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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 320 457
Rank change year-on-year -245 +137 -11
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 89 521 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.84% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 3.93% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 75 169 232
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,000 £39,079
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £105,000 £81,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.55% +7.50% -

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 6,983 13,270 13,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 21.36% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,172 8,094 10,992
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -218 80 £57,500 -4.17% 127
UK excluding London -214 43 £48,750 -17.55% 122
Work from Home +18 39 £55,000 +10.00% 73
London +35 34 £80,000 +18.52% 17
North of England -39 22 £52,500 +5.00% 34
North West +17 12 £55,000 +10.00% 15
South East -65 8 £45,000 -25.00% 31
Yorkshire -36 7 £40,000 +40.35% 12
Midlands -35 6 £52,000 -0.95% 20
South West +10 5 £47,500 -20.83% 10
East Midlands -13 5 £52,000 -9.57% 6
North East -4 3 £67,500 - 7
Wales -8 2 £42,500 -5.56% 5
West Midlands -9 1 - - 12

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 5 (5.62%) CMS
2 4 (4.49%) Confluence
2 4 (4.49%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.25%) Drupal
3 2 (2.25%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.25%) IIS
3 2 (2.25%) WordPress
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.37%) Shopify
3 2 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.46%) Azure
2 19 (21.35%) GitHub
3 8 (8.99%) AWS
4 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.87%) Figma
5 6 (6.74%) npm
5 6 (6.74%) Serverless
6 4 (4.49%) GCP
6 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.12%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.12%) Azure WebJobs
8 1 (1.12%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.84%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.36%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.24%) MySQL
4 9 (10.11%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.25%) Metadata
8 2 (2.25%) Power BI
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.12%) Big Data
9 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.12%) DB2
9 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (33.71%) Git
2 16 (17.98%) webpack
3 10 (11.24%) Babel
4 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.74%) JIRA
6 4 (4.49%) GitLab
6 4 (4.49%) Visual Studio
6 4 (4.49%) Vite
7 3 (3.37%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.37%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.25%) Grunt
8 2 (2.25%) gulp
8 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.12%) Mockito
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Law
6 5 (5.62%) Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Marketing
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Back Office
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Publishing
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (80.90%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (20.22%) Software Developer
4 12 (13.48%) Senior
5 11 (12.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (11.24%) React Developer
6 10 (11.24%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.11%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.74%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.62%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.62%) PHP Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Lead
11 3 (3.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (100.00%) CSS
1 89 (100.00%) HTML
1 89 (100.00%) HTML5
2 57 (64.04%) React
3 36 (40.45%) RESTful
4 34 (38.20%) .NET
5 30 (33.71%) AngularJS
6 24 (26.97%) ASP.NET
6 24 (26.97%) Node.js
7 21 (23.60%) REST
8 20 (22.47%) .NET Core
9 17 (19.10%) Vue
10 16 (17.98%) Entity Framework
11 14 (15.73%) Sass
12 12 (13.48%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (12.36%) .NET Framework
13 11 (12.36%) Redux
14 9 (10.11%) GraphQL
15 8 (8.99%) Blazor
15 8 (8.99%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Digital TV
2 6 (6.74%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.25%) Online Banking
5 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (55.06%) Agile
3 43 (48.31%) User Experience
4 29 (32.58%) Front End Development
5 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
7 19 (21.35%) DevOps
8 16 (17.98%) SDLC
9 14 (15.73%) Code Quality
9 14 (15.73%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 14 (15.73%) MVC
9 14 (15.73%) TDD
9 14 (15.73%) UX Design
10 13 (14.61%) Responsive Web Design
11 12 (13.48%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.36%) BDD
13 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
14 9 (10.11%) AI
14 9 (10.11%) Software Engineering
14 9 (10.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (91.01%) JavaScript
2 45 (50.56%) TypeScript
3 36 (40.45%) SQL
4 31 (34.83%) C#
5 17 (19.10%) Java
6 11 (12.36%) Python
7 6 (6.74%) PHP
8 3 (3.37%) Ruby
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) Dart
9 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.12%) RPG
9 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) Degree
3 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.87%) WCAG
3 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.49%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Grafana
3 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) Sybase
4 2 (2.25%) Google
5 1 (1.12%) Adobe
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) IBM
5 1 (1.12%) Marketo
5 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) SAP
5 1 (1.12%) Splunk
5 1 (1.12%) WooCommerce