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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 325 383
Rank change year-on-year -246 +58 +90
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 83 459 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.87% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 4.03% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 70 138 417
10th Percentile £39,750 £35,707 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -12.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £81,250 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.55% -9.17% +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 7,235 11,387 16,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 21.63% 24.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 6,664 13,346
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,064
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,514 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.14% +8.05% -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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -234 75 £65,000 +13.04% 98
UK excluding London -241 40 £48,750 -10.55% 93
Work from Home +4 33 £55,000 +10.00% 16
London 0 30 £80,000 +33.33% 17
North of England -49 19 £52,500 +84.21% 22
North West +7 11 £52,500 +13.51% 9
South East -59 11 £45,000 -25.00% 24
South West -14 5 £65,000 - 12
Yorkshire -39 5 £40,000 +40.35% 12
Midlands -43 4 £43,000 -9.47% 11
North East -12 3 £67,500 - 2
East Midlands -37 3 £43,000 -25.22% 7
Wales 0 1 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -7 1 - - 4

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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) CMS
2 3 (3.61%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.20%) Drupal
3 1 (1.20%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.20%) JBoss
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.61%) Shopify
3 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.14%) Azure
2 20 (24.10%) GitHub
3 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.84%) AWS
4 9 (10.84%) Serverless
5 8 (9.64%) GCP
6 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.02%) Figma
7 5 (6.02%) npm
7 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.41%) Algolia
10 2 (2.41%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.41%) Firebase
10 2 (2.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.64%) MySQL
4 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.61%) Power BI
8 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.41%) DB2
8 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.20%) Metadata
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (36.14%) Git
2 12 (14.46%) webpack
3 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.43%) Cypress.io
4 7 (8.43%) JIRA
5 5 (6.02%) Babel
5 5 (6.02%) Vite
6 4 (4.82%) GitLab
7 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.61%) Storybook
7 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.41%) Selenium
8 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.41%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.20%) Maven
9 1 (1.20%) Mockito
9 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 35 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Law
6 5 (6.02%) Legal
7 3 (3.61%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.20%) Electronics
8 1 (1.20%) Front Office
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (80.72%) Developer
2 30 (36.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (20.48%) Software Developer
4 16 (19.28%) Senior
5 13 (15.66%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (9.64%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.82%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Lead
9 4 (4.82%) PHP Developer
9 4 (4.82%) React Developer
10 3 (3.61%) .NET Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (100.00%) CSS
1 83 (100.00%) HTML
1 83 (100.00%) HTML5
2 54 (65.06%) React
3 36 (43.37%) RESTful
4 32 (38.55%) AngularJS
5 30 (36.14%) .NET
6 24 (28.92%) Node.js
7 22 (26.51%) ASP.NET
8 19 (22.89%) Sass
8 19 (22.89%) Vue
9 17 (20.48%) REST
10 16 (19.28%) .NET Core
11 13 (15.66%) Entity Framework
12 11 (13.25%) Jest
13 10 (12.05%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (10.84%) GraphQL
15 8 (9.64%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (9.64%) Express.js
15 8 (9.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Digital TV
1 5 (6.02%) Mobile App
1 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
1 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.41%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (59.04%) Agile
2 45 (54.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (45.78%) User Experience
4 30 (36.14%) CI/CD
5 29 (34.94%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (33.73%) Front End Development
7 23 (27.71%) DevOps
8 20 (24.10%) SDLC
9 17 (20.48%) Code Quality
10 15 (18.07%) MVC
10 15 (18.07%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (15.66%) TDD
11 13 (15.66%) UX Design
12 12 (14.46%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
13 11 (13.25%) BDD
13 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
14 10 (12.05%) AI
14 10 (12.05%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (10.84%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 76 (91.57%) JavaScript
2 49 (59.04%) TypeScript
3 32 (38.55%) SQL
4 30 (36.14%) C#
5 15 (18.07%) Java
6 12 (14.46%) Python
7 4 (4.82%) PHP
8 3 (3.61%) Ruby
9 2 (2.41%) RPG
9 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.41%) VB
10 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) Degree
3 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (9.64%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.92%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.05%) WCAG
3 5 (6.02%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) Grafana
2 3 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.61%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.20%) Nagios
3 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) Google
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) SendGrid
4 2 (2.41%) Sybase
5 1 (1.20%) Adobe
5 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) Marketo
5 1 (1.20%) New Relic
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Zend