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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 130 58
Rank change year-on-year -87 -72 +4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,010 1,158 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.33% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.56% 13.83% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 811 677 1,415
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,909 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -1.13%

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 11,800 8,375 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 5,333 9,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in the UK

CSS
Top 16 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 8 October 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 -64 937 £52,250 -5.00% 725
UK excluding London -55 763 £50,000 +11.11% 384
Work from Home -54 466 £55,000 - 317
South East +8 224 £47,500 +11.76% 84
North of England -62 208 £52,000 +22.35% 90
London -118 197 £60,000 -11.11% 394
East of England +3 113 £47,500 -12.04% 34
South West -28 97 £53,125 +32.81% 37
North West -69 92 £51,000 - 49
Midlands -85 87 £50,000 +5.26% 60
North East -8 73 £57,500 +88.52% 16
East Midlands -62 49 £50,000 -3.85% 23
Yorkshire -49 43 £50,000 +33.33% 27
West Midlands -71 38 £50,000 +11.11% 37
Wales -68 26 £40,756 -39.62% 13
Scotland -62 8 £37,500 +22.95% 45

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 51 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.55%) WordPress
3 40 (3.96%) CMS
4 39 (3.86%) IIS
5 27 (2.67%) Confluence
6 18 (1.78%) Apache
7 10 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.89%) Drupal
9 7 (0.69%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.59%) JBoss
10 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.59%) Moodle
10 6 (0.59%) nginx
11 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.099%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.099%) Kentico
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle 10gAS
13 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.98%) Photoshop
3 16 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.29%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.79%) InDesign
6 8 (0.79%) Sketch
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.50%) Elementor
9 4 (0.40%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.20%) InVision
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.099%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 24 (2.38%) Shopify
2 6 (0.59%) Magento
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Line 50
4 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.099%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 349 (34.55%) Azure
2 217 (21.49%) AWS
3 166 (16.44%) GitHub
4 141 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.43%) Azure AI
7 71 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 55 (5.45%) Power Automate
9 54 (5.35%) Figma
10 50 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
11 48 (4.75%) PowerApps
12 33 (3.27%) SaaS
13 31 (3.07%) Google Analytics
14 30 (2.97%) GCP
14 30 (2.97%) Serverless
15 17 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.25%) Internet
2 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.79%) Intranet
3 8 (0.79%) SSL
4 7 (0.69%) DNS
4 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
5 6 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.40%) Profibus
6 4 (0.40%) SMS
7 3 (0.30%) 4G
7 3 (0.30%) 5G
7 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.30%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) SSH
7 3 (0.30%) VoIP
8 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.20%) Firewall
9 1 (0.099%) AMQP
9 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.099%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 161 (15.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (14.26%) MongoDB
4 125 (12.38%) MySQL
5 91 (9.01%) Relational Database
6 73 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
7 51 (5.05%) Power BI
8 34 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.49%) Metadata
10 15 (1.49%) Redis
11 14 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.19%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.09%) GIS
13 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
14 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.69%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.30%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 205 (20.30%) Git
2 43 (4.26%) JIRA
3 40 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.08%) GitLab
5 17 (1.68%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.49%) Selenium
7 14 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (1.39%) Storybook
7 14 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (1.09%) Vite
9 9 (0.89%) Maven
10 8 (0.79%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.69%) MSI
11 7 (0.69%) NUnit
11 7 (0.69%) Postman
11 7 (0.69%) webpack
12 6 (0.59%) Bitbucket
General
1 319 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 130 (12.87%) Marketing
3 108 (10.69%) Finance
4 105 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.45%) Advertising
7 46 (4.55%) Law
8 32 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.57%) Retail
10 22 (2.18%) Legal
10 22 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.98%) Multimedia
12 19 (1.88%) Games
13 17 (1.68%) Banking
14 14 (1.39%) Automotive
15 11 (1.09%) Publishing
16 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.89%) Aviation
17 9 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 659 (65.25%) Developer
2 213 (21.09%) .NET Developer
3 189 (18.71%) Senior
4 139 (13.76%) Senior Developer
5 120 (11.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (7.23%) Software Developer
6 73 (7.23%) Web Developer
7 72 (7.13%) Software Engineer
8 57 (5.64%) PHP Developer
9 54 (5.35%) C# Developer
10 49 (4.85%) Designer
11 48 (4.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 43 (4.26%) Lead
13 37 (3.66%) Analyst
14 32 (3.17%) Consultant
15 30 (2.97%) C# .NET Developer
16 29 (2.87%) C# Software Developer
16 29 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 29 (2.87%) Junior
16 29 (2.87%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (90.89%) HTML
2 370 (36.63%) .NET
3 230 (22.77%) .NET Core
4 221 (21.88%) React
5 220 (21.78%) ASP.NET
6 178 (17.62%) ASP.NET Core
7 153 (15.15%) Node.js
8 131 (12.97%) REST
9 129 (12.77%) HTML5
10 127 (12.57%) Entity Framework
11 124 (12.28%) jQuery
12 105 (10.40%) CSS3
13 95 (9.41%) Vue
14 93 (9.21%) RESTful
15 81 (8.02%) .NET Framework
15 81 (8.02%) AngularJS
16 71 (7.03%) JSON
17 70 (6.93%) ML.NET
18 52 (5.15%) Laravel
19 45 (4.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
6 28 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.57%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.48%) Social Media
10 19 (1.88%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.78%) Robotics
12 16 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.19%) Blog
14 12 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 11 (1.09%) Animation
15 11 (1.09%) CMDB
15 11 (1.09%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.14%) Windows
2 58 (5.74%) Linux
3 27 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.50%) Unix
4 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.30%) AIX
5 3 (0.30%) Debian
5 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (39.70%) Agile
2 385 (38.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 373 (36.93%) CI/CD
4 248 (24.55%) AI
5 233 (23.07%) DevOps
6 209 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (19.01%) User Experience
8 167 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (14.75%) Web Development
10 137 (13.56%) Mentoring
11 133 (13.17%) Software Engineering
12 128 (12.67%) Test Automation
13 106 (10.50%) Front End Development
14 104 (10.30%) Machine Learning
15 99 (9.80%) Computer Science
16 89 (8.81%) Clean Code
17 86 (8.51%) UX Design
18 83 (8.22%) Analytics
18 83 (8.22%) Microservices
18 83 (8.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 624 (61.78%) JavaScript
2 391 (38.71%) SQL
3 368 (36.44%) C#
4 215 (21.29%) TypeScript
5 150 (14.85%) PHP
6 148 (14.65%) Python
7 80 (7.92%) Java
8 32 (3.17%) C++
9 22 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.78%) VB.NET
11 17 (1.68%) Ruby
11 17 (1.68%) VBA
12 15 (1.49%) Go
13 12 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.79%) Bicep
15 6 (0.59%) Bash
15 6 (0.59%) VBScript
16 5 (0.50%) Perl
17 4 (0.40%) C
17 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 165 (16.34%) Degree
2 112 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 97 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 85 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 10 (0.99%) DBS Check
5 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.50%) HNC
10 4 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.40%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.099%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (18.12%) Accessibility
2 91 (9.01%) WCAG
3 81 (8.02%) QA
4 32 (3.17%) GDPR
5 15 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.79%) SLA
8 7 (0.69%) NCSC
9 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.40%) WAI
9 4 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.099%) PERC
11 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (18.22%) Docker
2 13 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.50%) Nagios
4 4 (0.40%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.20%) Plesk
7 1 (0.099%) Ansible
7 1 (0.099%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Consul
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 304 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.63%) Adobe
3 44 (4.36%) Google
4 40 (3.96%) Facebook
5 29 (2.87%) Oracle
6 22 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.08%) YouTube
8 13 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.19%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Splunk
13 7 (0.69%) WooCommerce
14 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.50%) iManage
15 5 (0.50%) New Relic
15 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.50%) Sage
15 5 (0.50%) TikTok