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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 121 62
Rank change year-on-year -69 -59 +5
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,122 1,257 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.52% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.50% 14.88% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 936 770 1,904
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
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 10,686 8,446 16,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 16.94% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,796 5,483 11,427
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -51 1,030 £50,000 -9.09% 687
UK excluding London -35 846 £50,000 - 442
Work from Home -36 525 £55,000 - 283
South East +26 229 £50,000 +11.11% 106
North of England -24 226 £50,000 -4.76% 109
London -105 217 £60,000 -12.41% 338
East of England +9 130 £47,500 -5.00% 46
South West -27 113 £52,500 +6.06% 52
North West -54 109 £47,500 -11.63% 65
Midlands -61 108 £47,500 - 73
Yorkshire -4 60 £50,000 +11.11% 33
North East -17 57 £53,500 +114.00% 15
West Midlands -48 54 £45,000 -10.00% 30
East Midlands -53 54 £50,000 +8.11% 43
Wales -48 28 £41,750 -38.15% 13
Scotland -56 10 £31,500 -60.63% 34
Northern Ireland -70 2 £45,500 +44.44% 14

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 (8.65%) WordPress
2 57 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 45 (4.01%) CMS
4 30 (2.67%) IIS
5 26 (2.32%) Confluence
6 17 (1.52%) Apache
7 9 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.62%) Drupal
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.53%) JBoss
9 6 (0.53%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.089%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.089%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.52%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.43%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.89%) InDesign
5 10 (0.89%) Sketch
6 8 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.27%) Elementor
8 3 (0.27%) InVision
8 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.089%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 27 (2.41%) Shopify
2 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.62%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
3 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 444 (39.57%) Azure
2 318 (28.34%) AWS
3 230 (20.50%) GitHub
4 158 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (6.95%) Azure AI
7 76 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 69 (6.15%) Figma
9 60 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
10 55 (4.90%) Power Automate
11 54 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (4.46%) GCP
13 48 (4.28%) PowerApps
14 47 (4.19%) SaaS
15 36 (3.21%) Serverless
16 32 (2.85%) Google Analytics
17 29 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 22 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 106 (9.45%) Internet
2 9 (0.80%) Intranet
3 8 (0.71%) SSL
4 6 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.53%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.45%) HTTP
6 4 (0.36%) DNS
6 4 (0.36%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) VoIP
7 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
9 1 (0.089%) AMQP
9 1 (0.089%) Broadband
9 1 (0.089%) Profibus
9 1 (0.089%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (17.02%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 152 (13.55%) MySQL
4 149 (13.28%) MongoDB
5 78 (6.95%) Relational Database
6 75 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (4.99%) Power BI
8 32 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.16%) Metadata
13 11 (0.98%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.89%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.80%) GIS
16 8 (0.71%) Tableau
17 7 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
17 7 (0.62%) Redis
18 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 260 (23.17%) Git
2 55 (4.90%) JIRA
3 44 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.52%) GitLab
5 17 (1.52%) Selenium
5 17 (1.52%) Storybook
6 12 (1.07%) webpack
7 11 (0.98%) Axure RP
7 11 (0.98%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.80%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.80%) Maven
8 9 (0.80%) PHPUnit
9 8 (0.71%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.71%) Postman
9 8 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.71%) Vite
10 7 (0.62%) MSI
10 7 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
General
1 325 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 121 (10.78%) Finance
3 119 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (10.61%) Marketing
4 94 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 71 (6.33%) Multimedia
7 62 (5.53%) Advertising
8 54 (4.81%) Law
9 38 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.50%) Legal
10 28 (2.50%) Retail
11 20 (1.78%) Games
12 19 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.25%) Banking
14 10 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.80%) Local Government
15 9 (0.80%) Publishing
16 8 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.71%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 722 (64.35%) Developer
2 217 (19.34%) .NET Developer
3 178 (15.86%) Senior
4 134 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 132 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 100 (8.91%) Software Developer
7 78 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 76 (6.77%) Web Developer
9 75 (6.68%) PHP Developer
10 70 (6.24%) C# Developer
11 65 (5.79%) Designer
12 64 (5.70%) Trainee
13 57 (5.08%) C# Software Developer
13 57 (5.08%) Lead
14 50 (4.46%) Administrator
15 47 (4.19%) Web Administrator
16 46 (4.10%) Analyst
17 45 (4.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 43 (3.83%) Trainee Administrator
19 37 (3.30%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,032 (91.98%) HTML
2 392 (34.94%) .NET
3 259 (23.08%) React
4 239 (21.30%) .NET Core
5 214 (19.07%) ASP.NET
6 176 (15.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (12.92%) jQuery
7 145 (12.92%) Node.js
8 137 (12.21%) HTML5
9 121 (10.78%) Vue
10 118 (10.52%) CSS3
11 117 (10.43%) Entity Framework
12 99 (8.82%) REST
13 95 (8.47%) RESTful
14 93 (8.29%) AngularJS
15 79 (7.04%) JSON
16 74 (6.60%) ML.NET
17 68 (6.06%) .NET Framework
18 61 (5.44%) Laravel
19 45 (4.01%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
2 41 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.58%) Social Media
9 25 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.78%) Digital TV
11 19 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.16%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.89%) Blog
16 10 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.08%) Windows
2 56 (4.99%) Linux
3 26 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.53%) Unix
4 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.089%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (38.41%) Agile
2 426 (37.97%) Full-Stack Development
3 379 (33.78%) CI/CD
4 246 (21.93%) DevOps
5 240 (21.39%) AI
6 221 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (18.89%) Web Development
8 207 (18.45%) User Experience
9 171 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 147 (13.10%) Mentoring
11 144 (12.83%) Software Engineering
12 125 (11.14%) Computer Science
13 124 (11.05%) Machine Learning
14 111 (9.89%) Front End Development
15 108 (9.63%) Clean Code
16 100 (8.91%) OO
17 96 (8.56%) Scrum
18 95 (8.47%) Test Automation
19 94 (8.38%) Microservices
20 93 (8.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 686 (61.14%) JavaScript
2 467 (41.62%) SQL
3 401 (35.74%) C#
4 207 (18.45%) PHP
5 204 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 201 (17.91%) Python
7 102 (9.09%) Java
8 48 (4.28%) R
9 46 (4.10%) C++
10 32 (2.85%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.43%) Ruby
12 15 (1.34%) Go
13 14 (1.25%) VBA
14 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.98%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.89%) Bicep
17 7 (0.62%) Dart
17 7 (0.62%) VBScript
18 5 (0.45%) Perl
19 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 193 (17.20%) Degree
2 101 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 80 (7.13%) SC Cleared
5 63 (5.61%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) HNC
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.089%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.089%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (15.24%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.51%) WCAG
3 65 (5.79%) QA
4 40 (3.57%) GDPR
5 14 (1.25%) SLA
6 12 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.71%) PERC
8 7 (0.62%) GRC
8 7 (0.62%) NCSC
9 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.089%) NIST
12 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (16.40%) Docker
2 14 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.39%) Terraform
3 10 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.089%) Ansible
8 1 (0.089%) Kibana
8 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 376 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.13%) Adobe
3 48 (4.28%) Google
4 42 (3.74%) Facebook
5 25 (2.23%) Oracle
6 23 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.87%) YouTube
8 12 (1.07%) OneLogin
9 11 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.80%) HubSpot
11 9 (0.80%) Sage
11 9 (0.80%) Splunk
12 8 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.62%) iManage
14 6 (0.53%) New Relic
14 6 (0.53%) TikTok
14 6 (0.53%) WooCommerce
15 5 (0.45%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.45%) Red Hat