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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -79 -1 -24
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,017 2,153 2,811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 4.11% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.90% 18.80% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 837 1,116 2,422
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 7,315 11,450 16,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 21.84% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,370 6,720 13,403
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% +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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -74 907 £45,000 -18.18% 662
UK excluding London -77 696 £35,000 -33.33% 616
Work from Home -81 311 £50,000 -13.04% 249
North of England -25 273 £30,500 -32.22% 144
London -74 233 £62,500 -7.41% 158
South East -96 133 £50,000 -16.67% 181
Yorkshire -10 120 £30,500 -23.75% 56
North West -35 114 £31,500 -40.00% 67
Midlands -77 97 £37,500 -25.00% 85
South West -66 73 £39,250 -31.74% 71
East of England -44 69 £43,750 -7.89% 79
West Midlands -41 53 £30,500 -44.55% 32
East Midlands -61 45 £47,500 +24.18% 53
North East -10 39 £30,500 -40.49% 23
Scotland -73 39 £30,500 -42.18% 31
Wales -13 11 £41,750 -12.11% 23
Northern Ireland -18 2 £31,500 - 8
Channel Islands 0 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 56 (5.51%) WordPress
2 53 (5.21%) CMS
3 24 (2.36%) Confluence
4 17 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.98%) nginx
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
6 7 (0.69%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.59%) Drupal
8 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) govService
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.85%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (1.38%) Sketch
6 11 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.88%) InVision
8 9 (0.88%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.79%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.29%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.20%) Windchill
13 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.38%) Shopify
3 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 495 (48.67%) Azure
2 415 (40.81%) AWS
3 374 (36.77%) GitHub
4 65 (6.39%) Figma
5 63 (6.19%) Serverless
6 52 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (4.33%) GCP
8 36 (3.54%) Power Platform
9 33 (3.24%) SaaS
10 24 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.16%) Google Analytics
12 19 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
12 19 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.77%) Azure Functions
14 17 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 283 (27.83%) Internet
2 9 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.098%) DNS
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) SSH
6 1 (0.098%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 88 (8.65%) MySQL
3 45 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 35 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.97%) Power BI
8 13 (1.28%) DB2
9 12 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.88%) Looker
12 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.49%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.39%) GIS
14 3 (0.29%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.29%) Redis
14 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 425 (41.79%) Git
2 48 (4.72%) JIRA
3 43 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.56%) webpack
5 23 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.16%) Selenium
7 21 (2.06%) Axure RP
8 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 13 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.08%) Balsamiq
11 11 (1.08%) Vite
12 9 (0.88%) Babel
12 9 (0.88%) GitLab
13 8 (0.79%) gulp
13 8 (0.79%) JUnit
13 8 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
13 8 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 284 (27.93%) Multimedia
2 248 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 112 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.13%) Finance
5 74 (7.28%) Marketing
6 55 (5.41%) Law
7 47 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.85%) Retail
10 28 (2.75%) Banking
11 24 (2.36%) Legal
12 16 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.08%) Advertising
14 9 (0.88%) Military
14 9 (0.88%) Publishing
15 7 (0.69%) Aeronautics
15 7 (0.69%) Electronics
15 7 (0.69%) Games
16 5 (0.49%) Local Government
16 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 587 (57.72%) Developer
2 278 (27.34%) Trainee
3 179 (17.60%) Software Developer
4 152 (14.95%) Senior
5 134 (13.18%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (12.29%) Trainee Software Developer
7 106 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 101 (9.93%) Senior Developer
9 70 (6.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 55 (5.41%) .NET Developer
11 49 (4.82%) Designer
12 41 (4.03%) C# Developer
12 41 (4.03%) PHP Developer
13 39 (3.83%) Lead
13 39 (3.83%) React Developer
14 38 (3.74%) Software Engineer
15 33 (3.24%) Administrator
15 33 (3.24%) Web Developer
16 32 (3.15%) Graduate
17 31 (3.05%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 911 (89.58%) HTML
2 303 (29.79%) React
3 186 (18.29%) .NET
4 124 (12.19%) Node.js
5 101 (9.93%) AngularJS
6 98 (9.64%) HTML5
6 98 (9.64%) RESTful
7 85 (8.36%) Vue
8 84 (8.26%) CSS3
9 78 (7.67%) jQuery
10 76 (7.47%) ASP.NET
11 66 (6.49%) REST
12 55 (5.41%) .NET Core
13 42 (4.13%) .NET Framework
14 39 (3.83%) Tailwind CSS
15 36 (3.54%) Laravel
16 35 (3.44%) Jest
17 34 (3.34%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.34%) Sass
18 31 (3.05%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.83%) Mobile App
3 33 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 9 (0.88%) Social Media
11 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.79%) Cybercrime
11 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.79%) Motion Graphics
12 7 (0.69%) W3C
13 6 (0.59%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.46%) Linux
1 25 (2.46%) Windows
2 14 (1.38%) Android
2 14 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (36.09%) Mentoring
2 347 (34.12%) Agile
3 268 (26.35%) Cybersecurity
4 220 (21.63%) User Experience
5 214 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (19.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 171 (16.81%) CI/CD
8 170 (16.72%) Front End Development
9 131 (12.88%) DevOps
10 120 (11.80%) Computer Science
11 119 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (10.23%) Web Development
13 99 (9.73%) MVC
14 93 (9.14%) Software Engineering
15 91 (8.95%) UX Design
16 73 (7.18%) AI
16 73 (7.18%) Analytics
17 70 (6.88%) OOP
18 69 (6.78%) Clean Code
19 68 (6.69%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 825 (81.12%) JavaScript
2 387 (38.05%) Python
3 221 (21.73%) SQL
4 177 (17.40%) TypeScript
5 176 (17.31%) C#
6 148 (14.55%) R
7 104 (10.23%) Java
8 93 (9.14%) PHP
9 27 (2.65%) C++
10 12 (1.18%) Ruby
10 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.08%) Perl
11 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.79%) C
12 8 (0.79%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.39%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (0.39%) Bash
13 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 287 (28.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (27.43%) Azure Certification
3 278 (27.34%) AWS Certification
3 278 (27.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 183 (17.99%) Degree
5 101 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (6.88%) Security Cleared
7 44 (4.33%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.79%) HND
13 4 (0.39%) ISEB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.20%) CCA
14 2 (0.20%) MCP
15 1 (0.098%) OCP
15 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 52 (5.11%) WCAG
3 47 (4.62%) QA
4 27 (2.65%) GDPR
5 8 (0.79%) IEC 61131
6 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.49%) PERC
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Section 508
7 2 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) HL7
8 1 (0.098%) NCSC
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (7.96%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.75%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Argo
3 4 (0.39%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) cPanel
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.098%) Nagios
Vendors
1 395 (38.84%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.01%) Adobe
3 42 (4.13%) Google
4 27 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.97%) Oracle
6 18 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.88%) Siemens
9 8 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
9 8 (0.79%) SAP
9 8 (0.79%) Toshiba
10 7 (0.69%) Hotjar
10 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.49%) Databricks
12 5 (0.49%) Foundry
13 4 (0.39%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.39%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.39%) iManage
13 4 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud