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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 100 59
Rank change year-on-year -90 -41 -16
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,021 1,290 3,852
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 3.03% 3.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 15.69% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 862 809 2,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,718 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% +7.62% -5.73%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -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 9,252 8,222 20,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.34% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,849 5,534 15,839
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 27 May 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 27 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 -68 937 £50,000 -9.09% 444
UK excluding London -57 727 £45,000 -13.46% 371
Work from Home -60 382 £55,000 -2.65% 185
North of England -34 230 £41,500 -11.70% 91
London -69 229 £59,773 -11.45% 138
South East -17 171 £50,000 -16.67% 89
North West -45 116 £40,000 -23.81% 49
Midlands -60 109 £45,000 +8.43% 59
East of England +16 107 £47,500 +40.74% 61
Yorkshire -3 79 £42,750 +14.00% 26
South West -52 79 £47,500 -20.83% 37
West Midlands -48 62 £42,500 -8.11% 21
East Midlands -60 47 £55,000 +46.67% 38
North East -18 35 £47,500 -2.56% 16
Scotland -81 17 £30,500 -49.17% 20
Wales -38 11 £45,000 -30.77% 12
Northern Ireland -35 3 £60,000 - 8

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
1 104 (10.19%) WordPress
2 54 (5.29%) CMS
3 44 (4.31%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.76%) Confluence
5 16 (1.57%) IIS
6 11 (1.08%) Drupal
7 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.88%) Apache
9 7 (0.69%) nginx
10 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.29%) govService
11 3 (0.29%) JBoss
11 3 (0.29%) Liferay
12 2 (0.20%) CICS
12 2 (0.20%) Moodle
12 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (1.47%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.47%) Photoshop
3 13 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.69%) InDesign
7 7 (0.69%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.49%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.20%) Trello
11 1 (0.098%) Elementor
11 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.15%) Shopify
2 10 (0.98%) 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
1 439 (43.00%) Azure
2 367 (35.95%) AWS
3 272 (26.64%) GitHub
4 107 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (6.46%) Figma
6 64 (6.27%) Power Platform
7 48 (4.70%) SaaS
8 47 (4.60%) GCP
9 43 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
10 42 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
11 37 (3.62%) Power Automate
12 36 (3.53%) Serverless
13 34 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 33 (3.23%) PowerApps
15 31 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
16 30 (2.94%) Azure AI
17 26 (2.55%) Google Analytics
18 22 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
20 19 (1.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 187 (18.32%) Internet
2 5 (0.49%) HTTP
2 5 (0.49%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) Broadband
6 1 (0.098%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 110 (10.77%) MySQL
3 81 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 62 (6.07%) MongoDB
5 55 (5.39%) Power BI
6 49 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.18%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.88%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.88%) Tableau
13 8 (0.78%) DB2
13 8 (0.78%) GIS
14 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 312 (30.56%) Git
2 53 (5.19%) JIRA
3 35 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.47%) webpack
6 13 (1.27%) Axure RP
7 12 (1.18%) Selenium
7 12 (1.18%) Storybook
8 11 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.98%) GitLab
9 10 (0.98%) Vite
10 9 (0.88%) Balsamiq
11 7 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.59%) JUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Maven
13 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
14 4 (0.39%) Babel
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 274 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 169 (16.55%) Multimedia
3 121 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.79%) Marketing
5 95 (9.30%) Finance
6 47 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.02%) Law
8 35 (3.43%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.84%) Retail
11 26 (2.55%) Legal
12 24 (2.35%) Advertising
13 13 (1.27%) Banking
13 13 (1.27%) Games
14 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.78%) Local Government
16 6 (0.59%) Automotive
16 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 616 (60.33%) Developer
2 169 (16.55%) Trainee
3 147 (14.40%) Senior
4 132 (12.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 132 (12.93%) Software Developer
5 114 (11.17%) .NET Developer
6 113 (11.07%) Senior Developer
7 65 (6.37%) Designer
8 63 (6.17%) Trainee Developer
9 62 (6.07%) C# Developer
10 61 (5.97%) Administrator
11 58 (5.68%) Software Engineer
12 56 (5.48%) C# Software Developer
12 56 (5.48%) Web Administrator
13 54 (5.29%) Web Developer
14 52 (5.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 51 (5.00%) PHP Developer
15 51 (5.00%) Trainee Administrator
15 51 (5.00%) Trainee Software Developer
16 44 (4.31%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (90.89%) HTML
2 266 (26.05%) React
3 263 (25.76%) .NET
4 124 (12.14%) jQuery
5 119 (11.66%) Vue
6 115 (11.26%) Node.js
7 114 (11.17%) HTML5
8 113 (11.07%) .NET Core
9 103 (10.09%) ASP.NET
10 102 (9.99%) AngularJS
11 101 (9.89%) RESTful
12 97 (9.50%) CSS3
13 73 (7.15%) ASP.NET Core
14 72 (7.05%) REST
15 65 (6.37%) JSON
16 54 (5.29%) Entity Framework
17 49 (4.80%) Laravel
18 47 (4.60%) Tailwind CSS
19 42 (4.11%) .NET Framework
20 39 (3.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 31 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 24 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.06%) Social Media
9 21 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.08%) Graphic Design
13 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.88%) Digital TV
14 9 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.69%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.23%) Linux
2 32 (3.13%) Windows
3 18 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Android
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (30.56%) Agile
2 310 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 235 (23.02%) Mentoring
4 233 (22.82%) CI/CD
5 201 (19.69%) User Experience
6 189 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (16.65%) DevOps
8 165 (16.16%) Web Development
9 161 (15.77%) AI
10 128 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (12.34%) Computer Science
12 125 (12.24%) Front End Development
13 124 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (10.19%) Software Engineering
15 93 (9.11%) Clean Code
16 83 (8.13%) Analytics
17 81 (7.93%) Machine Learning
18 80 (7.84%) UX Design
19 79 (7.74%) Responsive Web Design
20 78 (7.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 705 (69.05%) JavaScript
2 353 (34.57%) SQL
3 286 (28.01%) Python
4 254 (24.88%) C#
5 179 (17.53%) TypeScript
6 172 (16.85%) PHP
7 106 (10.38%) R
8 87 (8.52%) Java
9 34 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.13%) C++
11 13 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.27%) VBA
12 7 (0.69%) VBScript
13 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.49%) Bash
13 5 (0.49%) Bicep
13 5 (0.49%) Dart
13 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.39%) SOQL
14 4 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 173 (16.94%) Degree
2 170 (16.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 166 (16.26%) AWS Certification
4 164 (16.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 164 (16.06%) Azure Certification
5 100 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.21%) Security Cleared
7 33 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.098%) OCA
13 1 (0.098%) OCP
13 1 (0.098%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.66%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.31%) QA
3 41 (4.02%) WCAG
4 30 (2.94%) GDPR
5 13 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.08%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 7 (0.69%) PERC
9 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.098%) NCSC
11 1 (0.098%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (9.99%) Docker
2 14 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.67%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.098%) Grafana
5 1 (0.098%) Kibana
5 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 351 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.25%) Adobe
3 39 (3.82%) Google
4 23 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.67%) Oracle
6 12 (1.18%) Facebook
7 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.88%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.88%) iManage
9 8 (0.78%) Sage
9 8 (0.78%) YouTube
10 7 (0.69%) SAP
10 7 (0.69%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.59%) Apple
11 6 (0.59%) Splunk
12 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.49%) WooCommerce