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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 133 57
Rank change year-on-year -73 -76 +5
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,047 1,179 2,986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 2.39% 3.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.84% 13.75% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 850 694 1,519
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -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 11,840 8,572 16,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 17.36% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,484 5,491 10,707
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 16 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 16 September 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 -59 970 £52,500 -4.55% 924
UK excluding London -52 789 £50,000 +11.11% 547
Work from Home -38 510 £55,000 - 392
South East +18 231 £48,000 +12.94% 116
North of England -55 212 £51,000 +7.37% 140
London -111 203 £60,000 -7.69% 478
East of England +6 120 £48,760 -2.48% 53
South West -23 100 £53,125 +41.67% 63
North West -64 95 £51,000 -2.86% 79
Midlands -67 94 £50,000 +8.11% 95
North East -16 65 £57,500 +88.52% 23
Yorkshire -35 52 £50,000 +25.00% 41
East Midlands -62 51 £50,000 +5.26% 52
West Midlands -63 43 £47,500 +5.56% 43
Wales -69 26 £41,750 -38.15% 15
Scotland -54 6 £32,500 -35.00% 48

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 62 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.58%) WordPress
3 41 (3.92%) CMS
4 38 (3.63%) IIS
5 29 (2.77%) Confluence
6 17 (1.62%) Apache
7 10 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.67%) Drupal
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.57%) JBoss
9 6 (0.57%) Moodle
9 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.48%) nginx
11 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.096%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.096%) Kentico
13 1 (0.096%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.72%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.24%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.76%) InDesign
6 8 (0.76%) Sketch
7 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.38%) Elementor
9 4 (0.38%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.19%) InVision
11 2 (0.19%) Trello
12 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (2.20%) Shopify
2 8 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.67%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.096%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 366 (34.96%) Azure
2 236 (22.54%) AWS
3 167 (15.95%) GitHub
4 148 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (7.83%) GitHub Copilot
6 80 (7.64%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.16%) Azure AI
8 62 (5.92%) Power Automate
9 60 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
10 57 (5.44%) Figma
11 55 (5.25%) PowerApps
12 50 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (3.92%) SaaS
14 37 (3.53%) GCP
15 34 (3.25%) Serverless
16 31 (2.96%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
18 21 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 19 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 17 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.87%) Internet
2 10 (0.96%) Intranet
3 9 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.76%) SSL
5 7 (0.67%) DNS
6 6 (0.57%) HTTP
6 6 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.38%) Network Security
7 4 (0.38%) Profibus
7 4 (0.38%) SMS
7 4 (0.38%) VoIP
8 3 (0.29%) 4G
8 3 (0.29%) 5G
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) SSH
9 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.19%) Firewall
10 1 (0.096%) AMQP
10 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.096%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (18.05%) SQL Server
2 170 (16.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (13.75%) MongoDB
4 136 (12.99%) MySQL
5 89 (8.50%) Relational Database
6 73 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
7 60 (5.73%) Power BI
8 34 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.72%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.24%) Metadata
13 12 (1.15%) Redis
14 11 (1.05%) GIS
14 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
15 8 (0.76%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.76%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.67%) Tableau
17 4 (0.38%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 204 (19.48%) Git
2 50 (4.78%) JIRA
3 39 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.01%) GitLab
5 19 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 17 (1.62%) Selenium
7 16 (1.53%) Storybook
8 14 (1.34%) Visual Studio
9 13 (1.24%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.76%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.76%) Maven
12 7 (0.67%) MSI
12 7 (0.67%) Vite
12 7 (0.67%) webpack
13 6 (0.57%) PHPUnit
13 6 (0.57%) Postman
13 6 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 334 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 122 (11.65%) Marketing
3 113 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.22%) Finance
5 91 (8.69%) Public Sector
6 89 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (5.54%) Advertising
8 48 (4.58%) Law
9 36 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.87%) Retail
11 24 (2.29%) Legal
11 24 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.72%) Games
13 17 (1.62%) Multimedia
14 16 (1.53%) Banking
15 11 (1.05%) Publishing
16 10 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.86%) Automotive
17 9 (0.86%) Local Government
17 9 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 699 (66.76%) Developer
2 221 (21.11%) .NET Developer
3 184 (17.57%) Senior
4 143 (13.66%) Senior Developer
5 131 (12.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 82 (7.83%) Software Developer
7 79 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 72 (6.88%) Web Developer
9 71 (6.78%) C# Developer
10 69 (6.59%) PHP Developer
11 53 (5.06%) Designer
12 52 (4.97%) Lead
13 48 (4.58%) C# Software Developer
14 47 (4.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 45 (4.30%) Analyst
16 38 (3.63%) C# .NET Developer
17 36 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 35 (3.34%) .NET Software Developer
19 29 (2.77%) UX Designer
20 28 (2.67%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 963 (91.98%) HTML
2 390 (37.25%) .NET
3 237 (22.64%) .NET Core
4 230 (21.97%) React
5 220 (21.01%) ASP.NET
6 177 (16.91%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (14.14%) Node.js
8 142 (13.56%) jQuery
9 139 (13.28%) HTML5
10 125 (11.94%) Entity Framework
11 120 (11.46%) Vue
12 113 (10.79%) CSS3
13 112 (10.70%) REST
14 104 (9.93%) RESTful
15 81 (7.74%) .NET Framework
16 80 (7.64%) AngularJS
17 79 (7.55%) JSON
18 70 (6.69%) ML.NET
19 63 (6.02%) Laravel
20 42 (4.01%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 30 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.87%) Social Media
7 28 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 22 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.81%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.34%) Robotics
14 13 (1.24%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (1.05%) Blog
16 11 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.92%) Windows
2 59 (5.64%) Linux
3 29 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Unix
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (39.06%) Agile
1 409 (39.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 371 (35.43%) CI/CD
3 236 (22.54%) DevOps
4 234 (22.35%) AI
5 218 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (19.68%) User Experience
7 177 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (14.71%) Web Development
9 148 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 144 (13.75%) Software Engineering
11 126 (12.03%) Test Automation
12 112 (10.70%) Machine Learning
13 111 (10.60%) Computer Science
14 109 (10.41%) Front End Development
15 96 (9.17%) Clean Code
16 95 (9.07%) OO
17 92 (8.79%) Microservices
18 89 (8.50%) UX Design
19 87 (8.31%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 633 (60.46%) JavaScript
2 440 (42.02%) SQL
3 397 (37.92%) C#
4 211 (20.15%) TypeScript
5 179 (17.10%) PHP
6 146 (13.94%) Python
7 88 (8.40%) Java
8 39 (3.72%) C++
9 28 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.81%) VBA
11 17 (1.62%) Ruby
12 16 (1.53%) Go
13 15 (1.43%) VB.NET
14 13 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.86%) Bicep
16 7 (0.67%) VBScript
17 5 (0.48%) Dart
17 5 (0.48%) Perl
18 4 (0.38%) C
18 4 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 176 (16.81%) Degree
2 100 (9.55%) Security Cleared
3 90 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 86 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.48%) HNC
9 4 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.38%) HND
10 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.096%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.096%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (17.48%) Accessibility
2 88 (8.40%) WCAG
3 74 (7.07%) QA
4 36 (3.44%) GDPR
5 14 (1.34%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.05%) SLA
7 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.67%) NCSC
8 7 (0.67%) PERC
9 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.29%) GRC
10 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.29%) WAI
10 3 (0.29%) WAI-ARIA
11 1 (0.096%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (17.57%) Docker
2 14 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 117 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.48%) Nagios
4 4 (0.38%) Puppet
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.096%) Ansible
7 1 (0.096%) Consul
7 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 322 (30.75%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.35%) Adobe
3 44 (4.20%) Google
4 40 (3.82%) Facebook
5 26 (2.48%) Oracle
6 24 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.01%) YouTube
8 12 (1.15%) OneLogin
8 12 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.86%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (0.76%) Splunk
12 6 (0.57%) iManage
12 6 (0.57%) Sage
12 6 (0.57%) TikTok
12 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.48%) New Relic
13 5 (0.48%) Pinterest