.09%) WordPress
2 57 (5.78%) CMS
3 17 (1.72%) Confluence
4 12 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 7 (0.71%) Apache
7 6 (0.61%) Drupal
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) govService
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Liferay
9 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 28 (2.84%) Adobe XD
2 19 (1.93%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.22%) Sketch
4 10 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.91%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.81%) InVision
6 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.30%) InDesign
10 2 (0.20%) Trello
10 2 (0.20%) Windchill
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.10%) Elementor
11 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 16 (1.62%) Shopify
2 15 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 472 (47.87%) Azure
2 412 (41.78%) AWS
3 351 (35.60%) GitHub
4 73 (7.40%) Figma
5 62 (6.29%) Serverless
6 53 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.77%) GCP
8 41 (4.16%) SaaS
9 39 (3.96%) Power Platform
10 26 (2.64%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.83%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.62%) Power Automate
16 15 (1.52%) PaaS
17 14 (1.42%) Azure Functions
17 14 (1.42%) PowerApps
18 13 (1.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 265 (26.88%) Internet
2 10 (1.01%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) Intranet
4 3 (0.30%) AMQP
4 3 (0.30%) WAN
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 74 (7.51%) MySQL
3 45 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 31 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.94%) Power BI
7 19 (1.93%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.32%) DB2
9 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.12%) Looker
11 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.30%) FileMaker
15 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.30%) Redis
15 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 409 (41.48%) Git
2 48 (4.87%) JIRA
3 45 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.74%) webpack
5 23 (2.33%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.13%) Selenium
7 15 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.52%) Vite
8 14 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.22%) Balsamiq
11 11 (1.12%) Babel
11 11 (1.12%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.71%) JUnit
13 6 (0.61%) GitLab
13 6 (0.61%) Maven
13 6 (0.61%) Storybook
13 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.51%) gulp
General
1 260 (26.37%) Multimedia
2 215 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 115 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.33%) Finance
5 71 (7.20%) Marketing
6 48 (4.87%) Law
7 45 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 41 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.74%) Banking
9 27 (2.74%) Retail
10 22 (2.23%) Legal
11 14 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.91%) Military
13 8 (0.81%) Advertising
14 7 (0.71%) Aeronautics
14 7 (0.71%) Electronics
14 7 (0.71%) Games
15 6 (0.61%) Back Office
15 6 (0.61%) Publishing
16 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 569 (57.71%) Developer
2 257 (26.06%) Trainee
3 171 (17.34%) Software Developer
4 159 (16.13%) Senior
5 123 (12.47%) Trainee Developer
6 116 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 114 (11.56%) Trainee Software Developer
8 108 (10.95%) Senior Developer
9 68 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 60 (6.09%) .NET Developer
11 56 (5.68%) Designer
12 41 (4.16%) C# Developer
12 41 (4.16%) Software Engineer
13 40 (4.06%) React Developer
14 38 (3.85%) PHP Developer
15 37 (3.75%) Lead
16 36 (3.65%) Web Developer
17 34 (3.45%) Administrator
18 31 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.14%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 896 (90.87%) HTML
2 311 (31.54%) React
3 181 (18.36%) .NET
4 119 (12.07%) Node.js
5 109 (11.05%) AngularJS
6 98 (9.94%) RESTful
7 92 (9.33%) HTML5
7 92 (9.33%) Vue
8 76 (7.71%) CSS3
9 74 (7.51%) jQuery
10 61 (6.19%) ASP.NET
11 60 (6.09%) REST
12 52 (5.27%) .NET Core
13 44 (4.46%) .NET Framework
14 42 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
15 38 (3.85%) Sass
16 37 (3.75%) Laravel
17 36 (3.65%) Jest
18 30 (3.04%) Bootstrap
18 30 (3.04%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 38 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 34 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.23%) Data Structures
6 16 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.52%) Low-Code
7 15 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.01%) Social Media
10 9 (0.91%) Cybercrime
11 8 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.61%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.41%) CMDB
13 4 (0.41%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.23%) Linux
2 18 (1.83%) Windows
3 13 (1.32%) Android
3 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (34.89%) Mentoring
2 332 (33.67%) Agile
3 243 (24.65%) Cybersecurity
4 226 (22.92%) User Experience
5 207 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 192 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 182 (18.46%) CI/CD
8 157 (15.92%) Front End Development
9 139 (14.10%) DevOps
10 111 (11.26%) Computer Science
11 110 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (10.04%) Web Development
13 96 (9.74%) UX Design
14 92 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 85 (8.62%) Analytics
16 80 (8.11%) MVC
17 79 (8.01%) AI
18 75 (7.61%) Scrum
19 74 (7.51%) Clean Code
20 71 (7.20%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 787 (79.82%) JavaScript
2 358 (36.31%) Python
3 219 (22.21%) SQL
4 191 (19.37%) TypeScript
5 169 (17.14%) C#
6 138 (14.00%) R
7 96 (9.74%) PHP
8 85 (8.62%) Java
9 17 (1.72%) C++
10 11 (1.12%) Ruby
11 10 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.71%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.61%) Bash
15 6 (0.61%) Perl
16 4 (0.41%) C
16 4 (0.41%) SOQL
16 4 (0.41%) SOSL
16 4 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 266 (26.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 258 (26.17%) Azure Certification
3 257 (26.06%) AWS Certification
3 257 (26.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 165 (16.73%) Degree
5 92 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (6.90%) Security Cleared
7 50 (5.07%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.41%) HND
13 4 (0.41%) ISEB
14 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.20%) CCA
16 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (12.47%) Accessibility
2 52 (5.27%) WCAG
3 48 (4.87%) QA
4 19 (1.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.51%) PERC
7 4 (0.41%) IEC 61131
7 4 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.20%) Section 508
9 1 (0.10%) HL7
9 1 (0.10%) NCSC
9 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (8.22%) Docker
2 15 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.74%) Terraform
3 4 (0.41%) Argo
4 3 (0.30%) cPanel
4 3 (0.30%) Grafana
4 3 (0.30%) Plesk
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Nagios
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 360 (36.51%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.56%) Adobe
3 43 (4.36%) Google
4 23 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.42%) Oracle
6 11 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.01%) Hotjar
7 10 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.71%) SAP
9 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.51%) Databricks
10 5 (0.51%) Foundry
10 5 (0.51%) iManage
10 5 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (0.51%) Siemens
11 4 (0.41%) Allen-Bradley
11 4 (0.41%) Concur
11 4 (0.41%) New Relic
11 4 (0.41%) Palo Alto