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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 124 60
Rank change year-on-year -66 -64 +6
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,107 1,260 3,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 2.52% 3.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.28% 13.94% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 921 771 1,846
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.39% -4.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 11,928 9,041 17,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 18.06% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,678 5,900 12,128
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £107,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 24 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 24 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 -51 1,020 £50,000 -9.09% 409
UK excluding London -43 839 £50,000 - 367
Work from Home -45 517 £55,000 +4.76% 156
South East +21 229 £50,000 +17.65% 97
North of England -30 227 £50,000 -2.91% 84
London -109 212 £59,773 -11.45% 118
East of England 0 129 £48,130 -3.74% 38
South West -16 110 £52,500 +10.53% 42
North West -59 110 £47,500 -11.63% 47
Midlands -71 105 £47,500 - 75
North East -8 59 £56,250 +125.00% 14
Yorkshire -8 58 £50,000 +17.65% 26
East Midlands -52 53 £50,000 +0.50% 44
West Midlands -40 52 £45,000 -5.26% 31
Wales -50 28 £41,750 -38.15% 11
Scotland -54 10 £31,500 -60.63% 19
Northern Ireland -81 1 £31,000 -1.59% 5

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 (8.58%) WordPress
2 58 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.79%) CMS
4 31 (2.80%) IIS
5 26 (2.35%) Confluence
6 17 (1.54%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.63%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) JBoss
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.090%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.54%) Adobe XD
4 16 (1.45%) Photoshop
5 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.90%) InDesign
7 9 (0.81%) Sketch
8 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
10 3 (0.27%) Elementor
10 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.18%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.18%) InVision
11 2 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (2.26%) 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
4 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 437 (39.48%) Azure
2 307 (27.73%) AWS
3 227 (20.51%) GitHub
4 159 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.77%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.05%) Azure AI
7 75 (6.78%) Power Platform
8 66 (5.96%) Figma
9 59 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
10 57 (5.15%) Power Automate
11 53 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (4.43%) PowerApps
13 48 (4.34%) GCP
14 46 (4.16%) SaaS
15 34 (3.07%) Google Analytics
15 34 (3.07%) Serverless
16 27 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 21 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 107 (9.67%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) Intranet
3 8 (0.72%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.36%) DNS
5 4 (0.36%) HTTP
5 4 (0.36%) Network Security
5 4 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) Firewall
7 2 (0.18%) Profibus
8 1 (0.090%) AMQP
8 1 (0.090%) Broadband
8 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.090%) WAN
8 1 (0.090%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (16.71%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 148 (13.37%) MongoDB
4 145 (13.10%) MySQL
5 83 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 76 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (4.97%) Power BI
8 32 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.17%) Metadata
12 11 (0.99%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
13 9 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.81%) GIS
14 8 (0.72%) Tableau
15 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.63%) Redis
16 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 255 (23.04%) Git
2 52 (4.70%) JIRA
3 41 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.54%) Storybook
6 16 (1.45%) Selenium
7 15 (1.36%) GitLab
8 12 (1.08%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.99%) Axure RP
10 10 (0.90%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.81%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.81%) Maven
11 9 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.72%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.72%) webpack
13 7 (0.63%) MSI
13 7 (0.63%) Postman
14 6 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 326 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 121 (10.93%) Marketing
3 119 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.21%) Finance
5 95 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 71 (6.41%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.60%) Advertising
9 54 (4.88%) Law
10 40 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.71%) Retail
12 25 (2.26%) Legal
13 20 (1.81%) Games
13 20 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.36%) Banking
15 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Local Government
17 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 713 (64.41%) Developer
2 217 (19.60%) .NET Developer
3 174 (15.72%) Senior
4 133 (12.01%) Senior Developer
5 132 (11.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (8.67%) Software Developer
7 80 (7.23%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.78%) Web Developer
9 71 (6.41%) PHP Developer
10 68 (6.14%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.78%) Trainee
12 63 (5.69%) Designer
13 56 (5.06%) Lead
14 53 (4.79%) C# Software Developer
15 50 (4.52%) Administrator
16 47 (4.25%) Web Administrator
17 46 (4.16%) Analyst
18 43 (3.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 43 (3.88%) Trainee Administrator
19 37 (3.34%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,020 (92.14%) HTML
2 390 (35.23%) .NET
3 250 (22.58%) React
4 238 (21.50%) .NET Core
5 216 (19.51%) ASP.NET
6 178 (16.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 144 (13.01%) Node.js
8 139 (12.56%) jQuery
9 134 (12.10%) HTML5
10 118 (10.66%) Vue
11 117 (10.57%) Entity Framework
12 116 (10.48%) CSS3
13 103 (9.30%) REST
14 95 (8.58%) RESTful
15 89 (8.04%) AngularJS
16 78 (7.05%) JSON
17 74 (6.68%) ML.NET
18 70 (6.32%) .NET Framework
19 58 (5.24%) Laravel
20 45 (4.07%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.98%) Mobile App
6 32 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.62%) Social Media
9 28 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.81%) Digital TV
12 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.17%) Graphic Design
16 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
17 11 (0.99%) Robotics
18 10 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.24%) Windows
2 55 (4.97%) Linux
3 26 (2.35%) 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
1 424 (38.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 420 (37.94%) Agile
3 374 (33.79%) CI/CD
4 243 (21.95%) DevOps
5 238 (21.50%) AI
6 217 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (18.88%) Web Development
8 205 (18.52%) User Experience
9 169 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 150 (13.55%) Mentoring
11 145 (13.10%) Software Engineering
12 123 (11.11%) Machine Learning
13 115 (10.39%) Computer Science
14 106 (9.58%) Front End Development
15 104 (9.39%) Clean Code
16 99 (8.94%) Test Automation
17 98 (8.85%) OO
18 94 (8.49%) Analytics
18 94 (8.49%) Scrum
19 92 (8.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 680 (61.43%) JavaScript
2 456 (41.19%) SQL
3 394 (35.59%) C#
4 197 (17.80%) Python
5 196 (17.71%) TypeScript
6 195 (17.62%) PHP
7 95 (8.58%) Java
8 48 (4.34%) R
9 42 (3.79%) C++
10 32 (2.89%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.45%) Go
11 16 (1.45%) Ruby
12 15 (1.36%) VBA
13 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.08%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.90%) Bicep
16 7 (0.63%) Dart
16 7 (0.63%) VBScript
17 5 (0.45%) Perl
18 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (16.71%) Degree
2 94 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 93 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 80 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.33%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.27%) HNC
12 2 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.18%) HND
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.090%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.090%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (15.45%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.68%) WCAG
3 66 (5.96%) QA
4 39 (3.52%) GDPR
5 13 (1.17%) SLA
6 12 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.72%) PERC
9 7 (0.63%) GRC
9 7 (0.63%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.090%) NIST
12 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 183 (16.53%) Docker
2 16 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.45%) Nagios
4 4 (0.36%) Puppet
5 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.090%) Ansible
7 1 (0.090%) Consul
7 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 382 (34.51%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.32%) Adobe
3 49 (4.43%) Google
4 42 (3.79%) Facebook
5 26 (2.35%) Oracle
6 24 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.90%) YouTube
8 13 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.08%) OneLogin
10 10 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
11 9 (0.81%) Splunk
12 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.63%) Sage
14 6 (0.54%) iManage
14 6 (0.54%) TikTok
14 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
15 5 (0.45%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.45%) New Relic
15 5 (0.45%) Pinterest