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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 106 56
Rank change year-on-year -85 -50 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,017 1,355 4,043
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.99% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 15.49% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 865 850 2,922
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,764 8,745 21,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 19.29% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,303 5,754 16,441
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -75 926 £50,000 -9.09% 340
UK excluding London -54 741 £47,500 -5.00% 325
Work from Home -53 442 £55,000 - 154
London -111 215 £60,000 -11.11% 86
North of England -50 201 £47,500 -2.56% 81
South East -14 188 £50,000 - 85
East of England +17 116 £47,500 +26.67% 47
Midlands -54 111 £45,000 - 45
North West -52 109 £45,000 -14.29% 42
South West -46 88 £52,500 -8.70% 43
West Midlands -38 60 £45,000 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire -15 57 £50,000 +29.03% 24
East Midlands -59 51 £52,500 +31.25% 28
North East -28 35 £52,000 +46.48% 16
Wales -37 21 £45,000 -33.33% 10
Scotland -71 13 £30,750 -58.31% 17
Northern Ireland -33 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 98 (9.64%) WordPress
2 50 (4.92%) CMS
3 47 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.87%) IIS
5 18 (1.77%) Confluence
6 11 (1.08%) Apache
6 11 (1.08%) Drupal
7 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) govService
9 2 (0.20%) JBoss
9 2 (0.20%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.098%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.098%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 25 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.87%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.38%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.98%) InDesign
5 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.79%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.39%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
10 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.098%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 426 (41.89%) Azure
2 306 (30.09%) AWS
3 236 (23.21%) GitHub
4 135 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.59%) Figma
6 66 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 61 (6.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 58 (5.70%) Azure AI
9 49 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (4.82%) SaaS
10 48 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
11 46 (4.52%) GCP
12 40 (3.93%) Power Automate
13 37 (3.64%) PowerApps
14 36 (3.54%) Serverless
15 34 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.75%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 128 (12.59%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
3 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) AMQP
6 1 (0.098%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.14%) SQL Server
2 140 (13.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (11.60%) MySQL
4 115 (11.31%) MongoDB
5 56 (5.51%) Power BI
6 55 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 53 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.88%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.88%) Metadata
13 9 (0.88%) Tableau
14 7 (0.69%) GIS
14 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
16 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 251 (24.68%) Git
2 54 (5.31%) JIRA
3 36 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 13 (1.28%) Selenium
6 12 (1.18%) webpack
7 11 (1.08%) Axure RP
7 11 (1.08%) Storybook
8 10 (0.98%) Vite
9 8 (0.79%) Postman
10 7 (0.69%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.59%) JUnit
12 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.49%) Maven
12 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.39%) PHPUnit
13 4 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 270 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 110 (10.82%) Marketing
3 107 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.83%) Multimedia
5 95 (9.34%) Finance
6 57 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (4.72%) Advertising
8 40 (3.93%) Public Sector
9 37 (3.64%) Law
10 35 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.56%) Retail
12 25 (2.46%) Legal
13 16 (1.57%) Games
14 10 (0.98%) Banking
14 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.79%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.69%) Local Government
17 6 (0.59%) Automotive
17 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (61.85%) Developer
2 175 (17.21%) .NET Developer
3 146 (14.36%) Senior
4 125 (12.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 110 (10.82%) Software Developer
6 109 (10.72%) Senior Developer
7 97 (9.54%) Trainee
8 70 (6.88%) Software Engineer
9 66 (6.49%) Designer
10 62 (6.10%) C# Developer
11 58 (5.70%) Web Developer
12 57 (5.60%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (5.11%) PHP Developer
14 51 (5.01%) Administrator
15 47 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 47 (4.62%) Lead
16 46 (4.52%) Web Administrator
17 43 (4.23%) Trainee Administrator
18 41 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 38 (3.74%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 933 (91.74%) HTML
2 324 (31.86%) .NET
3 239 (23.50%) React
4 175 (17.21%) .NET Core
5 159 (15.63%) ASP.NET
6 135 (13.27%) jQuery
7 134 (13.18%) ASP.NET Core
8 124 (12.19%) Node.js
9 118 (11.60%) Vue
10 116 (11.41%) HTML5
11 97 (9.54%) CSS3
11 97 (9.54%) RESTful
12 90 (8.85%) AngularJS
13 84 (8.26%) Entity Framework
14 77 (7.57%) REST
15 75 (7.37%) JSON
16 54 (5.31%) ML.NET
17 49 (4.82%) Laravel
18 46 (4.52%) .NET Framework
19 45 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
2 35 (3.44%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.36%) Social Media
9 22 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.97%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.67%) Digital TV
13 14 (1.38%) Graphic Design
14 12 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
16 7 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.13%) Windows
2 41 (4.03%) Linux
3 20 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (36.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 353 (34.71%) Agile
3 297 (29.20%) CI/CD
4 202 (19.86%) DevOps
5 200 (19.67%) AI
6 191 (18.78%) User Experience
7 190 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 164 (16.13%) Web Development
9 135 (13.27%) Computer Science
10 124 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 112 (11.01%) Front End Development
12 112 (11.01%) Machine Learning
13 86 (8.46%) Analytics
13 86 (8.46%) Clean Code
14 79 (7.77%) Microservices
14 79 (7.77%) MVC
14 79 (7.77%) OO
15 78 (7.67%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 631 (62.05%) JavaScript
2 421 (41.40%) SQL
3 324 (31.86%) C#
4 221 (21.73%) Python
5 189 (18.58%) PHP
6 175 (17.21%) TypeScript
7 93 (9.14%) Java
8 64 (6.29%) R
9 40 (3.93%) C++
10 34 (3.34%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.28%) VBA
13 7 (0.69%) Bicep
13 7 (0.69%) VBScript
14 6 (0.59%) Go
15 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.49%) Bash
15 5 (0.49%) Dart
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 185 (18.19%) Degree
2 108 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (9.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 94 (9.24%) AWS Certification
5 92 (9.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 92 (9.05%) Azure Certification
6 49 (4.82%) Security Cleared
7 43 (4.23%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.62%) QA
3 40 (3.93%) WCAG
4 35 (3.44%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.08%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 7 (0.69%) PERC
9 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.098%) NIST
12 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (13.47%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.26%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.098%) Grafana
5 1 (0.098%) Kibana
5 1 (0.098%) Nagios
5 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.28%) Adobe
3 37 (3.64%) Google
4 30 (2.95%) Facebook
5 29 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.77%) Oracle
7 16 (1.57%) YouTube
8 10 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.79%) iManage
10 8 (0.79%) Sage
11 7 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.59%) Apple
12 6 (0.59%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.59%) SAP
12 6 (0.59%) TikTok
12 6 (0.59%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.49%) OneLogin
13 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.49%) Splunk