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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 90 58
Rank change year-on-year -98 -32 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 993 1,481 3,842
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 3.39% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.22% 17.24% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 835 1,013 2,899
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
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 8,854 8,592 20,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 19.67% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,467 6,328 15,788
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £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 £79,600
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 7 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 7 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 -82 905 £47,500 -13.64% 504
UK excluding London -82 698 £45,000 -14.29% 436
Work from Home -87 331 £52,500 -7.08% 194
North of England -49 230 £32,000 -28.89% 97
London -76 225 £60,000 -12.73% 141
South East -61 150 £50,000 -16.67% 122
North West -53 116 £36,250 -27.50% 45
Midlands -70 113 £42,500 -5.56% 62
East of England +2 98 £45,000 +9.09% 74
Yorkshire -24 84 £31,000 -17.33% 34
South West -68 74 £45,000 -25.00% 46
West Midlands -40 69 £36,250 -27.50% 21
East Midlands -67 44 £55,000 +41.94% 41
North East -17 30 £30,500 -34.05% 18
Scotland -92 22 £30,500 -49.17% 27
Wales -35 9 £42,000 -25.66% 11
Northern Ireland -34 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 98 (9.87%) WordPress
2 44 (4.43%) CMS
2 44 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.51%) Confluence
4 10 (1.01%) IIS
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.91%) nginx
6 8 (0.81%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) 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%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
Applications
1 20 (2.01%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.51%) 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
6 8 (0.81%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.70%) InVision
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.61%) Shopify
2 10 (1.01%) 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
1 453 (45.62%) Azure
2 397 (39.98%) AWS
3 297 (29.91%) GitHub
4 80 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.75%) Figma
6 61 (6.14%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.64%) GCP
8 41 (4.13%) SaaS
9 40 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (4.03%) Serverless
10 35 (3.52%) Power Automate
10 35 (3.52%) PowerApps
11 34 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 33 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.92%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.91%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 229 (23.06%) 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%) 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%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.87%) MySQL
3 53 (5.34%) Power BI
4 47 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (3.73%) Relational Database
7 33 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.92%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.11%) DB2
11 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.81%) Tableau
13 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
13 7 (0.70%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.50%) Looker
14 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 351 (35.35%) Git
2 50 (5.04%) JIRA
3 46 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.71%) Axure RP
4 17 (1.71%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.71%) Selenium
4 17 (1.71%) webpack
5 14 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.21%) Balsamiq
6 12 (1.21%) Storybook
7 11 (1.11%) Vite
8 10 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.81%) Babel
9 8 (0.81%) GitLab
10 7 (0.70%) JUnit
11 6 (0.60%) Maven
12 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
13 4 (0.40%) Gradle
13 4 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 245 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 214 (21.55%) Multimedia
3 118 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.17%) Finance
5 78 (7.85%) Marketing
6 49 (4.93%) Law
7 44 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 23 (2.32%) Legal
9 23 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (2.32%) Retail
10 16 (1.61%) Advertising
10 16 (1.61%) Banking
11 9 (0.91%) Games
12 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.40%) Back Office
15 3 (0.30%) Electronics
15 3 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 577 (58.11%) Developer
2 219 (22.05%) Trainee
3 146 (14.70%) Software Developer
4 144 (14.50%) Senior
5 124 (12.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 104 (10.47%) Senior Developer
7 89 (8.96%) Trainee Developer
8 76 (7.65%) Trainee Software Developer
9 69 (6.95%) .NET Developer
10 62 (6.24%) Administrator
11 60 (6.04%) Designer
12 57 (5.74%) Web Administrator
13 55 (5.54%) Trainee Administrator
14 54 (5.44%) C# Developer
15 51 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 51 (5.14%) PHP Developer
16 50 (5.04%) Web Developer
17 47 (4.73%) C# Software Developer
18 45 (4.53%) Software Engineer
19 40 (4.03%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (91.24%) HTML
2 280 (28.20%) React
3 202 (20.34%) .NET
4 118 (11.88%) Node.js
5 112 (11.28%) jQuery
6 103 (10.37%) Vue
7 102 (10.27%) HTML5
8 101 (10.17%) AngularJS
8 101 (10.17%) RESTful
9 87 (8.76%) CSS3
10 74 (7.45%) .NET Core
11 62 (6.24%) ASP.NET
12 56 (5.64%) JSON
13 55 (5.54%) REST
14 44 (4.43%) Laravel
15 43 (4.33%) Tailwind CSS
16 37 (3.73%) .NET Framework
17 36 (3.63%) Sass
18 33 (3.32%) Bootstrap
19 32 (3.22%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.83%) Product Ownership
2 37 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.42%) Mobile App
5 26 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.71%) Social Media
11 15 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.70%) Podcast
16 6 (0.60%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.52%) Linux
1 25 (2.52%) Windows
2 13 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.60%) Android
4 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.40%) Unix
4 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (30.11%) Agile
2 276 (27.79%) Mentoring
3 254 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 194 (19.54%) User Experience
5 187 (18.83%) CI/CD
6 180 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
8 149 (15.01%) Web Development
9 145 (14.60%) DevOps
10 125 (12.59%) Computer Science
11 123 (12.39%) AI
12 122 (12.29%) Front End Development
13 115 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (9.67%) Software Engineering
15 89 (8.96%) Clean Code
16 87 (8.76%) Scrum
17 86 (8.66%) Analytics
18 81 (8.16%) UX Design
19 74 (7.45%) Responsive Web Design
20 71 (7.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 737 (74.22%) JavaScript
2 326 (32.83%) Python
3 302 (30.41%) SQL
4 197 (19.84%) C#
5 188 (18.93%) TypeScript
6 157 (15.81%) PHP
7 130 (13.09%) R
8 93 (9.37%) Java
9 32 (3.22%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.92%) C++
11 12 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.11%) VBA
13 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.60%) Bash
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%) VB
Qualifications
1 220 (22.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 215 (21.65%) AWS Certification
3 214 (21.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 214 (21.55%) Azure Certification
4 174 (17.52%) Degree
5 102 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (5.24%) Security Cleared
7 41 (4.13%) 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
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.10%) OCA
13 1 (0.10%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 39 (3.93%) QA
2 39 (3.93%) WCAG
3 27 (2.72%) GDPR
4 11 (1.11%) SLA
5 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.81%) PERC
6 7 (0.70%) GRC
6 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.60%) 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 81 (8.16%) Docker
2 13 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.81%) 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
1 370 (37.26%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.05%) Adobe
3 42 (4.23%) Google
4 18 (1.81%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.11%) Oracle
5 11 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 8 (0.81%) Sage
7 7 (0.70%) iManage
8 6 (0.60%) Apple
8 6 (0.60%) Facebook
8 6 (0.60%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.50%) Databricks
9 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
9 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
9 5 (0.50%) SAP
9 5 (0.50%) TikTok
10 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike