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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 119 62
Rank change year-on-year -68 -57 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,113 1,290 3,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.59% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 15.15% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 931 800 1,918
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,450 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.09% -7.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 10,677 8,516 16,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 17.11% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,819 5,546 11,483
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -53 1,022 £50,000 -9.09% 536
UK excluding London -41 836 £50,000 - 404
Work from Home -44 518 £55,000 - 221
South East +8 225 £49,750 +10.56% 105
North of England -33 220 £50,000 -4.31% 106
London -96 218 £60,000 -11.11% 211
East of England +2 130 £47,500 -5.00% 40
South West -27 112 £52,500 +5.00% 43
Midlands -70 110 £45,000 -5.26% 68
North West -57 107 £47,500 -9.52% 57
Yorkshire -9 58 £50,000 +11.11% 35
West Midlands -53 58 £45,000 -5.26% 32
North East -16 55 £53,500 +100.00% 17
East Midlands -55 52 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Wales -51 27 £43,370 -35.75% 11
Scotland -53 10 £31,500 -60.63% 28
Northern Ireland -71 2 £45,500 +44.44% 7

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
1 101 (9.07%) WordPress
2 57 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 45 (4.04%) CMS
4 30 (2.70%) IIS
5 24 (2.16%) Confluence
6 17 (1.53%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.63%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) JBoss
9 6 (0.54%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.53%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.90%) InDesign
5 10 (0.90%) Sketch
6 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.27%) Elementor
8 3 (0.27%) InVision
8 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.090%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.090%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (2.43%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
3 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 443 (39.80%) Azure
2 312 (28.03%) AWS
3 225 (20.22%) GitHub
4 158 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (7.64%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.01%) Azure AI
7 74 (6.65%) Power Platform
8 73 (6.56%) Figma
9 59 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
10 54 (4.85%) Power Automate
11 50 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (4.31%) GCP
13 47 (4.22%) PowerApps
14 45 (4.04%) SaaS
15 34 (3.05%) Serverless
16 30 (2.70%) Google Analytics
17 29 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 22 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 105 (9.43%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) Intranet
3 7 (0.63%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.45%) HTTP
6 4 (0.36%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) VoIP
7 3 (0.27%) DNS
7 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
9 1 (0.090%) AMQP
9 1 (0.090%) Broadband
9 1 (0.090%) Profibus
9 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (16.62%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 150 (13.48%) MySQL
4 149 (13.39%) MongoDB
5 74 (6.65%) Relational Database
6 70 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (4.94%) Power BI
8 32 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.62%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.17%) Metadata
13 11 (0.99%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.81%) GIS
16 8 (0.72%) Tableau
17 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
17 7 (0.63%) Redis
18 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 255 (22.91%) Git
2 54 (4.85%) JIRA
3 40 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.98%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.53%) Selenium
6 15 (1.35%) GitLab
6 15 (1.35%) Storybook
7 14 (1.26%) webpack
8 11 (0.99%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.90%) Vite
10 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.81%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.81%) Maven
10 9 (0.81%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.72%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.72%) Postman
11 8 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.63%) JUnit
12 7 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 318 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 119 (10.69%) Finance
3 118 (10.60%) Marketing
4 115 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 71 (6.38%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.57%) Advertising
9 53 (4.76%) Law
10 37 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.52%) Legal
11 28 (2.52%) Retail
12 19 (1.71%) Games
12 19 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.26%) Banking
14 9 (0.81%) Publishing
15 8 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.72%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.72%) Local Government
15 8 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 716 (64.33%) Developer
2 217 (19.50%) .NET Developer
3 174 (15.63%) Senior
4 133 (11.95%) Senior Developer
5 127 (11.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 101 (9.07%) Software Developer
7 76 (6.83%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.74%) PHP Developer
8 75 (6.74%) Web Developer
9 69 (6.20%) Designer
10 68 (6.11%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.75%) Trainee
12 57 (5.12%) C# Software Developer
12 57 (5.12%) Lead
13 50 (4.49%) Administrator
14 49 (4.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 47 (4.22%) Web Administrator
16 44 (3.95%) Analyst
17 43 (3.86%) Trainee Administrator
18 37 (3.32%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,025 (92.09%) HTML
2 388 (34.86%) .NET
3 254 (22.82%) React
4 234 (21.02%) .NET Core
5 214 (19.23%) ASP.NET
6 176 (15.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 143 (12.85%) Node.js
8 142 (12.76%) jQuery
9 137 (12.31%) HTML5
10 124 (11.14%) Vue
11 117 (10.51%) CSS3
12 113 (10.15%) Entity Framework
13 98 (8.81%) REST
14 97 (8.72%) RESTful
15 92 (8.27%) AngularJS
16 79 (7.10%) JSON
17 74 (6.65%) ML.NET
18 65 (5.84%) .NET Framework
19 62 (5.57%) Laravel
20 45 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
2 41 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.61%) Social Media
9 25 (2.25%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.80%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.17%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.12%) Windows
2 54 (4.85%) Linux
3 26 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (38.01%) Agile
2 422 (37.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 369 (33.15%) CI/CD
4 246 (22.10%) DevOps
5 241 (21.65%) AI
6 217 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (18.78%) Web Development
8 207 (18.60%) User Experience
9 166 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 146 (13.12%) Mentoring
11 139 (12.49%) Software Engineering
12 125 (11.23%) Machine Learning
13 124 (11.14%) Computer Science
14 114 (10.24%) Front End Development
15 103 (9.25%) Clean Code
16 97 (8.72%) OO
17 94 (8.45%) Scrum
18 93 (8.36%) MVC
19 92 (8.27%) Microservices
20 91 (8.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 679 (61.01%) JavaScript
2 461 (41.42%) SQL
3 396 (35.58%) C#
4 212 (19.05%) PHP
5 199 (17.88%) Python
6 198 (17.79%) TypeScript
7 98 (8.81%) Java
8 48 (4.31%) R
9 46 (4.13%) C++
10 32 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.26%) Go
11 14 (1.26%) VBA
12 13 (1.17%) Ruby
12 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.90%) Bicep
13 10 (0.90%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.63%) VBScript
15 6 (0.54%) Dart
16 5 (0.45%) Perl
17 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (16.98%) Degree
2 100 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 72 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.30%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) HNC
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.090%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.090%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (14.91%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.38%) WCAG
3 60 (5.39%) QA
4 40 (3.59%) GDPR
5 14 (1.26%) SLA
6 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.72%) PERC
8 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.090%) NIST
13 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 182 (16.35%) Docker
2 14 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.32%) Terraform
3 10 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.090%) Ansible
8 1 (0.090%) Kibana
8 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 374 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.19%) Adobe
3 46 (4.13%) Google
4 42 (3.77%) Facebook
5 25 (2.25%) Oracle
6 23 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.89%) YouTube
8 11 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.90%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.81%) Splunk
11 8 (0.72%) Sage
11 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.63%) iManage
13 6 (0.54%) New Relic
13 6 (0.54%) TikTok
13 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
14 5 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.45%) Red Hat