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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 97 58
Rank change year-on-year -93 -39 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,007 1,292 3,818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 3.05% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.52% 15.44% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 847 1,025 2,868
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.62% +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 8,739 8,368 20,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.76% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,393 6,405 15,671
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £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 £79,600
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 29 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 29 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 -69 915 £47,500 -13.64% 370
UK excluding London -64 704 £43,250 -17.62% 313
Work from Home -78 328 £52,500 -5.83% 162
North of England -30 236 £31,500 -30.00% 66
London -74 231 £60,000 -14.29% 117
South East -64 150 £50,000 -16.67% 103
North West -34 119 £37,500 -25.00% 32
Midlands -37 119 £42,500 -5.56% 33
East of England 0 93 £45,000 +5.88% 57
Yorkshire -23 90 £30,500 -18.67% 20
West Midlands -28 72 £35,000 -30.00% 14
South West -68 72 £45,000 -25.00% 34
East Midlands -53 47 £52,500 +40.00% 18
North East -29 27 £30,500 -34.05% 14
Scotland -84 22 £30,500 -49.17% 14
Wales -38 10 £41,870 -25.89% 7
Northern Ireland -34 3 £60,000 - 9
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 94 (9.33%) WordPress
2 44 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.27%) CMS
4 16 (1.59%) Confluence
5 10 (0.99%) IIS
6 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.89%) nginx
7 6 (0.60%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) Drupal
8 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) govService
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Liferay
9 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 1 (0.099%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.09%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.99%) Sketch
5 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.79%) InVision
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.099%) Elementor
9 1 (0.099%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.099%) Trello
9 1 (0.099%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.59%) Shopify
2 11 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.099%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.099%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 462 (45.88%) Azure
2 408 (40.52%) AWS
3 310 (30.78%) GitHub
4 74 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (7.35%) Figma
5 64 (6.36%) Power Platform
6 56 (5.56%) GCP
7 42 (4.17%) SaaS
8 41 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (4.07%) Serverless
9 35 (3.48%) Power Automate
9 35 (3.48%) PowerApps
10 34 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (3.18%) Google Analytics
12 22 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 19 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 244 (24.23%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (13.80%) SQL Server
2 99 (9.83%) MySQL
3 56 (5.56%) Power BI
4 39 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.19%) DB2
10 10 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.79%) Tableau
12 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.70%) FileMaker
12 7 (0.70%) Looker
13 6 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.50%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.50%) Metadata
14 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 363 (36.05%) Git
2 52 (5.16%) JIRA
3 47 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.79%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.79%) Selenium
5 18 (1.79%) webpack
6 14 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.29%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.19%) Storybook
9 11 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.09%) Vite
10 9 (0.89%) Babel
11 8 (0.79%) GitLab
12 7 (0.70%) JUnit
12 7 (0.70%) Maven
13 5 (0.50%) Gradle
13 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 242 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 229 (22.74%) Multimedia
3 124 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.63%) Finance
5 83 (8.24%) Marketing
6 51 (5.06%) Law
7 47 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.48%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.48%) Retail
10 24 (2.38%) Legal
11 21 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.79%) Banking
13 11 (1.09%) Advertising
14 7 (0.70%) Games
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.40%) Back Office
17 4 (0.40%) Electronics
17 4 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 577 (57.30%) Developer
2 234 (23.24%) Trainee
3 154 (15.29%) Software Developer
4 144 (14.30%) Senior
5 122 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
6 105 (10.43%) Senior Developer
7 97 (9.63%) Trainee Developer
8 84 (8.34%) Trainee Software Developer
9 63 (6.26%) Administrator
10 61 (6.06%) Designer
11 60 (5.96%) .NET Developer
12 58 (5.76%) Web Administrator
13 56 (5.56%) Trainee Administrator
14 55 (5.46%) C# Developer
14 55 (5.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 53 (5.26%) PHP Developer
16 49 (4.87%) Web Developer
17 47 (4.67%) C# Software Developer
18 44 (4.37%) Lead
18 44 (4.37%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (91.16%) HTML
2 291 (28.90%) React
3 194 (19.27%) .NET
4 118 (11.72%) Node.js
5 107 (10.63%) jQuery
6 104 (10.33%) Vue
7 101 (10.03%) AngularJS
7 101 (10.03%) RESTful
8 96 (9.53%) HTML5
9 82 (8.14%) CSS3
10 64 (6.36%) .NET Core
11 55 (5.46%) ASP.NET
12 52 (5.16%) JSON
13 51 (5.06%) REST
14 43 (4.27%) Tailwind CSS
15 42 (4.17%) Laravel
16 40 (3.97%) Sass
17 39 (3.87%) .NET Framework
18 33 (3.28%) Bootstrap
19 32 (3.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.48%) Mobile App
4 34 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.89%) Social Media
9 18 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.38%) Windows
2 23 (2.28%) Linux
3 12 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.70%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.40%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (30.29%) Agile
2 296 (29.39%) Mentoring
3 236 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 197 (19.56%) User Experience
5 184 (18.27%) Cybersecurity
6 182 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 181 (17.97%) CI/CD
8 145 (14.40%) DevOps
9 144 (14.30%) Web Development
10 127 (12.61%) Front End Development
11 125 (12.41%) Computer Science
12 120 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (11.62%) AI
14 97 (9.63%) Software Engineering
15 94 (9.33%) Scrum
16 88 (8.74%) Analytics
16 88 (8.74%) Clean Code
17 80 (7.94%) UX Design
18 75 (7.45%) MVC
19 72 (7.15%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 760 (75.47%) JavaScript
2 334 (33.17%) Python
3 297 (29.49%) SQL
4 191 (18.97%) C#
5 190 (18.87%) TypeScript
6 154 (15.29%) PHP
7 137 (13.60%) R
8 93 (9.24%) Java
9 32 (3.18%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.88%) C++
11 12 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.09%) VBA
13 7 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.60%) Bash
15 5 (0.50%) Bicep
15 5 (0.50%) Dart
15 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.50%) VBScript
16 4 (0.40%) SOQL
16 4 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 235 (23.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 229 (22.74%) AWS Certification
2 229 (22.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 229 (22.74%) Azure Certification
3 175 (17.38%) Degree
4 104 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (5.46%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.57%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
13 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.099%) OCA
13 1 (0.099%) OCP
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.42%) Accessibility
2 40 (3.97%) QA
2 40 (3.97%) WCAG
3 28 (2.78%) GDPR
4 11 (1.09%) SLA
5 9 (0.89%) PERC
6 8 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.70%) GRC
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.099%) HL7
10 1 (0.099%) NCSC
10 1 (0.099%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (7.45%) Docker
2 13 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.89%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Argo
3 3 (0.30%) 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 (0.099%) Kibana
Vendors
1 375 (37.24%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.15%) Adobe
3 46 (4.57%) Google
4 20 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.89%) Oracle
7 8 (0.79%) Sage
8 7 (0.70%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.70%) iManage
9 6 (0.60%) Apple
9 6 (0.60%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.60%) SAP
10 5 (0.50%) Databricks
10 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.50%) TikTok
11 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.40%) New Relic