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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 110 58
Rank change year-on-year -81 -52 +7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,051 1,366 3,878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.84% 3.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.40% 15.30% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 901 858 2,785
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,107 8,930 20,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 18.55% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,556 5,907 15,664
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 July 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 8 July 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 -73 962 £50,000 -9.09% 445
UK excluding London -56 778 £50,000 - 420
Work from Home -52 491 £55,000 - 252
London -96 212 £60,000 -14.29% 105
South East +2 208 £50,000 - 104
North of England -62 201 £50,000 +5.26% 111
East of England +12 122 £48,760 +30.03% 53
Midlands -55 112 £47,500 +5.56% 59
North West -53 109 £45,000 -14.29% 57
South West -31 99 £52,500 -8.70% 48
West Midlands -34 59 £45,000 -5.26% 20
Yorkshire -18 54 £50,000 +33.33% 35
East Midlands -53 53 £50,000 +11.11% 39
North East -24 38 £57,500 +61.97% 20
Wales -43 23 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Scotland -75 10 £31,000 -60.00% 27
Northern Ireland -57 3 £60,000 - 12

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 99 (9.42%) WordPress
2 51 (4.85%) CMS
3 47 (4.47%) SharePoint
4 21 (2.00%) Confluence
5 20 (1.90%) IIS
6 11 (1.05%) Apache
6 11 (1.05%) Drupal
7 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 1 (0.095%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.095%) ExpressionEngine
11 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (2.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.62%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (1.14%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.95%) InDesign
6 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.76%) Sketch
8 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.29%) Elementor
9 3 (0.29%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.09%) Shopify
2 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
4 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.095%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 438 (41.67%) Azure
2 288 (27.40%) AWS
3 227 (21.60%) GitHub
4 154 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (7.80%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (7.23%) Azure AI
7 69 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 66 (6.28%) Figma
9 51 (4.85%) SaaS
10 50 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
11 49 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (4.47%) GCP
13 42 (4.00%) Power Automate
14 39 (3.71%) PowerApps
15 37 (3.52%) Serverless
16 34 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (2.57%) Google Analytics
18 24 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 22 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
20 20 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (10.37%) Internet
2 10 (0.95%) Intranet
3 4 (0.38%) Network Security
3 4 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.38%) VoIP
3 4 (0.38%) WAN
3 4 (0.38%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.29%) SSL
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) HTTP
6 1 (0.095%) AMQP
6 1 (0.095%) Broadband
6 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (16.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 159 (15.13%) SQL Server
3 149 (14.18%) MongoDB
4 125 (11.89%) MySQL
5 58 (5.52%) Power BI
6 57 (5.42%) Relational Database
7 54 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.05%) MariaDB
11 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
12 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.95%) Metadata
13 9 (0.86%) Tableau
14 7 (0.67%) GIS
15 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 223 (21.22%) Git
2 54 (5.14%) JIRA
3 34 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 14 (1.33%) Selenium
6 12 (1.14%) GitLab
6 12 (1.14%) webpack
7 11 (1.05%) Storybook
8 8 (0.76%) Axure RP
8 8 (0.76%) Postman
8 8 (0.76%) Vite
9 7 (0.67%) JUnit
9 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.57%) PHPUnit
11 5 (0.48%) Balsamiq
11 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.48%) Maven
12 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.38%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.38%) MSI
General
1 279 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.32%) Marketing
3 106 (10.09%) Finance
4 103 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (7.04%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.09%) Advertising
7 55 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.24%) Law
9 34 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.66%) Retail
11 24 (2.28%) Legal
12 19 (1.81%) Games
13 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.95%) Banking
15 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.57%) Automotive
16 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 669 (63.65%) Developer
2 213 (20.27%) .NET Developer
3 154 (14.65%) Senior
4 125 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 117 (11.13%) Senior Developer
6 97 (9.23%) Software Developer
7 72 (6.85%) Software Engineer
8 70 (6.66%) Trainee
9 65 (6.18%) Designer
9 65 (6.18%) Web Developer
10 62 (5.90%) C# Developer
11 60 (5.71%) PHP Developer
12 57 (5.42%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (4.95%) Administrator
14 48 (4.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 47 (4.47%) Lead
15 47 (4.47%) Web Administrator
16 43 (4.09%) Trainee Administrator
17 41 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 39 (3.71%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (92.10%) HTML
2 370 (35.20%) .NET
3 239 (22.74%) React
4 214 (20.36%) .NET Core
5 200 (19.03%) ASP.NET
6 173 (16.46%) ASP.NET Core
7 135 (12.84%) jQuery
8 133 (12.65%) Node.js
9 122 (11.61%) Vue
10 121 (11.51%) HTML5
11 102 (9.71%) CSS3
11 102 (9.71%) Entity Framework
12 97 (9.23%) RESTful
13 90 (8.56%) AngularJS
14 81 (7.71%) REST
15 78 (7.42%) JSON
16 74 (7.04%) ML.NET
17 54 (5.14%) Laravel
18 49 (4.66%) .NET Framework
19 44 (4.19%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.04%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.57%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.28%) Social Media
9 23 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 21 (2.00%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.33%) Graphic Design
14 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
15 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.86%) Robotics
17 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.57%) Windows
2 45 (4.28%) Linux
3 22 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Android
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (39.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 378 (35.97%) Agile
3 342 (32.54%) CI/CD
4 229 (21.79%) AI
5 227 (21.60%) DevOps
6 193 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (18.08%) User Experience
8 176 (16.75%) Web Development
9 137 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 133 (12.65%) Computer Science
11 132 (12.56%) Machine Learning
12 127 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (11.51%) Software Engineering
14 118 (11.23%) Front End Development
15 94 (8.94%) Analytics
16 90 (8.56%) OO
17 89 (8.47%) Clean Code
18 84 (7.99%) Microservices
19 82 (7.80%) MVC
20 81 (7.71%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 622 (59.18%) JavaScript
2 463 (44.05%) SQL
3 370 (35.20%) C#
4 200 (19.03%) PHP
5 194 (18.46%) Python
6 178 (16.94%) TypeScript
7 91 (8.66%) Java
8 49 (4.66%) R
9 42 (4.00%) C++
10 32 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.24%) VBA
13 8 (0.76%) Bicep
13 8 (0.76%) Go
14 7 (0.67%) Ruby
14 7 (0.67%) VBScript
15 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.48%) Dart
15 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 186 (17.70%) Degree
2 108 (10.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 66 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 65 (6.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 65 (6.18%) Azure Certification
6 52 (4.95%) Security Cleared
7 44 (4.19%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (12.27%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.57%) QA
3 42 (4.00%) WCAG
4 38 (3.62%) GDPR
5 13 (1.24%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.14%) SLA
7 9 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.76%) PERC
9 7 (0.67%) GRC
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.38%) NCSC
11 1 (0.095%) NIST
11 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 156 (14.84%) Docker
2 15 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.57%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Puppet
4 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.095%) Grafana
5 1 (0.095%) Kibana
5 1 (0.095%) Nagios
5 1 (0.095%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 352 (33.49%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.76%) Adobe
3 41 (3.90%) Facebook
3 41 (3.90%) Google
4 31 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.00%) YouTube
6 19 (1.81%) Oracle
7 11 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 9 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.76%) Sage
10 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.67%) iManage
10 7 (0.67%) OneLogin
11 6 (0.57%) Apple
11 6 (0.57%) TikTok
11 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.48%) SAP
12 5 (0.48%) Splunk