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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 92 57
Rank change year-on-year -79 -35 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,075 1,342 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.26% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.53% 15.45% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 899 1,060 2,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,600
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,298 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,582 8,684 20,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 21.08% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,277 6,572 15,623
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 14 April 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 April 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 -67 969 £45,000 -18.18% 492
UK excluding London -70 756 £40,000 -23.81% 414
Work from Home -72 343 £50,000 -9.09% 198
North of England -28 265 £31,000 -31.11% 93
London -74 239 £60,000 -14.29% 149
South East -73 155 £50,000 -16.67% 101
North West -29 127 £31,500 -37.00% 47
Midlands -43 121 £42,039 -6.58% 63
Yorkshire -16 105 £30,500 -18.67% 31
East of England -14 94 £40,000 -15.79% 65
South West -65 80 £42,500 -29.17% 56
West Midlands -14 72 £32,000 -36.00% 27
East Midlands -54 49 £50,000 +33.33% 35
North East -19 33 £30,500 -35.79% 15
Scotland -74 29 £30,500 -49.17% 25
Wales -34 10 £36,370 -31.05% 16
Northern Ireland -40 3 £60,000 - 6
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
1 111 (10.33%) WordPress
2 50 (4.65%) CMS
3 32 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 6 (0.56%) Apache
6 6 (0.56%) IIS
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.12%) Photoshop
3 12 (1.12%) Sketch
4 11 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.74%) InVision
6 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.37%) InDesign
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.093%) Elementor
11 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) Shopify
2 11 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Magento
4 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.19%) Line 50
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 509 (47.35%) Azure
2 463 (43.07%) AWS
3 360 (33.49%) GitHub
4 82 (7.63%) Figma
5 74 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.67%) GCP
7 52 (4.84%) Serverless
8 51 (4.74%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.28%) SaaS
10 32 (2.98%) Google Analytics
11 31 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 24 (2.23%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.23%) PowerApps
15 22 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.67%) Entra ID
18 15 (1.40%) PaaS
19 13 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 284 (26.42%) Internet
2 7 (0.65%) HTTP
3 5 (0.47%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) VoIP
7 1 (0.093%) Broadband
7 1 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 106 (9.86%) MySQL
3 44 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.00%) Power BI
5 38 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.21%) DB2
10 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.84%) Tableau
13 8 (0.74%) Looker
14 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.47%) FileMaker
16 4 (0.37%) Metadata
17 3 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 417 (38.79%) Git
2 52 (4.84%) JIRA
3 48 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.05%) Cypress.io
4 22 (2.05%) webpack
5 20 (1.86%) Axure RP
5 20 (1.86%) Selenium
6 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
6 14 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.12%) Storybook
7 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.12%) Vite
8 10 (0.93%) Babel
9 8 (0.74%) GitLab
10 7 (0.65%) Maven
11 6 (0.56%) JUnit
11 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.47%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 271 (25.21%) Multimedia
2 239 (22.23%) Social Skills
3 130 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.23%) Finance
5 87 (8.09%) Marketing
6 50 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.65%) Law
7 40 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 28 (2.60%) Retail
9 23 (2.14%) Banking
9 23 (2.14%) Legal
9 23 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.02%) Advertising
11 7 (0.65%) Games
12 6 (0.56%) Back Office
12 6 (0.56%) Military
13 5 (0.47%) Electronics
13 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 604 (56.19%) Developer
2 274 (25.49%) Trainee
3 169 (15.72%) Software Developer
4 149 (13.86%) Senior
5 125 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 111 (10.33%) Trainee Developer
7 107 (9.95%) Senior Developer
8 97 (9.02%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.16%) Administrator
10 73 (6.79%) Web Administrator
11 71 (6.60%) Trainee Administrator
12 67 (6.23%) .NET Developer
13 66 (6.14%) Designer
14 64 (5.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 58 (5.40%) C# Developer
16 55 (5.12%) PHP Developer
17 48 (4.47%) Web Developer
18 47 (4.37%) C# Software Developer
18 47 (4.37%) Lead
19 46 (4.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 977 (90.88%) HTML
2 310 (28.84%) React
3 194 (18.05%) .NET
4 122 (11.35%) Node.js
5 107 (9.95%) Vue
6 105 (9.77%) jQuery
7 103 (9.58%) AngularJS
7 103 (9.58%) RESTful
8 89 (8.28%) HTML5
9 73 (6.79%) CSS3
10 62 (5.77%) ASP.NET
11 58 (5.40%) .NET Core
12 52 (4.84%) REST
13 50 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
14 46 (4.28%) Laravel
15 42 (3.91%) JSON
16 40 (3.72%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.63%) Sass
18 35 (3.26%) Jest
19 34 (3.16%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.56%) Product Ownership
2 42 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.77%) Social Media
10 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.74%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.14%) Linux
2 20 (1.86%) Windows
3 9 (0.84%) Android
4 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
8 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (30.98%) Agile
2 330 (30.70%) Mentoring
3 241 (22.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 212 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
5 206 (19.16%) User Experience
6 195 (18.14%) CI/CD
7 193 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (14.88%) Web Development
9 152 (14.14%) DevOps
10 144 (13.40%) Front End Development
11 131 (12.19%) Computer Science
12 126 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (10.51%) AI
14 100 (9.30%) Software Engineering
15 98 (9.12%) Analytics
16 95 (8.84%) Clean Code
17 93 (8.65%) Scrum
18 87 (8.09%) UX Design
19 86 (8.00%) MVC
20 75 (6.98%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 824 (76.65%) JavaScript
2 385 (35.81%) Python
3 287 (26.70%) SQL
4 191 (17.77%) TypeScript
5 188 (17.49%) C#
6 165 (15.35%) R
7 154 (14.33%) PHP
8 100 (9.30%) Java
9 32 (2.98%) C++
10 20 (1.86%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.65%) VBA
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.56%) Ruby
15 5 (0.47%) Bicep
15 5 (0.47%) Dart
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 276 (25.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 271 (25.21%) AWS Certification
2 271 (25.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 271 (25.21%) Azure Certification
3 184 (17.12%) Degree
4 109 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.30%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.37%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.093%) CCA
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.093%) OCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (11.35%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.09%) QA
3 42 (3.91%) WCAG
4 26 (2.42%) GDPR
5 10 (0.93%) PERC
5 10 (0.93%) SLA
6 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.65%) GRC
7 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.093%) HL7
10 1 (0.093%) NCSC
10 1 (0.093%) NIST
10 1 (0.093%) Section 508
System Software
1 83 (7.72%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.42%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Kibana
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 407 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.95%) Adobe
3 48 (4.47%) Google
4 22 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle
6 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.56%) Sage
8 6 (0.56%) SAP
9 5 (0.47%) Databricks
9 5 (0.47%) Foundry
9 5 (0.47%) iManage
9 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.37%) Concur
10 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.37%) New Relic
10 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto