CSS 3
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CSS3 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 442 419
Rank change year-on-year -190 -23 +88
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 96 249 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 2.85% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 84 123 571
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,355 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £89,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -30.43% - +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

CSS3 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 9,345 8,741 21,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.77% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,931 5,723 16,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,850 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

CSS3
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS3 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CSS3 job vacancy trend in the UK

CSS3
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS3.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CSS3

CSS3
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS3 over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS3 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -210 86 £50,000 -9.09% 19
UK excluding London -142 61 £40,000 -30.43% 19
London -42 29 £80,000 +39.13% 5
Work from Home -113 29 £55,000 - 9
North of England -101 24 £46,250 +2.78% 7
North West -55 18 £40,000 -38.46% 3
South East -22 16 £29,000 -55.38% 3
South West -54 8 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -29 7 £37,500 -50.00% 1
North East -37 6 £57,500 +101.75% 1
East Midlands -23 5 £37,500 - 1
Wales - 5 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands -32 2 £43,750 -41.67%
Scotland +11 1 - - 2

CSS3
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 9 (9.38%) CMS
2 7 (7.29%) WordPress
3 5 (5.21%) Drupal
3 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.17%) Confluence
4 4 (4.17%) IIS
5 3 (3.13%) Apache
6 2 (2.08%) CICS
6 2 (2.08%) JBoss
6 2 (2.08%) nginx
6 2 (2.08%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.04%) ColdFusion
7 1 (1.04%) Moodle
7 1 (1.04%) PegaRULES
7 1 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Sketch
2 1 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.46%) Azure
2 23 (23.96%) AWS
2 23 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.63%) GitHub
4 14 (14.58%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.38%) GCP
6 6 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (6.25%) Serverless
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.08%) Datadog
8 2 (2.08%) Figma
8 2 (2.08%) npm
8 2 (2.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Intranet
2 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.17%) MySQL
2 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.50%) Power BI
4 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.13%) GIS
6 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.08%) Db2
7 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (29.17%) Git
2 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.33%) webpack
3 6 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.25%) Vite
4 5 (5.21%) JIRA
5 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.13%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.13%) Subversion
7 2 (2.08%) Babel
7 2 (2.08%) JUnit
7 2 (2.08%) Maven
8 1 (1.04%) Mocha
8 1 (1.04%) Mockito
8 1 (1.04%) MSI
8 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.04%) RSpec
8 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Law
4 4 (4.17%) Banking
4 4 (4.17%) Finance
4 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.17%) Retail
5 3 (3.13%) Legal
6 2 (2.08%) Advertising
7 1 (1.04%) Automotive
7 1 (1.04%) Back Office
7 1 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Front Office
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (77.08%) Developer
2 32 (33.33%) Senior
3 28 (29.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (27.08%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (10.42%) PHP Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Software Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Lead
10 4 (4.17%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) CSS
2 92 (95.83%) HTML
3 91 (94.79%) HTML5
4 40 (41.67%) React
5 36 (37.50%) .NET
6 31 (32.29%) jQuery
7 30 (31.25%) RESTful
8 26 (27.08%) Vue
9 25 (26.04%) Ajax
10 23 (23.96%) AngularJS
11 21 (21.88%) Sass
12 16 (16.67%) JSON
12 16 (16.67%) Laravel
13 15 (15.63%) LESS
14 13 (13.54%) Node.js
15 12 (12.50%) .NET Framework
15 12 (12.50%) REST
16 11 (11.46%) .NET Core
17 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET
18 9 (9.38%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.04%) Animation
4 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.04%) NHS
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.04%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) AIX
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (34.38%) Agile
3 30 (31.25%) User Experience
4 28 (29.17%) DevOps
4 28 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 23 (23.96%) Front End Development
6 23 (23.96%) MVC
7 22 (22.92%) Responsive Web Design
8 20 (20.83%) AI
9 18 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 15 (15.63%) Machine Learning
12 14 (14.58%) API Integration
12 14 (14.58%) Mobile First
12 14 (14.58%) Web Development
13 13 (13.54%) Scrum
13 13 (13.54%) Visualisation
14 12 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
14 12 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (92.71%) JavaScript
2 31 (32.29%) TypeScript
3 30 (31.25%) C#
4 21 (21.88%) Python
5 20 (20.83%) PHP
5 20 (20.83%) SQL
6 17 (17.71%) Java
7 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby
8 2 (2.08%) VB
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) Degree
3 10 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.08%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.42%) WCAG
3 8 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Plesk
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.08%) Nagios
3 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.21%) Splunk
3 4 (4.17%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Pega
5 2 (2.08%) Adobe
5 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) New Relic
5 2 (2.08%) OneLogin
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.04%) Aderant
6 1 (1.04%) iManage
6 1 (1.04%) Intapp
6 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.04%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.04%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.04%) Zend