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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 94 58
Rank change year-on-year -93 -36 -13
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,017 1,300 3,826
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 3.09% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.63% 15.44% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,031 2,878
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +6.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +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 8,745 8,422 20,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 19.99% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 6,440 15,720
10th Percentile £39,675 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 27 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 27 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 -73 924 £47,500 -13.64% 422
UK excluding London -66 712 £42,500 -19.05% 343
Work from Home -71 333 £52,500 -7.08% 313
North of England -29 243 £31,500 -30.00% 75
London -79 232 £60,000 -14.29% 142
South East -61 148 £50,000 -16.67% 107
North West -28 121 £37,500 -25.00% 42
Midlands -52 119 £42,500 -5.56% 44
East of England -13 93 £45,000 +5.88% 59
Yorkshire -16 93 £30,750 -18.00% 21
South West -70 74 £42,500 -29.17% 33
West Midlands -25 72 £35,000 -30.00% 22
East Midlands -54 47 £52,500 +40.00% 21
North East -31 29 £30,500 -34.05% 12
Scotland -82 23 £30,500 -49.17% 17
Wales -37 10 £41,870 -25.89% 9
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 10
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 95 (9.34%) WordPress
2 43 (4.23%) CMS
3 41 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.57%) Confluence
5 9 (0.88%) IIS
5 9 (0.88%) nginx
6 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) Drupal
8 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) govService
9 3 (0.29%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.098%) Camunda
11 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.98%) Sketch
5 9 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.79%) InVision
7 7 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.098%) Elementor
9 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.098%) Trello
9 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.57%) Shopify
2 11 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.098%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 464 (45.62%) Azure
2 416 (40.90%) AWS
3 316 (31.07%) GitHub
4 74 (7.28%) Figma
5 73 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.90%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.51%) GCP
8 43 (4.23%) SaaS
9 42 (4.13%) Serverless
10 37 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (3.15%) Google Analytics
11 32 (3.15%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.15%) PowerApps
12 31 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 18 (1.77%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 249 (24.48%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.69%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.098%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (13.57%) SQL Server
2 100 (9.83%) MySQL
3 52 (5.11%) Power BI
4 39 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (2.85%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.18%) DB2
10 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.79%) Tableau
12 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.69%) FileMaker
12 7 (0.69%) Looker
13 6 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.49%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.49%) Metadata
15 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 373 (36.68%) Git
2 52 (5.11%) JIRA
3 47 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.87%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.77%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.77%) Selenium
5 18 (1.77%) webpack
6 14 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.28%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.18%) Storybook
9 11 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.08%) Vite
10 9 (0.88%) Babel
11 8 (0.79%) GitLab
12 7 (0.69%) JUnit
12 7 (0.69%) Maven
13 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Subversion
13 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 235 (23.11%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.52%) Finance
5 86 (8.46%) Marketing
6 51 (5.01%) Law
7 47 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.44%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.46%) Retail
10 23 (2.26%) Legal
10 23 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.87%) Banking
12 11 (1.08%) Advertising
13 7 (0.69%) Games
14 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Military
15 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.39%) Back Office
16 4 (0.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 582 (57.23%) Developer
2 240 (23.60%) Trainee
3 158 (15.54%) Software Developer
4 143 (14.06%) Senior
5 120 (11.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 104 (10.23%) Senior Developer
7 100 (9.83%) Trainee Developer
8 87 (8.55%) Trainee Software Developer
9 64 (6.29%) Administrator
10 61 (6.00%) .NET Developer
10 61 (6.00%) Designer
11 59 (5.80%) Web Administrator
12 58 (5.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 57 (5.60%) Trainee Administrator
14 56 (5.51%) C# Developer
15 54 (5.31%) PHP Developer
16 48 (4.72%) C# Software Developer
16 48 (4.72%) Web Developer
17 45 (4.42%) Lead
18 44 (4.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (91.05%) HTML
2 291 (28.61%) React
3 191 (18.78%) .NET
4 117 (11.50%) Node.js
5 105 (10.32%) jQuery
6 102 (10.03%) Vue
7 101 (9.93%) RESTful
8 100 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 94 (9.24%) HTML5
10 80 (7.87%) CSS3
11 60 (5.90%) .NET Core
12 55 (5.41%) ASP.NET
13 51 (5.01%) REST
14 49 (4.82%) JSON
15 43 (4.23%) Laravel
15 43 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
16 40 (3.93%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.83%) Sass
18 32 (3.15%) Jest
18 32 (3.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (3.34%) Mobile App
4 26 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.87%) Social Media
8 18 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.69%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.26%) Linux
1 23 (2.26%) Windows
2 11 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.69%) Android
4 5 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (30.29%) Agile
2 304 (29.89%) Mentoring
3 236 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 193 (18.98%) User Experience
5 189 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
6 185 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
7 181 (17.80%) CI/CD
8 147 (14.45%) Web Development
9 144 (14.16%) DevOps
10 130 (12.78%) Front End Development
11 124 (12.19%) Computer Science
12 120 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (11.31%) AI
14 97 (9.54%) Software Engineering
15 94 (9.24%) Scrum
16 90 (8.85%) Analytics
17 88 (8.65%) Clean Code
18 79 (7.77%) UX Design
19 78 (7.67%) MVC
20 71 (6.98%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 766 (75.32%) JavaScript
2 340 (33.43%) Python
3 294 (28.91%) SQL
4 188 (18.49%) C#
4 188 (18.49%) TypeScript
5 154 (15.14%) PHP
6 140 (13.77%) R
7 93 (9.14%) Java
8 29 (2.85%) C++
9 28 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.98%) VBA
12 7 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.59%) Bash
14 5 (0.49%) Bicep
14 5 (0.49%) Dart
14 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) Ruby
15 4 (0.39%) VB
15 4 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 241 (23.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (23.11%) AWS Certification
2 235 (23.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 235 (23.11%) Azure Certification
3 175 (17.21%) Degree
4 103 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.31%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.42%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.098%) OCA
12 1 (0.098%) OCP
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.50%) Accessibility
2 40 (3.93%) QA
2 40 (3.93%) WCAG
3 28 (2.75%) GDPR
4 11 (1.08%) SLA
5 9 (0.88%) PERC
6 8 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) NCSC
10 1 (0.098%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (7.47%) Docker
2 12 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.97%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Argo
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
4 2 (0.20%) cPanel
4 2 (0.20%) Grafana
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.098%) Kibana
Vendors
1 377 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.78%) Adobe
3 46 (4.52%) Google
4 20 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.88%) Oracle
7 8 (0.79%) Sage
8 7 (0.69%) Hotjar
9 6 (0.59%) Apple
9 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.59%) iManage
9 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.59%) SAP
10 5 (0.49%) Databricks
10 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.49%) TikTok
11 4 (0.39%) Concur
11 4 (0.39%) CrowdStrike