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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 98 57
Rank change year-on-year -91 -41 -8
Permanent jobs citing CSS 994 1,376 4,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 3.09% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.48% 15.75% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 840 865 2,909
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £38,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,486 8,737 21,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 19.64% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,067 5,721 16,316
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -82 912 £50,000 -9.09% 292
UK excluding London -58 715 £47,500 -5.00% 253
Work from Home -60 410 £55,000 - 152
London -81 220 £59,773 -11.45% 90
North of England -57 206 £45,000 -7.69% 68
South East -24 174 £50,000 -9.09% 72
North West -53 112 £45,000 -14.29% 36
East of England +12 111 £47,500 +26.67% 36
Midlands -51 109 £45,000 +2.86% 35
South West -47 83 £50,000 -13.04% 27
Yorkshire -24 61 £50,000 +25.00% 20
West Midlands -44 60 £45,000 -5.26% 15
East Midlands -51 49 £55,000 +37.50% 20
North East -27 33 £52,000 +46.48% 12
Wales -39 16 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Scotland -64 13 £30,500 -51.20% 11
Northern Ireland -28 3 £60,000 - 5

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 97 (9.76%) WordPress
2 49 (4.93%) CMS
3 48 (4.83%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.71%) Confluence
5 16 (1.61%) IIS
6 11 (1.11%) Apache
6 11 (1.11%) Drupal
7 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
9 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (2.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.71%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.41%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.91%) InDesign
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.40%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.31%) Shopify
2 8 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 414 (41.65%) Azure
2 323 (32.49%) AWS
3 238 (23.94%) GitHub
4 119 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (6.64%) Power Platform
6 65 (6.54%) Figma
7 47 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (4.73%) SaaS
8 46 (4.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 44 (4.43%) Azure AI
9 44 (4.43%) GCP
10 43 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 39 (3.92%) Serverless
12 36 (3.62%) PowerApps
13 35 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 27 (2.72%) Google Analytics
15 22 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (2.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 142 (14.29%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
3 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.30%) SSL
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.29%) SQL Server
2 115 (11.57%) MySQL
3 111 (11.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 89 (8.95%) MongoDB
5 57 (5.73%) Power BI
6 49 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (4.93%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.91%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.91%) Tableau
13 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.70%) GIS
14 7 (0.70%) Metadata
15 6 (0.60%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 267 (26.86%) Git
2 54 (5.43%) JIRA
3 34 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.31%) GitLab
5 13 (1.31%) Selenium
5 13 (1.31%) webpack
6 12 (1.21%) Axure RP
7 11 (1.11%) Storybook
8 10 (1.01%) Vite
9 8 (0.80%) Balsamiq
10 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.50%) JUnit
11 5 (0.50%) Maven
11 5 (0.50%) Postman
11 5 (0.50%) Subversion
12 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.40%) ESLint
12 4 (0.40%) gulp
12 4 (0.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 269 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.97%) Multimedia
3 111 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (10.46%) Marketing
5 95 (9.56%) Finance
6 54 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (3.82%) Law
8 36 (3.62%) Advertising
8 36 (3.62%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.62%) Legal
10 26 (2.62%) Retail
11 14 (1.41%) Games
12 11 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.01%) Banking
14 8 (0.80%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.80%) Local Government
15 6 (0.60%) Automotive
15 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 608 (61.17%) Developer
2 144 (14.49%) .NET Developer
3 142 (14.29%) Senior
4 125 (12.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 117 (11.77%) Software Developer
5 117 (11.77%) Trainee
6 108 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 65 (6.54%) Designer
8 64 (6.44%) Software Engineer
9 61 (6.14%) C# Developer
10 57 (5.73%) C# Software Developer
11 52 (5.23%) Web Developer
12 51 (5.13%) Administrator
13 49 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 49 (4.93%) PHP Developer
14 48 (4.83%) Lead
15 46 (4.63%) Web Administrator
16 43 (4.33%) Trainee Administrator
17 41 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 41 (4.12%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (90.74%) HTML
2 290 (29.18%) .NET
3 245 (24.65%) React
4 142 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 127 (12.78%) ASP.NET
5 127 (12.78%) jQuery
6 120 (12.07%) Node.js
7 118 (11.87%) Vue
8 113 (11.37%) HTML5
9 102 (10.26%) ASP.NET Core
10 97 (9.76%) RESTful
11 95 (9.56%) CSS3
12 93 (9.36%) AngularJS
13 76 (7.65%) REST
14 68 (6.84%) JSON
15 67 (6.74%) Entity Framework
16 48 (4.83%) Laravel
17 44 (4.43%) .NET Framework
18 43 (4.33%) Tailwind CSS
19 39 (3.92%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.42%) Mobile App
3 31 (3.12%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.31%) Social Media
8 22 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.41%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.31%) Digital TV
13 13 (1.31%) Graphic Design
14 11 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.80%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.72%) Linux
2 35 (3.52%) Windows
3 20 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.50%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (33.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 327 (32.90%) Agile
3 261 (26.26%) CI/CD
4 195 (19.62%) User Experience
5 188 (18.91%) Mentoring
5 188 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (18.41%) AI
7 182 (18.31%) DevOps
8 159 (16.00%) Web Development
9 131 (13.18%) Computer Science
10 124 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (11.57%) Front End Development
12 105 (10.56%) Software Engineering
13 97 (9.76%) Machine Learning
14 86 (8.65%) Clean Code
15 84 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
16 83 (8.35%) Analytics
17 77 (7.75%) Responsive Web Design
17 77 (7.75%) Scrum
18 75 (7.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 636 (63.98%) JavaScript
2 392 (39.44%) SQL
3 289 (29.07%) C#
4 237 (23.84%) Python
5 182 (18.31%) PHP
6 171 (17.20%) TypeScript
7 91 (9.15%) Java
8 75 (7.55%) R
9 38 (3.82%) C++
10 33 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.31%) VBA
12 7 (0.70%) VBScript
13 6 (0.60%) Bicep
14 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.50%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Dart
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.40%) Perl
15 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (18.21%) Degree
2 116 (11.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 114 (11.47%) AWS Certification
4 112 (11.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 112 (11.27%) Azure Certification
5 104 (10.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.23%) Security Cleared
7 34 (3.42%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (12.17%) Accessibility
2 46 (4.63%) QA
3 39 (3.92%) WCAG
4 31 (3.12%) GDPR
5 13 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.11%) SLA
7 9 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.70%) GRC
8 7 (0.70%) PERC
9 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 115 (11.57%) Docker
2 14 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.81%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 331 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.44%) Adobe
3 37 (3.72%) Google
4 26 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.11%) Facebook
6 17 (1.71%) Oracle
7 11 (1.11%) YouTube
8 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.91%) iManage
10 8 (0.80%) Sage
10 8 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Splunk
12 6 (0.60%) TikTok
12 6 (0.60%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
14 4 (0.40%) ServiceNow