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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 100 58
Rank change year-on-year -97 -42 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,001 1,382 3,913
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 3.16% 3.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.80% 16.13% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 843 881 2,897
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,760 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -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 9,265 8,567 20,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.58% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,868 5,741 16,008
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 2 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 2 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 -76 920 £50,000 -9.09% 488
UK excluding London -71 713 £47,500 -7.77% 404
Work from Home -66 386 £53,712 -2.34% 243
London -81 225 £59,773 -12.74% 164
North of England -54 219 £45,000 -10.00% 94
South East -37 168 £50,000 -13.04% 95
North West -51 117 £42,500 -19.05% 51
East of England +21 111 £45,000 +20.00% 60
Midlands -60 106 £45,000 +5.88% 58
South West -57 80 £47,500 -17.39% 53
Yorkshire -18 70 £50,000 +29.03% 29
West Midlands -51 61 £42,500 -10.53% 23
East Midlands -58 45 £55,000 +37.50% 35
North East -24 32 £51,000 +13.33% 14
Scotland -74 15 £30,500 -49.17% 18
Wales -37 11 £45,000 -32.08% 15
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 18

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
1 101 (10.09%) WordPress
2 53 (5.29%) CMS
3 46 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.60%) Confluence
4 16 (1.60%) IIS
5 11 (1.10%) Apache
5 11 (1.10%) Drupal
6 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) govService
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Liferay
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.100%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.100%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.70%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.50%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.90%) InDesign
5 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.50%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.100%) Elementor
10 1 (0.100%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.100%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.30%) Shopify
2 10 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.100%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.100%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.100%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 419 (41.86%) Azure
2 344 (34.37%) AWS
3 252 (25.17%) GitHub
4 110 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.69%) Figma
6 65 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 47 (4.70%) GCP
8 46 (4.60%) SaaS
9 45 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
10 43 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (3.80%) Power Automate
12 37 (3.70%) Serverless
13 34 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 34 (3.40%) PowerApps
14 33 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (3.20%) Azure AI
16 27 (2.70%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 20 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 165 (16.48%) Internet
2 5 (0.50%) 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 (0.100%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (15.08%) SQL Server
2 109 (10.89%) MySQL
3 86 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 57 (5.69%) Power BI
6 46 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (4.40%) Relational Database
8 21 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.20%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.90%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.90%) Tableau
13 7 (0.70%) GIS
13 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.60%) DB2
14 6 (0.60%) FileMaker
15 5 (0.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 289 (28.87%) Git
2 51 (5.09%) JIRA
3 34 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.50%) webpack
6 13 (1.30%) Axure RP
7 12 (1.20%) Selenium
7 12 (1.20%) Storybook
8 11 (1.10%) GitLab
9 10 (1.00%) Vite
10 9 (0.90%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.50%) PHPUnit
11 5 (0.50%) Postman
11 5 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.40%) ESLint
12 4 (0.40%) gulp
12 4 (0.40%) Maven
12 4 (0.40%) MLflow
12 4 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 275 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.69%) Multimedia
3 120 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.09%) Marketing
5 93 (9.29%) Finance
6 51 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.10%) Law
8 36 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (3.50%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.90%) Retail
11 27 (2.70%) Advertising
11 27 (2.70%) Legal
12 12 (1.20%) Games
13 11 (1.10%) Banking
13 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.80%) Local Government
15 6 (0.60%) Automotive
15 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 602 (60.14%) Developer
2 145 (14.49%) Trainee
3 144 (14.39%) Senior
4 128 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 122 (12.19%) Software Developer
6 119 (11.89%) .NET Developer
7 112 (11.19%) Senior Developer
8 66 (6.59%) Designer
9 61 (6.09%) C# Developer
10 58 (5.79%) Administrator
10 58 (5.79%) Software Engineer
11 56 (5.59%) C# Software Developer
12 53 (5.29%) Web Administrator
13 52 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 52 (5.19%) PHP Developer
13 52 (5.19%) Web Developer
14 50 (5.00%) Trainee Developer
15 48 (4.80%) Trainee Administrator
16 47 (4.70%) Lead
17 41 (4.10%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (90.61%) HTML
2 266 (26.57%) .NET
3 258 (25.77%) React
4 124 (12.39%) jQuery
5 119 (11.89%) Vue
6 117 (11.69%) .NET Core
7 115 (11.49%) Node.js
8 112 (11.19%) HTML5
9 106 (10.59%) ASP.NET
10 100 (9.99%) AngularJS
11 99 (9.89%) RESTful
12 96 (9.59%) CSS3
13 79 (7.89%) ASP.NET Core
14 71 (7.09%) REST
15 65 (6.49%) JSON
16 55 (5.49%) Entity Framework
17 49 (4.90%) Laravel
18 45 (4.50%) Tailwind CSS
19 41 (4.10%) .NET Framework
20 39 (3.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (3.40%) Mobile App
3 31 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 24 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.30%) Social Media
8 22 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.30%) Graphic Design
12 12 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.90%) Digital TV
14 9 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.70%) Podcast
15 7 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.70%) Linux
2 34 (3.40%) Windows
3 19 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.50%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.100%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.100%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (31.57%) Agile
2 309 (30.87%) Full-Stack Development
3 236 (23.58%) CI/CD
4 217 (21.68%) Mentoring
5 201 (20.08%) User Experience
6 190 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (17.18%) DevOps
8 166 (16.58%) AI
9 162 (16.18%) Web Development
10 127 (12.69%) Computer Science
11 125 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (12.09%) Front End Development
13 108 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
14 102 (10.19%) Software Engineering
15 90 (8.99%) Clean Code
16 83 (8.29%) Analytics
16 83 (8.29%) Machine Learning
17 80 (7.99%) UX Design
18 78 (7.79%) Responsive Web Design
18 78 (7.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 677 (67.63%) JavaScript
2 359 (35.86%) SQL
3 263 (26.27%) Python
4 260 (25.97%) C#
5 176 (17.58%) PHP
5 176 (17.58%) TypeScript
6 95 (9.49%) R
7 86 (8.59%) Java
8 34 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.30%) C++
10 13 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.30%) VBA
11 7 (0.70%) VBScript
12 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.50%) Bash
12 5 (0.50%) Bicep
12 5 (0.50%) Dart
12 5 (0.50%) Perl
12 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 174 (17.38%) Degree
2 146 (14.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 142 (14.19%) AWS Certification
4 140 (13.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 140 (13.99%) Azure Certification
5 101 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.20%) Security Cleared
7 33 (3.30%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.100%) OCA
12 1 (0.100%) OCP
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.79%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.70%) QA
3 40 (4.00%) WCAG
4 29 (2.90%) GDPR
5 13 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.10%) SLA
7 9 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.70%) GRC
8 7 (0.70%) PERC
9 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.100%) NIST
11 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 103 (10.29%) Docker
2 14 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.70%) 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 (0.100%) Grafana
5 1 (0.100%) Kibana
5 1 (0.100%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 335 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.59%) Adobe
3 40 (4.00%) Google
4 23 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.80%) Oracle
6 13 (1.30%) Facebook
7 10 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.90%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.90%) iManage
9 8 (0.80%) Sage
9 8 (0.80%) YouTube
10 7 (0.70%) SAP
11 6 (0.60%) Apple
11 6 (0.60%) Splunk
11 6 (0.60%) TikTok
12 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.50%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.50%) WooCommerce