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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 136 58
Rank change year-on-year -85 -78 +1
Permanent jobs citing CSS 1,016 1,161 2,835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 2.33% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.56% 13.81% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 810 685 1,432
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -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 £52,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -0.95%

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 11,873 8,407 16,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 16.90% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,409 5,360 10,005
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £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 4 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 4 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 -66 944 £52,500 -1.41% 1,059
UK excluding London -57 768 £50,000 +11.11% 801
Work from Home -57 472 £55,000 - 606
South East +18 226 £47,500 +11.76% 166
North of England -61 208 £52,000 +15.56% 187
London -119 199 £60,000 -7.69% 421
East of England +4 115 £47,500 -12.04% 88
South West -27 98 £53,750 +38.71% 84
North West -70 91 £51,000 -2.86% 95
Midlands -92 87 £50,000 +8.11% 127
North East -7 74 £57,500 +88.52% 31
East Midlands -75 49 £50,000 +0.50% 62
Yorkshire -60 43 £50,000 +33.33% 64
West Midlands -69 38 £50,000 +11.11% 65
Wales -65 26 £40,756 -39.62% 44
Scotland -56 8 £37,500 +22.95% 84

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 54 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.53%) WordPress
3 41 (4.04%) CMS
4 40 (3.94%) IIS
5 27 (2.66%) Confluence
6 18 (1.77%) Apache
7 10 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.89%) Drupal
9 8 (0.79%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.59%) JBoss
11 6 (0.59%) Moodle
11 6 (0.59%) nginx
12 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.098%) ExpressionEngine
14 1 (0.098%) Kentico
14 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.97%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.28%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.79%) InDesign
7 8 (0.79%) Sketch
8 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
9 4 (0.39%) Elementor
9 4 (0.39%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.20%) InVision
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Shopify
2 6 (0.59%) Magento
3 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Line 50
4 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (34.65%) Azure
2 216 (21.26%) AWS
3 166 (16.34%) GitHub
4 142 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.07%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (7.48%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.38%) Azure AI
8 59 (5.81%) Power Automate
9 54 (5.31%) Figma
9 54 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (5.12%) PowerApps
11 51 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (3.35%) SaaS
13 31 (3.05%) GCP
14 30 (2.95%) Google Analytics
14 30 (2.95%) Serverless
15 17 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 17 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.22%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) 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 (0.39%) Profibus
6 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.098%) AMQP
9 1 (0.098%) Broadband
9 1 (0.098%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 163 (16.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (14.17%) MongoDB
4 126 (12.40%) MySQL
5 92 (9.06%) Relational Database
6 74 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (5.41%) Power BI
8 33 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.48%) Metadata
11 14 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.38%) Redis
12 12 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.08%) GIS
13 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
14 8 (0.79%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
17 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 202 (19.88%) Git
2 43 (4.23%) JIRA
3 40 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.07%) GitLab
5 17 (1.67%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.57%) Selenium
6 16 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (1.38%) Storybook
7 14 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.98%) Vite
9 9 (0.89%) Maven
10 8 (0.79%) Axure RP
11 7 (0.69%) MSI
11 7 (0.69%) Postman
11 7 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.69%) webpack
12 6 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 325 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 131 (12.89%) Marketing
3 109 (10.73%) Finance
4 107 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.41%) Advertising
7 46 (4.53%) Law
8 33 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.56%) Retail
10 23 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.17%) Legal
12 19 (1.87%) Games
12 19 (1.87%) Multimedia
13 16 (1.57%) Banking
14 13 (1.28%) Automotive
15 11 (1.08%) Publishing
16 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.89%) Aviation
17 9 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 663 (65.26%) Developer
2 214 (21.06%) .NET Developer
3 192 (18.90%) Senior
4 142 (13.98%) Senior Developer
5 119 (11.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (7.48%) Software Developer
7 74 (7.28%) Software Engineer
8 71 (6.99%) Web Developer
9 56 (5.51%) PHP Developer
10 55 (5.41%) C# Developer
11 49 (4.82%) Designer
12 46 (4.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 43 (4.23%) Lead
14 37 (3.64%) Analyst
15 32 (3.15%) Consultant
16 31 (3.05%) C# .NET Developer
17 30 (2.95%) C# Software Developer
17 30 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 29 (2.85%) Junior
18 29 (2.85%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (91.14%) HTML
2 376 (37.01%) .NET
3 231 (22.74%) .NET Core
4 223 (21.95%) React
5 221 (21.75%) ASP.NET
6 178 (17.52%) ASP.NET Core
7 152 (14.96%) Node.js
8 132 (12.99%) HTML5
9 130 (12.80%) REST
10 127 (12.50%) jQuery
11 126 (12.40%) Entity Framework
12 106 (10.43%) CSS3
13 97 (9.55%) Vue
14 94 (9.25%) RESTful
15 82 (8.07%) .NET Framework
16 80 (7.87%) AngularJS
17 75 (7.38%) JSON
18 70 (6.89%) ML.NET
19 51 (5.02%) Laravel
20 45 (4.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.95%) Marketing Technology
6 28 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 26 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.56%) Social Media
8 19 (1.87%) Digital TV
9 18 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.77%) Robotics
10 16 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.08%) Blog
13 11 (1.08%) CMDB
13 11 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.08%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.20%) Windows
2 59 (5.81%) Linux
3 28 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) AIX
6 3 (0.30%) Debian
6 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (39.76%) Agile
2 386 (37.99%) Full-Stack Development
3 373 (36.71%) CI/CD
4 247 (24.31%) AI
5 233 (22.93%) DevOps
6 212 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (19.39%) User Experience
8 170 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (14.76%) Web Development
10 136 (13.39%) Mentoring
10 136 (13.39%) Software Engineering
11 125 (12.30%) Test Automation
12 107 (10.53%) Machine Learning
13 106 (10.43%) Front End Development
14 101 (9.94%) Computer Science
15 89 (8.76%) UX Design
16 88 (8.66%) Clean Code
17 84 (8.27%) Microservices
17 84 (8.27%) Scrum
18 83 (8.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 628 (61.81%) JavaScript
2 398 (39.17%) SQL
3 374 (36.81%) C#
4 214 (21.06%) TypeScript
5 150 (14.76%) PHP
5 150 (14.76%) Python
6 81 (7.97%) Java
7 32 (3.15%) C++
8 25 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.77%) VB.NET
9 18 (1.77%) VBA
10 17 (1.67%) Ruby
11 15 (1.48%) Go
12 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.79%) Bicep
14 7 (0.69%) VBScript
15 6 (0.59%) Bash
16 5 (0.49%) C
16 5 (0.49%) Perl
17 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (16.34%) Degree
2 111 (10.93%) Security Cleared
3 96 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 86 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.98%) DBS Check
5 10 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) HNC
10 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.39%) HND
11 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.098%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (18.31%) Accessibility
2 91 (8.96%) WCAG
3 80 (7.87%) QA
4 32 (3.15%) GDPR
5 15 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.89%) SLA
8 7 (0.69%) NCSC
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.30%) WAI
10 3 (0.30%) WAI-ARIA
11 1 (0.098%) PERC
11 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 185 (18.21%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 119 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (0.49%) Nagios
4 4 (0.39%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Plesk
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.098%) Ansible
7 1 (0.098%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Consul
7 1 (0.098%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 307 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.89%) Adobe
3 44 (4.33%) Google
4 40 (3.94%) Facebook
5 30 (2.95%) Oracle
6 22 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.07%) YouTube
8 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.18%) OneLogin
10 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Splunk
13 7 (0.69%) WooCommerce
14 6 (0.59%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.59%) iManage
14 6 (0.59%) TikTok
15 5 (0.49%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.49%) New Relic
15 5 (0.49%) Pinterest
15 5 (0.49%) Red Hat