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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 93 58
Rank change year-on-year -81 -35 -13
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,068 1,330 3,798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 3.18% 4.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.26% 15.37% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 895 1,050 2,888
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,077 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
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 8,712 8,652 20,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 20.69% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 6,536 15,697
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -59 968 £45,000 -18.18% 484
UK excluding London -68 754 £40,000 -23.81% 393
Work from Home -74 345 £50,000 -9.09% 206
North of England -15 266 £31,000 -31.11% 86
London -71 237 £59,886 -14.45% 154
South East -74 153 £50,000 -16.67% 110
North West -25 128 £31,750 -36.50% 40
Midlands -39 121 £42,039 -6.58% 62
Yorkshire -15 106 £30,500 -18.67% 32
East of England -16 96 £40,000 -15.79% 63
South West -66 78 £40,000 -33.33% 45
West Midlands -28 73 £32,000 -36.00% 32
East Midlands -57 48 £51,250 +36.67% 29
North East -24 32 £30,500 -34.05% 14
Scotland -79 26 £30,500 -49.17% 20
Wales -34 12 £40,120 -28.99% 15
Northern Ireland -38 3 £60,000 - 5
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
1 108 (10.11%) WordPress
2 45 (4.21%) CMS
3 37 (3.46%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.94%) nginx
6 7 (0.66%) IIS
7 6 (0.56%) Apache
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.47%) Drupal
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 1 (0.094%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.094%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.094%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (2.62%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.12%) Photoshop
3 12 (1.12%) Sketch
4 10 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.75%) InVision
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.28%) InDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Windchill
9 1 (0.094%) Elementor
9 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.50%) Shopify
2 10 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) Line 50
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.094%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.094%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 503 (47.10%) Azure
2 457 (42.79%) AWS
3 355 (33.24%) GitHub
4 79 (7.40%) Figma
5 76 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (5.43%) GCP
7 55 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 52 (4.87%) Serverless
9 44 (4.12%) SaaS
10 33 (3.09%) Google Analytics
11 32 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.62%) Power Automate
14 28 (2.62%) PowerApps
15 21 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.87%) Entra ID
17 19 (1.78%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 282 (26.40%) Internet
2 7 (0.66%) HTTP
2 7 (0.66%) Intranet
3 4 (0.37%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) AMQP
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) VoIP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.094%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.92%) SQL Server
2 102 (9.55%) MySQL
3 47 (4.40%) Power BI
4 39 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 30 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.12%) DB2
10 10 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.75%) Tableau
12 7 (0.66%) Looker
13 6 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.56%) FileMaker
13 6 (0.56%) Metadata
14 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 410 (38.39%) Git
2 52 (4.87%) JIRA
3 47 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.97%) webpack
6 19 (1.78%) Axure RP
6 19 (1.78%) Selenium
7 14 (1.31%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.12%) Storybook
8 12 (1.12%) Vite
9 11 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.84%) Babel
11 8 (0.75%) GitLab
12 7 (0.66%) Maven
12 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.56%) JUnit
14 5 (0.47%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 269 (25.19%) Multimedia
2 241 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 132 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.30%) Finance
5 88 (8.24%) Marketing
6 52 (4.87%) Law
7 48 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.43%) Retail
10 24 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.15%) Legal
12 21 (1.97%) Banking
13 11 (1.03%) Advertising
14 7 (0.66%) Games
15 6 (0.56%) Back Office
15 6 (0.56%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.56%) Military
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.37%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 601 (56.27%) Developer
2 273 (25.56%) Trainee
3 168 (15.73%) Software Developer
4 146 (13.67%) Senior
5 120 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 110 (10.30%) Trainee Developer
7 107 (10.02%) Senior Developer
8 96 (8.99%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.21%) Administrator
10 72 (6.74%) Web Administrator
11 70 (6.55%) Trainee Administrator
12 63 (5.90%) .NET Developer
12 63 (5.90%) Designer
13 62 (5.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 56 (5.24%) C# Developer
15 55 (5.15%) PHP Developer
16 49 (4.59%) Web Developer
17 48 (4.49%) C# Software Developer
18 47 (4.40%) Lead
19 45 (4.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 974 (91.20%) HTML
2 303 (28.37%) React
3 193 (18.07%) .NET
4 120 (11.24%) Node.js
5 105 (9.83%) Vue
6 104 (9.74%) jQuery
7 102 (9.55%) RESTful
8 101 (9.46%) AngularJS
9 91 (8.52%) HTML5
10 75 (7.02%) CSS3
11 59 (5.52%) ASP.NET
12 57 (5.34%) .NET Core
13 51 (4.78%) REST
14 46 (4.31%) JSON
14 46 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
15 44 (4.12%) Laravel
16 41 (3.84%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.65%) Sass
18 35 (3.28%) Jest
19 33 (3.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 27 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.87%) Social Media
10 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.75%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.34%) Linux
2 23 (2.15%) Windows
3 9 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.66%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.47%) Unix
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (30.99%) Mentoring
2 325 (30.43%) Agile
3 235 (22.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 211 (19.76%) Cybersecurity
5 197 (18.45%) User Experience
6 192 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (17.70%) CI/CD
8 161 (15.07%) Web Development
9 151 (14.14%) DevOps
10 138 (12.92%) Front End Development
11 128 (11.99%) Computer Science
12 125 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (10.77%) AI
14 99 (9.27%) Software Engineering
15 96 (8.99%) Analytics
16 94 (8.80%) Scrum
17 92 (8.61%) Clean Code
18 82 (7.68%) MVC
18 82 (7.68%) UX Design
19 73 (6.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 816 (76.40%) JavaScript
2 382 (35.77%) Python
3 290 (27.15%) SQL
4 192 (17.98%) TypeScript
5 190 (17.79%) C#
6 164 (15.36%) R
7 155 (14.51%) PHP
8 97 (9.08%) Java
9 30 (2.81%) C++
10 22 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.75%) VBA
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
13 6 (0.56%) Ruby
14 5 (0.47%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Dart
14 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 275 (25.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 269 (25.19%) AWS Certification
2 269 (25.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 269 (25.19%) Azure Certification
3 179 (16.76%) Degree
4 106 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.06%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
10 4 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.094%) OCA
11 1 (0.094%) OCP
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.24%) Accessibility
2 43 (4.03%) QA
3 40 (3.75%) WCAG
4 29 (2.72%) GDPR
5 11 (1.03%) SLA
6 10 (0.94%) PERC
7 8 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.66%) GRC
9 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.094%) HL7
12 1 (0.094%) NCSC
12 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (7.68%) Docker
2 11 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.43%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.094%) Kibana
Vendors
1 409 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.18%) Adobe
3 48 (4.49%) Google
4 22 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.84%) Oracle
7 8 (0.75%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.66%) Sage
9 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.56%) SAP
10 5 (0.47%) Apple
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
10 5 (0.47%) iManage
10 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.37%) Pinterest
11 4 (0.37%) TikTok