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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 90 58
Rank change year-on-year -96 -32 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,016 1,494 3,829
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 3.40% 3.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.29% 17.15% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 860 993 2,884
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,325
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -7.98%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 8,997 8,711 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.84% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 6,304 15,761
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -87 930 £50,000 -9.09% 482
UK excluding London -79 723 £45,000 -14.29% 406
Work from Home -79 364 £53,106 -7.64% 197
North of England -46 234 £37,500 -16.67% 96
London -82 223 £60,000 -14.29% 137
South East -41 159 £50,000 -16.67% 111
North West -56 120 £40,000 -20.00% 45
Midlands -70 116 £45,000 - 54
East of England +7 105 £47,500 +15.15% 73
Yorkshire -21 82 £33,000 -12.00% 33
South West -55 78 £46,250 -22.92% 44
West Midlands -45 68 £37,500 -25.00% 18
East Midlands -60 48 £55,000 +41.94% 36
North East -32 32 £39,000 -15.68% 18
Scotland -87 19 £30,500 -49.17% 22
Wales -35 10 £43,500 -27.50% 10
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 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
1 102 (10.04%) WordPress
2 51 (5.02%) CMS
3 45 (4.43%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.48%) Confluence
5 12 (1.18%) IIS
6 11 (1.08%) Drupal
7 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.89%) nginx
8 8 (0.79%) Apache
9 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.30%) govService
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 3 (0.30%) Liferay
10 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.098%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.098%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.87%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.89%) Sketch
6 7 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.69%) InVision
6 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.49%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.098%) Elementor
9 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.098%) Trello
9 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Shopify
2 10 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.098%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (46.16%) Azure
2 391 (38.48%) AWS
3 293 (28.84%) GitHub
4 101 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (6.40%) Figma
6 63 (6.20%) Power Platform
7 55 (5.41%) GCP
8 44 (4.33%) SaaS
9 40 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (3.84%) Serverless
11 37 (3.64%) Power Automate
12 36 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (3.44%) PowerApps
14 34 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.76%) Azure AI
15 28 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 28 (2.76%) Google Analytics
16 22 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 214 (21.06%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.69%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.098%) AMQP
5 1 (0.098%) Broadband
5 1 (0.098%) DNS
5 1 (0.098%) Firewall
5 1 (0.098%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.098%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (13.88%) SQL Server
2 106 (10.43%) MySQL
3 75 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 55 (5.41%) Power BI
6 45 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (4.23%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.85%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.98%) DB2
12 9 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.89%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.79%) Tableau
14 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.69%) FileMaker
15 5 (0.49%) GIS
15 5 (0.49%) Looker
15 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 336 (33.07%) Git
2 49 (4.82%) JIRA
3 44 (4.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.67%) webpack
5 16 (1.57%) Axure RP
6 15 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.48%) Selenium
7 13 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.18%) Storybook
9 11 (1.08%) Balsamiq
9 11 (1.08%) Vite
10 10 (0.98%) GitLab
11 9 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.89%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.69%) Babel
12 7 (0.69%) JUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Maven
13 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
14 4 (0.39%) ESLint
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 251 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 194 (19.09%) Multimedia
3 119 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.04%) Finance
5 85 (8.37%) Marketing
6 46 (4.53%) Law
7 43 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.46%) Legal
10 24 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.36%) Retail
11 22 (2.17%) Advertising
12 16 (1.57%) Banking
13 13 (1.28%) Games
14 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.49%) Local Government
16 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.39%) Automotive
17 4 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 606 (59.65%) Developer
2 199 (19.59%) Trainee
3 149 (14.67%) Senior
4 142 (13.98%) Software Developer
5 130 (12.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 108 (10.63%) Senior Developer
7 101 (9.94%) .NET Developer
8 80 (7.87%) Trainee Developer
9 67 (6.59%) Trainee Software Developer
10 61 (6.00%) Administrator
11 60 (5.91%) Designer
12 58 (5.71%) C# Developer
13 56 (5.51%) Web Administrator
14 53 (5.22%) Trainee Administrator
15 52 (5.12%) PHP Developer
16 51 (5.02%) C# Software Developer
16 51 (5.02%) Web Developer
17 49 (4.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 49 (4.82%) Software Engineer
18 42 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 927 (91.24%) HTML
2 277 (27.26%) React
3 242 (23.82%) .NET
4 122 (12.01%) Node.js
5 118 (11.61%) jQuery
6 113 (11.12%) HTML5
7 109 (10.73%) Vue
8 105 (10.33%) .NET Core
9 102 (10.04%) AngularJS
9 102 (10.04%) RESTful
10 96 (9.45%) CSS3
11 95 (9.35%) ASP.NET
12 64 (6.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 61 (6.00%) REST
14 59 (5.81%) JSON
15 48 (4.72%) Entity Framework
16 47 (4.63%) Laravel
17 44 (4.33%) Tailwind CSS
18 40 (3.94%) .NET Framework
19 39 (3.84%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
2 37 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 35 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.67%) Social Media
10 15 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.89%) Digital TV
13 9 (0.89%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.56%) Linux
2 24 (2.36%) Windows
3 14 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Android
5 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.39%) Unix
5 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (31.59%) Agile
2 295 (29.04%) Full-Stack Development
3 262 (25.79%) Mentoring
4 222 (21.85%) CI/CD
5 194 (19.09%) User Experience
6 184 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
7 167 (16.44%) DevOps
8 156 (15.35%) Web Development
9 153 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
10 144 (14.17%) AI
11 129 (12.70%) Computer Science
12 121 (11.91%) Front End Development
13 118 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 101 (9.94%) Software Engineering
15 95 (9.35%) Clean Code
16 87 (8.56%) Analytics
17 86 (8.46%) Scrum
18 80 (7.87%) UX Design
19 77 (7.58%) Microservices
20 76 (7.48%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 727 (71.56%) JavaScript
2 337 (33.17%) SQL
3 309 (30.41%) Python
4 237 (23.33%) C#
5 188 (18.50%) TypeScript
6 165 (16.24%) PHP
7 119 (11.71%) R
8 92 (9.06%) Java
9 32 (3.15%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.85%) C++
11 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.08%) VBA
13 6 (0.59%) Bash
14 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.49%) Bicep
14 5 (0.49%) Dart
14 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.49%) VBScript
15 4 (0.39%) SOQL
15 4 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 200 (19.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 195 (19.19%) AWS Certification
3 194 (19.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 194 (19.09%) Azure Certification
4 176 (17.32%) Degree
5 105 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (5.02%) Security Cleared
7 40 (3.94%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.098%) ISEB
13 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.098%) OCA
13 1 (0.098%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.42%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.13%) WCAG
3 41 (4.04%) QA
4 27 (2.66%) GDPR
5 11 (1.08%) SLA
6 10 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.69%) GRC
7 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.69%) PERC
8 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) NCSC
10 1 (0.098%) NIST
System Software
1 97 (9.55%) Docker
2 13 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.77%) Terraform
3 5 (0.49%) Plesk
4 3 (0.30%) Argo
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) cPanel
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.20%) Nagios
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.098%) Kibana
Vendors
1 377 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.89%) Adobe
3 40 (3.94%) Google
4 18 (1.77%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.28%) Oracle
6 10 (0.98%) Facebook
7 9 (0.89%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.79%) Sage
9 7 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.69%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.69%) iManage
9 7 (0.69%) YouTube
10 6 (0.59%) Apple
10 6 (0.59%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.59%) SAP
11 5 (0.49%) Databricks
11 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.49%) Splunk