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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 65 71
Rank change year-on-year -71 +6 -34
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,036 2,257 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 4.09% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.78% 19.05% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 840 1,208 1,837
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £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 £71,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,126 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -69 926 £45,000 -18.18% 655
UK excluding London -71 700 £35,000 -33.33% 549
Work from Home -66 333 £50,000 -9.09% 300
North of England -20 273 £30,500 -39.00% 165
London -67 249 £62,500 -3.85% 205
South East -93 136 £50,000 -16.67% 137
Yorkshire +3 123 £30,500 -28.24% 64
North West -29 114 £36,250 -30.95% 83
Midlands -72 93 £37,500 -25.00% 88
East of England -43 76 £55,000 +10.00% 63
South West -71 70 £36,000 -37.39% 56
West Midlands -51 51 £30,500 -44.55% 49
East Midlands -59 43 £45,000 +13.92% 39
North East 0 36 £30,500 -41.90% 21
Scotland -65 35 £30,500 -40.20% 30
Wales -16 15 £46,000 -0.54% 15
Northern Ireland -13 3 £31,500 -30.00% 4
Channel Islands +3 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 61 (5.89%) WordPress
2 57 (5.50%) CMS
3 25 (2.41%) Confluence
4 15 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.87%) nginx
5 9 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.68%) Apache
6 7 (0.68%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.58%) Drupal
8 4 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.19%) govService
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 31 (2.99%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.74%) Sketch
5 12 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.97%) InVision
6 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.87%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.77%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.77%) 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
2 17 (1.64%) Shopify
3 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.097%) Magento
6 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 497 (47.97%) Azure
2 406 (39.19%) AWS
3 347 (33.49%) GitHub
4 77 (7.43%) Figma
5 68 (6.56%) Serverless
6 50 (4.83%) GCP
7 46 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (3.67%) SaaS
9 33 (3.19%) Power Platform
10 31 (2.99%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.32%) Power Automate
12 20 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.83%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.74%) Azure Functions
14 18 (1.74%) Entra ID
15 17 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (1.64%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 264 (25.48%) Internet
2 10 (0.97%) 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
1 128 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.46%) MySQL
3 48 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 45 (4.34%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.12%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.64%) Power BI
8 13 (1.25%) DB2
9 11 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.97%) GIS
11 9 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.77%) Looker
13 6 (0.58%) Metadata
14 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.48%) Redis
14 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 425 (41.02%) Git
2 52 (5.02%) JIRA
3 42 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.09%) webpack
5 28 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.22%) Selenium
7 22 (2.12%) Axure RP
8 16 (1.54%) TeamCity
8 16 (1.54%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.35%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.16%) Babel
11 11 (1.06%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.97%) gulp
13 9 (0.87%) GitLab
13 9 (0.87%) Vite
14 8 (0.77%) JUnit
14 8 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 276 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 268 (25.87%) Multimedia
3 119 (11.49%) Finance
4 102 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (8.69%) Marketing
6 81 (7.82%) Law
7 50 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.19%) Banking
10 31 (2.99%) Retail
11 26 (2.51%) Legal
12 14 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.25%) Publishing
14 12 (1.16%) Advertising
15 11 (1.06%) Games
16 9 (0.87%) Military
17 7 (0.68%) Aeronautics
17 7 (0.68%) Electronics
18 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 595 (57.43%) Developer
2 262 (25.29%) Trainee
3 175 (16.89%) Software Developer
4 165 (15.93%) Senior
5 125 (12.07%) Trainee Developer
6 123 (11.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 116 (11.20%) Trainee Software Developer
8 112 (10.81%) Senior Developer
9 69 (6.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 58 (5.60%) .NET Developer
11 54 (5.21%) Designer
12 44 (4.25%) C# Developer
13 43 (4.15%) PHP Developer
14 41 (3.96%) React Developer
15 40 (3.86%) Lead
15 40 (3.86%) Web Developer
16 37 (3.57%) Software Engineer
17 36 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 33 (3.19%) Graduate
18 33 (3.19%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (89.58%) HTML
2 321 (30.98%) React
3 192 (18.53%) .NET
4 136 (13.13%) Node.js
5 119 (11.49%) RESTful
6 109 (10.52%) AngularJS
7 108 (10.42%) HTML5
8 86 (8.30%) CSS3
9 81 (7.82%) ASP.NET
9 81 (7.82%) Vue
10 74 (7.14%) jQuery
11 71 (6.85%) REST
12 62 (5.98%) .NET Core
13 53 (5.12%) .NET Framework
14 45 (4.34%) GraphQL
15 42 (4.05%) Tailwind CSS
16 40 (3.86%) JSON
16 40 (3.86%) XML
17 39 (3.76%) Jest
18 34 (3.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 35 (3.38%) Mobile App
3 34 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.06%) Motion Graphics
8 11 (1.06%) Social Media
9 10 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (0.77%) Cybercrime
10 8 (0.77%) W3C
11 6 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.58%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.58%) Digital TV
11 6 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.61%) Linux
2 26 (2.51%) Windows
3 11 (1.06%) Android
3 11 (1.06%) 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
1 379 (36.58%) Agile
2 354 (34.17%) Mentoring
3 252 (24.32%) User Experience
4 249 (24.03%) Cybersecurity
5 226 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
6 219 (21.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (16.89%) CI/CD
8 171 (16.51%) Front End Development
9 150 (14.48%) DevOps
10 121 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (11.29%) Web Development
12 113 (10.91%) UX Design
13 109 (10.52%) MVC
14 108 (10.42%) Computer Science
15 87 (8.40%) Software Engineering
16 79 (7.63%) Analytics
17 76 (7.34%) OOP
17 76 (7.34%) Test Automation
18 74 (7.14%) Scrum
19 70 (6.76%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 837 (80.79%) JavaScript
2 363 (35.04%) Python
3 210 (20.27%) SQL
4 191 (18.44%) C#
5 186 (17.95%) TypeScript
6 140 (13.51%) R
7 110 (10.62%) Java
8 94 (9.07%) PHP
9 30 (2.90%) C++
10 13 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.16%) Ruby
12 11 (1.06%) Perl
13 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.77%) C
15 6 (0.58%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.39%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
16 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.39%) Bicep
16 4 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 270 (26.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 263 (25.39%) Azure Certification
3 262 (25.29%) AWS Certification
3 262 (25.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 174 (16.80%) Degree
5 91 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (6.56%) Security Cleared
7 42 (4.05%) SC Cleared
8 21 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.77%) 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
1 137 (13.22%) Accessibility
2 66 (6.37%) QA
3 53 (5.12%) WCAG
4 30 (2.90%) GDPR
5 8 (0.77%) 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 94 (9.07%) Docker
2 15 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.70%) 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
1 373 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.89%) Adobe
3 44 (4.25%) Google
4 31 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.83%) Oracle
7 12 (1.16%) Cisco
8 10 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.77%) Allen-Bradley
10 8 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.77%) Toshiba
11 7 (0.68%) Apple
11 7 (0.68%) SAP
12 6 (0.58%) Ahrefs
12 6 (0.58%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.48%) Meraki