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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 136 58
Rank change year-on-year -86 -78 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,014 1,144 2,852
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.31% 3.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.53% 13.63% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 813 665 1,439
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -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 11,893 8,391 16,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 16.93% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,435 5,349 10,054
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 3 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 3 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 -59 941 £52,500 -4.55% 1,008
UK excluding London -58 767 £50,000 +5.26% 851
Work from Home -53 472 £55,000 - 644
South East +16 227 £47,500 +11.76% 151
North of England -54 207 £52,000 +9.47% 186
London -112 197 £60,000 -9.43% 420
East of England -4 114 £47,500 -12.04% 75
South West -29 99 £53,750 +34.38% 80
North West -77 90 £51,000 -2.86% 96
Midlands -93 86 £50,000 +2.56% 116
North East -7 74 £57,500 +88.52% 35
East Midlands -71 47 £50,000 +0.50% 54
Yorkshire -51 43 £50,000 +29.03% 60
West Midlands -67 39 £50,000 +11.11% 62
Wales -66 26 £40,756 -39.62% 63
Scotland -55 8 £37,500 -25.00% 131

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 54 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.64%) WordPress
3 42 (4.14%) CMS
4 41 (4.04%) IIS
5 27 (2.66%) Confluence
6 18 (1.78%) Apache
7 10 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.89%) Drupal
9 8 (0.79%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.59%) JBoss
11 6 (0.59%) Moodle
11 6 (0.59%) nginx
12 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.099%) ExpressionEngine
14 1 (0.099%) Kentico
14 1 (0.099%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.07%) Photoshop
3 16 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) InDesign
6 8 (0.79%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.39%) Elementor
8 4 (0.39%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.20%) InVision
10 2 (0.20%) Trello
11 1 (0.099%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 25 (2.47%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Magento
3 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Line 50
4 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.099%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (34.71%) Azure
2 218 (21.50%) AWS
3 166 (16.37%) GitHub
4 142 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 77 (7.59%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.40%) Azure AI
8 59 (5.82%) Power Automate
9 55 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
10 54 (5.33%) Figma
11 52 (5.13%) PowerApps
12 51 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (3.45%) SaaS
14 31 (3.06%) GCP
15 30 (2.96%) Google Analytics
15 30 (2.96%) Serverless
16 17 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 17 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.23%) Internet
2 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.79%) Intranet
3 8 (0.79%) SSL
4 7 (0.69%) DNS
4 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
5 6 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.39%) Profibus
6 4 (0.39%) SMS
7 3 (0.30%) 4G
7 3 (0.30%) 5G
7 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.30%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) SSH
7 3 (0.30%) VoIP
8 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.20%) Firewall
9 1 (0.099%) AMQP
9 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.099%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (18.44%) SQL Server
2 163 (16.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (14.20%) MongoDB
4 128 (12.62%) MySQL
5 92 (9.07%) Relational Database
6 74 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (5.52%) Power BI
8 33 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.48%) Metadata
11 14 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.38%) Redis
12 12 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.08%) GIS
13 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
14 8 (0.79%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
17 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.30%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 204 (20.12%) Git
2 43 (4.24%) JIRA
3 40 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.07%) GitLab
5 17 (1.68%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.68%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.58%) Selenium
6 16 (1.58%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (1.38%) Storybook
7 14 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.99%) Vite
9 9 (0.89%) Maven
10 8 (0.79%) Axure RP
11 7 (0.69%) MSI
11 7 (0.69%) Postman
11 7 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.69%) webpack
12 6 (0.59%) NUnit
12 6 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 328 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 124 (12.23%) Marketing
3 108 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.16%) Finance
5 98 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 91 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (5.42%) Advertising
8 46 (4.54%) Law
9 33 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.56%) Retail
11 23 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.17%) Legal
13 19 (1.87%) Games
13 19 (1.87%) Multimedia
14 16 (1.58%) Banking
15 13 (1.28%) Automotive
16 11 (1.08%) Publishing
17 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.89%) Aviation
18 9 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 666 (65.68%) Developer
2 215 (21.20%) .NET Developer
3 191 (18.84%) Senior
4 142 (14.00%) Senior Developer
5 119 (11.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (7.50%) Software Developer
7 75 (7.40%) Software Engineer
8 71 (7.00%) Web Developer
9 56 (5.52%) C# Developer
9 56 (5.52%) PHP Developer
10 50 (4.93%) Designer
11 47 (4.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 43 (4.24%) Lead
13 38 (3.75%) Analyst
14 32 (3.16%) C# .NET Developer
15 31 (3.06%) C# Software Developer
16 30 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (2.96%) Junior
17 29 (2.86%) UX Designer
18 28 (2.76%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 931 (91.81%) HTML
2 377 (37.18%) .NET
3 231 (22.78%) .NET Core
4 224 (22.09%) React
5 221 (21.79%) ASP.NET
6 178 (17.55%) ASP.NET Core
7 152 (14.99%) Node.js
8 132 (13.02%) HTML5
9 127 (12.52%) jQuery
10 126 (12.43%) Entity Framework
11 123 (12.13%) REST
12 106 (10.45%) CSS3
13 99 (9.76%) Vue
14 96 (9.47%) RESTful
15 82 (8.09%) .NET Framework
16 80 (7.89%) AngularJS
17 76 (7.50%) JSON
18 70 (6.90%) ML.NET
19 52 (5.13%) Laravel
20 45 (4.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.66%) Social Media
8 26 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 26 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 23 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
10 19 (1.87%) Digital TV
10 19 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.78%) Robotics
12 16 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (1.08%) Animation
16 11 (1.08%) CMDB
16 11 (1.08%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.31%) Windows
2 60 (5.92%) Linux
3 29 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) AIX
6 3 (0.30%) Debian
6 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (39.94%) Agile
2 387 (38.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 373 (36.79%) CI/CD
4 239 (23.57%) AI
5 233 (22.98%) DevOps
6 213 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
7 199 (19.63%) User Experience
8 171 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (14.79%) Web Development
10 137 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 136 (13.41%) Mentoring
12 125 (12.33%) Test Automation
13 108 (10.65%) Front End Development
14 107 (10.55%) Machine Learning
15 101 (9.96%) Computer Science
16 89 (8.78%) Clean Code
16 89 (8.78%) UX Design
17 84 (8.28%) Analytics
17 84 (8.28%) Microservices
17 84 (8.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 624 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 401 (39.55%) SQL
3 375 (36.98%) C#
4 214 (21.10%) TypeScript
5 152 (14.99%) PHP
6 143 (14.10%) Python
7 81 (7.99%) Java
8 32 (3.16%) C++
9 24 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.87%) VBA
11 18 (1.78%) VB.NET
12 17 (1.68%) Ruby
13 15 (1.48%) Go
14 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.79%) Bicep
16 7 (0.69%) VBScript
17 6 (0.59%) Bash
18 5 (0.49%) C
18 5 (0.49%) Perl
19 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (16.47%) Degree
2 110 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 95 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 86 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) HNC
10 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.39%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (18.44%) Accessibility
2 91 (8.97%) WCAG
3 80 (7.89%) QA
4 33 (3.25%) GDPR
5 15 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.89%) SLA
8 7 (0.69%) NCSC
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.30%) WAI
10 3 (0.30%) WAI-ARIA
11 1 (0.099%) PERC
11 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 185 (18.24%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 119 (11.74%) 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 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Plesk
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.099%) Ansible
7 1 (0.099%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Consul
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 308 (30.37%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.00%) Adobe
3 44 (4.34%) Google
4 40 (3.94%) Facebook
5 30 (2.96%) Oracle
6 22 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.07%) YouTube
8 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.18%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Splunk
13 7 (0.69%) WooCommerce
14 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.59%) iManage
14 6 (0.59%) TikTok
15 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.49%) New Relic
15 5 (0.49%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.49%) Sage