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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -83 -3 -20
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,018 2,060 3,040
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 4.04% 4.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.73% 18.51% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 838 1,092 2,629
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +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 7,415 11,132 17,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 21.81% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,462 6,608 14,265
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -79 908 £45,000 -18.18% 608
UK excluding London -78 699 £36,750 -30.00% 549
Work from Home -81 305 £50,000 -9.09% 240
North of England -27 275 £30,500 -32.22% 136
London -75 229 £63,750 -5.56% 167
South East -81 141 £50,000 -16.67% 151
North West -41 119 £31,500 -40.00% 62
Yorkshire -4 117 £30,500 -23.75% 55
Midlands -74 96 £37,500 -25.00% 75
South West -73 72 £40,000 -30.43% 70
East of England -42 65 £41,250 -13.16% 68
West Midlands -39 52 £30,500 -44.55% 26
East Midlands -47 45 £47,500 +24.18% 49
North East -8 39 £30,500 -40.49% 21
Scotland -84 39 £30,500 -40.78% 27
Wales -23 10 £41,500 -12.63% 20
Northern Ireland -21 2 £31,500 - 7
Channel Islands 0 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 55 (5.40%) CMS
1 55 (5.40%) WordPress
2 23 (2.26%) Confluence
3 17 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.08%) nginx
5 8 (0.79%) Apache
6 6 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) govService
8 3 (0.29%) IIS
8 3 (0.29%) JBoss
8 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.20%) Mendix
9 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.85%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (1.38%) Sketch
6 11 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.88%) InVision
9 8 (0.79%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.79%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.29%) InDesign
11 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.20%) Windchill
13 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 493 (48.43%) Azure
2 418 (41.06%) AWS
3 372 (36.54%) GitHub
4 64 (6.29%) Figma
5 61 (5.99%) Serverless
6 53 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (4.32%) GCP
8 37 (3.63%) Power Platform
9 35 (3.44%) SaaS
10 24 (2.36%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.26%) Power Automate
12 20 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.87%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.67%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.57%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 284 (27.90%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) DNS
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
6 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 82 (8.06%) MySQL
3 44 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.24%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.16%) Power BI
7 21 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.28%) DB2
9 11 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.98%) Looker
11 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.29%) GIS
13 3 (0.29%) Redis
13 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 424 (41.65%) Git
2 47 (4.62%) JIRA
3 43 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.46%) webpack
5 22 (2.16%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.06%) Axure RP
6 21 (2.06%) Selenium
7 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.28%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.08%) Balsamiq
10 11 (1.08%) Vite
11 9 (0.88%) Babel
12 8 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
13 7 (0.69%) GitLab
13 7 (0.69%) gulp
13 7 (0.69%) JUnit
13 7 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 284 (27.90%) Multimedia
2 244 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 116 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.63%) Finance
5 77 (7.56%) Marketing
6 52 (5.11%) Law
7 47 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.85%) Retail
10 28 (2.75%) Banking
11 23 (2.26%) Legal
12 16 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.98%) Advertising
14 9 (0.88%) Military
15 8 (0.79%) Publishing
16 7 (0.69%) Aeronautics
16 7 (0.69%) Electronics
16 7 (0.69%) Games
17 5 (0.49%) Local Government
17 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 583 (57.27%) Developer
2 278 (27.31%) Trainee
3 176 (17.29%) Software Developer
4 153 (15.03%) Senior
5 134 (13.16%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.28%) Trainee Software Developer
7 108 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 102 (10.02%) Senior Developer
9 68 (6.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 55 (5.40%) .NET Developer
11 48 (4.72%) Designer
12 42 (4.13%) PHP Developer
13 41 (4.03%) C# Developer
13 41 (4.03%) Software Engineer
14 40 (3.93%) React Developer
15 37 (3.63%) Lead
16 35 (3.44%) Web Developer
17 34 (3.34%) Administrator
18 31 (3.05%) Web Administrator
19 29 (2.85%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 914 (89.78%) HTML
2 306 (30.06%) React
3 184 (18.07%) .NET
4 123 (12.08%) Node.js
5 98 (9.63%) AngularJS
6 95 (9.33%) RESTful
7 94 (9.23%) HTML5
8 84 (8.25%) Vue
9 81 (7.96%) CSS3
10 78 (7.66%) jQuery
11 72 (7.07%) ASP.NET
12 66 (6.48%) REST
13 53 (5.21%) .NET Core
14 42 (4.13%) .NET Framework
15 39 (3.83%) Tailwind CSS
16 36 (3.54%) Laravel
17 35 (3.44%) Jest
18 33 (3.24%) GraphQL
18 33 (3.24%) Sass
19 31 (3.05%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.40%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.83%) Mobile App
3 31 (3.05%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.98%) Social Media
11 9 (0.88%) Cybercrime
11 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.69%) Motion Graphics
14 6 (0.59%) Digital TV
14 6 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.46%) Linux
2 24 (2.36%) Windows
3 14 (1.38%) Android
3 14 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (35.85%) Mentoring
2 345 (33.89%) Agile
3 268 (26.33%) Cybersecurity
4 222 (21.81%) User Experience
5 213 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
6 198 (19.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 170 (16.70%) CI/CD
8 166 (16.31%) Front End Development
9 131 (12.87%) DevOps
10 120 (11.79%) Computer Science
11 114 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (10.22%) Web Development
13 96 (9.43%) MVC
13 96 (9.43%) Software Engineering
14 91 (8.94%) UX Design
15 77 (7.56%) AI
15 77 (7.56%) Analytics
16 71 (6.97%) API Integration
17 69 (6.78%) Clean Code
17 69 (6.78%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 823 (80.84%) JavaScript
2 390 (38.31%) Python
3 226 (22.20%) SQL
4 175 (17.19%) TypeScript
5 174 (17.09%) C#
6 148 (14.54%) R
7 101 (9.92%) Java
8 91 (8.94%) PHP
9 24 (2.36%) C++
10 13 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.18%) Ruby
12 11 (1.08%) Perl
12 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.79%) C
13 8 (0.79%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.39%) Bash
14 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 287 (28.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.41%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.31%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 182 (17.88%) Degree
5 100 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (6.97%) Security Cleared
7 45 (4.42%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.79%) HND
13 4 (0.39%) ISEB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.20%) CCA
15 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.098%) OCP
15 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (12.08%) Accessibility
2 51 (5.01%) WCAG
3 48 (4.72%) QA
4 25 (2.46%) GDPR
5 8 (0.79%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Section 508
7 2 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) HL7
8 1 (0.098%) NCSC
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (7.96%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.65%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Grafana
3 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Nagios
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 395 (38.80%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.91%) Adobe
3 45 (4.42%) Google
4 26 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.96%) Oracle
6 14 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.79%) Hotjar
9 8 (0.79%) SAP
9 8 (0.79%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.49%) Databricks
11 5 (0.49%) Foundry
12 4 (0.39%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.39%) iManage
12 4 (0.39%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud