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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 134 59
Rank change year-on-year -75 -75 +2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,034 1,161 2,964
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 2.35% 3.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.82% 13.58% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 845 677 1,551
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 11,725 8,551 16,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 17.29% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,437 5,469 10,837
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,556
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -54 956 £52,500 -4.55% 797
UK excluding London -57 779 £50,000 +5.26% 467
Work from Home -32 500 £55,000 - 1,187
South East +26 229 £47,500 +11.76% 103
North of England -53 204 £51,000 +7.37% 116
London -112 199 £60,000 -7.69% 424
East of England +9 119 £49,380 -1.24% 52
South West -27 99 £52,500 +31.25% 62
Midlands -79 96 £48,750 +2.63% 79
North West -66 91 £51,000 -7.27% 58
North East -11 62 £57,500 +114.95% 23
Yorkshire -29 51 £50,000 +19.05% 38
East Midlands -61 50 £50,000 +11.11% 45
West Midlands -54 46 £47,500 -5.00% 34
Wales -65 26 £41,750 -38.15% 13
Scotland -55 6 £32,500 -54.39% 32

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 59 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.74%) WordPress
3 39 (3.77%) CMS
4 37 (3.58%) IIS
5 28 (2.71%) Confluence
6 17 (1.64%) Apache
7 9 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.68%) Drupal
8 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.58%) JBoss
9 6 (0.58%) Moodle
10 5 (0.48%) nginx
11 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.097%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.097%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.097%) Oracle 10gAS
13 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.64%) Photoshop
4 14 (1.35%) Adobe XD
5 12 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.97%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.87%) Sketch
8 8 (0.77%) InDesign
9 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
10 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.39%) Elementor
11 4 (0.39%) EPLAN
12 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.19%) InVision
13 2 (0.19%) Trello
14 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (2.22%) Shopify
2 7 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Magento
3 4 (0.39%) Line 50
4 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.097%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 364 (35.20%) Azure
2 235 (22.73%) AWS
3 168 (16.25%) GitHub
4 148 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (7.93%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.25%) Azure AI
8 60 (5.80%) Power Automate
9 58 (5.61%) Figma
9 58 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (5.13%) PowerApps
11 51 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (3.97%) SaaS
13 40 (3.87%) GCP
14 33 (3.19%) Serverless
15 31 (3.00%) Google Analytics
16 21 (2.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 21 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 17 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.03%) Internet
2 9 (0.87%) Intranet
2 9 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.77%) SSL
4 7 (0.68%) DNS
4 7 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.58%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.39%) Network Security
6 4 (0.39%) Profibus
6 4 (0.39%) VoIP
7 3 (0.29%) 4G
7 3 (0.29%) 5G
7 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.29%) SMS
7 3 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.19%) Firewall
9 1 (0.097%) AMQP
9 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.097%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (17.99%) SQL Server
2 170 (16.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (13.93%) MongoDB
4 135 (13.06%) MySQL
5 89 (8.61%) Relational Database
6 73 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
7 58 (5.61%) Power BI
8 33 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.64%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.26%) Metadata
12 12 (1.16%) Redis
13 11 (1.06%) GIS
13 11 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.97%) MariaDB
15 9 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.77%) Tableau
17 7 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 200 (19.34%) Git
2 50 (4.84%) JIRA
3 41 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.03%) GitLab
5 20 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 18 (1.74%) Selenium
7 15 (1.45%) Storybook
8 14 (1.35%) Visual Studio
9 13 (1.26%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.77%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.77%) Maven
12 7 (0.68%) MSI
12 7 (0.68%) Postman
12 7 (0.68%) webpack
13 6 (0.58%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.58%) JUnit
13 6 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 328 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.51%) Marketing
3 113 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (10.15%) Finance
5 91 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 90 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (5.61%) Advertising
8 48 (4.64%) Law
9 36 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.90%) Retail
11 24 (2.32%) Legal
12 22 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.74%) Games
14 17 (1.64%) Multimedia
15 15 (1.45%) Banking
16 10 (0.97%) Automotive
16 10 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.97%) Publishing
17 9 (0.87%) Local Government
17 9 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 692 (66.92%) Developer
2 218 (21.08%) .NET Developer
3 180 (17.41%) Senior
4 140 (13.54%) Senior Developer
5 129 (12.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 81 (7.83%) Software Developer
7 78 (7.54%) Software Engineer
8 72 (6.96%) Web Developer
9 71 (6.87%) C# Developer
10 68 (6.58%) PHP Developer
11 53 (5.13%) Designer
12 52 (5.03%) Lead
13 48 (4.64%) C# Software Developer
14 47 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 45 (4.35%) Analyst
16 38 (3.68%) C# .NET Developer
17 35 (3.38%) .NET Software Developer
17 35 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 29 (2.80%) UX Designer
19 28 (2.71%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 951 (91.97%) HTML
2 385 (37.23%) .NET
3 233 (22.53%) .NET Core
4 226 (21.86%) React
5 219 (21.18%) ASP.NET
6 176 (17.02%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (14.02%) Node.js
8 143 (13.83%) jQuery
9 136 (13.15%) HTML5
10 123 (11.90%) Entity Framework
11 116 (11.22%) Vue
12 113 (10.93%) CSS3
13 106 (10.25%) REST
14 100 (9.67%) RESTful
15 79 (7.64%) AngularJS
15 79 (7.64%) JSON
16 77 (7.45%) .NET Framework
17 70 (6.77%) ML.NET
18 60 (5.80%) Laravel
19 42 (4.06%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.90%) Social Media
6 29 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.84%) Digital TV
11 17 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.26%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.26%) Robotics
14 12 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.06%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.90%) Windows
2 57 (5.51%) Linux
3 28 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Unix
4 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (39.56%) Agile
2 406 (39.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 368 (35.59%) CI/CD
4 234 (22.63%) AI
5 233 (22.53%) DevOps
6 219 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 208 (20.12%) User Experience
8 176 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (14.89%) Web Development
10 143 (13.83%) Mentoring
11 141 (13.64%) Software Engineering
12 117 (11.32%) Test Automation
13 112 (10.83%) Machine Learning
14 109 (10.54%) Computer Science
15 106 (10.25%) Front End Development
16 98 (9.48%) Clean Code
17 94 (9.09%) OO
18 90 (8.70%) UX Design
19 89 (8.61%) Microservices
20 87 (8.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 623 (60.25%) JavaScript
2 438 (42.36%) SQL
3 389 (37.62%) C#
4 205 (19.83%) TypeScript
5 180 (17.41%) PHP
6 142 (13.73%) Python
7 87 (8.41%) Java
8 39 (3.77%) C++
9 28 (2.71%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.84%) VBA
11 17 (1.64%) Ruby
12 16 (1.55%) Go
13 15 (1.45%) VB.NET
14 13 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.77%) Bicep
16 7 (0.68%) VBScript
17 5 (0.48%) Dart
17 5 (0.48%) Perl
18 4 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
18 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 177 (17.12%) Degree
2 99 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 89 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 85 (8.22%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.48%) HNC
9 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.39%) HND
10 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.097%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.097%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (17.70%) Accessibility
2 85 (8.22%) WCAG
3 71 (6.87%) QA
4 38 (3.68%) GDPR
5 13 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.06%) SLA
7 10 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.77%) PERC
9 7 (0.68%) NCSC
10 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.29%) WAI
11 3 (0.29%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 182 (17.60%) Docker
2 14 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 117 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.48%) Nagios
4 4 (0.39%) Puppet
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.097%) Ansible
7 1 (0.097%) Consul
7 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 318 (30.75%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.35%) Adobe
3 44 (4.26%) Google
4 40 (3.87%) Facebook
5 26 (2.51%) Oracle
6 23 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.03%) YouTube
8 12 (1.16%) OneLogin
8 12 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.87%) HubSpot
11 8 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (0.77%) Splunk
12 6 (0.58%) iManage
12 6 (0.58%) Sage
12 6 (0.58%) TikTok
12 6 (0.58%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.48%) New Relic
13 5 (0.48%) Pinterest