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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 111 59
Rank change year-on-year -77 -52 +8
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,060 1,372 3,784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.80% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.40% 15.32% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 910 859 2,698
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,189 8,956 20,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 18.27% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,627 5,918 15,290
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -67 969 £50,000 -9.09% 379
UK excluding London -50 790 £50,000 - 335
Work from Home -47 499 £55,000 - 156
London -100 209 £60,000 -14.29% 112
South East -7 208 £50,000 +1.52% 95
North of England -45 206 £50,000 +5.26% 80
East of England +14 122 £47,500 +26.67% 41
Midlands -62 112 £47,500 +2.70% 50
North West -50 110 £45,000 -14.29% 43
South West -31 104 £52,500 -6.67% 45
West Midlands -37 59 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire -15 54 £50,000 +33.33% 23
East Midlands -58 53 £50,000 +11.11% 32
North East -23 42 £56,250 +97.37% 15
Wales -37 24 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Scotland -73 11 £31,000 -60.00% 17
Northern Ireland -59 3 £60,000 - 4

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 99 (9.34%) WordPress
2 53 (5.00%) CMS
3 48 (4.53%) SharePoint
4 22 (2.08%) Confluence
5 20 (1.89%) IIS
6 13 (1.23%) Apache
7 11 (1.04%) Drupal
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) nginx
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
12 1 (0.094%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.094%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.094%) JBoss
12 1 (0.094%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.60%) Photoshop
3 13 (1.23%) Adobe XD
3 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.94%) InDesign
6 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.85%) Sketch
7 8 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.28%) Elementor
9 3 (0.28%) InVision
9 3 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.08%) Shopify
2 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
4 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.094%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.094%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 437 (41.23%) Azure
2 289 (27.26%) AWS
3 226 (21.32%) GitHub
4 154 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (7.64%) GitHub Copilot
6 75 (7.08%) Azure AI
7 70 (6.60%) Power Platform
8 65 (6.13%) Figma
9 51 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (4.81%) SaaS
10 48 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (4.34%) GCP
12 43 (4.06%) Power Automate
13 40 (3.77%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.49%) Serverless
15 34 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.64%) Google Analytics
17 24 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 109 (10.28%) Internet
2 10 (0.94%) Intranet
3 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.47%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.38%) Network Security
4 4 (0.38%) VoIP
4 4 (0.38%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.28%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.094%) AMQP
7 1 (0.094%) Broadband
7 1 (0.094%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (16.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 162 (15.28%) SQL Server
3 147 (13.87%) MongoDB
4 127 (11.98%) MySQL
5 58 (5.47%) Power BI
6 57 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 56 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.60%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.04%) MariaDB
11 11 (1.04%) Metadata
11 11 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
12 10 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.85%) Tableau
14 7 (0.66%) GIS
15 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 227 (21.42%) Git
2 55 (5.19%) JIRA
3 33 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.42%) Cypress.io
5 14 (1.32%) Selenium
6 13 (1.23%) webpack
7 12 (1.13%) GitLab
8 10 (0.94%) Storybook
9 9 (0.85%) Vite
10 8 (0.75%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.75%) Postman
11 7 (0.66%) JUnit
11 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.57%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.47%) Balsamiq
13 5 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.47%) Maven
13 5 (0.47%) MSI
14 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 281 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 120 (11.32%) Marketing
3 107 (10.09%) Finance
4 104 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.98%) Multimedia
6 64 (6.04%) Advertising
7 58 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (3.21%) Law
11 27 (2.55%) Retail
12 23 (2.17%) Legal
13 19 (1.79%) Games
14 11 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.94%) Banking
16 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.75%) Legal Technology
17 6 (0.57%) Automotive
17 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
18 5 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 672 (63.40%) Developer
2 211 (19.91%) .NET Developer
3 158 (14.91%) Senior
4 126 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 120 (11.32%) Senior Developer
6 97 (9.15%) Software Developer
7 74 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 70 (6.60%) Trainee
9 66 (6.23%) Web Developer
10 64 (6.04%) Designer
11 62 (5.85%) C# Developer
11 62 (5.85%) PHP Developer
12 57 (5.38%) C# Software Developer
13 52 (4.91%) Administrator
14 48 (4.53%) Lead
15 47 (4.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 47 (4.43%) Web Administrator
16 44 (4.15%) Analyst
17 43 (4.06%) Trainee Administrator
18 40 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 978 (92.26%) HTML
2 372 (35.09%) .NET
3 237 (22.36%) React
4 213 (20.09%) .NET Core
5 198 (18.68%) ASP.NET
6 171 (16.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (12.83%) Node.js
8 133 (12.55%) jQuery
9 124 (11.70%) HTML5
10 122 (11.51%) Vue
11 105 (9.91%) CSS3
12 101 (9.53%) Entity Framework
13 98 (9.25%) RESTful
14 90 (8.49%) AngularJS
15 82 (7.74%) REST
16 79 (7.45%) JSON
17 73 (6.89%) ML.NET
18 55 (5.19%) Laravel
19 53 (5.00%) .NET Framework
20 44 (4.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.26%) Social Media
9 23 (2.17%) Virtual Team
10 22 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.89%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.89%) Digital TV
12 19 (1.79%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.32%) Graphic Design
15 13 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
16 9 (0.85%) Robotics
17 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.00%) Windows
2 48 (4.53%) Linux
3 25 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.47%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Unix
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.28%) AIX
7 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Debian
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (39.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 385 (36.32%) Agile
3 346 (32.64%) CI/CD
4 229 (21.60%) AI
4 229 (21.60%) DevOps
5 198 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (17.92%) User Experience
7 177 (16.70%) Web Development
8 138 (13.02%) Mentoring
9 132 (12.45%) Computer Science
9 132 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 131 (12.36%) Machine Learning
11 123 (11.60%) Software Engineering
12 118 (11.13%) Front End Development
13 96 (9.06%) Analytics
14 89 (8.40%) Clean Code
14 89 (8.40%) OO
15 85 (8.02%) Microservices
16 83 (7.83%) MVC
17 80 (7.55%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 630 (59.43%) JavaScript
2 466 (43.96%) SQL
3 373 (35.19%) C#
4 202 (19.06%) PHP
5 197 (18.58%) Python
6 178 (16.79%) TypeScript
7 91 (8.58%) Java
8 49 (4.62%) R
9 43 (4.06%) C++
10 32 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.23%) VBA
13 9 (0.85%) Bicep
14 8 (0.75%) Go
14 8 (0.75%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) VBScript
16 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.47%) Dart
16 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 185 (17.45%) Degree
2 107 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 66 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 65 (6.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 65 (6.13%) Azure Certification
6 58 (5.47%) Security Cleared
7 49 (4.62%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.094%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.094%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.45%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.72%) QA
3 42 (3.96%) WCAG
4 38 (3.58%) GDPR
5 13 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.13%) SLA
7 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.75%) PERC
9 7 (0.66%) GRC
9 7 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.094%) NIST
12 1 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (15.00%) Docker
2 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 111 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.64%) Terraform
3 3 (0.28%) Plesk
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Puppet
4 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.094%) Grafana
5 1 (0.094%) Kibana
5 1 (0.094%) Nagios
5 1 (0.094%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 356 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.60%) Adobe
3 42 (3.96%) Google
4 41 (3.87%) Facebook
5 32 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.98%) YouTube
7 19 (1.79%) Oracle
8 11 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.75%) Sage
11 7 (0.66%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.66%) iManage
11 7 (0.66%) OneLogin
12 6 (0.57%) TikTok
12 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.47%) Apple
13 5 (0.47%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.47%) Splunk
14 4 (0.38%) SAP