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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 106 63
Rank change year-on-year -87 -43 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,051 1,359 3,416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.76% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.29% 15.34% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 902 851 2,364
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £65,938 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 10,218 8,861 18,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 18.01% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,644 5,854 13,720
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £102,500
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -65 962 £50,000 -9.09% 325
UK excluding London -45 786 £50,000 - 270
Work from Home -49 494 £55,000 - 132
North of England -32 210 £50,000 - 72
London -98 206 £60,000 -14.29% 105
South East -9 202 £50,000 +5.26% 77
East of England +17 125 £47,500 +18.75% 28
North West -45 112 £47,500 -9.52% 37
Midlands -61 106 £47,500 - 42
South West -28 104 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Yorkshire -19 56 £50,000 +25.00% 23
West Midlands -40 56 £45,000 -7.69% 18
East Midlands -53 50 £50,000 +11.11% 24
North East -21 42 £56,250 +97.37% 15
Wales -46 26 £45,000 -33.33% 5
Scotland -63 10 £31,500 -60.63% 17
Northern Ireland -65 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 97 (9.23%) WordPress
2 52 (4.95%) CMS
3 48 (4.57%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.28%) IIS
5 21 (2.00%) Confluence
6 13 (1.24%) Apache
7 10 (0.95%) Drupal
8 8 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) Moodle
12 2 (0.19%) nginx
13 1 (0.095%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.095%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.095%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
13 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.52%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.33%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.95%) InDesign
7 9 (0.86%) Sketch
8 8 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (0.29%) InVision
11 3 (0.29%) Trello
12 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 23 (2.19%) Shopify
2 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
4 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 428 (40.72%) Azure
2 288 (27.40%) AWS
3 217 (20.65%) GitHub
4 151 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 69 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 67 (6.37%) Figma
9 51 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (4.85%) SaaS
10 47 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (4.28%) GCP
12 44 (4.19%) Power Automate
13 41 (3.90%) PowerApps
14 33 (3.14%) Serverless
15 31 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (2.76%) Google Analytics
17 24 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 102 (9.71%) Internet
2 10 (0.95%) Intranet
3 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.48%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.38%) Network Security
4 4 (0.38%) VoIP
4 4 (0.38%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.29%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.095%) AMQP
7 1 (0.095%) Broadband
7 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (16.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 163 (15.51%) SQL Server
3 148 (14.08%) MongoDB
4 130 (12.37%) MySQL
5 60 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 59 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (5.33%) Power BI
8 31 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.14%) Metadata
11 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.05%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.76%) Tableau
15 7 (0.67%) GIS
15 7 (0.67%) Redis
16 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 227 (21.60%) Git
2 54 (5.14%) JIRA
3 37 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.43%) Selenium
6 14 (1.33%) GitLab
7 13 (1.24%) Storybook
7 13 (1.24%) webpack
8 9 (0.86%) Axure RP
8 9 (0.86%) Maven
8 9 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.76%) Postman
9 8 (0.76%) Vite
10 7 (0.67%) JUnit
10 7 (0.67%) PHPUnit
11 6 (0.57%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.48%) MSI
13 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 281 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.23%) Marketing
3 107 (10.18%) Finance
4 99 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.47%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.09%) Advertising
6 64 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.43%) Law
9 33 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.66%) Retail
11 23 (2.19%) Legal
12 19 (1.81%) Games
13 12 (1.14%) Banking
14 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.57%) Automotive
16 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 670 (63.75%) Developer
2 211 (20.08%) .NET Developer
3 156 (14.84%) Senior
4 130 (12.37%) Full-Stack Developer
5 118 (11.23%) Senior Developer
6 91 (8.66%) Software Developer
7 73 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 66 (6.28%) Designer
9 65 (6.18%) Web Developer
10 64 (6.09%) Trainee
11 62 (5.90%) PHP Developer
12 61 (5.80%) C# Developer
13 57 (5.42%) C# Software Developer
14 52 (4.95%) Administrator
15 48 (4.57%) Lead
16 47 (4.47%) Web Administrator
17 45 (4.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 43 (4.09%) Trainee Administrator
19 41 (3.90%) Analyst
20 40 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (92.10%) HTML
2 368 (35.01%) .NET
3 237 (22.55%) React
4 213 (20.27%) .NET Core
5 200 (19.03%) ASP.NET
6 172 (16.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (13.42%) Node.js
8 132 (12.56%) jQuery
9 121 (11.51%) HTML5
10 119 (11.32%) Vue
11 103 (9.80%) Entity Framework
12 101 (9.61%) CSS3
12 101 (9.61%) RESTful
13 91 (8.66%) AngularJS
14 81 (7.71%) REST
15 79 (7.52%) JSON
16 73 (6.95%) ML.NET
17 54 (5.14%) Laravel
18 53 (5.04%) .NET Framework
19 43 (4.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (3.71%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (2.76%) Mobile App
4 29 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.28%) Social Media
6 24 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.90%) Digital TV
8 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.24%) Graphic Design
10 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (0.86%) Robotics
13 8 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.95%) Windows
2 49 (4.66%) Linux
3 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.48%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Android
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) AIX
8 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (40.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 387 (36.82%) Agile
3 347 (33.02%) CI/CD
4 234 (22.26%) AI
5 229 (21.79%) DevOps
6 198 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 194 (18.46%) User Experience
8 181 (17.22%) Web Development
9 136 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 136 (12.94%) Mentoring
10 130 (12.37%) Machine Learning
11 125 (11.89%) Computer Science
12 123 (11.70%) Software Engineering
13 112 (10.66%) Front End Development
14 96 (9.13%) Analytics
15 89 (8.47%) Clean Code
15 89 (8.47%) OO
16 86 (8.18%) Microservices
17 83 (7.90%) MVC
18 80 (7.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 625 (59.47%) JavaScript
2 462 (43.96%) SQL
3 373 (35.49%) C#
4 201 (19.12%) PHP
5 190 (18.08%) Python
6 185 (17.60%) TypeScript
7 95 (9.04%) Java
8 48 (4.57%) R
9 45 (4.28%) C++
10 32 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.05%) VBA
13 9 (0.86%) Bicep
13 9 (0.86%) Ruby
14 8 (0.76%) Go
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 5 (0.48%) Dart
16 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 177 (16.84%) Degree
2 101 (9.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (5.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 59 (5.61%) Azure Certification
6 58 (5.52%) Security Cleared
7 49 (4.66%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.095%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.76%) WCAG
3 48 (4.57%) QA
4 39 (3.71%) GDPR
5 13 (1.24%) SLA
6 10 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.76%) PERC
9 7 (0.67%) GRC
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.095%) NIST
12 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 166 (15.79%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 115 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.76%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
3 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Puppet
5 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.095%) Kibana
5 1 (0.095%) Nagios
Vendors
1 349 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.95%) Adobe
3 44 (4.19%) Google
4 41 (3.90%) Facebook
5 29 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.09%) Oracle
7 21 (2.00%) YouTube
8 11 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.76%) Sage
11 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.67%) iManage
12 6 (0.57%) TikTok
12 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.48%) Apple
13 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.48%) Splunk
14 4 (0.38%) SAP