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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 104 57
Rank change year-on-year -86 -47 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,015 1,356 4,076
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 3.00% 3.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 15.53% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 866 848 2,934
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £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 9,744 8,733 21,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 19.33% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,284 5,739 16,527
10th Percentile £40,825 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -70 927 £50,000 -9.09% 395
UK excluding London -61 736 £47,500 -5.00% 364
Work from Home -47 444 £55,000 - 144
London -89 217 £60,000 -11.11% 106
North of England -46 201 £47,500 - 93
South East -16 187 £50,000 - 90
East of England +19 115 £48,130 +28.35% 54
Midlands -66 111 £45,000 - 49
North West -44 109 £45,000 -14.29% 51
South West -42 89 £52,500 -8.70% 47
West Midlands -40 60 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire -17 57 £50,000 +25.00% 25
East Midlands -50 51 £52,500 +31.25% 31
North East -33 35 £52,000 +46.48% 18
Wales -37 18 £45,000 -33.33% 12
Scotland -68 12 £30,500 -58.64% 18
Northern Ireland -34 3 £60,000 - 6

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 (9.56%) WordPress
2 50 (4.93%) CMS
3 48 (4.73%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.87%) IIS
5 18 (1.77%) Confluence
6 11 (1.08%) Apache
6 11 (1.08%) Drupal
7 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) govService
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.099%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.099%) Liferay
11 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.87%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.99%) InDesign
5 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.69%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.39%) InVision
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.099%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.099%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.099%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.099%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 429 (42.27%) Azure
2 305 (30.05%) AWS
3 238 (23.45%) GitHub
4 138 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.60%) Power Platform
6 64 (6.31%) Figma
7 61 (6.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 58 (5.71%) Azure AI
9 49 (4.83%) SaaS
10 48 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
11 46 (4.53%) GCP
12 40 (3.94%) Power Automate
13 37 (3.65%) PowerApps
13 37 (3.65%) Serverless
14 34 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.76%) Google Analytics
16 22 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (1.97%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 127 (12.51%) Internet
2 9 (0.89%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
3 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.099%) AMQP
6 1 (0.099%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.17%) SQL Server
2 140 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 117 (11.53%) MongoDB
4 116 (11.43%) MySQL
5 57 (5.62%) Power BI
6 53 (5.22%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.89%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.89%) Tableau
14 8 (0.79%) Metadata
15 7 (0.69%) GIS
15 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
17 5 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 253 (24.93%) Git
2 55 (5.42%) JIRA
3 36 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.28%) GitLab
6 12 (1.18%) Selenium
6 12 (1.18%) Storybook
6 12 (1.18%) webpack
7 11 (1.08%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.99%) Vite
9 7 (0.69%) Balsamiq
9 7 (0.69%) Postman
10 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.49%) JUnit
10 5 (0.49%) Maven
10 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.39%) PHPUnit
11 4 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 273 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 111 (10.94%) Marketing
3 109 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.85%) Multimedia
5 97 (9.56%) Finance
6 57 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (4.73%) Advertising
8 39 (3.84%) Public Sector
9 38 (3.74%) Law
10 35 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.56%) Legal
12 25 (2.46%) Retail
13 16 (1.58%) Games
14 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.89%) Banking
16 8 (0.79%) Legal Technology
16 8 (0.79%) Local Government
17 6 (0.59%) Automotive
17 6 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (61.97%) Developer
2 175 (17.24%) .NET Developer
3 142 (13.99%) Senior
4 124 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 109 (10.74%) Software Developer
6 107 (10.54%) Senior Developer
7 97 (9.56%) Trainee
8 68 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.31%) Designer
10 62 (6.11%) C# Developer
11 57 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
12 56 (5.52%) Web Developer
13 51 (5.02%) Administrator
14 50 (4.93%) PHP Developer
15 49 (4.83%) Lead
16 48 (4.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 46 (4.53%) Web Administrator
18 43 (4.24%) Trainee Administrator
19 41 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 38 (3.74%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (91.43%) HTML
2 325 (32.02%) .NET
3 238 (23.45%) React
4 175 (17.24%) .NET Core
5 160 (15.76%) ASP.NET
6 135 (13.30%) ASP.NET Core
7 132 (13.00%) jQuery
8 125 (12.32%) Node.js
9 118 (11.63%) Vue
10 115 (11.33%) HTML5
11 98 (9.66%) RESTful
12 96 (9.46%) CSS3
13 90 (8.87%) AngularJS
14 84 (8.28%) Entity Framework
15 77 (7.59%) REST
16 73 (7.19%) JSON
17 54 (5.32%) ML.NET
18 49 (4.83%) Laravel
19 46 (4.53%) .NET Framework
20 45 (4.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.35%) Cloud Native
2 34 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (3.25%) Mobile App
4 30 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.36%) Social Media
8 22 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.67%) Digital TV
11 15 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.38%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.04%) Windows
2 40 (3.94%) Linux
3 20 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.099%) AIX
9 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (36.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 352 (34.68%) Agile
3 298 (29.36%) CI/CD
4 204 (20.10%) DevOps
5 200 (19.70%) AI
6 191 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (18.72%) User Experience
8 165 (16.26%) Mentoring
9 163 (16.06%) Web Development
10 135 (13.30%) Computer Science
11 127 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (11.03%) Front End Development
12 112 (11.03%) Machine Learning
12 112 (11.03%) Software Engineering
13 87 (8.57%) Clean Code
14 86 (8.47%) Analytics
15 79 (7.78%) MVC
16 78 (7.68%) Microservices
16 78 (7.68%) OO
16 78 (7.68%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 627 (61.77%) JavaScript
2 423 (41.67%) SQL
3 325 (32.02%) C#
4 222 (21.87%) Python
5 186 (18.33%) PHP
6 177 (17.44%) TypeScript
7 90 (8.87%) Java
8 64 (6.31%) R
9 39 (3.84%) C++
10 34 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.28%) VBA
13 7 (0.69%) Bicep
13 7 (0.69%) VBScript
14 6 (0.59%) Go
15 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.49%) Bash
15 5 (0.49%) Dart
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 185 (18.23%) Degree
2 108 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 94 (9.26%) AWS Certification
5 92 (9.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 92 (9.06%) Azure Certification
6 47 (4.63%) Security Cleared
7 41 (4.04%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.83%) QA
3 39 (3.84%) WCAG
4 34 (3.35%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.08%) SLA
7 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 7 (0.69%) PERC
9 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.099%) NIST
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (13.40%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 87 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.099%) Grafana
5 1 (0.099%) Kibana
5 1 (0.099%) Nagios
5 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 343 (33.79%) Microsoft
2 73 (7.19%) Adobe
3 38 (3.74%) Google
4 30 (2.96%) Facebook
5 29 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.67%) Oracle
7 16 (1.58%) YouTube
8 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.89%) iManage
9 9 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.79%) Sage
11 7 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.69%) SAP
12 6 (0.59%) Apple
12 6 (0.59%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.59%) TikTok
12 6 (0.59%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.49%) Splunk
14 4 (0.39%) ServiceNow