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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 136 58
Rank change year-on-year -85 -78 +5
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,020 1,155 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.35% 3.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 13.97% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 810 675 1,370
10th Percentile £32,375 £27,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -0.95%

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 11,944 8,270 15,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 16.86% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,389 5,270 9,600
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -72 947 £52,500 -3.67% 597
UK excluding London -68 777 £50,000 +11.11% 324
Work from Home -61 464 £55,000 - 280
South East +23 224 £47,500 +11.76% 74
North of England -56 218 £52,000 +22.35% 78
London -115 193 £60,000 -11.11% 317
East of England +1 112 £47,500 -12.04% 24
South West -34 98 £53,750 +43.33% 34
North West -75 94 £51,000 -1.45% 46
Midlands -92 90 £50,000 +2.56% 47
North East -15 78 £57,500 +88.52% 10
East Midlands -62 50 £50,000 -3.85% 15
Yorkshire -50 46 £50,000 +33.33% 24
West Midlands -68 40 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Wales -62 27 £43,013 -36.28% 12
Scotland -58 8 £37,500 +22.95% 38

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 56 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.61%) WordPress
3 42 (4.12%) CMS
4 38 (3.73%) IIS
5 27 (2.65%) Confluence
6 18 (1.76%) Apache
7 10 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.98%) Drupal
8 7 (0.69%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.59%) JBoss
9 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.59%) Moodle
9 6 (0.59%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.098%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.098%) Kentico
12 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.86%) Photoshop
3 17 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.27%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.78%) InDesign
6 8 (0.78%) Sketch
7 6 (0.59%) Elementor
7 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.39%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.20%) InVision
10 2 (0.20%) Trello
11 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 23 (2.25%) Shopify
2 5 (0.49%) Magento
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 348 (34.12%) Azure
2 217 (21.27%) AWS
3 167 (16.37%) GitHub
4 141 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.94%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (7.45%) Azure AI
7 73 (7.16%) Power Platform
8 58 (5.69%) Power Automate
9 56 (5.49%) Figma
10 53 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
11 51 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (5.00%) PowerApps
12 31 (3.04%) Google Analytics
12 31 (3.04%) SaaS
12 31 (3.04%) Serverless
13 30 (2.94%) GCP
14 21 (2.06%) iPaaS
15 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.29%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.88%) SSL
4 8 (0.78%) DNS
4 8 (0.78%) Intranet
5 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Profibus
7 4 (0.39%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) 4G
8 3 (0.29%) 5G
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Firewall
9 2 (0.20%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) VoIP
10 1 (0.098%) AMQP
10 1 (0.098%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.098%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.098%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 161 (15.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 147 (14.41%) MongoDB
4 125 (12.25%) MySQL
5 91 (8.92%) Relational Database
6 75 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (5.10%) Power BI
8 34 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.57%) Redis
11 14 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.37%) Metadata
11 14 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.08%) GIS
12 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
13 8 (0.78%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 209 (20.49%) Git
2 42 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.02%) JIRA
4 23 (2.25%) GitLab
5 18 (1.76%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 17 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (1.47%) Selenium
7 15 (1.47%) Storybook
7 15 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (1.18%) Vite
9 9 (0.88%) Maven
9 9 (0.88%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.78%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.78%) NUnit
11 7 (0.69%) MSI
11 7 (0.69%) Postman
12 6 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 321 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 139 (13.63%) Marketing
3 111 (10.88%) Finance
4 108 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 103 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (5.39%) Advertising
8 47 (4.61%) Law
9 30 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.45%) Retail
12 22 (2.16%) Legal
13 20 (1.96%) Games
13 20 (1.96%) Multimedia
14 18 (1.76%) Banking
15 14 (1.37%) Automotive
16 11 (1.08%) Publishing
17 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.88%) Aviation
18 9 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 662 (64.90%) Developer
2 215 (21.08%) .NET Developer
3 196 (19.22%) Senior
4 143 (14.02%) Senior Developer
5 116 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (7.16%) Web Developer
7 71 (6.96%) Software Developer
8 69 (6.76%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.59%) PHP Developer
10 52 (5.10%) Designer
11 50 (4.90%) C# Developer
11 50 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 44 (4.31%) Lead
13 39 (3.82%) Consultant
14 36 (3.53%) Analyst
15 31 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
17 29 (2.84%) UX Designer
18 28 (2.75%) Junior
19 27 (2.65%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (90.78%) HTML
2 369 (36.18%) .NET
3 228 (22.35%) .NET Core
4 221 (21.67%) ASP.NET
4 221 (21.67%) React
5 181 (17.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 155 (15.20%) Node.js
7 144 (14.12%) REST
8 130 (12.75%) HTML5
9 125 (12.25%) Entity Framework
10 124 (12.16%) jQuery
11 107 (10.49%) CSS3
12 96 (9.41%) RESTful
13 90 (8.82%) Vue
14 84 (8.24%) AngularJS
15 80 (7.84%) .NET Framework
16 71 (6.96%) ML.NET
17 69 (6.76%) JSON
18 54 (5.29%) Laravel
19 46 (4.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
2 47 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.63%) Marketing Technology
6 36 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.84%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.55%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.45%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.06%) Social Media
11 19 (1.86%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.76%) Robotics
13 16 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.18%) Blog
14 12 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.08%) CMDB
15 11 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.88%) Windows
2 57 (5.59%) Linux
3 26 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) AIX
6 3 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) macOS
8 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (40.00%) Agile
2 384 (37.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 382 (37.45%) CI/CD
4 255 (25.00%) AI
5 236 (23.14%) DevOps
6 209 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (18.53%) User Experience
8 168 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (14.61%) Web Development
10 141 (13.82%) Mentoring
11 134 (13.14%) Test Automation
12 132 (12.94%) Software Engineering
13 111 (10.88%) Front End Development
14 106 (10.39%) Machine Learning
15 94 (9.22%) Computer Science
16 86 (8.43%) Microservices
17 85 (8.33%) Clean Code
18 84 (8.24%) Analytics
18 84 (8.24%) SEO
18 84 (8.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 636 (62.35%) JavaScript
2 387 (37.94%) SQL
3 367 (35.98%) C#
4 218 (21.37%) TypeScript
5 152 (14.90%) Python
6 148 (14.51%) PHP
7 79 (7.75%) Java
8 28 (2.75%) C++
9 22 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.67%) Ruby
10 17 (1.67%) VB.NET
11 16 (1.57%) VBA
12 14 (1.37%) Go
13 13 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.78%) Bicep
15 6 (0.59%) Bash
15 6 (0.59%) VBScript
16 5 (0.49%) Perl
17 4 (0.39%) C
17 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (15.69%) Degree
2 115 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 101 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 80 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 10 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.49%) HNC
10 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.098%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (18.24%) Accessibility
2 93 (9.12%) WCAG
3 84 (8.24%) QA
4 30 (2.94%) GDPR
5 15 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.69%) NCSC
8 6 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.39%) WAI
9 4 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
10 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.098%) PERC
12 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (18.33%) Docker
2 13 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 121 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.49%) Nagios
4 4 (0.39%) Puppet
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.20%) Plesk
7 1 (0.098%) Ansible
7 1 (0.098%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Consul
7 1 (0.098%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 306 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.27%) Adobe
3 44 (4.31%) Google
4 40 (3.92%) Facebook
5 30 (2.94%) Oracle
6 22 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.06%) YouTube
8 13 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.18%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.78%) Splunk
12 8 (0.78%) WooCommerce
13 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
14 5 (0.49%) iManage
14 5 (0.49%) New Relic
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.39%) Siemens