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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 105 56
Rank change year-on-year -85 -49 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,015 1,354 4,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 3.00% 3.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.45% 15.50% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 864 846 2,947
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,715 8,733 21,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 19.35% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,270 5,738 16,584
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -67 928 £50,000 -9.09% 388
UK excluding London -65 736 £47,500 -5.00% 364
Work from Home -52 443 £55,000 - 146
London -91 216 £60,000 -11.11% 101
North of England -48 202 £47,500 - 92
South East -16 187 £50,000 - 93
East of England +18 113 £47,500 +26.67% 53
Midlands -55 113 £45,000 - 48
North West -44 111 £45,000 -14.29% 50
South West -50 88 £52,500 -8.70% 46
West Midlands -36 60 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire -17 56 £50,000 +25.00% 26
East Midlands -46 53 £55,000 +37.50% 30
North East -32 35 £52,000 +46.48% 17
Wales -38 18 £45,000 -33.33% 13
Scotland -70 12 £30,500 -58.64% 19
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 5

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 97 (9.56%) WordPress
2 49 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.73%) CMS
4 18 (1.77%) Confluence
4 18 (1.77%) IIS
5 11 (1.08%) Apache
5 11 (1.08%) Drupal
6 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.49%) nginx
7 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.30%) govService
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) JBoss
9 2 (0.20%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.099%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.099%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 25 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.87%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.99%) InDesign
5 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.69%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.39%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.099%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 23 (2.27%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.099%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.099%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 426 (41.97%) Azure
2 305 (30.05%) AWS
3 235 (23.15%) GitHub
4 136 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.60%) Power Platform
6 64 (6.31%) Figma
7 60 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
8 57 (5.62%) Azure AI
9 48 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (4.73%) SaaS
10 46 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (4.43%) GCP
12 40 (3.94%) Power Automate
12 40 (3.94%) Serverless
13 37 (3.65%) PowerApps
14 35 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.76%) Google Analytics
16 22 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 127 (12.51%) Internet
2 9 (0.89%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
3 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.099%) AMQP
6 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.07%) SQL Server
2 138 (13.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 116 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 116 (11.43%) MySQL
4 57 (5.62%) Power BI
5 53 (5.22%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.89%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.89%) Tableau
13 8 (0.79%) Metadata
14 7 (0.69%) GIS
14 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 255 (25.12%) Git
2 56 (5.52%) JIRA
3 35 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 13 (1.28%) webpack
6 12 (1.18%) Selenium
6 12 (1.18%) Storybook
7 11 (1.08%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.99%) Vite
9 7 (0.69%) Balsamiq
9 7 (0.69%) Postman
10 6 (0.59%) JUnit
11 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.49%) Maven
12 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.39%) gulp
12 4 (0.39%) PHPUnit
12 4 (0.39%) Subversion
12 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 273 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 111 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
2 111 (10.94%) Marketing
3 100 (9.85%) Multimedia
4 99 (9.75%) Finance
5 56 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.63%) Advertising
7 39 (3.84%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.74%) Law
9 35 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.56%) Legal
11 25 (2.46%) Retail
12 16 (1.58%) Games
13 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.89%) Banking
15 8 (0.79%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.79%) Local Government
16 6 (0.59%) Automotive
16 6 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (61.97%) Developer
2 173 (17.04%) .NET Developer
3 144 (14.19%) Senior
4 125 (12.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 109 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 108 (10.64%) Software Developer
7 97 (9.56%) Trainee
8 68 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.31%) Designer
10 62 (6.11%) C# Developer
11 57 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
12 56 (5.52%) Web Developer
13 51 (5.02%) Administrator
14 50 (4.93%) PHP Developer
15 49 (4.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 49 (4.83%) Lead
16 46 (4.53%) Web Administrator
17 43 (4.24%) Trainee Administrator
18 42 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 38 (3.74%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (91.43%) HTML
2 323 (31.82%) .NET
3 242 (23.84%) React
4 173 (17.04%) .NET Core
5 157 (15.47%) ASP.NET
6 132 (13.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 132 (13.00%) jQuery
7 126 (12.41%) Node.js
8 119 (11.72%) Vue
9 116 (11.43%) HTML5
10 100 (9.85%) RESTful
11 97 (9.56%) CSS3
12 93 (9.16%) AngularJS
13 82 (8.08%) Entity Framework
14 79 (7.78%) REST
15 73 (7.19%) JSON
16 53 (5.22%) ML.NET
17 49 (4.83%) Laravel
18 47 (4.63%) .NET Framework
19 45 (4.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.35%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (3.25%) Mobile App
4 30 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.36%) Social Media
8 22 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.97%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.58%) Digital TV
13 15 (1.48%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.38%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
17 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
17 7 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.04%) Windows
2 40 (3.94%) Linux
3 20 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.099%) AIX
9 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (36.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 352 (34.68%) Agile
3 295 (29.06%) CI/CD
4 202 (19.90%) DevOps
5 200 (19.70%) AI
6 194 (19.11%) User Experience
7 193 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (16.35%) Mentoring
9 163 (16.06%) Web Development
10 136 (13.40%) Computer Science
11 127 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (11.23%) Front End Development
13 112 (11.03%) Software Engineering
14 111 (10.94%) Machine Learning
15 86 (8.47%) Analytics
15 86 (8.47%) Clean Code
16 79 (7.78%) Microservices
16 79 (7.78%) MVC
17 78 (7.68%) OO
17 78 (7.68%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 630 (62.07%) JavaScript
2 423 (41.67%) SQL
3 323 (31.82%) C#
4 223 (21.97%) Python
5 185 (18.23%) PHP
6 176 (17.34%) TypeScript
7 91 (8.97%) Java
8 64 (6.31%) R
9 39 (3.84%) C++
10 34 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.28%) VBA
13 8 (0.79%) Bicep
14 7 (0.69%) VBScript
15 6 (0.59%) Go
16 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.49%) Bash
16 5 (0.49%) Dart
16 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 186 (18.33%) Degree
2 109 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 94 (9.26%) AWS Certification
5 92 (9.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 92 (9.06%) Azure Certification
6 48 (4.73%) Security Cleared
7 40 (3.94%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.02%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.83%) QA
3 39 (3.84%) WCAG
4 34 (3.35%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.08%) SLA
7 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 7 (0.69%) PERC
9 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.099%) NIST
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (13.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 85 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.099%) Grafana
5 1 (0.099%) Kibana
5 1 (0.099%) Nagios
5 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 73 (7.19%) Adobe
3 38 (3.74%) Google
4 29 (2.86%) Facebook
5 28 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.67%) Oracle
7 15 (1.48%) YouTube
8 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.89%) iManage
9 9 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.79%) Sage
11 7 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.69%) SAP
12 6 (0.59%) Apple
12 6 (0.59%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.59%) TikTok
12 6 (0.59%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.49%) Splunk
14 4 (0.39%) ServiceNow