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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 363 380
Rank change year-on-year -230 +17 +103
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 81 369 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 3.40% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 69 145 480
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,443 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £81,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.86% +7.27%

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 7,671 10,850 17,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.23% 22.19% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,649 6,643 14,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -212 72 £65,000 +18.18% 105
UK excluding London -211 38 £47,500 -8.65% 100
Work from Home -25 33 £65,000 +30.00% 23
London -5 31 £80,000 +45.45% 28
North of England -65 17 £56,250 +58.45% 21
South East -59 12 £43,750 -27.08% 22
North West -15 11 £56,250 +32.35% 7
South West -16 5 £65,000 - 14
North East -16 3 £67,500 - 6
Yorkshire -49 3 £40,000 +40.35% 8
Wales -9 2 £51,250 - 6
Midlands -43 2 £37,500 -34.78% 15
West Midlands -9 1 - - 3
East Midlands -38 1 £37,500 -34.78% 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 4 (4.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) ColdFusion
2 2 (2.47%) JBoss
2 2 (2.47%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (4.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) GitHub
3 11 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.88%) AWS
4 8 (9.88%) Serverless
5 7 (8.64%) GCP
6 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.17%) npm
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.94%) Figma
8 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.70%) Yarn
10 2 (2.47%) Algolia
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.47%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.47%) Datadog
10 2 (2.47%) Firebase
10 2 (2.47%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.35%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.17%) MySQL
4 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.94%) Power BI
5 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) DB2
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (40.74%) Git
2 16 (19.75%) webpack
3 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.11%) Vite
4 8 (9.88%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.41%) Babel
6 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.94%) JIRA
7 3 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.47%) Selenium
8 2 (2.47%) Storybook
8 2 (2.47%) Subversion
8 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.23%) GitLab
9 1 (1.23%) Maven
9 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Law
4 6 (7.41%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Legal
4 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Advertising
7 1 (1.23%) Back Office
7 1 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.23%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Games
7 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (81.48%) Developer
2 30 (37.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (22.22%) Senior
4 15 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 14 (17.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 14 (17.28%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.88%) .NET Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.94%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Lead
10 4 (4.94%) PHP Developer
10 4 (4.94%) React Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.70%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (100.00%) CSS
2 80 (98.77%) HTML
2 80 (98.77%) HTML5
3 56 (69.14%) React
4 35 (43.21%) RESTful
5 27 (33.33%) .NET
6 26 (32.10%) AngularJS
7 21 (25.93%) Node.js
8 20 (24.69%) Sass
8 20 (24.69%) Vue
9 17 (20.99%) ASP.NET
10 15 (18.52%) .NET Core
11 13 (16.05%) Jest
12 12 (14.81%) Entity Framework
13 10 (12.35%) REST
14 8 (9.88%) .NET Framework
14 8 (9.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (9.88%) GraphQL
15 7 (8.64%) Express.js
15 7 (8.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
1 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
1 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.94%) Digital TV
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Animation
5 1 (1.23%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.79%) Agile
2 43 (53.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (51.85%) User Experience
4 32 (39.51%) Front End Development
5 31 (38.27%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (30.86%) CI/CD
7 21 (25.93%) DevOps
8 20 (24.69%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (22.22%) UX Design
10 16 (19.75%) SDLC
11 15 (18.52%) Code Quality
12 13 (16.05%) TDD
13 12 (14.81%) AI
13 12 (14.81%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 11 (13.58%) API Integration
14 11 (13.58%) BDD
14 11 (13.58%) MVC
14 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
15 9 (11.11%) Computer Science
15 9 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 76 (93.83%) JavaScript
2 50 (61.73%) TypeScript
3 27 (33.33%) SQL
4 24 (29.63%) C#
5 12 (14.81%) Java
5 12 (14.81%) Python
6 4 (4.94%) PHP
7 3 (3.70%) Ruby
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.47%) RPG
8 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.47%) VB
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) Degree
3 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.10%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.58%) WCAG
3 5 (6.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.17%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.47%) Grafana
2 2 (2.47%) Nagios
2 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.94%) Google
3 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.47%) IBM
3 2 (2.47%) New Relic
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.47%) SendGrid
3 2 (2.47%) Splunk
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe
4 1 (1.23%) Databricks
4 1 (1.23%) Marketo
4 1 (1.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) Zend