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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 91 58
Rank change year-on-year -93 -33 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 988 1,462 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 3.37% 3.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.19% 17.13% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 832 994 2,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,275
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -7.98%
75th Percentile £63,375 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 8,831 8,536 20,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.66% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,451 6,267 15,754
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £78,750
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 8 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 8 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 -83 901 £48,676 -11.50% 479
UK excluding London -77 693 £45,000 -14.29% 406
Work from Home -85 337 £52,500 -8.70% 199
North of England -51 225 £37,500 -16.67% 98
London -75 225 £60,000 -14.29% 141
South East -63 151 £50,000 -16.67% 110
Midlands -64 115 £45,000 - 54
North West -52 113 £37,500 -25.00% 45
East of England -2 96 £45,000 +9.09% 69
Yorkshire -19 82 £33,000 -12.00% 35
South West -62 74 £45,000 -25.00% 41
West Midlands -40 69 £37,500 -25.00% 19
East Midlands -63 46 £55,000 +37.50% 35
North East -24 30 £31,750 -31.35% 18
Scotland -88 20 £30,500 -49.17% 26
Wales -36 10 £43,500 -27.50% 11
Northern Ireland -32 3 £60,000 - 7
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
1 100 (10.12%) WordPress
2 47 (4.76%) CMS
3 44 (4.45%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.62%) Confluence
5 11 (1.11%) IIS
6 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.91%) nginx
7 8 (0.81%) Apache
7 8 (0.81%) Drupal
8 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
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%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.92%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.11%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.91%) Sketch
6 7 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.71%) InVision
6 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) Elementor
9 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.10%) Trello
9 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.72%) Shopify
2 10 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.51%) 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
1 448 (45.34%) Azure
2 388 (39.27%) AWS
3 285 (28.85%) GitHub
4 86 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (6.68%) Figma
6 62 (6.28%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.67%) GCP
8 43 (4.35%) SaaS
9 40 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (4.05%) Serverless
10 36 (3.64%) Power Automate
11 35 (3.54%) PowerApps
12 34 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 34 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (2.83%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.92%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 216 (21.86%) 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
5 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (13.97%) SQL Server
2 100 (10.12%) MySQL
3 54 (5.47%) Power BI
4 52 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 38 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.11%) DB2
11 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.81%) Tableau
14 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.71%) FileMaker
14 7 (0.71%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.51%) Looker
15 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 337 (34.11%) Git
2 51 (5.16%) JIRA
3 46 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.72%) Selenium
4 17 (1.72%) webpack
5 16 (1.62%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.21%) Storybook
8 11 (1.11%) Balsamiq
8 11 (1.11%) Vite
9 10 (1.01%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.91%) GitLab
11 7 (0.71%) Babel
11 7 (0.71%) JUnit
12 6 (0.61%) Maven
13 5 (0.51%) PHPUnit
14 4 (0.40%) ESLint
14 4 (0.40%) Gradle
General
1 246 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 200 (20.24%) Multimedia
3 116 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.43%) Finance
5 79 (8.00%) Marketing
6 46 (4.66%) Law
7 43 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.43%) Legal
9 24 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.43%) Retail
10 17 (1.72%) Banking
11 16 (1.62%) Advertising
12 10 (1.01%) Games
13 6 (0.61%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.40%) Back Office
15 4 (0.40%) Local Government
16 3 (0.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 580 (58.70%) Developer
2 205 (20.75%) Trainee
3 147 (14.88%) Senior
4 142 (14.37%) Software Developer
5 127 (12.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 107 (10.83%) Senior Developer
7 83 (8.40%) Trainee Developer
8 77 (7.79%) .NET Developer
9 70 (7.09%) Trainee Software Developer
10 63 (6.38%) Administrator
11 60 (6.07%) Designer
12 58 (5.87%) Web Administrator
13 57 (5.77%) C# Developer
14 55 (5.57%) Trainee Administrator
15 51 (5.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 50 (5.06%) C# Software Developer
16 50 (5.06%) PHP Developer
16 50 (5.06%) Web Developer
17 47 (4.76%) Software Engineer
18 41 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 901 (91.19%) HTML
2 280 (28.34%) React
3 214 (21.66%) .NET
4 117 (11.84%) Node.js
5 114 (11.54%) jQuery
6 108 (10.93%) Vue
7 106 (10.73%) HTML5
8 102 (10.32%) AngularJS
8 102 (10.32%) RESTful
9 91 (9.21%) CSS3
10 80 (8.10%) .NET Core
11 70 (7.09%) ASP.NET
12 58 (5.87%) REST
13 56 (5.67%) JSON
14 44 (4.45%) Laravel
15 43 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
16 39 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
17 38 (3.85%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.85%) Sass
18 35 (3.54%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.74%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.72%) Social Media
10 14 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.71%) Podcast
15 6 (0.61%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.53%) Linux
2 24 (2.43%) Windows
3 13 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.61%) Android
5 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.40%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (30.77%) Agile
2 266 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 263 (26.62%) Mentoring
4 196 (19.84%) User Experience
5 194 (19.64%) CI/CD
6 181 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 157 (15.89%) Cybersecurity
8 151 (15.28%) DevOps
9 150 (15.18%) Web Development
10 127 (12.85%) AI
11 126 (12.75%) Computer Science
12 122 (12.35%) Front End Development
13 116 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (9.92%) Software Engineering
15 90 (9.11%) Clean Code
16 88 (8.91%) Scrum
17 86 (8.70%) Analytics
18 81 (8.20%) UX Design
19 75 (7.59%) Responsive Web Design
20 74 (7.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 726 (73.48%) JavaScript
2 313 (31.68%) Python
3 310 (31.38%) SQL
4 209 (21.15%) C#
5 188 (19.03%) TypeScript
6 158 (15.99%) PHP
7 122 (12.35%) R
8 94 (9.51%) Java
9 32 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.94%) C++
11 12 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.11%) VBA
13 6 (0.61%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.61%) Bash
14 5 (0.51%) Bicep
14 5 (0.51%) Dart
14 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.51%) VBScript
15 4 (0.40%) SOQL
15 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (20.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 201 (20.34%) AWS Certification
3 200 (20.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 200 (20.24%) Azure Certification
4 173 (17.51%) Degree
5 103 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (5.16%) Security Cleared
7 40 (4.05%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.10%) OCA
13 1 (0.10%) OCP
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 40 (4.05%) QA
2 40 (4.05%) WCAG
3 27 (2.73%) GDPR
4 11 (1.11%) SLA
5 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.81%) PERC
6 7 (0.71%) GRC
6 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.10%) HL7
9 1 (0.10%) NCSC
9 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (8.60%) Docker
2 13 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (4.66%) 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
1 359 (36.34%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.09%) Adobe
3 41 (4.15%) Google
4 18 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.11%) Oracle
6 9 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.81%) Sage
8 7 (0.71%) iManage
8 7 (0.71%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.61%) Apple
9 6 (0.61%) Facebook
9 6 (0.61%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.61%) SAP
10 5 (0.51%) Databricks
10 5 (0.51%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.51%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.51%) TikTok
11 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike