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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 125 60
Rank change year-on-year -63 -65 +6
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,113 1,258 3,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 2.52% 3.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.33% 14.01% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 924 763 1,841
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
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 11,930 8,982 17,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 17.97% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,683 5,842 12,107
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,843 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 28 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 28 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 -57 1,025 £51,000 -7.27% 733
UK excluding London -34 847 £50,000 - 472
Work from Home -39 514 £55,000 +1.85% 297
South East +18 235 £48,500 +14.12% 108
North of England -36 228 £50,000 -1.96% 114
London -105 208 £59,886 -11.28% 367
East of England +7 130 £48,760 -2.48% 49
South West -23 110 £52,500 +10.53% 54
North West -67 110 £47,500 -11.63% 63
Midlands -60 105 £47,500 - 82
North East -5 60 £57,500 +130.00% 21
Yorkshire -26 58 £50,000 +18.34% 32
East Midlands -59 54 £50,000 +5.26% 50
West Midlands -55 51 £45,000 -5.26% 32
Wales -65 28 £41,750 -38.15% 17
Scotland -55 10 £31,500 -60.63% 40
Northern Ireland -82 1 £31,000 -1.59% 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 93 (8.36%) WordPress
2 58 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.77%) CMS
4 33 (2.96%) IIS
5 26 (2.34%) Confluence
6 17 (1.53%) Apache
7 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.63%) Drupal
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.54%) JBoss
10 5 (0.45%) Moodle
10 5 (0.45%) nginx
10 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 1 (0.090%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle 10gAS
12 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.44%) Adobe XD
3 16 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.90%) InDesign
6 9 (0.81%) Sketch
7 8 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
9 4 (0.36%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.27%) Elementor
10 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.18%) InVision
11 2 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (2.25%) Shopify
2 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Magento
3 4 (0.36%) Line 50
4 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 441 (39.62%) Azure
2 305 (27.40%) AWS
3 228 (20.49%) GitHub
4 159 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
6 78 (7.01%) Azure AI
7 75 (6.74%) Power Platform
8 63 (5.66%) Figma
9 59 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
10 57 (5.12%) Power Automate
11 54 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (4.40%) GCP
12 49 (4.40%) PowerApps
13 44 (3.95%) SaaS
14 34 (3.05%) Serverless
15 33 (2.96%) Google Analytics
16 27 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 21 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 109 (9.79%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) Intranet
3 8 (0.72%) SSL
4 7 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.45%) DNS
6 5 (0.45%) HTTP
7 4 (0.36%) Network Security
7 4 (0.36%) Profibus
7 4 (0.36%) VoIP
8 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.27%) SMS
9 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.18%) Firewall
10 1 (0.090%) 4G
10 1 (0.090%) 5G
10 1 (0.090%) AMQP
10 1 (0.090%) SSH
10 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.090%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (16.71%) SQL Server
2 176 (15.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 150 (13.48%) MySQL
4 149 (13.39%) MongoDB
5 85 (7.64%) Relational Database
6 77 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (4.94%) Power BI
8 32 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.53%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.17%) Metadata
13 11 (0.99%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.81%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.81%) GIS
15 8 (0.72%) Redis
15 8 (0.72%) Tableau
16 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 258 (23.18%) Git
2 52 (4.67%) JIRA
3 43 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.53%) Selenium
5 17 (1.53%) Storybook
6 16 (1.44%) GitLab
7 12 (1.08%) Claude Code
7 12 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.90%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.81%) Maven
10 8 (0.72%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.72%) PHPUnit
11 7 (0.63%) MSI
11 7 (0.63%) Postman
11 7 (0.63%) webpack
12 6 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 328 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 121 (10.87%) Marketing
3 119 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.97%) Finance
5 93 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 72 (6.47%) Multimedia
8 62 (5.57%) Advertising
9 52 (4.67%) Law
10 41 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.79%) Retail
12 25 (2.25%) Legal
13 20 (1.80%) Games
13 20 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.26%) Banking
15 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.81%) Local Government
17 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 719 (64.60%) Developer
2 217 (19.50%) .NET Developer
3 181 (16.26%) Senior
4 140 (12.58%) Senior Developer
5 130 (11.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 95 (8.54%) Software Developer
7 78 (7.01%) Software Engineer
8 76 (6.83%) Web Developer
9 73 (6.56%) PHP Developer
10 68 (6.11%) C# Developer
11 65 (5.84%) Trainee
12 60 (5.39%) Designer
13 55 (4.94%) Lead
14 51 (4.58%) C# Software Developer
15 50 (4.49%) Administrator
16 47 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 47 (4.22%) Web Administrator
17 45 (4.04%) Analyst
18 43 (3.86%) Trainee Administrator
19 35 (3.14%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,023 (91.91%) HTML
2 389 (34.95%) .NET
3 249 (22.37%) React
4 236 (21.20%) .NET Core
5 219 (19.68%) ASP.NET
6 179 (16.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 150 (13.48%) Node.js
8 140 (12.58%) jQuery
9 136 (12.22%) HTML5
10 117 (10.51%) Vue
11 116 (10.42%) CSS3
12 115 (10.33%) Entity Framework
13 104 (9.34%) REST
14 97 (8.72%) RESTful
15 86 (7.73%) AngularJS
16 78 (7.01%) JSON
17 74 (6.65%) ML.NET
18 68 (6.11%) .NET Framework
19 60 (5.39%) Laravel
20 45 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 29 (2.61%) Social Media
9 27 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.80%) Digital TV
12 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.17%) Graphic Design
16 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
16 12 (1.08%) Robotics
17 10 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.21%) Windows
2 57 (5.12%) Linux
3 25 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (38.19%) Agile
2 422 (37.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 376 (33.78%) CI/CD
4 245 (22.01%) DevOps
5 239 (21.47%) AI
6 219 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (18.78%) User Experience
7 209 (18.78%) Web Development
8 176 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (13.84%) Mentoring
10 145 (13.03%) Software Engineering
11 123 (11.05%) Machine Learning
12 117 (10.51%) Computer Science
13 111 (9.97%) Front End Development
14 105 (9.43%) Clean Code
15 103 (9.25%) Test Automation
16 97 (8.72%) Scrum
17 96 (8.63%) OO
18 93 (8.36%) Analytics
19 91 (8.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 689 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 455 (40.88%) SQL
3 392 (35.22%) C#
4 202 (18.15%) TypeScript
5 199 (17.88%) Python
6 195 (17.52%) PHP
7 94 (8.45%) Java
8 49 (4.40%) R
9 42 (3.77%) C++
10 31 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.44%) Go
11 16 (1.44%) Ruby
12 15 (1.35%) VBA
13 14 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.90%) Bicep
16 7 (0.63%) Dart
16 7 (0.63%) VBScript
17 5 (0.45%) Perl
18 4 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 187 (16.80%) Degree
2 95 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 80 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 62 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (5.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 60 (5.39%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.45%) HNC
11 4 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.36%) HND
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.090%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.090%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (15.72%) Accessibility
2 78 (7.01%) WCAG
3 69 (6.20%) QA
4 39 (3.50%) GDPR
5 13 (1.17%) SLA
6 11 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.72%) PERC
9 7 (0.63%) GRC
9 7 (0.63%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 186 (16.71%) Docker
2 15 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.45%) Nagios
4 4 (0.36%) Puppet
5 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.090%) Ansible
7 1 (0.090%) Consul
7 1 (0.090%) Grafana
7 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 385 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.19%) Adobe
3 48 (4.31%) Google
4 42 (3.77%) Facebook
5 27 (2.43%) Oracle
6 24 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.89%) YouTube
8 12 (1.08%) OneLogin
8 12 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
11 8 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (0.72%) Splunk
12 7 (0.63%) Sage
13 6 (0.54%) iManage
13 6 (0.54%) TikTok
13 6 (0.54%) WooCommerce
14 5 (0.45%) Hotjar
14 5 (0.45%) New Relic
14 5 (0.45%) Pinterest