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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 98 58
Rank change year-on-year -91 -40 -9
Permanent jobs citing CSS 988 1,380 3,980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 3.12% 3.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.57% 15.79% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 827 873 2,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £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 9,345 8,741 21,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.77% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,931 5,723 16,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,850 £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 10 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 10 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 -77 905 £50,000 -9.09% 382
UK excluding London -58 712 £47,500 -5.00% 327
Work from Home -54 397 £53,712 -2.34% 198
London -80 216 £59,773 -11.45% 112
North of England -48 207 £45,000 -10.00% 81
South East -30 173 £50,000 -9.09% 84
North West -44 112 £45,000 -14.29% 43
East of England +13 110 £45,000 +20.00% 51
Midlands -51 106 £45,000 +5.88% 45
South West -49 84 £47,500 -17.39% 39
Yorkshire -25 62 £50,000 +25.00% 28
West Midlands -43 59 £43,750 -7.89% 19
East Midlands -52 47 £55,000 +37.50% 26
North East -24 33 £52,000 +46.48% 10
Wales -39 16 £45,000 -32.08% 11
Scotland -66 13 £30,500 -53.08% 12
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 11

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 (9.82%) WordPress
2 49 (4.96%) CMS
3 48 (4.86%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.72%) Confluence
5 16 (1.62%) IIS
6 11 (1.11%) Apache
6 11 (1.11%) Drupal
7 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
9 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.72%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.42%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.91%) InDesign
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.71%) Sketch
7 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.40%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Elementor
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.33%) Shopify
2 9 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.61%) Magento
4 4 (0.40%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 411 (41.60%) Azure
2 327 (33.10%) AWS
3 239 (24.19%) GitHub
4 115 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.78%) Power Platform
6 64 (6.48%) Figma
7 47 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.66%) SaaS
9 43 (4.35%) GCP
10 42 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
11 40 (4.05%) Power Automate
12 39 (3.95%) Azure AI
13 38 (3.85%) Serverless
14 37 (3.74%) PowerApps
15 35 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.73%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 20 (2.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 148 (14.98%) Internet
2 7 (0.71%) Intranet
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.40%) VoIP
3 4 (0.40%) WAN
3 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.30%) SSL
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 115 (11.64%) MySQL
3 100 (10.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 79 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 58 (5.87%) Power BI
6 48 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (4.86%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.91%) MariaDB
11 9 (0.91%) Tableau
12 7 (0.71%) GIS
12 7 (0.71%) Metadata
12 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.61%) FileMaker
14 5 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 275 (27.83%) Git
2 54 (5.47%) JIRA
3 33 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.62%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.32%) GitLab
5 13 (1.32%) Selenium
5 13 (1.32%) webpack
6 12 (1.21%) Axure RP
7 11 (1.11%) Storybook
8 10 (1.01%) Vite
9 8 (0.81%) Balsamiq
10 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.51%) JUnit
11 5 (0.51%) Maven
11 5 (0.51%) Postman
11 5 (0.51%) Subversion
12 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.40%) ESLint
12 4 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.40%) MLflow
General
1 270 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 126 (12.75%) Multimedia
3 113 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.22%) Marketing
5 92 (9.31%) Finance
6 54 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (3.85%) Law
8 35 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.24%) Advertising
10 26 (2.63%) Legal
10 26 (2.63%) Retail
11 14 (1.42%) Games
12 11 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.01%) Banking
14 8 (0.81%) Local Government
15 6 (0.61%) Automotive
15 6 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.61%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 599 (60.63%) Developer
2 140 (14.17%) Senior
3 133 (13.46%) .NET Developer
4 125 (12.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 124 (12.55%) Trainee
6 120 (12.15%) Software Developer
7 107 (10.83%) Senior Developer
8 65 (6.58%) Designer
9 63 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 61 (6.17%) C# Developer
11 57 (5.77%) C# Software Developer
12 52 (5.26%) Web Developer
13 51 (5.16%) Administrator
14 50 (5.06%) PHP Developer
15 48 (4.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 47 (4.76%) Lead
17 46 (4.66%) Web Administrator
18 43 (4.35%) Trainee Administrator
19 42 (4.25%) Trainee Developer
20 39 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 895 (90.59%) HTML
2 280 (28.34%) .NET
3 245 (24.80%) React
4 131 (13.26%) .NET Core
5 127 (12.85%) jQuery
6 118 (11.94%) Vue
7 116 (11.74%) ASP.NET
7 116 (11.74%) Node.js
8 114 (11.54%) HTML5
9 97 (9.82%) RESTful
10 96 (9.72%) CSS3
11 94 (9.51%) AngularJS
12 91 (9.21%) ASP.NET Core
13 76 (7.69%) REST
14 67 (6.78%) JSON
15 62 (6.28%) Entity Framework
16 49 (4.96%) Laravel
17 44 (4.45%) .NET Framework
18 42 (4.25%) Tailwind CSS
19 37 (3.74%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.44%) Mobile App
3 30 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.33%) Social Media
8 22 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.32%) Graphic Design
12 10 (1.01%) Digital TV
13 9 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.81%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.71%) Podcast
15 7 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.64%) Linux
2 34 (3.44%) Windows
3 20 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.51%) Android
5 5 (0.51%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (32.59%) Agile
2 320 (32.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 247 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 195 (19.74%) Mentoring
4 195 (19.74%) User Experience
5 189 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 177 (17.91%) AI
6 177 (17.91%) DevOps
7 159 (16.09%) Web Development
8 130 (13.16%) Computer Science
9 123 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 114 (11.54%) Front End Development
11 103 (10.43%) Software Engineering
12 92 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
13 91 (9.21%) Machine Learning
14 86 (8.70%) Clean Code
15 83 (8.40%) Analytics
16 77 (7.79%) Responsive Web Design
17 76 (7.69%) Scrum
17 76 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 642 (64.98%) JavaScript
2 382 (38.66%) SQL
3 278 (28.14%) C#
4 244 (24.70%) Python
5 183 (18.52%) PHP
6 167 (16.90%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.31%) Java
8 82 (8.30%) R
9 37 (3.74%) C++
10 34 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.32%) VBA
12 7 (0.71%) VBScript
13 6 (0.61%) Bicep
14 5 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.51%) Bash
14 5 (0.51%) Dart
14 5 (0.51%) Perl
14 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 179 (18.12%) Degree
2 125 (12.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 121 (12.25%) AWS Certification
4 119 (12.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 119 (12.04%) Azure Certification
5 103 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.25%) Security Cleared
7 33 (3.34%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.10%) OCA
12 1 (0.10%) OCP
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.35%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.76%) QA
3 40 (4.05%) WCAG
4 30 (3.04%) GDPR
5 13 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.11%) SLA
7 9 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.71%) GRC
8 7 (0.71%) PERC
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 109 (11.03%) Docker
2 14 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.72%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Kibana
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 329 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.59%) Adobe
3 37 (3.74%) Google
4 24 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.82%) Oracle
6 17 (1.72%) Facebook
7 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.91%) iManage
8 9 (0.91%) YouTube
9 8 (0.81%) Sage
10 7 (0.71%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.71%) SAP
11 6 (0.61%) Apple
11 6 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.61%) Splunk
11 6 (0.61%) TikTok
11 6 (0.61%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.51%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.51%) Pinterest
13 4 (0.40%) Palo Alto