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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 115 64
Rank change year-on-year -73 -51 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,097 1,314 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.66% 3.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 15.08% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 928 819 2,098
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
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 10,531 8,711 16,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 17.63% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,789 5,719 12,323
10th Percentile £40,450 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,183 £105,000
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 31 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 31 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 -64 1,006 £50,000 -9.09% 393
UK excluding London -41 822 £50,000 - 348
Work from Home -39 518 £54,356 +3.54% 157
South East +8 218 £50,000 +11.11% 93
North of England -32 217 £50,000 -0.99% 93
London -103 216 £60,000 -11.11% 110
East of England +14 127 £48,130 +13.25% 34
Midlands -69 111 £47,500 - 62
South West -24 110 £50,000 -4.76% 39
North West -48 109 £47,500 -9.52% 45
Yorkshire -7 59 £50,000 +11.11% 35
West Midlands -41 57 £45,000 -5.26% 31
East Midlands -51 54 £50,000 +5.26% 31
North East -15 49 £53,500 +100.00% 17
Wales -50 26 £45,000 -33.33% 12
Scotland -60 10 £31,500 -59.35% 19
Northern Ireland -64 3 £60,000 - 1

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 (8.93%) WordPress
2 53 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 49 (4.47%) CMS
4 27 (2.46%) IIS
5 23 (2.10%) Confluence
6 19 (1.73%) Apache
7 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.82%) Drupal
8 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.64%) nginx
9 6 (0.55%) JBoss
10 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.36%) Moodle
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.091%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.091%) PegaRULES
13 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.46%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.46%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.91%) InDesign
6 9 (0.82%) Sketch
7 8 (0.73%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.27%) InVision
10 3 (0.27%) Trello
11 2 (0.18%) Elementor
12 1 (0.091%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (2.10%) Shopify
2 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.55%) Magento
4 5 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Line 50
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.091%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 440 (40.11%) Azure
2 307 (27.99%) AWS
3 222 (20.24%) GitHub
4 153 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (7.57%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (6.93%) Azure AI
7 74 (6.75%) Power Platform
8 71 (6.47%) Figma
9 57 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (4.74%) SaaS
11 50 (4.56%) Power Automate
12 49 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (4.19%) GCP
13 46 (4.19%) PowerApps
14 34 (3.10%) Serverless
15 30 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 30 (2.73%) Google Analytics
16 22 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 20 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 104 (9.48%) Internet
2 10 (0.91%) Intranet
3 8 (0.73%) SSL
4 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.55%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.36%) HTTP
5 4 (0.36%) Network Security
5 4 (0.36%) VoIP
5 4 (0.36%) WAN
6 3 (0.27%) DNS
6 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) Firewall
7 2 (0.18%) SMS
8 1 (0.091%) AMQP
8 1 (0.091%) Broadband
8 1 (0.091%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (16.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 175 (15.95%) SQL Server
3 149 (13.58%) MongoDB
4 144 (13.13%) MySQL
5 67 (6.11%) Relational Database
6 66 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
7 58 (5.29%) Power BI
8 32 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.19%) Metadata
13 11 (1.00%) MariaDB
13 11 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.73%) GIS
15 8 (0.73%) Tableau
16 7 (0.64%) Redis
17 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 253 (23.06%) Git
2 56 (5.10%) JIRA
3 40 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.55%) Selenium
6 16 (1.46%) Storybook
7 15 (1.37%) GitLab
7 15 (1.37%) webpack
8 11 (1.00%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.91%) Vite
10 9 (0.82%) Maven
10 9 (0.82%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.73%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.73%) Postman
12 7 (0.64%) JUnit
12 7 (0.64%) Subversion
13 6 (0.55%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.55%) MSI
General
1 303 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.76%) Marketing
3 116 (10.57%) Finance
4 107 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (6.38%) Multimedia
7 65 (5.93%) Advertising
7 65 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 48 (4.38%) Law
9 37 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.37%) Legal
10 26 (2.37%) Retail
11 19 (1.73%) Games
12 15 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.28%) Banking
14 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.73%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.73%) Publishing
15 6 (0.55%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 703 (64.08%) Developer
2 214 (19.51%) .NET Developer
3 169 (15.41%) Senior
4 130 (11.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 127 (11.58%) Senior Developer
6 98 (8.93%) Software Developer
7 76 (6.93%) Software Engineer
8 74 (6.75%) PHP Developer
9 72 (6.56%) Web Developer
10 69 (6.29%) Designer
11 64 (5.83%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.83%) Trainee
12 58 (5.29%) C# Software Developer
13 53 (4.83%) Lead
14 51 (4.65%) Administrator
15 47 (4.28%) Web Administrator
16 46 (4.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 43 (3.92%) Analyst
17 43 (3.92%) Trainee Administrator
18 41 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,011 (92.16%) HTML
2 380 (34.64%) .NET
3 253 (23.06%) React
4 223 (20.33%) .NET Core
5 209 (19.05%) ASP.NET
6 175 (15.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (12.85%) Node.js
8 137 (12.49%) jQuery
9 135 (12.31%) HTML5
10 124 (11.30%) Vue
11 111 (10.12%) CSS3
12 108 (9.85%) Entity Framework
13 101 (9.21%) RESTful
14 94 (8.57%) AngularJS
15 91 (8.30%) REST
16 80 (7.29%) JSON
17 74 (6.75%) ML.NET
18 62 (5.65%) Laravel
19 60 (5.47%) .NET Framework
20 45 (4.10%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (3.56%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.73%) Social Media
7 28 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.82%) Digital TV
10 19 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 11 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
16 9 (0.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.10%) Windows
2 55 (5.01%) Linux
3 27 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.46%) Unix
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 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (38.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 411 (37.47%) Agile
3 364 (33.18%) CI/CD
4 239 (21.79%) DevOps
5 238 (21.70%) AI
6 205 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (18.32%) User Experience
8 195 (17.78%) Web Development
9 151 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (12.85%) Mentoring
11 132 (12.03%) Software Engineering
12 126 (11.49%) Computer Science
12 126 (11.49%) Machine Learning
13 112 (10.21%) Front End Development
14 99 (9.02%) Clean Code
15 95 (8.66%) Analytics
16 93 (8.48%) OO
17 90 (8.20%) Microservices
18 89 (8.11%) MVC
19 88 (8.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 663 (60.44%) JavaScript
2 468 (42.66%) SQL
3 386 (35.19%) C#
4 211 (19.23%) PHP
5 197 (17.96%) TypeScript
6 194 (17.68%) Python
7 97 (8.84%) Java
8 48 (4.38%) R
9 46 (4.19%) C++
10 32 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.19%) VBA
13 11 (1.00%) Ruby
14 9 (0.82%) Bicep
14 9 (0.82%) Go
15 8 (0.73%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.64%) VBScript
17 6 (0.55%) Dart
18 5 (0.46%) Perl
19 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (16.77%) Degree
2 101 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (6.47%) Security Cleared
4 62 (5.65%) AWS Certification
5 61 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 61 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 59 (5.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 59 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.46%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.091%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (14.40%) Accessibility
2 66 (6.02%) WCAG
3 58 (5.29%) QA
4 41 (3.74%) GDPR
5 14 (1.28%) SLA
6 10 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.73%) PERC
8 7 (0.64%) GRC
9 6 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.18%) WAI
11 2 (0.18%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.091%) NIST
12 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 179 (16.32%) Docker
2 13 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 120 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.10%) Terraform
3 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (0.55%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.091%) Ansible
8 1 (0.091%) Kibana
8 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 367 (33.45%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.11%) Adobe
3 48 (4.38%) Google
4 42 (3.83%) Facebook
5 25 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.01%) Oracle
7 21 (1.91%) YouTube
8 10 (0.91%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.91%) Splunk
9 9 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.82%) Sage
9 9 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.64%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.64%) iManage
10 7 (0.64%) New Relic
11 6 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.55%) TikTok
11 6 (0.55%) WooCommerce