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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 334 427
Rank change year-on-year -220 +93 +8
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 89 472 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 3.94% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 76 153 257
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,750 £38,900
25th Percentile £47,188 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £81,250 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.17% +5.45%

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 7,075 11,992 13,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 21.52% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,291 7,171 10,747
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 27 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 27 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 -202 79 £57,500 -2.75% 142
UK excluding London -233 43 £50,000 -9.09% 138
Work from Home +22 40 £55,000 +10.00% 26
London +8 32 £75,000 +20.00% 18
North of England -40 22 £57,500 +51.32% 40
North West 0 13 £57,500 +21.05% 22
South East -69 9 £45,000 -26.53% 26
Yorkshire -28 6 £40,000 +40.35% 17
Midlands -29 6 £52,000 +9.47% 24
East Midlands -27 5 £52,000 -9.57% 8
South West -16 4 £40,000 -38.46% 18
North East +2 3 £67,500 - 2
Wales -10 2 £42,500 -5.56% 7
West Midlands -6 1 - - 15

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%) WordPress
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.12%) nginx
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 26 (29.21%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) GitHub
3 7 (7.87%) AWS
3 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.87%) Figma
3 7 (7.87%) Serverless
4 6 (6.74%) GCP
4 6 (6.74%) npm
5 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.25%) Algolia
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.25%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.25%) Firebase
6 2 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.25%) Sentry
6 2 (2.25%) Stripe
7 1 (1.12%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.73%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.24%) MySQL
4 8 (8.99%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.25%) DB2
7 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.25%) Metadata
7 2 (2.25%) Power BI
8 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (38.20%) Git
2 18 (20.22%) webpack
3 11 (12.36%) Babel
4 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.74%) JIRA
6 4 (4.49%) GitLab
6 4 (4.49%) Vite
7 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.37%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.37%) Storybook
7 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.25%) Grunt
8 2 (2.25%) gulp
8 2 (2.25%) Selenium
8 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Law
6 5 (5.62%) Legal
7 3 (3.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Publishing
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (83.15%) Developer
2 31 (34.83%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (20.22%) Software Developer
4 13 (14.61%) Senior
5 12 (13.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 11 (12.36%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.11%) React Developer
8 7 (7.87%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (5.62%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.62%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.62%) PHP Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Lead
12 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 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 59 (66.29%) React
3 39 (43.82%) RESTful
4 32 (35.96%) AngularJS
5 29 (32.58%) .NET
6 27 (30.34%) Node.js
7 21 (23.60%) ASP.NET
8 20 (22.47%) REST
9 19 (21.35%) Sass
10 18 (20.22%) .NET Core
10 18 (20.22%) Vue
11 14 (15.73%) Entity Framework
12 11 (12.36%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (12.36%) Redux
13 10 (11.24%) Jest
14 9 (10.11%) .NET Framework
15 8 (8.99%) Express.js
15 8 (8.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Data Centre
1 6 (6.74%) Digital TV
1 6 (6.74%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.25%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 48 (53.93%) Agile
3 45 (50.56%) User Experience
4 33 (37.08%) Front End Development
5 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
7 20 (22.47%) DevOps
7 20 (22.47%) SDLC
8 16 (17.98%) Code Quality
8 16 (17.98%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (16.85%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
10 14 (15.73%) TDD
10 14 (15.73%) UX Design
11 13 (14.61%) MVC
12 12 (13.48%) BDD
12 12 (13.48%) Computer Science
13 11 (12.36%) Clean Code
13 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
15 9 (10.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (92.13%) JavaScript
2 48 (53.93%) TypeScript
3 36 (40.45%) SQL
4 27 (30.34%) C#
5 19 (21.35%) Java
6 12 (13.48%) Python
7 6 (6.74%) PHP
8 3 (3.37%) Ruby
9 2 (2.25%) RPG
9 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (1.12%) Dart
10 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) Degree
3 11 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (34.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.11%) WCAG
3 5 (5.62%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Grafana
2 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.37%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.12%) Nagios
3 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Google
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
4 2 (2.25%) IBM
4 2 (2.25%) SendGrid
4 2 (2.25%) Sybase
5 1 (1.12%) Adobe
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) Marketo
5 1 (1.12%) New Relic
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) SAP
5 1 (1.12%) Splunk
5 1 (1.12%) WooCommerce
5 1 (1.12%) Zend