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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 103 58
Rank change year-on-year -81 -45 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 991 1,273 3,834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 3.01% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.34% 15.29% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,015 2,886
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,211 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +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 8,736 8,324 20,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 19.69% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,383 6,366 15,754
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,471 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 2 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 2 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 -68 898 £47,500 -13.64% 360
UK excluding London -73 690 £42,500 -19.05% 276
Work from Home -81 323 £52,500 -7.08% 186
North of England -33 229 £31,500 -30.00% 66
London -77 228 £60,000 -14.29% 123
South East -66 147 £50,000 -16.67% 88
North West -27 116 £37,500 -25.00% 34
Midlands -42 113 £42,500 -5.56% 32
East of England +10 97 £45,000 +5.88% 52
Yorkshire -28 87 £30,500 -18.67% 21
South West -75 70 £45,000 -25.00% 26
West Midlands -20 68 £35,000 -30.00% 16
East Midlands -48 45 £52,500 +35.48% 16
North East -30 26 £30,500 -34.05% 11
Scotland -91 22 £30,500 -49.17% 13
Wales -35 10 £41,870 -25.89% 4
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 3
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 96 (9.69%) WordPress
2 44 (4.44%) CMS
2 44 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.51%) Confluence
4 10 (1.01%) IIS
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.91%) nginx
6 7 (0.71%) Apache
6 7 (0.71%) Drupal
7 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) govService
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) Liferay
8 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.10%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 21 (2.12%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.11%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.91%) Sketch
6 8 (0.81%) InVision
7 7 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.51%) Shopify
2 11 (1.11%) 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 (0.10%) 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
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 453 (45.71%) Azure
2 403 (40.67%) AWS
3 299 (30.17%) GitHub
4 74 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (6.86%) Figma
6 64 (6.46%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.65%) GCP
8 41 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (4.04%) Serverless
10 39 (3.94%) SaaS
11 35 (3.53%) Power Automate
11 35 (3.53%) PowerApps
12 34 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (3.13%) Google Analytics
15 22 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (1.92%) Entra ID
17 19 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 236 (23.81%) Internet
2 7 (0.71%) HTTP
2 7 (0.71%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) DNS
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (14.03%) SQL Server
2 101 (10.19%) MySQL
3 56 (5.65%) Power BI
4 41 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.93%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.11%) DB2
11 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.81%) Tableau
13 7 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.71%) FileMaker
13 7 (0.71%) Looker
14 6 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.61%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.50%) Metadata
15 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 353 (35.62%) Git
2 50 (5.05%) JIRA
3 46 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.72%) Axure RP
4 17 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.72%) Selenium
4 17 (1.72%) webpack
5 14 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.21%) Balsamiq
6 12 (1.21%) Storybook
7 11 (1.11%) Vite
8 10 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.91%) Babel
10 8 (0.81%) GitLab
11 7 (0.71%) JUnit
11 7 (0.71%) Maven
12 5 (0.50%) Gradle
12 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 242 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 221 (22.30%) Multimedia
3 122 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.80%) Finance
5 81 (8.17%) Marketing
6 49 (4.94%) Law
7 45 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.43%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.42%) Legal
9 24 (2.42%) Retail
10 21 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.72%) Banking
12 11 (1.11%) Advertising
13 8 (0.81%) Games
14 6 (0.61%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.40%) Back Office
17 3 (0.30%) Electronics
17 3 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 568 (57.32%) Developer
2 226 (22.81%) Trainee
3 151 (15.24%) Software Developer
4 145 (14.63%) Senior
5 123 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 106 (10.70%) Senior Developer
7 91 (9.18%) Trainee Developer
8 78 (7.87%) Trainee Software Developer
9 63 (6.36%) Administrator
10 61 (6.16%) Designer
11 58 (5.85%) .NET Developer
11 58 (5.85%) Web Administrator
12 57 (5.75%) C# Developer
13 56 (5.65%) Trainee Administrator
14 53 (5.35%) PHP Developer
15 51 (5.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 50 (5.05%) C# Software Developer
17 49 (4.94%) Web Developer
18 43 (4.34%) Software Engineer
19 40 (4.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 900 (90.82%) HTML
2 278 (28.05%) React
3 192 (19.37%) .NET
4 114 (11.50%) jQuery
4 114 (11.50%) Node.js
5 102 (10.29%) Vue
6 99 (9.99%) AngularJS
6 99 (9.99%) HTML5
6 99 (9.99%) RESTful
7 85 (8.58%) CSS3
8 63 (6.36%) .NET Core
9 54 (5.45%) JSON
10 52 (5.25%) ASP.NET
10 52 (5.25%) REST
11 43 (4.34%) Laravel
12 42 (4.24%) Tailwind CSS
13 38 (3.83%) .NET Framework
14 37 (3.73%) Sass
15 32 (3.23%) Bootstrap
16 31 (3.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.83%) Cloud Native
1 38 (3.83%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 25 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.92%) Social Media
6 19 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.91%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
13 7 (0.71%) Cybercrime
13 7 (0.71%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.42%) Linux
1 24 (2.42%) Windows
2 13 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.61%) Android
4 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.40%) Unix
4 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (30.07%) Agile
2 285 (28.76%) Mentoring
3 236 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 194 (19.58%) User Experience
5 182 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 176 (17.76%) Cybersecurity
7 174 (17.56%) CI/CD
8 145 (14.63%) Web Development
9 140 (14.13%) DevOps
10 130 (13.12%) Computer Science
11 121 (12.21%) Front End Development
12 116 (11.71%) AI
12 116 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (9.49%) Software Engineering
14 89 (8.98%) Scrum
15 87 (8.78%) Analytics
15 87 (8.78%) Clean Code
16 78 (7.87%) UX Design
17 75 (7.57%) MVC
18 72 (7.27%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 741 (74.77%) JavaScript
2 329 (33.20%) Python
3 297 (29.97%) SQL
4 191 (19.27%) C#
5 186 (18.77%) TypeScript
6 157 (15.84%) PHP
7 135 (13.62%) R
8 95 (9.59%) Java
9 32 (3.23%) C++
9 32 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.11%) VBA
12 7 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.61%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Bicep
14 5 (0.50%) Dart
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.50%) VBScript
15 4 (0.40%) SOQL
15 4 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 227 (22.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 222 (22.40%) AWS Certification
3 221 (22.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 221 (22.30%) Azure Certification
4 179 (18.06%) Degree
5 108 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (5.45%) Security Cleared
7 45 (4.54%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.20%) ISEB
13 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.10%) OCA
14 1 (0.10%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (11.10%) Accessibility
2 39 (3.94%) WCAG
3 38 (3.83%) QA
4 26 (2.62%) GDPR
5 11 (1.11%) SLA
6 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.81%) PERC
7 7 (0.71%) GRC
7 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.10%) HL7
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (7.37%) Docker
2 13 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.82%) Terraform
3 4 (0.40%) Plesk
4 3 (0.30%) Argo
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) cPanel
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.20%) Nagios
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 368 (37.13%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.06%) Adobe
3 45 (4.54%) Google
4 20 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.01%) Oracle
7 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.81%) Sage
8 7 (0.71%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.71%) iManage
9 6 (0.61%) Apple
9 6 (0.61%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.61%) SAP
10 5 (0.50%) Databricks
10 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.50%) TikTok
11 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.40%) New Relic