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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -76 +4 -29
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,032 2,313 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 4.12% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.61% 19.09% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,263 1,795
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -4.55% +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 7,065 12,114 12,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 21.59% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,276 7,284 10,386
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -75 920 £47,000 -14.55% 1,125
UK excluding London -77 696 £37,500 -28.57% 1,030
Work from Home -56 342 £50,000 -9.09% 534
North of England -24 270 £30,500 -39.00% 277
London -47 246 £65,000 - 240
South East -98 136 £50,000 -15.43% 264
Yorkshire -7 122 £30,500 -28.24% 97
North West -36 114 £42,500 -19.05% 153
Midlands -74 92 £38,750 -22.50% 180
East of England -42 79 £50,000 - 140
South West -71 68 £38,500 -30.00% 107
West Midlands -46 48 £30,500 -44.55% 102
East Midlands -59 45 £45,000 +13.92% 73
North East +1 34 £30,500 -41.90% 30
Scotland -71 33 £30,500 -39.90% 43
Wales -13 16 £50,000 +5.26% 30
Northern Ireland -11 3 £31,500 -30.00% 9
Channel Islands +4 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 62 (6.01%) WordPress
2 60 (5.81%) CMS
3 25 (2.42%) Confluence
4 15 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.78%) nginx
7 7 (0.68%) Apache
8 6 (0.58%) Drupal
9 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.48%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.19%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
11 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.097%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 29 (2.81%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.65%) Sketch
5 11 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.87%) InVision
8 8 (0.78%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.78%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.29%) InDesign
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.097%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 18 (1.74%) Shopify
2 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.097%) Magento
5 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 483 (46.80%) Azure
2 386 (37.40%) AWS
3 329 (31.88%) GitHub
4 76 (7.36%) Figma
5 68 (6.59%) Serverless
6 49 (4.75%) GCP
7 47 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (3.68%) SaaS
9 34 (3.29%) Google Analytics
10 33 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.84%) Azure Functions
13 18 (1.74%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.65%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 247 (23.93%) Internet
2 11 (1.07%) HTTP
3 6 (0.58%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.097%) Firewall
6 1 (0.097%) SSH
6 1 (0.097%) SSL
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (13.18%) SQL Server
2 109 (10.56%) MySQL
3 47 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 47 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.65%) Power BI
6 13 (1.26%) DB2
7 11 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.97%) GIS
9 8 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.78%) Looker
10 7 (0.68%) Metadata
11 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.48%) Redis
11 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 412 (39.92%) Git
2 50 (4.84%) JIRA
3 39 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.39%) webpack
5 30 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.23%) Selenium
7 20 (1.94%) Axure RP
8 17 (1.65%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.55%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.45%) Babel
11 14 (1.36%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.97%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.97%) gulp
13 8 (0.78%) GitLab
13 8 (0.78%) JUnit
13 8 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
13 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.78%) Vite
14 5 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 283 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 252 (24.42%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.21%) Finance
4 103 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (8.82%) Marketing
6 82 (7.95%) Law
7 47 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.29%) Retail
10 33 (3.20%) Banking
11 25 (2.42%) Legal
12 15 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.36%) Publishing
14 13 (1.26%) Advertising
15 10 (0.97%) Games
16 9 (0.87%) Military
17 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
18 6 (0.58%) Electronics
19 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
20 4 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 592 (57.36%) Developer
2 245 (23.74%) Trainee
3 167 (16.18%) Senior
4 166 (16.09%) Software Developer
5 124 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (11.14%) Trainee Developer
7 114 (11.05%) Senior Developer
8 106 (10.27%) Trainee Software Developer
9 70 (6.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 59 (5.72%) .NET Developer
11 51 (4.94%) Designer
12 45 (4.36%) C# Developer
13 44 (4.26%) PHP Developer
14 41 (3.97%) React Developer
15 40 (3.88%) Lead
15 40 (3.88%) Web Developer
16 38 (3.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 37 (3.59%) Graduate
17 37 (3.59%) Graduate Developer
17 37 (3.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (89.15%) HTML
2 320 (31.01%) React
3 199 (19.28%) .NET
4 134 (12.98%) Node.js
5 126 (12.21%) RESTful
6 112 (10.85%) HTML5
7 108 (10.47%) AngularJS
8 89 (8.62%) CSS3
9 87 (8.43%) ASP.NET
10 83 (8.04%) Vue
11 76 (7.36%) jQuery
12 72 (6.98%) REST
13 63 (6.10%) .NET Core
14 55 (5.33%) .NET Framework
15 50 (4.84%) GraphQL
16 46 (4.46%) JSON
17 45 (4.36%) XML
18 44 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
19 40 (3.88%) Jest
20 39 (3.78%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.75%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.29%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.16%) Social Media
9 11 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.07%) Motion Graphics
10 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.78%) Cybercrime
12 8 (0.78%) W3C
13 7 (0.68%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.68%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.58%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.91%) Linux
2 26 (2.52%) Windows
3 11 (1.07%) Android
3 11 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (37.60%) Agile
2 337 (32.66%) Mentoring
3 254 (24.61%) User Experience
4 237 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (22.29%) Cybersecurity
6 225 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (16.96%) Front End Development
8 171 (16.57%) CI/CD
9 152 (14.73%) DevOps
10 121 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 118 (11.43%) Web Development
12 115 (11.14%) MVC
13 113 (10.95%) UX Design
14 109 (10.56%) Computer Science
15 87 (8.43%) Software Engineering
16 84 (8.14%) Analytics
17 82 (7.95%) OOP
18 78 (7.56%) Test Automation
19 76 (7.36%) Scrum
20 71 (6.88%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 831 (80.52%) JavaScript
2 342 (33.14%) Python
3 214 (20.74%) SQL
4 199 (19.28%) C#
5 190 (18.41%) TypeScript
6 132 (12.79%) R
7 113 (10.95%) Java
8 103 (9.98%) PHP
9 34 (3.29%) C++
10 13 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.16%) Perl
11 12 (1.16%) Ruby
12 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.78%) C
14 5 (0.48%) Bicep
14 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 252 (24.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 246 (23.84%) Azure Certification
3 245 (23.74%) AWS Certification
3 245 (23.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 174 (16.86%) Degree
5 93 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (6.40%) Security Cleared
7 40 (3.88%) SC Cleared
8 21 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.78%) HND
11 7 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CCA
13 2 (0.19%) MCP
14 1 (0.097%) OCP
14 1 (0.097%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.76%) Accessibility
2 67 (6.49%) QA
3 52 (5.04%) WCAG
4 31 (3.00%) GDPR
5 8 (0.78%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.48%) PERC
6 5 (0.48%) Section 508
7 3 (0.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.097%) HL7
9 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.097%) NCSC
9 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (8.91%) Docker
2 15 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.62%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.097%) Nagios
Vendors
1 353 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.01%) Adobe
3 45 (4.36%) Google
4 32 (3.10%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.84%) Oracle
7 12 (1.16%) Cisco
8 10 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.87%) Apple
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
10 8 (0.78%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.78%) Toshiba
11 7 (0.68%) Ahrefs
12 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.58%) SAP
13 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.48%) Meraki
13 5 (0.48%) OpenAI