CSS Job Trends

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 80 61
Rank change year-on-year -70 -19 -18
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,075 1,592 3,408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.46% 3.65% 4.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.38% 16.42% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,105 2,843
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £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 8,035 9,694 18,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 22.20% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,893 6,672 15,099
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +10.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -59 957 £45,000 -18.18% 591
UK excluding London -70 753 £40,000 -23.81% 507
Work from Home -79 322 £52,500 -4.55% 257
North of England -17 280 £30,500 -32.22% 129
London -71 231 £62,500 -10.71% 166
South East -72 153 £50,000 -16.67% 129
North West -22 131 £31,000 -40.95% 63
Yorkshire -13 111 £30,500 -18.67% 41
Midlands -48 111 £40,000 -15.79% 85
South West -54 83 £40,000 -33.33% 63
East of England -26 74 £37,500 -21.05% 74
West Midlands -27 67 £30,500 -43.26% 39
East Midlands -59 44 £53,750 +37.82% 46
Scotland -70 39 £30,500 -44.55% 20
North East -10 38 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Wales -24 10 £36,370 -27.26% 16
Northern Ireland -26 4 £60,000 - 3
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
1 109 (10.14%) WordPress
2 55 (5.12%) CMS
3 17 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 7 (0.65%) Apache
7 6 (0.56%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.093%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 29 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.02%) Sketch
4 10 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
4 10 (0.93%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.74%) InVision
5 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.37%) InDesign
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.19%) Windchill
10 1 (0.093%) Elementor
10 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) Shopify
2 12 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.093%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Magento
5 1 (0.093%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 556 (51.72%) Azure
2 486 (45.21%) AWS
3 413 (38.42%) GitHub
4 76 (7.07%) Figma
5 67 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (5.95%) Serverless
7 57 (5.30%) GCP
8 43 (4.00%) SaaS
9 40 (3.72%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.79%) Google Analytics
11 27 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (2.14%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.86%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.77%) PaaS
17 15 (1.40%) Azure Functions
17 15 (1.40%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.40%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 324 (30.14%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) HTTP
3 4 (0.37%) Intranet
3 4 (0.37%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.53%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.09%) MySQL
3 50 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 31 (2.88%) Power BI
6 25 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.30%) DB2
9 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.93%) Looker
11 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.37%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.28%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 471 (43.81%) Git
2 50 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 48 (4.47%) JIRA
4 26 (2.42%) webpack
5 25 (2.33%) Axure RP
6 24 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.86%) Selenium
8 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.30%) Vite
9 13 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.02%) Babel
10 11 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.84%) Storybook
12 7 (0.65%) GitLab
13 6 (0.56%) Maven
13 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.47%) JUnit
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 316 (29.40%) Multimedia
2 220 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 117 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.02%) Finance
5 74 (6.88%) Marketing
6 51 (4.74%) Law
7 48 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (4.37%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.70%) Retail
10 27 (2.51%) Banking
11 23 (2.14%) Legal
12 18 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.84%) Advertising
13 9 (0.84%) Games
13 9 (0.84%) Military
14 7 (0.65%) Aeronautics
14 7 (0.65%) Electronics
15 6 (0.56%) Back Office
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 609 (56.65%) Developer
2 314 (29.21%) Trainee
3 181 (16.84%) Software Developer
4 159 (14.79%) Senior
5 134 (12.47%) Trainee Developer
6 124 (11.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 120 (11.16%) Trainee Software Developer
8 109 (10.14%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.16%) Administrator
10 74 (6.88%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.70%) Trainee Administrator
12 71 (6.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 65 (6.05%) .NET Developer
14 61 (5.67%) Designer
15 44 (4.09%) React Developer
15 44 (4.09%) Web Developer
16 42 (3.91%) C# Developer
17 41 (3.81%) Software Engineer
18 38 (3.53%) Lead
18 38 (3.53%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 984 (91.53%) HTML
2 332 (30.88%) React
3 191 (17.77%) .NET
4 127 (11.81%) Node.js
5 114 (10.60%) AngularJS
6 104 (9.67%) RESTful
7 94 (8.74%) Vue
8 91 (8.47%) HTML5
9 77 (7.16%) CSS3
10 75 (6.98%) jQuery
11 66 (6.14%) ASP.NET
12 63 (5.86%) REST
13 56 (5.21%) .NET Core
14 49 (4.56%) Tailwind CSS
15 45 (4.19%) .NET Framework
16 39 (3.63%) Jest
16 39 (3.63%) Sass
17 33 (3.07%) Laravel
18 32 (2.98%) Bootstrap
18 32 (2.98%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 40 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 21 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.12%) Social Media
12 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.84%) Cybercrime
13 9 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.74%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.56%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.37%) Digital TV
16 4 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.77%) Linux
2 18 (1.67%) Windows
3 13 (1.21%) Android
3 13 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (33.86%) Mentoring
2 352 (32.74%) Agile
3 255 (23.72%) Cybersecurity
4 230 (21.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 229 (21.30%) User Experience
6 202 (18.79%) CI/CD
7 187 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (15.07%) Front End Development
9 157 (14.60%) DevOps
10 155 (14.42%) Web Development
11 113 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (10.42%) Computer Science
13 97 (9.02%) Software Engineering
14 95 (8.84%) AI
15 93 (8.65%) UX Design
16 91 (8.47%) Analytics
17 88 (8.19%) Scrum
18 82 (7.63%) MVC
19 80 (7.44%) Clean Code
20 75 (6.98%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 861 (80.09%) JavaScript
2 414 (38.51%) Python
3 233 (21.67%) SQL
4 198 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 185 (17.21%) R
6 178 (16.56%) C#
7 108 (10.05%) PHP
8 87 (8.09%) Java
9 20 (1.86%) C++
10 11 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.93%) Ruby
12 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 4 (0.37%) Bicep
14 4 (0.37%) SOQL
14 4 (0.37%) SOSL
14 4 (0.37%) XAML
15 3 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 321 (29.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 314 (29.21%) AWS Certification
2 314 (29.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 314 (29.21%) Azure Certification
3 168 (15.63%) Degree
4 95 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (6.51%) Security Cleared
6 52 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB
12 2 (0.19%) CCA
13 1 (0.093%) OCA
13 1 (0.093%) OCP
13 1 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.81%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.74%) QA
3 50 (4.65%) WCAG
4 16 (1.49%) GDPR
5 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.56%) SLA
7 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.47%) PERC
8 3 (0.28%) GRC
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) Section 508
10 1 (0.093%) HL7
10 1 (0.093%) NCSC
10 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (8.09%) Docker
2 14 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.60%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
4 3 (0.28%) Grafana
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 429 (39.91%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.47%) Google
3 46 (4.28%) Adobe
4 23 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.30%) Oracle
6 10 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.84%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.65%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.65%) SAP
9 6 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
10 5 (0.47%) Foundry
10 5 (0.47%) iManage
11 4 (0.37%) Concur
11 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.37%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic
11 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud