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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 93 58
Rank change year-on-year -77 -35 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,073 1,342 3,738
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.26% 4.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.51% 15.51% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 898 1,058 2,876
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £61,346 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 8,578 8,655 20,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 21.03% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,270 6,548 15,630
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,528 £45,500
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 £80,000
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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -66 967 £45,000 -18.18% 446
UK excluding London -65 756 £40,000 -23.81% 401
Work from Home -75 343 £52,500 -4.55% 168
North of England -34 265 £31,000 -31.11% 87
London -75 238 £60,000 -14.29% 119
South East -68 155 £50,000 -16.67% 105
North West -32 126 £31,500 -37.00% 41
Midlands -38 121 £42,039 -6.58% 62
Yorkshire -12 106 £30,500 -18.67% 31
East of England -9 94 £40,000 -15.79% 61
South West -71 79 £40,000 -33.33% 53
West Midlands -18 72 £32,000 -36.00% 26
East Midlands -51 49 £50,000 +33.33% 35
North East -14 33 £30,500 -35.79% 15
Scotland -78 29 £30,500 -49.17% 23
Wales -32 11 £41,740 -20.87% 15
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 7
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
1 111 (10.34%) WordPress
2 50 (4.66%) CMS
3 33 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) nginx
6 6 (0.56%) Apache
6 6 (0.56%) IIS
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.093%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.093%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 29 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (1.12%) Photoshop
3 12 (1.12%) Sketch
4 10 (0.93%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.75%) InVision
6 8 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.37%) InDesign
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.093%) Elementor
11 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) Shopify
2 11 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Magento
4 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.19%) Line 50
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 508 (47.34%) Azure
2 464 (43.24%) AWS
3 360 (33.55%) GitHub
4 82 (7.64%) Figma
5 74 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (5.68%) GCP
7 52 (4.85%) Serverless
8 51 (4.75%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.29%) SaaS
10 32 (2.98%) Google Analytics
11 31 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
13 29 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (2.33%) Power Automate
14 25 (2.33%) PowerApps
15 22 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.68%) Entra ID
18 15 (1.40%) PaaS
19 14 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 285 (26.56%) Internet
2 7 (0.65%) HTTP
3 5 (0.47%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) VoIP
7 1 (0.093%) Broadband
7 1 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 105 (9.79%) MySQL
3 44 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.01%) Power BI
5 38 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.21%) DB2
10 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.84%) Tableau
13 8 (0.75%) Looker
14 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.47%) FileMaker
16 4 (0.37%) Metadata
17 3 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 417 (38.86%) Git
2 52 (4.85%) JIRA
3 48 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.05%) Cypress.io
4 22 (2.05%) webpack
5 20 (1.86%) Axure RP
5 20 (1.86%) Selenium
6 14 (1.30%) Balsamiq
6 14 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.12%) Storybook
7 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.12%) Vite
8 10 (0.93%) Babel
9 8 (0.75%) GitLab
10 7 (0.65%) Maven
11 6 (0.56%) JUnit
11 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.47%) Gradle
12 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 271 (25.26%) Multimedia
2 238 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 130 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.25%) Finance
5 87 (8.11%) Marketing
6 50 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.66%) Law
7 40 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 28 (2.61%) Retail
9 23 (2.14%) Banking
9 23 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.05%) Legal
11 11 (1.03%) Advertising
12 7 (0.65%) Games
13 6 (0.56%) Back Office
13 6 (0.56%) Military
14 5 (0.47%) Electronics
14 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 604 (56.29%) Developer
2 274 (25.54%) Trainee
3 168 (15.66%) Software Developer
4 150 (13.98%) Senior
5 124 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 111 (10.34%) Trainee Developer
7 108 (10.07%) Senior Developer
8 97 (9.04%) Trainee Software Developer
9 77 (7.18%) Administrator
10 73 (6.80%) Web Administrator
11 71 (6.62%) Trainee Administrator
12 66 (6.15%) .NET Developer
12 66 (6.15%) Designer
13 64 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 58 (5.41%) C# Developer
15 55 (5.13%) PHP Developer
16 49 (4.57%) Web Developer
17 48 (4.47%) Lead
18 47 (4.38%) C# Software Developer
19 45 (4.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 976 (90.96%) HTML
2 309 (28.80%) React
3 195 (18.17%) .NET
4 122 (11.37%) Node.js
5 106 (9.88%) Vue
6 104 (9.69%) jQuery
7 103 (9.60%) AngularJS
8 102 (9.51%) RESTful
9 88 (8.20%) HTML5
10 72 (6.71%) CSS3
11 61 (5.68%) ASP.NET
12 58 (5.41%) .NET Core
13 52 (4.85%) REST
14 50 (4.66%) Tailwind CSS
15 46 (4.29%) Laravel
16 43 (4.01%) JSON
17 40 (3.73%) .NET Framework
18 39 (3.63%) Sass
19 35 (3.26%) Jest
20 34 (3.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.38%) Product Ownership
2 42 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.77%) Social Media
10 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.75%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.14%) Linux
2 20 (1.86%) Windows
3 9 (0.84%) Android
4 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
8 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (30.85%) Mentoring
2 330 (30.75%) Agile
3 240 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 212 (19.76%) Cybersecurity
5 206 (19.20%) User Experience
6 193 (17.99%) CI/CD
7 192 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (15.00%) Web Development
9 151 (14.07%) DevOps
10 144 (13.42%) Front End Development
11 131 (12.21%) Computer Science
12 125 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (10.34%) AI
14 99 (9.23%) Software Engineering
15 98 (9.13%) Analytics
16 95 (8.85%) Clean Code
17 93 (8.67%) Scrum
18 87 (8.11%) UX Design
19 84 (7.83%) MVC
20 74 (6.90%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 823 (76.70%) JavaScript
2 384 (35.79%) Python
3 286 (26.65%) SQL
4 191 (17.80%) TypeScript
5 188 (17.52%) C#
6 165 (15.38%) R
7 154 (14.35%) PHP
8 99 (9.23%) Java
9 31 (2.89%) C++
10 21 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.65%) VBA
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
13 6 (0.56%) Ruby
14 5 (0.47%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Dart
14 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 276 (25.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 271 (25.26%) AWS Certification
2 271 (25.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 271 (25.26%) Azure Certification
3 183 (17.05%) Degree
4 109 (10.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (5.22%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.38%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.093%) CCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCA
11 1 (0.093%) OCP
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (11.37%) Accessibility
2 43 (4.01%) QA
3 41 (3.82%) WCAG
4 26 (2.42%) GDPR
5 10 (0.93%) PERC
5 10 (0.93%) SLA
6 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.65%) GRC
7 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.093%) HL7
10 1 (0.093%) NCSC
10 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (7.83%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.42%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Kibana
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 408 (38.02%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.06%) Adobe
3 48 (4.47%) Google
4 22 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 9 (0.84%) Oracle
5 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.75%) Hotjar
7 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
7 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.56%) Sage
7 6 (0.56%) SAP
8 5 (0.47%) Databricks
8 5 (0.47%) Foundry
8 5 (0.47%) iManage
8 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.37%) Concur
9 4 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.37%) New Relic
9 4 (0.37%) Palo Alto