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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 135 57
Rank change year-on-year -74 -78 +3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,045 1,162 2,923
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 2.37% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.76% 13.65% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 841 682 1,505
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -10.19% -1.90%

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 11,936 8,510 16,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.32% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 5,452 10,637
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,438 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,222
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 16 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 21 September 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 -61 970 £52,500 -4.55% 914
UK excluding London -52 786 £50,000 +8.11% 538
Work from Home -45 503 £55,000 - 686
South East +19 235 £47,500 +11.76% 124
North of England -69 206 £52,000 +9.47% 142
London -119 205 £60,000 -7.69% 482
East of England +2 118 £47,500 -5.00% 49
South West -20 103 £52,500 +40.00% 51
Midlands -96 92 £50,000 +5.26% 89
North West -82 91 £51,000 -5.12% 83
North East -9 66 £57,500 +88.52% 22
East Midlands -66 50 £50,000 +5.26% 47
Yorkshire -42 49 £50,000 +29.03% 40
West Midlands -73 42 £47,500 +5.56% 42
Wales -64 26 £41,750 -38.15% 19
Scotland -50 6 £32,500 -35.00% 47

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 60 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.40%) WordPress
3 40 (3.83%) CMS
4 39 (3.73%) IIS
5 29 (2.78%) Confluence
6 18 (1.72%) Apache
7 10 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.67%) Drupal
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.57%) JBoss
9 6 (0.57%) Moodle
9 6 (0.57%) nginx
9 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.096%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.096%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.72%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.24%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.77%) InDesign
6 8 (0.77%) Sketch
7 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.38%) Elementor
8 4 (0.38%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.19%) InVision
10 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.30%) Shopify
2 7 (0.67%) Magento
3 5 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.096%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 360 (34.45%) Azure
2 230 (22.01%) AWS
3 169 (16.17%) GitHub
4 145 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (7.94%) GitHub Copilot
6 80 (7.66%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.18%) Azure AI
8 61 (5.84%) Power Automate
9 58 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
10 56 (5.36%) Figma
11 54 (5.17%) PowerApps
12 52 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (3.73%) SaaS
14 35 (3.35%) GCP
15 34 (3.25%) Serverless
16 31 (2.97%) Google Analytics
17 20 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
18 19 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 17 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.98%) Internet
2 10 (0.96%) Intranet
2 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.77%) SSL
4 7 (0.67%) DNS
4 7 (0.67%) Wireshark
5 6 (0.57%) HTTP
6 4 (0.38%) Network Security
6 4 (0.38%) Profibus
6 4 (0.38%) SMS
6 4 (0.38%) VoIP
7 3 (0.29%) 4G
7 3 (0.29%) 5G
7 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.19%) Firewall
9 1 (0.096%) AMQP
9 1 (0.096%) Broadband
9 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 168 (16.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (13.78%) MongoDB
4 137 (13.11%) MySQL
5 88 (8.42%) Relational Database
6 74 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
7 60 (5.74%) Power BI
8 34 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.34%) Metadata
12 13 (1.24%) Redis
13 11 (1.05%) GIS
13 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
14 8 (0.77%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
17 5 (0.48%) Tableau
18 4 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 205 (19.62%) Git
2 49 (4.69%) JIRA
3 40 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.01%) GitLab
5 19 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 17 (1.63%) Selenium
6 17 (1.63%) Storybook
7 16 (1.53%) Visual Studio
8 15 (1.44%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (0.86%) Vite
11 8 (0.77%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.77%) Maven
12 7 (0.67%) MSI
12 7 (0.67%) Postman
12 7 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.67%) webpack
13 6 (0.57%) Balsamiq
General
1 335 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 123 (11.77%) Marketing
3 113 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (9.86%) Finance
5 92 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 88 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (5.45%) Advertising
8 48 (4.59%) Law
9 35 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.68%) Retail
11 24 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.20%) Legal
13 19 (1.82%) Games
14 17 (1.63%) Multimedia
15 16 (1.53%) Banking
16 11 (1.05%) Publishing
17 10 (0.96%) Automotive
17 10 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.86%) Aviation
18 9 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 696 (66.60%) Developer
2 218 (20.86%) .NET Developer
3 186 (17.80%) Senior
4 143 (13.68%) Senior Developer
5 130 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 78 (7.46%) Software Developer
8 73 (6.99%) Web Developer
9 69 (6.60%) PHP Developer
10 63 (6.03%) C# Developer
11 52 (4.98%) Designer
12 51 (4.88%) Lead
13 49 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 44 (4.21%) Analyst
15 39 (3.73%) C# Software Developer
16 35 (3.35%) C# .NET Developer
17 34 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (2.97%) .NET Software Developer
19 29 (2.78%) UX Designer
20 26 (2.49%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 964 (92.25%) HTML
2 388 (37.13%) .NET
3 235 (22.49%) .NET Core
4 233 (22.30%) React
5 220 (21.05%) ASP.NET
6 177 (16.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 150 (14.35%) Node.js
8 140 (13.40%) jQuery
9 139 (13.30%) HTML5
10 126 (12.06%) Entity Framework
11 117 (11.20%) Vue
12 115 (11.00%) REST
13 113 (10.81%) CSS3
14 103 (9.86%) RESTful
15 83 (7.94%) .NET Framework
16 82 (7.85%) AngularJS
17 80 (7.66%) JSON
18 70 (6.70%) ML.NET
19 62 (5.93%) Laravel
20 45 (4.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.87%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.87%) Social Media
6 27 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.82%) Digital TV
9 19 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
10 17 (1.63%) Robotics
11 13 (1.24%) Graphic Design
12 12 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.05%) Blog
13 11 (1.05%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.22%) Windows
2 61 (5.84%) Linux
3 29 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Unix
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (38.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 406 (38.85%) Agile
3 373 (35.69%) CI/CD
4 237 (22.68%) AI
5 233 (22.30%) DevOps
6 219 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (19.81%) User Experience
8 176 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (14.83%) Web Development
10 143 (13.68%) Mentoring
10 143 (13.68%) Software Engineering
11 126 (12.06%) Test Automation
12 112 (10.72%) Front End Development
13 111 (10.62%) Machine Learning
14 108 (10.33%) Computer Science
15 93 (8.90%) Clean Code
16 90 (8.61%) OO
16 90 (8.61%) UX Design
17 88 (8.42%) Microservices
18 86 (8.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 637 (60.96%) JavaScript
2 432 (41.34%) SQL
3 389 (37.22%) C#
4 217 (20.77%) TypeScript
5 174 (16.65%) PHP
6 147 (14.07%) Python
7 85 (8.13%) Java
8 36 (3.44%) C++
9 26 (2.49%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.82%) VBA
11 17 (1.63%) Ruby
12 16 (1.53%) Go
12 16 (1.53%) VB.NET
13 13 (1.24%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.86%) Bicep
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 5 (0.48%) Bash
16 5 (0.48%) C
16 5 (0.48%) Dart
16 5 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 175 (16.75%) Degree
2 102 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 89 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (8.42%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.77%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.48%) HNC
10 4 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.38%) HND
11 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.096%) City & Guilds
13 1 (0.096%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (17.80%) Accessibility
2 88 (8.42%) WCAG
3 75 (7.18%) QA
4 36 (3.44%) GDPR
5 15 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.05%) SLA
7 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 5 (0.48%) PERC
10 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) WAI
11 3 (0.29%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 1 (0.096%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (17.89%) Docker
2 14 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.48%) Nagios
4 4 (0.38%) Puppet
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.096%) Ansible
7 1 (0.096%) Argo
7 1 (0.096%) Consul
7 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 317 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.18%) Adobe
3 43 (4.11%) Google
4 40 (3.83%) Facebook
5 28 (2.68%) Oracle
6 22 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.01%) YouTube
8 13 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.15%) OneLogin
10 10 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (0.77%) Splunk
12 7 (0.67%) TikTok
12 7 (0.67%) WooCommerce
13 6 (0.57%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.57%) iManage
13 6 (0.57%) Pinterest
13 6 (0.57%) Sage
14 5 (0.48%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.48%) Red Hat