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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 85 59
Rank change year-on-year -67 -26 -16
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,063 1,468 3,511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.47% 4.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.15% 15.87% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 899 1,086 2,859
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,083 9,252 19,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 21.87% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,912 6,609 15,181
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -64 949 £45,000 -18.18% 556
UK excluding London -64 743 £40,000 -23.81% 476
Work from Home -74 323 £50,000 -9.09% 240
North of England -11 275 £30,500 -32.22% 125
London -73 228 £60,000 -14.29% 156
South East -68 150 £50,000 -16.67% 120
North West -29 129 £31,250 -40.19% 65
Yorkshire 0 110 £30,500 -18.67% 37
Midlands -46 110 £42,270 -6.07% 77
South West -52 83 £40,000 -33.33% 58
East of England -21 78 £37,500 -21.05% 67
West Midlands -8 66 £31,000 -40.95% 37
East Midlands -66 44 £53,750 +48.28% 40
North East -11 36 £30,500 -39.00% 24
Scotland -75 35 £30,500 -44.55% 15
Wales -30 10 £36,370 -27.26% 19
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 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
1 111 (10.44%) WordPress
2 53 (4.99%) CMS
3 20 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.41%) Confluence
5 10 (0.94%) nginx
6 7 (0.66%) Apache
7 5 (0.47%) Drupal
8 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.094%) Camunda
Applications
1 30 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 13 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 12 (1.13%) Sketch
4 11 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (1.03%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.75%) InVision
5 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.47%) InDesign
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.19%) Windchill
10 1 (0.094%) Elementor
10 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.51%) Shopify
2 13 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.094%) Magento
5 1 (0.094%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 543 (51.08%) Azure
2 473 (44.50%) AWS
3 393 (36.97%) GitHub
4 79 (7.43%) Figma
5 70 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.74%) Serverless
7 57 (5.36%) GCP
8 41 (3.86%) SaaS
9 39 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.82%) Google Analytics
11 28 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (2.07%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.98%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.79%) PaaS
17 17 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (1.41%) Power Automate
18 15 (1.41%) PowerApps
19 14 (1.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (29.07%) Internet
2 8 (0.75%) HTTP
3 4 (0.38%) Intranet
3 4 (0.38%) WAN
4 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 89 (8.37%) MySQL
3 48 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (4.14%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 31 (2.92%) Power BI
6 24 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.32%) DB2
9 12 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.85%) Looker
12 6 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.47%) Tableau
14 4 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
15 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 458 (43.09%) Git
2 50 (4.70%) Jenkins
2 50 (4.70%) JIRA
3 26 (2.45%) webpack
4 24 (2.26%) Axure RP
4 24 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 20 (1.88%) Selenium
6 14 (1.32%) Balsamiq
6 14 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 14 (1.32%) Vite
7 13 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.03%) Babel
8 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.85%) Storybook
10 8 (0.75%) GitLab
11 6 (0.56%) JUnit
11 6 (0.56%) Maven
11 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 300 (28.22%) Multimedia
2 226 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 118 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.60%) Finance
5 78 (7.34%) Marketing
6 51 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (4.80%) Law
7 46 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.82%) Retail
9 25 (2.35%) Banking
10 24 (2.26%) Legal
11 20 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (0.94%) Advertising
13 9 (0.85%) Military
14 8 (0.75%) Games
15 7 (0.66%) Aeronautics
15 7 (0.66%) Electronics
16 6 (0.56%) Back Office
17 5 (0.47%) Publishing
17 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 599 (56.35%) Developer
2 298 (28.03%) Trainee
3 176 (16.56%) Software Developer
4 157 (14.77%) Senior
5 125 (11.76%) Trainee Developer
6 120 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 111 (10.44%) Trainee Software Developer
8 109 (10.25%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.24%) Administrator
10 74 (6.96%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.77%) Trainee Administrator
12 71 (6.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 64 (6.02%) Designer
14 63 (5.93%) .NET Developer
15 45 (4.23%) C# Developer
16 43 (4.05%) Web Developer
17 42 (3.95%) React Developer
18 41 (3.86%) Lead
19 37 (3.48%) PHP Developer
19 37 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 969 (91.16%) HTML
2 325 (30.57%) React
3 191 (17.97%) .NET
4 125 (11.76%) Node.js
5 111 (10.44%) AngularJS
6 103 (9.69%) RESTful
7 91 (8.56%) Vue
8 86 (8.09%) HTML5
9 83 (7.81%) jQuery
10 72 (6.77%) CSS3
11 66 (6.21%) ASP.NET
12 62 (5.83%) REST
13 57 (5.36%) .NET Core
14 48 (4.52%) Tailwind CSS
15 45 (4.23%) .NET Framework
16 39 (3.67%) Sass
17 36 (3.39%) Jest
18 33 (3.10%) Laravel
19 32 (3.01%) React Native
20 31 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.67%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 32 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.13%) Social Media
11 10 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.75%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.66%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.56%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.47%) Culture of Ownership
16 5 (0.47%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.79%) Linux
2 18 (1.69%) Windows
3 13 (1.22%) Android
3 13 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (33.21%) Agile
2 352 (33.11%) Mentoring
3 239 (22.48%) Cybersecurity
4 228 (21.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 228 (21.45%) User Experience
5 204 (19.19%) CI/CD
6 192 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (14.86%) DevOps
7 158 (14.86%) Front End Development
8 154 (14.49%) Web Development
9 119 (11.19%) Computer Science
9 119 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 101 (9.50%) AI
11 95 (8.94%) Software Engineering
12 94 (8.84%) UX Design
13 93 (8.75%) Analytics
14 89 (8.37%) Scrum
15 87 (8.18%) Clean Code
16 84 (7.90%) MVC
17 77 (7.24%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 843 (79.30%) JavaScript
2 400 (37.63%) Python
3 241 (22.67%) SQL
4 190 (17.87%) TypeScript
5 179 (16.84%) C#
6 178 (16.75%) R
7 117 (11.01%) PHP
8 93 (8.75%) Java
9 25 (2.35%) C++
10 12 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.94%) Ruby
12 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
15 4 (0.38%) Bicep
15 4 (0.38%) SOQL
15 4 (0.38%) SOSL
15 4 (0.38%) XAML
16 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 304 (28.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (28.03%) AWS Certification
2 298 (28.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (28.03%) Azure Certification
3 176 (16.56%) Degree
4 101 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (6.11%) Security Cleared
6 48 (4.52%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.38%) ISEB
13 2 (0.19%) CCA
14 1 (0.094%) OCA
14 1 (0.094%) OCP
14 1 (0.094%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.70%) QA
3 49 (4.61%) WCAG
4 19 (1.79%) GDPR
5 7 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.66%) PERC
6 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.56%) SLA
7 5 (0.47%) GRC
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) Section 508
10 1 (0.094%) HL7
10 1 (0.094%) NCSC
10 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (7.81%) Docker
2 13 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.63%) Terraform
3 4 (0.38%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.094%) Kibana
Vendors
1 421 (39.60%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.70%) Adobe
3 46 (4.33%) Google
4 26 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.22%) Oracle
6 10 (0.94%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.75%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.66%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.66%) SAP
9 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
10 5 (0.47%) Foundry
11 4 (0.38%) Concur
11 4 (0.38%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.38%) iManage
11 4 (0.38%) New Relic
11 4 (0.38%) Sage
11 4 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud