CSS3 Job Trends

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 412 383
Rank change year-on-year -195 -29 +130
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 75 258 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.59% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 2.66% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 61 148 507
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £81,625 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

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 7,999 9,703 18,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 22.21% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 6,683 15,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 13 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 12 March 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 -180 65 £65,000 +26.83% 54
UK excluding London -156 38 £50,000 - 44
Work from Home -56 26 £70,000 +40.00% 17
London -20 25 £80,000 +45.45% 16
North of England -44 19 £57,687 +35.73% 7
North West -9 14 £61,343 +44.34% 1
South East -59 11 £45,000 -28.00% 10
South West -34 5 £65,000 +4.00% 8
Yorkshire -54 3 £40,000 +6.67% 2
Wales -14 2 £51,250 - 3
North East -20 2 £70,500 - 4
West Midlands -8 1 - - 4
Midlands -39 1 - - 9

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 4 (5.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) CICS
2 2 (2.67%) ColdFusion
2 2 (2.67%) JBoss
2 2 (2.67%) nginx
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (20.00%) GitHub
3 11 (14.67%) AWS
3 11 (14.67%) GCP
4 8 (10.67%) Serverless
5 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.67%) npm
5 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.00%) Figma
7 3 (4.00%) Yarn
8 2 (2.67%) Algolia
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
8 2 (2.67%) Firebase
8 2 (2.67%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.33%) DB2
4 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
4 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.33%) Power BI
5 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.67%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) Git
2 16 (21.33%) webpack
3 11 (14.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.67%) Vite
5 7 (9.33%) Babel
5 7 (9.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.67%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.33%) JIRA
8 3 (4.00%) Eclipse
8 3 (4.00%) IntelliJ
8 3 (4.00%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.67%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.67%) Selenium
9 2 (2.67%) Storybook
9 2 (2.67%) Subversion
9 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Law
4 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (5.33%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Back Office
7 1 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Military
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (78.67%) Developer
2 27 (36.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (26.67%) Senior
4 16 (21.33%) Senior Developer
5 13 (17.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (16.00%) Software Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 6 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (6.67%) Lead
10 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.33%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.33%) React Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Pega Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (100.00%) CSS
2 74 (98.67%) HTML
2 74 (98.67%) HTML5
3 54 (72.00%) React
4 36 (48.00%) RESTful
5 29 (38.67%) AngularJS
6 23 (30.67%) .NET
7 20 (26.67%) Sass
7 20 (26.67%) Vue
8 18 (24.00%) Node.js
9 16 (21.33%) ASP.NET
10 12 (16.00%) Jest
11 10 (13.33%) .NET Core
12 9 (12.00%) REST
13 8 (10.67%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (9.33%) Entity Framework
15 6 (8.00%) Express.js
15 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
16 5 (6.67%) LESS
16 5 (6.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.67%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.33%) Animation
5 1 (1.33%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Agile
2 40 (53.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (49.33%) User Experience
4 31 (41.33%) Front End Development
5 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
5 28 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (33.33%) DevOps
7 20 (26.67%) Responsive Web Design
8 15 (20.00%) SDLC
9 13 (17.33%) Code Quality
9 13 (17.33%) UX Design
10 11 (14.67%) AI
10 11 (14.67%) Scrum
10 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) API Integration
11 10 (13.33%) Computer Science
11 10 (13.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
11 10 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
12 9 (12.00%) API Development
12 9 (12.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (93.33%) JavaScript
2 46 (61.33%) TypeScript
3 25 (33.33%) SQL
4 24 (32.00%) C#
5 15 (20.00%) Java
6 12 (16.00%) Python
7 5 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) RPG
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.67%) VB
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) Degree
3 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (29.33%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.67%) WCAG
3 5 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) Nagios
2 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Pega
5 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.67%) IBM
5 2 (2.67%) New Relic
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) SendGrid
5 2 (2.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) Aderant
6 1 (1.33%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) iManage
6 1 (1.33%) Intapp
6 1 (1.33%) Marketo
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Zend