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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 104 56
Rank change year-on-year -82 -48 -7
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,020 1,347 3,983
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.96% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.45% 15.39% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 870 843 2,869
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,758 8,751 21,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.21% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,306 5,745 16,151
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 27 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 27 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 -71 930 £50,000 -9.09% 352
UK excluding London -60 747 £47,500 -5.00% 330
Work from Home -44 447 £55,000 - 149
London -96 212 £60,000 -12.41% 90
North of England -43 205 £47,500 -5.00% 82
South East -16 190 £50,000 - 91
East of England +18 116 £47,500 +26.67% 45
Midlands -57 112 £45,000 - 46
North West -47 110 £45,000 -14.29% 45
South West -41 87 £52,500 -8.70% 43
West Midlands -35 60 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire -19 57 £50,000 +29.03% 25
East Midlands -56 52 £55,000 +29.41% 28
North East -20 38 £54,750 +54.23% 13
Wales -40 21 £45,000 -33.33% 10
Scotland -67 13 £30,750 -58.31% 13
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 3

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 (9.71%) WordPress
2 49 (4.80%) CMS
3 48 (4.71%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.86%) IIS
5 18 (1.76%) Confluence
6 11 (1.08%) Drupal
7 10 (0.98%) Apache
8 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.39%) nginx
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) govService
11 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.098%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.098%) Liferay
12 1 (0.098%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.76%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.27%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.98%) InDesign
6 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.78%) Sketch
8 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.39%) InVision
10 3 (0.29%) Elementor
10 3 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (2.25%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.098%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.098%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 419 (41.08%) Azure
2 304 (29.80%) AWS
3 229 (22.45%) GitHub
4 135 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 66 (6.47%) Figma
7 62 (6.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 58 (5.69%) Azure AI
9 49 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
9 49 (4.80%) SaaS
10 48 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (4.41%) GCP
12 41 (4.02%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.82%) Serverless
14 38 (3.73%) PowerApps
15 34 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.65%) Google Analytics
17 22 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (1.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 122 (11.96%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) Intranet
3 4 (0.39%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.39%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
3 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) AMQP
6 1 (0.098%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.10%) SQL Server
2 141 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 120 (11.76%) MySQL
4 116 (11.37%) MongoDB
5 56 (5.49%) Power BI
5 56 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 53 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.98%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.88%) Metadata
12 9 (0.88%) Tableau
13 7 (0.69%) GIS
13 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
15 4 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 244 (23.92%) Git
2 53 (5.20%) JIRA
3 35 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 13 (1.27%) GitLab
5 13 (1.27%) Selenium
6 12 (1.18%) webpack
7 11 (1.08%) Storybook
8 10 (0.98%) Axure RP
9 9 (0.88%) Vite
10 8 (0.78%) Postman
11 6 (0.59%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.59%) JUnit
12 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.49%) Maven
12 5 (0.49%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.29%) MSI
General
1 274 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.98%) Marketing
3 108 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (9.71%) Finance
5 95 (9.31%) Multimedia
6 55 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (4.80%) Advertising
8 41 (4.02%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.53%) Law
10 35 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.55%) Retail
12 25 (2.45%) Legal
13 16 (1.57%) Games
14 10 (0.98%) Banking
14 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.78%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.69%) Local Government
17 6 (0.59%) Automotive
17 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 635 (62.25%) Developer
2 176 (17.25%) .NET Developer
3 148 (14.51%) Senior
4 127 (12.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 112 (10.98%) Senior Developer
6 107 (10.49%) Software Developer
7 91 (8.92%) Trainee
8 70 (6.86%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.37%) Designer
10 62 (6.08%) C# Developer
11 58 (5.69%) Web Developer
12 57 (5.59%) C# Software Developer
13 55 (5.39%) PHP Developer
14 51 (5.00%) Administrator
15 49 (4.80%) Lead
16 48 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 46 (4.51%) Web Administrator
18 43 (4.22%) Trainee Administrator
19 40 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 38 (3.73%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 937 (91.86%) HTML
2 325 (31.86%) .NET
3 241 (23.63%) React
4 176 (17.25%) .NET Core
5 160 (15.69%) ASP.NET
6 135 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
7 134 (13.14%) jQuery
8 128 (12.55%) Node.js
9 118 (11.57%) HTML5
9 118 (11.57%) Vue
10 99 (9.71%) CSS3
11 97 (9.51%) RESTful
12 88 (8.63%) AngularJS
13 84 (8.24%) Entity Framework
14 77 (7.55%) REST
15 74 (7.25%) JSON
16 55 (5.39%) ML.NET
17 50 (4.90%) Laravel
18 46 (4.51%) .NET Framework
19 44 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
2 37 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.35%) Social Media
8 22 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 21 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.67%) Digital TV
11 14 (1.37%) Graphic Design
12 12 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
14 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.12%) Windows
2 41 (4.02%) Linux
3 20 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.098%) Debian
9 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 355 (34.80%) Agile
3 301 (29.51%) CI/CD
4 207 (20.29%) DevOps
5 206 (20.20%) AI
6 192 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (18.63%) User Experience
8 166 (16.27%) Web Development
9 159 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 134 (13.14%) Computer Science
11 126 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (11.18%) Front End Development
12 114 (11.18%) Software Engineering
13 112 (10.98%) Machine Learning
14 87 (8.53%) Analytics
15 86 (8.43%) Clean Code
16 81 (7.94%) Microservices
17 80 (7.84%) OO
18 78 (7.65%) MVC
19 77 (7.55%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 633 (62.06%) JavaScript
2 425 (41.67%) SQL
3 326 (31.96%) C#
4 215 (21.08%) Python
5 193 (18.92%) PHP
6 175 (17.16%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.02%) Java
8 60 (5.88%) R
9 40 (3.92%) C++
10 33 (3.24%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.27%) VBA
13 8 (0.78%) Go
14 7 (0.69%) Bicep
14 7 (0.69%) VBScript
15 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.49%) Dart
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.49%) Ruby
16 4 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 185 (18.14%) Degree
2 108 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 88 (8.63%) AWS Certification
3 88 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (8.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 86 (8.43%) Azure Certification
5 51 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.41%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (12.35%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.71%) QA
3 39 (3.82%) WCAG
4 35 (3.43%) GDPR
5 13 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.08%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.69%) GRC
8 7 (0.69%) PERC
9 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.098%) NIST
12 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (13.33%) Docker
2 14 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.35%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.098%) Grafana
5 1 (0.098%) Kibana
5 1 (0.098%) Nagios
5 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.098%) Puppet
5 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 335 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 73 (7.16%) Adobe
3 37 (3.63%) Google
4 31 (3.04%) Facebook
5 29 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.76%) Oracle
7 16 (1.57%) YouTube
8 10 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 8 (0.78%) iManage
9 8 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.78%) Sage
10 7 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.59%) Apple
11 6 (0.59%) Hotjar
11 6 (0.59%) SAP
11 6 (0.59%) TikTok
11 6 (0.59%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.49%) OneLogin
12 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.49%) Splunk