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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 94 58
Rank change year-on-year -94 -36 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 996 1,458 3,808
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 3.36% 3.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.05% 16.74% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 841 963 2,863
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £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 9,017 8,710 20,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 20.06% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 6,131 15,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,288 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 14 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 14 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 -78 910 £50,000 -9.09% 507
UK excluding London -76 708 £45,000 -14.29% 428
Work from Home -73 363 £52,500 -4.55% 223
North of England -43 228 £40,000 -11.11% 110
London -84 217 £60,000 -11.11% 150
South East -44 159 £50,000 -16.67% 111
North West -47 116 £40,000 -20.00% 56
Midlands -70 112 £45,000 - 60
East of England +4 104 £47,500 +18.75% 68
Yorkshire -30 81 £39,750 +6.00% 36
South West -52 76 £47,500 -20.83% 44
West Midlands -48 66 £42,039 -15.92% 20
East Midlands -63 46 £55,000 +37.50% 40
North East -24 31 £47,500 - 18
Scotland -86 17 £30,500 -49.17% 26
Wales -35 10 £43,500 -27.50% 10
Northern Ireland -33 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
1 102 (10.24%) WordPress
2 51 (5.12%) CMS
3 44 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.41%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) IIS
6 11 (1.10%) Drupal
7 9 (0.90%) nginx
8 8 (0.80%) Apache
8 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 3 (0.30%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.81%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.10%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.80%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.60%) InVision
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.20%) InDesign
11 1 (0.10%) Elementor
11 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.10%) Trello
11 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.81%) Shopify
2 9 (0.90%) 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
1 447 (44.88%) Azure
2 373 (37.45%) AWS
3 274 (27.51%) GitHub
4 99 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (6.33%) Figma
6 62 (6.22%) Power Platform
7 52 (5.22%) GCP
8 43 (4.32%) SaaS
9 39 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 36 (3.61%) Serverless
11 35 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (3.51%) PowerApps
12 34 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
13 28 (2.81%) Azure AI
13 28 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
13 28 (2.81%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 199 (19.98%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) DNS
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (13.96%) SQL Server
2 106 (10.64%) MySQL
3 75 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (5.62%) MongoDB
5 54 (5.42%) Power BI
6 43 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (4.22%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.51%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.90%) DB2
12 9 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.80%) Tableau
14 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
15 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.50%) GIS
16 5 (0.50%) Looker
16 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 319 (32.03%) Git
2 48 (4.82%) JIRA
3 40 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.71%) webpack
5 16 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.51%) Axure RP
7 14 (1.41%) Selenium
8 12 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.20%) Storybook
9 11 (1.10%) Balsamiq
9 11 (1.10%) Vite
10 9 (0.90%) GitLab
11 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.70%) JUnit
13 6 (0.60%) Babel
14 5 (0.50%) Maven
14 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
15 4 (0.40%) ESLint
15 4 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 253 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 178 (17.87%) Multimedia
3 117 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.14%) Finance
5 84 (8.43%) Marketing
6 46 (4.62%) Law
7 43 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.51%) Legal
10 24 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.41%) Retail
11 22 (2.21%) Advertising
12 14 (1.41%) Banking
13 13 (1.31%) Games
14 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.60%) Local Government
16 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
17 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 599 (60.14%) Developer
2 183 (18.37%) Trainee
3 147 (14.76%) Senior
4 133 (13.35%) Software Developer
5 130 (13.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 108 (10.84%) Senior Developer
7 102 (10.24%) .NET Developer
8 71 (7.13%) Trainee Developer
9 61 (6.12%) Administrator
10 60 (6.02%) C# Developer
11 59 (5.92%) Designer
12 58 (5.82%) Trainee Software Developer
13 56 (5.62%) Web Administrator
14 53 (5.32%) C# Software Developer
14 53 (5.32%) PHP Developer
14 53 (5.32%) Trainee Administrator
15 52 (5.22%) Software Engineer
15 52 (5.22%) Web Developer
16 50 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 40 (4.02%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (90.96%) HTML
2 272 (27.31%) React
3 243 (24.40%) .NET
4 120 (12.05%) jQuery
5 118 (11.85%) Node.js
6 111 (11.14%) HTML5
7 110 (11.04%) Vue
8 106 (10.64%) .NET Core
9 104 (10.44%) RESTful
10 101 (10.14%) AngularJS
11 94 (9.44%) ASP.NET
11 94 (9.44%) CSS3
12 64 (6.43%) ASP.NET Core
13 61 (6.12%) JSON
14 60 (6.02%) REST
15 48 (4.82%) Entity Framework
15 48 (4.82%) Laravel
16 44 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
17 40 (4.02%) Sass
18 39 (3.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.31%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 20 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.71%) Social Media
10 15 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.90%) Digital TV
12 9 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.81%) Linux
2 25 (2.51%) Windows
3 14 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) 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
1 314 (31.53%) Agile
2 292 (29.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 246 (24.70%) Mentoring
4 218 (21.89%) CI/CD
5 193 (19.38%) User Experience
6 185 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (16.37%) DevOps
8 159 (15.96%) Web Development
9 143 (14.36%) AI
10 136 (13.65%) Cybersecurity
11 128 (12.85%) Computer Science
12 120 (12.05%) Front End Development
13 119 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 94 (9.44%) Clean Code
16 86 (8.63%) Analytics
17 85 (8.53%) Scrum
18 79 (7.93%) UX Design
19 76 (7.63%) Machine Learning
19 76 (7.63%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 707 (70.98%) JavaScript
2 331 (33.23%) SQL
3 293 (29.42%) Python
4 237 (23.80%) C#
5 183 (18.37%) TypeScript
6 167 (16.77%) PHP
7 112 (11.24%) R
8 89 (8.94%) Java
9 31 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.01%) C++
11 12 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.10%) VBA
13 6 (0.60%) Bash
14 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
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
1 184 (18.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 179 (17.97%) AWS Certification
3 178 (17.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 178 (17.87%) Azure Certification
4 173 (17.37%) Degree
5 104 (10.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (4.92%) Security Cleared
7 38 (3.82%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.10%) ISEB
13 1 (0.10%) OCA
13 1 (0.10%) OCP
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.65%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.22%) WCAG
3 41 (4.12%) QA
4 27 (2.71%) GDPR
5 11 (1.10%) SLA
6 10 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.70%) GRC
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) PERC
8 6 (0.60%) 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 93 (9.34%) Docker
2 12 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
4 2 (0.20%) Argo
4 2 (0.20%) cPanel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 358 (35.94%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.93%) Adobe
3 40 (4.02%) Google
4 17 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.31%) Oracle
6 10 (1.00%) Facebook
7 9 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.80%) Sage
9 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.70%) iManage
9 7 (0.70%) SAP
9 7 (0.70%) YouTube
10 6 (0.60%) Apple
10 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.50%) Splunk
11 5 (0.50%) TikTok