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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 90 58
Rank change year-on-year -75 -32 -13
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,078 1,346 3,670
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 3.28% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.76% 15.41% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 901 1,068 2,866
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £53,064
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.65% -7.72%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,446 8,734 19,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.31% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,187 6,602 15,515
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 6 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 6 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 -64 967 £45,000 -18.18% 514
UK excluding London -59 760 £40,000 -23.81% 423
Work from Home -69 340 £52,500 -4.55% 223
North of England -24 272 £31,000 -31.11% 113
London -72 233 £60,000 -14.29% 154
South East -71 155 £50,000 -16.67% 102
North West -33 125 £31,500 -37.00% 57
Midlands -37 119 £42,039 -6.58% 59
Yorkshire -4 113 £30,500 -18.67% 34
East of England -20 90 £40,000 -15.79% 72
South West -60 82 £40,000 -33.33% 51
West Midlands -8 71 £31,500 -40.00% 29
East Midlands -48 48 £51,250 +41.38% 30
North East -12 34 £30,500 -35.79% 22
Scotland -80 30 £30,500 -47.64% 14
Wales -33 10 £36,370 -30.72% 17
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 4
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
1 113 (10.48%) WordPress
2 55 (5.10%) CMS
3 29 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.39%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 6 (0.56%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.093%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 30 (2.78%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.11%) Sketch
5 11 (1.02%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.83%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.74%) InVision
8 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
9 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.46%) InDesign
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (0.19%) Windchill
12 1 (0.093%) Elementor
12 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.39%) Shopify
2 10 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.093%) Line 50
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 519 (48.14%) Azure
2 468 (43.41%) AWS
3 370 (34.32%) GitHub
4 81 (7.51%) Figma
5 74 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (5.75%) GCP
7 59 (5.47%) Serverless
8 46 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 45 (4.17%) SaaS
10 31 (2.88%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 23 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (1.95%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.76%) Entra ID
15 19 (1.76%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.76%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.58%) PaaS
17 12 (1.11%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 290 (26.90%) Internet
2 8 (0.74%) HTTP
3 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.093%) Network Security
7 1 (0.093%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (11.78%) SQL Server
2 103 (9.55%) MySQL
3 47 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.71%) Relational Database
5 39 (3.62%) Power BI
6 32 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.30%) DB2
10 12 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.93%) Tableau
13 9 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.83%) Looker
14 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.37%) FileMaker
17 3 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 426 (39.52%) Git
2 52 (4.82%) JIRA
3 49 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 22 (2.04%) webpack
6 21 (1.95%) Axure RP
6 21 (1.95%) Selenium
7 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
7 14 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.21%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.21%) Vite
9 12 (1.11%) Storybook
10 11 (1.02%) Babel
11 8 (0.74%) GitLab
11 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.65%) Maven
13 6 (0.56%) JUnit
14 5 (0.46%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 278 (25.79%) Multimedia
2 234 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 126 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.65%) Finance
5 87 (8.07%) Marketing
6 53 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (4.55%) Law
8 42 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 28 (2.60%) Retail
10 24 (2.23%) Banking
11 22 (2.04%) Legal
11 22 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.02%) Advertising
13 7 (0.65%) Games
13 7 (0.65%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Back Office
14 6 (0.56%) Electronics
15 5 (0.46%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 609 (56.49%) Developer
2 280 (25.97%) Trainee
3 169 (15.68%) Software Developer
4 152 (14.10%) Senior
5 126 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (10.67%) Trainee Developer
7 109 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 101 (9.37%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (7.24%) Administrator
10 74 (6.86%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.68%) Trainee Administrator
12 70 (6.49%) .NET Developer
13 69 (6.40%) Designer
14 67 (6.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 55 (5.10%) C# Developer
16 51 (4.73%) PHP Developer
17 47 (4.36%) Lead
17 47 (4.36%) Web Developer
18 43 (3.99%) Software Engineer
19 42 (3.90%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 983 (91.19%) HTML
2 317 (29.41%) React
3 194 (18.00%) .NET
4 123 (11.41%) Node.js
5 106 (9.83%) RESTful
5 106 (9.83%) Vue
6 102 (9.46%) AngularJS
7 100 (9.28%) jQuery
8 90 (8.35%) HTML5
9 74 (6.86%) CSS3
10 64 (5.94%) ASP.NET
11 55 (5.10%) .NET Core
12 53 (4.92%) REST
13 52 (4.82%) Tailwind CSS
14 45 (4.17%) Laravel
15 40 (3.71%) .NET Framework
15 40 (3.71%) Sass
16 38 (3.53%) Jest
16 38 (3.53%) JSON
17 35 (3.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.99%) Mobile App
3 41 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.32%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.48%) Social Media
11 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.74%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.65%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.95%) Linux
2 17 (1.58%) Windows
3 10 (0.93%) Android
3 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (31.82%) Agile
2 340 (31.54%) Mentoring
3 243 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 218 (20.22%) Cybersecurity
5 210 (19.48%) User Experience
6 207 (19.20%) CI/CD
7 196 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (14.84%) Web Development
9 156 (14.47%) DevOps
10 153 (14.19%) Front End Development
11 128 (11.87%) Computer Science
12 126 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (10.67%) AI
14 100 (9.28%) Software Engineering
15 98 (9.09%) Analytics
16 93 (8.63%) Clean Code
16 93 (8.63%) Scrum
17 87 (8.07%) UX Design
18 85 (7.88%) MVC
19 76 (7.05%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 837 (77.64%) JavaScript
2 391 (36.27%) Python
3 272 (25.23%) SQL
4 190 (17.63%) TypeScript
5 185 (17.16%) C#
6 168 (15.58%) R
7 145 (13.45%) PHP
8 95 (8.81%) Java
9 28 (2.60%) C++
10 16 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.65%) Ruby
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
13 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.46%) Bicep
14 5 (0.46%) Dart
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) SOSL
15 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 283 (26.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 278 (25.79%) AWS Certification
2 278 (25.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 278 (25.79%) Azure Certification
3 181 (16.79%) Degree
4 105 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (5.19%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.093%) CCA
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.093%) OCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (11.69%) Accessibility
2 46 (4.27%) QA
3 45 (4.17%) WCAG
4 25 (2.32%) GDPR
5 11 (1.02%) PERC
6 8 (0.74%) SLA
7 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
8 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.19%) Section 508
11 1 (0.093%) HL7
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.093%) NCSC
11 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (7.98%) Docker
2 8 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.69%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 406 (37.66%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.57%) Adobe
3 47 (4.36%) Google
4 23 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle
6 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.74%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.56%) SAP
9 5 (0.46%) Databricks
9 5 (0.46%) Foundry
9 5 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.46%) Sage
10 4 (0.37%) Concur
10 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.37%) New Relic
10 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud