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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 122 62
Rank change year-on-year -63 -60 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,117 1,292 2,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.59% 3.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.45% 15.05% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 936 802 1,919
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,275 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.09% -8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,686 8,587 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 17.20% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 5,603 11,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 17 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 10 August 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 -52 1,024 £50,000 -9.09% 786
UK excluding London -38 840 £50,000 - 501
Work from Home -44 523 £55,000 - 335
South East +16 225 £49,750 +10.56% 123
North of England -33 221 £50,000 -4.31% 133
London -113 217 £60,000 -11.11% 393
East of England +2 130 £47,500 -5.00% 47
South West -21 113 £52,500 +2.44% 54
Midlands -60 111 £45,000 -5.26% 75
North West -55 108 £47,500 -9.52% 73
Yorkshire -15 59 £50,000 +11.11% 42
West Midlands -45 58 £45,000 -5.26% 38
North East -17 54 £53,500 +100.00% 21
East Midlands -54 53 £50,000 +5.26% 37
Wales -45 27 £43,370 -35.75% 14
Scotland -55 10 £31,500 -60.63% 43
Northern Ireland -69 3 £60,000 +90.48% 16

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
1 101 (9.04%) WordPress
2 56 (5.01%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.12%) CMS
4 31 (2.78%) IIS
5 24 (2.15%) Confluence
6 17 (1.52%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.72%) Drupal
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.54%) JBoss
10 6 (0.54%) nginx
11 5 (0.45%) Moodle
11 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.52%) Adobe XD
3 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.43%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.90%) InDesign
5 10 (0.90%) Sketch
6 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.27%) Elementor
8 3 (0.27%) InVision
8 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.090%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (2.42%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
3 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.090%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 442 (39.57%) Azure
2 313 (28.02%) AWS
3 225 (20.14%) GitHub
4 157 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (7.61%) GitHub Copilot
6 77 (6.89%) Azure AI
7 75 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 74 (6.62%) Figma
9 58 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (4.74%) Power Automate
11 50 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (4.30%) PowerApps
13 47 (4.21%) GCP
14 46 (4.12%) SaaS
15 35 (3.13%) Serverless
16 30 (2.69%) Google Analytics
17 29 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 22 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 105 (9.40%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) Intranet
3 7 (0.63%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.45%) HTTP
6 4 (0.36%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) VoIP
7 3 (0.27%) DNS
7 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
9 1 (0.090%) AMQP
9 1 (0.090%) Broadband
9 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (16.65%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 151 (13.52%) MySQL
4 149 (13.34%) MongoDB
5 77 (6.89%) Relational Database
6 70 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (5.10%) Power BI
8 32 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.16%) Metadata
13 11 (0.98%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.81%) GIS
16 8 (0.72%) Tableau
17 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
17 7 (0.63%) Redis
18 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 259 (23.19%) Git
2 55 (4.92%) JIRA
3 40 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.88%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.52%) Selenium
6 15 (1.34%) GitLab
7 14 (1.25%) Storybook
7 14 (1.25%) webpack
8 11 (0.98%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.90%) Vite
10 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.81%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.81%) Maven
10 9 (0.81%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.72%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.72%) Postman
11 8 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.63%) MSI
12 7 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 320 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.56%) Finance
2 118 (10.56%) Marketing
3 116 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 71 (6.36%) Multimedia
7 62 (5.55%) Advertising
8 53 (4.74%) Law
9 37 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.51%) Legal
10 28 (2.51%) Retail
11 19 (1.70%) Games
11 19 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.16%) Banking
13 9 (0.81%) Publishing
14 8 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.72%) Local Government
14 8 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 719 (64.37%) Developer
2 218 (19.52%) .NET Developer
3 177 (15.85%) Senior
4 135 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 129 (11.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 102 (9.13%) Software Developer
7 76 (6.80%) Software Engineer
7 76 (6.80%) Web Developer
8 75 (6.71%) PHP Developer
9 70 (6.27%) Designer
10 67 (6.00%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.73%) Trainee
12 57 (5.10%) C# Software Developer
13 56 (5.01%) Lead
14 50 (4.48%) Administrator
15 49 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 47 (4.21%) Web Administrator
17 44 (3.94%) Analyst
18 43 (3.85%) Trainee Administrator
19 38 (3.40%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,030 (92.21%) HTML
2 389 (34.83%) .NET
3 255 (22.83%) React
4 235 (21.04%) .NET Core
5 215 (19.25%) ASP.NET
6 176 (15.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 143 (12.80%) jQuery
7 143 (12.80%) Node.js
8 137 (12.26%) HTML5
9 125 (11.19%) Vue
10 116 (10.38%) CSS3
11 113 (10.12%) Entity Framework
12 98 (8.77%) RESTful
13 95 (8.50%) REST
14 93 (8.33%) AngularJS
15 80 (7.16%) JSON
16 74 (6.62%) ML.NET
17 65 (5.82%) .NET Framework
18 63 (5.64%) Laravel
19 45 (4.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 41 (3.67%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.60%) Social Media
9 25 (2.24%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.79%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.16%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.10%) Windows
2 55 (4.92%) Linux
3 26 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (38.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 425 (38.05%) Agile
3 370 (33.12%) CI/CD
4 246 (22.02%) DevOps
5 240 (21.49%) AI
6 219 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 210 (18.80%) Web Development
8 207 (18.53%) User Experience
9 164 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 146 (13.07%) Mentoring
11 139 (12.44%) Software Engineering
12 126 (11.28%) Computer Science
13 125 (11.19%) Machine Learning
14 114 (10.21%) Front End Development
15 103 (9.22%) Clean Code
16 97 (8.68%) OO
17 95 (8.50%) Scrum
18 94 (8.42%) MVC
19 92 (8.24%) Analytics
19 92 (8.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 682 (61.06%) JavaScript
2 465 (41.63%) SQL
3 395 (35.36%) C#
4 214 (19.16%) PHP
5 201 (17.99%) Python
6 198 (17.73%) TypeScript
7 98 (8.77%) Java
8 48 (4.30%) R
9 46 (4.12%) C++
10 32 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.25%) Go
11 14 (1.25%) VBA
12 13 (1.16%) Ruby
12 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.98%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.90%) Bicep
15 7 (0.63%) VBScript
16 6 (0.54%) Dart
17 5 (0.45%) Perl
18 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (16.92%) Degree
2 101 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.34%) Security Cleared
4 71 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.28%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.090%) City & Guilds
13 1 (0.090%) HNC
13 1 (0.090%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (14.77%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.36%) WCAG
3 61 (5.46%) QA
4 41 (3.67%) GDPR
5 14 (1.25%) SLA
6 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.72%) PERC
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
9 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.090%) NIST
13 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 182 (16.29%) Docker
2 14 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.31%) Terraform
3 10 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.090%) Ansible
8 1 (0.090%) Kibana
8 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 375 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.16%) Adobe
3 46 (4.12%) Google
4 42 (3.76%) Facebook
5 25 (2.24%) Oracle
6 23 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.88%) YouTube
8 10 (0.90%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.81%) Splunk
10 8 (0.72%) Sage
10 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.63%) iManage
12 6 (0.54%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.54%) New Relic
12 6 (0.54%) TikTok
12 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.45%) Atlassian