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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 110 64
Rank change year-on-year -80 -46 +3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,088 1,332 3,211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.70% 3.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.43% 15.22% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 920 830 2,172
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
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 10,435 8,750 17,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 17.75% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 5,757 12,636
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,250 £36,767
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £105,000
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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -63 997 £50,000 -9.09% 382
UK excluding London -45 815 £50,000 - 347
Work from Home -44 514 £53,712 +2.31% 151
North of England -37 216 £50,000 -0.99% 93
South East +17 215 £50,000 +11.11% 89
London -113 213 £60,000 -13.67% 98
East of England +15 127 £48,130 +20.33% 38
North West -46 112 £47,500 -9.52% 46
South West -20 110 £50,000 -4.76% 41
Midlands -64 108 £47,500 - 61
Yorkshire -16 57 £50,000 +14.29% 32
West Midlands -38 56 £45,000 -5.26% 30
East Midlands -54 52 £50,000 +8.11% 31
North East -15 47 £53,500 +100.00% 18
Wales -52 26 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Scotland -59 10 £31,500 -60.63% 19
Northern Ireland -67 3 £60,000 - 1

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 (8.92%) WordPress
2 54 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.69%) CMS
4 26 (2.39%) IIS
5 24 (2.21%) Confluence
6 19 (1.75%) Apache
7 10 (0.92%) Drupal
8 9 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.64%) nginx
10 6 (0.55%) JBoss
11 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.28%) Moodle
12 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.18%) CICS
14 1 (0.092%) ExpressionEngine
14 1 (0.092%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
14 1 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.47%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.29%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.92%) InDesign
7 9 (0.83%) Sketch
8 8 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.74%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.28%) InVision
10 3 (0.28%) Trello
11 2 (0.18%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 22 (2.02%) Shopify
2 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.55%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
4 4 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 442 (40.63%) Azure
2 304 (27.94%) AWS
3 221 (20.31%) GitHub
4 155 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (7.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (6.99%) Power Platform
7 75 (6.89%) Azure AI
8 68 (6.25%) Figma
9 56 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
10 54 (4.96%) SaaS
11 50 (4.60%) Power Automate
12 49 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
13 47 (4.32%) GCP
14 46 (4.23%) PowerApps
15 34 (3.13%) Serverless
16 31 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 29 (2.67%) Google Analytics
18 23 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 21 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
20 20 (1.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 103 (9.47%) Internet
2 10 (0.92%) Intranet
3 8 (0.74%) SSL
4 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.55%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.37%) Network Security
5 4 (0.37%) VoIP
5 4 (0.37%) WAN
6 3 (0.28%) HTTP
6 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) DNS
7 2 (0.18%) Firewall
8 1 (0.092%) AMQP
8 1 (0.092%) Broadband
8 1 (0.092%) SMS
8 1 (0.092%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (16.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 174 (15.99%) SQL Server
3 148 (13.60%) MongoDB
4 140 (12.87%) MySQL
5 67 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 60 (5.51%) Power BI
8 31 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.75%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.19%) Metadata
13 11 (1.01%) MariaDB
13 11 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.74%) GIS
15 8 (0.74%) Tableau
16 7 (0.64%) Redis
17 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 247 (22.70%) Git
2 57 (5.24%) JIRA
3 40 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.56%) Selenium
6 16 (1.47%) Storybook
7 15 (1.38%) GitLab
8 14 (1.29%) webpack
9 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.83%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.83%) Maven
10 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.83%) Vite
11 8 (0.74%) PHPUnit
11 8 (0.74%) Postman
12 7 (0.64%) JUnit
12 7 (0.64%) Subversion
13 6 (0.55%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.55%) MSI
14 5 (0.46%) Claude Code
General
1 297 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.85%) Marketing
3 114 (10.48%) Finance
4 101 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (6.34%) Multimedia
7 64 (5.88%) Advertising
8 62 (5.70%) Public Sector
9 41 (3.77%) Law
10 38 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.48%) Retail
12 24 (2.21%) Legal
13 19 (1.75%) Games
14 14 (1.29%) Banking
14 14 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.74%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.74%) Publishing
16 6 (0.55%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 695 (63.88%) Developer
2 211 (19.39%) .NET Developer
3 167 (15.35%) Senior
4 130 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 125 (11.49%) Senior Developer
6 97 (8.92%) Software Developer
7 75 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 71 (6.53%) PHP Developer
9 69 (6.34%) Web Developer
10 67 (6.16%) Designer
11 64 (5.88%) C# Developer
11 64 (5.88%) Trainee
12 58 (5.33%) C# Software Developer
13 53 (4.87%) Lead
14 52 (4.78%) Administrator
15 47 (4.32%) Web Administrator
16 46 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 44 (4.04%) Analyst
18 43 (3.95%) Trainee Administrator
19 41 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,002 (92.10%) HTML
2 379 (34.83%) .NET
3 252 (23.16%) React
4 222 (20.40%) .NET Core
5 207 (19.03%) ASP.NET
6 174 (15.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (12.96%) Node.js
8 136 (12.50%) jQuery
9 134 (12.32%) HTML5
10 122 (11.21%) Vue
11 112 (10.29%) CSS3
12 108 (9.93%) Entity Framework
13 103 (9.47%) RESTful
14 96 (8.82%) AngularJS
15 89 (8.18%) REST
16 80 (7.35%) JSON
17 73 (6.71%) ML.NET
18 60 (5.51%) .NET Framework
18 60 (5.51%) Laravel
19 44 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.76%) Social Media
6 28 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.84%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.19%) Graphic Design
16 11 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
17 10 (0.92%) Data Centre
18 9 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.15%) Windows
2 53 (4.87%) Linux
3 27 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.46%) Unix
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.28%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (39.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 408 (37.50%) Agile
3 360 (33.09%) CI/CD
4 237 (21.78%) AI
4 237 (21.78%) DevOps
5 201 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (18.29%) User Experience
7 190 (17.46%) Web Development
8 150 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 138 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 129 (11.86%) Software Engineering
11 126 (11.58%) Machine Learning
12 124 (11.40%) Computer Science
13 113 (10.39%) Front End Development
14 97 (8.92%) Clean Code
15 95 (8.73%) Analytics
16 92 (8.46%) OO
17 91 (8.36%) Microservices
18 88 (8.09%) MVC
18 88 (8.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 653 (60.02%) JavaScript
2 466 (42.83%) SQL
3 389 (35.75%) C#
4 207 (19.03%) PHP
5 196 (18.01%) Python
6 195 (17.92%) TypeScript
7 98 (9.01%) Java
8 48 (4.41%) R
9 46 (4.23%) C++
10 33 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.19%) VBA
13 11 (1.01%) Ruby
14 9 (0.83%) Bicep
14 9 (0.83%) Go
15 7 (0.64%) VBScript
16 6 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.46%) Dart
18 4 (0.37%) Perl
18 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (16.64%) Degree
2 100 (9.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (6.43%) Security Cleared
4 62 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 61 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (5.51%) SC Cleared
7 59 (5.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.42%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.092%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (13.88%) Accessibility
2 61 (5.61%) WCAG
3 57 (5.24%) QA
4 41 (3.77%) GDPR
5 14 (1.29%) SLA
6 11 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.92%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.74%) PERC
9 7 (0.64%) GRC
9 7 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.55%) NCSC
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.18%) WAI
12 2 (0.18%) WAI-ARIA
13 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.092%) NIST
13 1 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 175 (16.08%) Docker
2 13 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.94%) Terraform
3 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (0.55%) Nagios
5 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 3 (0.28%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.092%) Ansible
7 1 (0.092%) Kibana
7 1 (0.092%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 362 (33.27%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.89%) Adobe
3 46 (4.23%) Google
4 41 (3.77%) Facebook
5 27 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.02%) Oracle
7 21 (1.93%) YouTube
8 10 (0.92%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 10 (0.92%) Splunk
9 9 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.74%) Sage
11 7 (0.64%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.64%) iManage
11 7 (0.64%) New Relic
11 7 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.55%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.55%) TikTok
12 6 (0.55%) WooCommerce