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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 427 411
Rank change year-on-year -196 -16 +91
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 94 249 576
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 2.86% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 82 132 553
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,811 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -9.77%
75th Percentile £79,375 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £89,750 £81,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +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 8,935 8,710 20,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 20.06% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,566 6,131 15,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -173 86 £50,000 -9.09% 74
UK excluding London -172 54 £40,000 -27.27% 69
Work from Home -102 32 £55,000 +4.76% 13
London -51 31 £80,000 +42.22% 22
North of England -88 21 £45,000 +5.88% 17
South East -15 17 £29,000 -59.30% 17
North West -58 17 £40,000 -38.46% 6
South West -50 7 £55,000 +2.33% 8
Midlands -51 7 £37,500 -34.78% 10
East Midlands -25 5 £37,500 -34.78% 9
North East -36 4 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands -37 2 £43,750 -7.89% 1
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 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 (9.57%) CMS
2 6 (6.38%) WordPress
3 5 (5.32%) Drupal
3 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.26%) Confluence
5 3 (3.19%) Apache
5 3 (3.19%) IIS
6 2 (2.13%) CICS
6 2 (2.13%) JBoss
6 2 (2.13%) nginx
6 2 (2.13%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.06%) ColdFusion
7 1 (1.06%) PegaRULES
7 1 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Sketch
2 1 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Azure
2 21 (22.34%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.21%) AWS
4 13 (13.83%) GitHub
4 13 (13.83%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.64%) GCP
6 5 (5.32%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.32%) Serverless
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.13%) Algolia
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.13%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.13%) Datadog
8 2 (2.13%) Figma
8 2 (2.13%) Firebase
8 2 (2.13%) npm
8 2 (2.13%) Stripe
8 2 (2.13%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) Intranet
2 2 (2.13%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.66%) MySQL
1 26 (27.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.70%) Power BI
3 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.26%) DB2
4 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.19%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.13%) GIS
6 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) Git
2 12 (12.77%) webpack
3 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.38%) Vite
5 4 (4.26%) Babel
5 4 (4.26%) JIRA
6 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.19%) GitLab
6 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 2 (2.13%) Storybook
7 2 (2.13%) Subversion
8 1 (1.06%) Gradle
8 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Law
4 6 (6.38%) Finance
4 6 (6.38%) Retail
5 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.13%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.06%) Electronics
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (79.79%) Developer
2 32 (34.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (31.91%) Senior
4 25 (26.60%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (10.64%) PHP Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.32%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Lead
10 5 (5.32%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.26%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) CSS
2 90 (95.74%) HTML
2 90 (95.74%) HTML5
3 42 (44.68%) React
4 33 (35.11%) .NET
4 33 (35.11%) RESTful
5 28 (29.79%) jQuery
6 27 (28.72%) Vue
7 25 (26.60%) AngularJS
8 24 (25.53%) Sass
9 22 (23.40%) Ajax
10 16 (17.02%) Laravel
11 15 (15.96%) JSON
12 14 (14.89%) LESS
13 12 (12.77%) Node.js
14 10 (10.64%) .NET Framework
14 10 (10.64%) ASP.NET
15 8 (8.51%) .NET Core
15 8 (8.51%) Bootstrap
15 8 (8.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.06%) Animation
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.06%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (34.04%) Agile
2 32 (34.04%) User Experience
3 30 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (27.66%) Front End Development
5 25 (26.60%) DevOps
6 24 (25.53%) Responsive Web Design
7 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.34%) MVC
9 17 (18.09%) AI
10 16 (17.02%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
11 15 (15.96%) Web Development
12 14 (14.89%) API Integration
12 14 (14.89%) Machine Learning
12 14 (14.89%) Mobile First
13 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.83%) Scrum
13 13 (13.83%) UX Design
14 12 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 89 (94.68%) JavaScript
2 35 (37.23%) TypeScript
3 29 (30.85%) C#
4 23 (24.47%) SQL
5 19 (20.21%) PHP
5 19 (20.21%) Python
6 17 (18.09%) Java
7 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.13%) RPG
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Degree
2 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.66%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.57%) WCAG
3 6 (6.38%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.64%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.19%) Plesk
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.13%) Nagios
3 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.19%) Google
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle
3 3 (3.19%) Pega
4 2 (2.13%) Adobe
4 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.13%) New Relic
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.13%) SendGrid
5 1 (1.06%) Aderant
5 1 (1.06%) iManage
5 1 (1.06%) Intapp
5 1 (1.06%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.06%) SAP
5 1 (1.06%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.06%) Zend