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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 109 57
Rank change year-on-year -78 -52 +10
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,048 1,366 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.78% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.29% 15.32% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 899 853 2,683
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -5.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £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 10,188 8,919 20,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 18.15% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,603 5,899 15,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -65 958 £50,000 -9.09% 634
UK excluding London -54 783 £50,000 - 670
Work from Home -45 492 £55,000 +4.27% 566
South East 0 207 £50,000 +5.26% 152
London -109 206 £60,000 -14.29% 125
North of England -42 204 £50,000 +2.56% 156
East of England +11 122 £47,500 +22.58% 80
North West -50 110 £45,000 -14.29% 82
Midlands -63 106 £47,500 - 98
South West -36 105 £52,500 -4.55% 63
West Midlands -47 56 £45,000 -5.26% 46
Yorkshire -20 53 £50,000 +25.00% 53
East Midlands -56 50 £50,000 +11.11% 52
North East -32 41 £57,500 +101.75% 23
Wales -42 26 £45,000 -33.33% 19
Scotland -65 10 £31,250 -59.68% 83
Northern Ireland -55 3 £60,000 - 28

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 99 (9.45%) WordPress
2 51 (4.87%) CMS
3 48 (4.58%) SharePoint
4 21 (2.00%) Confluence
4 21 (2.00%) IIS
5 13 (1.24%) Apache
6 10 (0.95%) Drupal
7 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
12 1 (0.095%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.095%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.095%) JBoss
12 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.53%) Photoshop
3 13 (1.24%) Adobe XD
3 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.95%) InDesign
6 9 (0.86%) Sketch
7 8 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.29%) Elementor
9 3 (0.29%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (2.00%) Shopify
2 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
4 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.095%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 428 (40.84%) Azure
2 283 (27.00%) AWS
3 219 (20.90%) GitHub
4 152 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.16%) Azure AI
7 69 (6.58%) Power Platform
8 66 (6.30%) Figma
9 51 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (4.87%) SaaS
10 50 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (4.48%) GCP
12 43 (4.10%) Power Automate
13 40 (3.82%) PowerApps
14 35 (3.34%) Serverless
15 33 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.58%) Google Analytics
17 24 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 103 (9.83%) Internet
2 10 (0.95%) Intranet
3 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.48%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.38%) Network Security
4 4 (0.38%) VoIP
4 4 (0.38%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.29%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.095%) AMQP
7 1 (0.095%) Broadband
7 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (16.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 162 (15.46%) SQL Server
3 147 (14.03%) MongoDB
4 128 (12.21%) MySQL
5 58 (5.53%) Relational Database
6 57 (5.44%) Power BI
7 56 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.05%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.05%) Metadata
12 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.86%) Tableau
15 7 (0.67%) GIS
16 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 218 (20.80%) Git
2 54 (5.15%) JIRA
3 35 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.62%) Cypress.io
5 14 (1.34%) Selenium
6 13 (1.24%) GitLab
7 12 (1.15%) webpack
8 11 (1.05%) Storybook
9 8 (0.76%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.76%) Postman
10 7 (0.67%) JUnit
10 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.67%) Vite
11 6 (0.57%) Maven
11 6 (0.57%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.48%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.48%) MSI
13 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 282 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.35%) Marketing
3 106 (10.11%) Finance
4 101 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.49%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.11%) Advertising
7 60 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (4.87%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (3.24%) Law
11 28 (2.67%) Retail
12 23 (2.19%) Legal
13 19 (1.81%) Games
14 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.95%) Banking
16 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
17 6 (0.57%) Automotive
17 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
18 5 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 664 (63.36%) Developer
2 211 (20.13%) .NET Developer
3 156 (14.89%) Senior
4 126 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 118 (11.26%) Senior Developer
6 91 (8.68%) Software Developer
7 72 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 65 (6.20%) Designer
8 65 (6.20%) Web Developer
9 64 (6.11%) Trainee
10 63 (6.01%) PHP Developer
11 61 (5.82%) C# Developer
12 57 (5.44%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (4.96%) Administrator
14 48 (4.58%) Lead
15 47 (4.48%) Web Administrator
16 45 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 43 (4.10%) Analyst
17 43 (4.10%) Trainee Administrator
18 40 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 964 (91.98%) HTML
2 369 (35.21%) .NET
3 234 (22.33%) React
4 212 (20.23%) .NET Core
5 198 (18.89%) ASP.NET
6 171 (16.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (12.98%) Node.js
8 134 (12.79%) jQuery
9 122 (11.64%) HTML5
10 121 (11.55%) Vue
11 103 (9.83%) CSS3
12 100 (9.54%) Entity Framework
12 100 (9.54%) RESTful
13 91 (8.68%) AngularJS
14 81 (7.73%) REST
15 79 (7.54%) JSON
16 73 (6.97%) ML.NET
17 55 (5.25%) Laravel
18 52 (4.96%) .NET Framework
19 45 (4.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.77%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.29%) Social Media
9 23 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.91%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.91%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.34%) Graphic Design
14 13 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.86%) Robotics
16 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.06%) Windows
2 47 (4.48%) Linux
3 25 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Android
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (39.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 380 (36.26%) Agile
3 344 (32.82%) CI/CD
4 231 (22.04%) AI
5 228 (21.76%) DevOps
6 199 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (18.13%) User Experience
8 179 (17.08%) Web Development
9 134 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 133 (12.69%) Mentoring
11 131 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 129 (12.31%) Computer Science
13 121 (11.55%) Software Engineering
14 113 (10.78%) Front End Development
15 96 (9.16%) Analytics
16 89 (8.49%) OO
17 87 (8.30%) Clean Code
18 85 (8.11%) Microservices
19 83 (7.92%) MVC
20 79 (7.54%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 621 (59.26%) JavaScript
2 461 (43.99%) SQL
3 371 (35.40%) C#
4 202 (19.27%) PHP
5 190 (18.13%) Python
6 180 (17.18%) TypeScript
7 92 (8.78%) Java
8 48 (4.58%) R
9 43 (4.10%) C++
10 32 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.15%) VBA
13 9 (0.86%) Bicep
14 8 (0.76%) Go
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 5 (0.48%) Dart
16 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.38%) Perl
17 4 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (17.27%) Degree
2 104 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (5.82%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (5.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 59 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 56 (5.34%) Security Cleared
7 48 (4.58%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (12.79%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.58%) QA
3 45 (4.29%) WCAG
4 38 (3.63%) GDPR
5 13 (1.24%) SLA
6 12 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.76%) PERC
9 7 (0.67%) GRC
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.095%) NIST
12 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (15.17%) Docker
2 15 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 112 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.67%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
3 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Puppet
5 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.095%) Grafana
5 1 (0.095%) Kibana
5 1 (0.095%) Nagios
5 1 (0.095%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 350 (33.40%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.77%) Adobe
3 41 (3.91%) Facebook
3 41 (3.91%) Google
4 30 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.00%) YouTube
6 20 (1.91%) Oracle
7 11 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
8 9 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.76%) Sage
10 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.67%) iManage
11 6 (0.57%) TikTok
11 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.48%) Apple
12 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.48%) Splunk
13 4 (0.38%) SAP