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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -80 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,022 1,830 3,118
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.47% 3.86% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.21% 17.35% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 842 1,081 2,650
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 £74,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +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 7,737 10,545 17,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.13% 22.24% 23.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,676 6,578 14,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,209 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +8.54% -9.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -74 912 £47,500 -13.64% 582
UK excluding London -77 705 £38,000 -27.62% 533
Work from Home -77 304 £52,500 -4.55% 214
North of England -22 275 £30,500 -30.29% 131
London -74 229 £67,500 - 150
South East -91 142 £50,000 -16.67% 129
North West -38 120 £31,000 -40.95% 65
Yorkshire -3 117 £30,500 -18.67% 46
Midlands -62 106 £40,000 -20.00% 84
South West -76 72 £40,000 -30.43% 80
East of England -48 60 £40,000 -15.79% 68
West Midlands -33 59 £30,500 -46.96% 33
East Midlands -62 48 £51,250 +33.99% 51
Scotland -81 39 £30,500 -43.52% 27
North East -9 38 £30,500 -34.05% 21
Wales -25 9 £36,120 -23.96% 18
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 4
Channel Islands 0 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 61 (5.97%) WordPress
2 57 (5.58%) CMS
3 18 (1.76%) Confluence
4 13 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.17%) nginx
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 7 (0.68%) Drupal
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) govService
9 3 (0.29%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (2.84%) Adobe XD
2 22 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.27%) Sketch
4 12 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.88%) InVision
7 9 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.88%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.68%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.68%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
11 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.29%) InDesign
13 2 (0.20%) Trello
13 2 (0.20%) Windchill
14 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.098%) Elementor
14 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 17 (1.66%) Shopify
2 15 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 496 (48.53%) Azure
2 432 (42.27%) AWS
3 373 (36.50%) GitHub
4 73 (7.14%) Figma
5 64 (6.26%) Serverless
6 53 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (4.70%) GCP
8 40 (3.91%) Power Platform
9 39 (3.82%) SaaS
10 28 (2.74%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.86%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.76%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.57%) Azure Functions
16 16 (1.57%) PaaS
17 15 (1.47%) PowerApps
18 13 (1.27%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 286 (27.98%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) HTTP
3 5 (0.49%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
4 3 (0.29%) WAN
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 76 (7.44%) MySQL
3 45 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (4.01%) Relational Database
5 34 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.84%) Power BI
7 20 (1.96%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.27%) DB2
9 12 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.08%) Looker
11 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.39%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.29%) FileMaker
15 3 (0.29%) Redis
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.29%) Tableau
16 2 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 435 (42.56%) Git
2 49 (4.79%) JIRA
3 47 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.64%) webpack
5 23 (2.25%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.15%) Selenium
7 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.47%) Vite
8 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.17%) Balsamiq
10 12 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 11 (1.08%) Babel
12 8 (0.78%) GitLab
13 7 (0.68%) JUnit
13 7 (0.68%) Maven
13 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.59%) Storybook
15 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
General
1 281 (27.50%) Multimedia
2 225 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 119 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.10%) Finance
5 74 (7.24%) Marketing
6 50 (4.89%) Law
7 46 (4.50%) Public Sector
8 41 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (2.74%) Retail
10 26 (2.54%) Banking
11 23 (2.25%) Legal
12 16 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.88%) Advertising
13 9 (0.88%) Military
14 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
14 7 (0.68%) Electronics
14 7 (0.68%) Games
14 7 (0.68%) Publishing
15 6 (0.59%) Back Office
16 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 586 (57.34%) Developer
2 278 (27.20%) Trainee
3 184 (18.00%) Software Developer
4 165 (16.14%) Senior
5 134 (13.11%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.23%) Trainee Software Developer
7 115 (11.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (10.86%) Senior Developer
9 71 (6.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 57 (5.58%) .NET Developer
11 55 (5.38%) Designer
12 41 (4.01%) React Developer
13 40 (3.91%) PHP Developer
14 39 (3.82%) C# Developer
14 39 (3.82%) Software Engineer
15 36 (3.52%) Lead
15 36 (3.52%) Web Developer
16 34 (3.33%) Administrator
17 31 (3.03%) Web Administrator
18 30 (2.94%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 924 (90.41%) HTML
2 317 (31.02%) React
3 180 (17.61%) .NET
4 124 (12.13%) Node.js
5 106 (10.37%) AngularJS
6 102 (9.98%) RESTful
7 96 (9.39%) HTML5
8 91 (8.90%) Vue
9 80 (7.83%) CSS3
10 76 (7.44%) jQuery
11 62 (6.07%) REST
12 61 (5.97%) ASP.NET
13 52 (5.09%) .NET Core
14 44 (4.31%) .NET Framework
15 42 (4.11%) Tailwind CSS
16 39 (3.82%) Laravel
16 39 (3.82%) Sass
17 36 (3.52%) Jest
18 32 (3.13%) GraphQL
19 31 (3.03%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 38 (3.72%) Mobile App
3 35 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.98%) Social Media
11 9 (0.88%) Cybercrime
11 9 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.78%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.49%) Legacy Code
15 4 (0.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.35%) Linux
2 18 (1.76%) Windows
3 13 (1.27%) Android
3 13 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (36.01%) Mentoring
2 339 (33.17%) Agile
3 264 (25.83%) Cybersecurity
4 232 (22.70%) User Experience
5 208 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 203 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
7 182 (17.81%) CI/CD
8 163 (15.95%) Front End Development
9 141 (13.80%) DevOps
10 119 (11.64%) Computer Science
11 115 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (9.69%) Web Development
13 98 (9.59%) UX Design
14 92 (9.00%) Software Engineering
15 87 (8.51%) Analytics
16 83 (8.12%) AI
17 82 (8.02%) MVC
18 76 (7.44%) Scrum
19 75 (7.34%) Clean Code
20 72 (7.05%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 823 (80.53%) JavaScript
2 384 (37.57%) Python
3 224 (21.92%) SQL
4 191 (18.69%) TypeScript
5 168 (16.44%) C#
6 148 (14.48%) R
7 98 (9.59%) PHP
8 91 (8.90%) Java
9 18 (1.76%) C++
10 11 (1.08%) Ruby
11 10 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.88%) Perl
12 9 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.68%) C
15 6 (0.59%) Bash
15 6 (0.59%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.39%) SOQL
16 4 (0.39%) SOSL
16 4 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 287 (28.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.30%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.20%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 175 (17.12%) Degree
5 97 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (6.85%) Security Cleared
7 51 (4.99%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.68%) HND
13 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.39%) ISEB
15 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.20%) CCA
17 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (12.52%) Accessibility
2 54 (5.28%) WCAG
3 50 (4.89%) QA
4 21 (2.05%) GDPR
5 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.68%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 4 (0.39%) SLA
8 2 (0.20%) Section 508
9 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.098%) HL7
9 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.098%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (8.02%) Docker
2 14 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.64%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) Kibana
Vendors
1 388 (37.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.60%) Google
3 46 (4.50%) Adobe
4 24 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.37%) Oracle
6 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
7 10 (0.98%) Hotjar
7 10 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.78%) SAP
8 8 (0.78%) Siemens
9 7 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
9 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.68%) Toshiba
10 5 (0.49%) Databricks
10 5 (0.49%) Foundry
10 5 (0.49%) iManage
10 5 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Concur
11 4 (0.39%) Palo Alto