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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 450 326
Rank change year-on-year -248 -124 +139
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 107 223 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.45% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 2.67% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 79 108 190
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £38,375 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £105,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £56,250 £59,125
% change year-on-year -15.56% -4.86% +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 11,830 8,338 15,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,357 5,307 9,772
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 16 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 10 October 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 -233 94 £48,676 -25.11% 97
UK excluding London -210 74 £47,500 -15.56% 42
London -65 29 £67,500 -8.47% 62
Work from Home -177 26 £55,000 - 34
North of England -128 25 £48,750 -15.22% 9
South West -67 14 £70,000 +75.00% 4
North West -87 14 £40,000 -34.69% 5
South East -61 13 £29,000 -55.38% 11
Midlands -56 8 £38,000 -33.91% 5
Wales -71 8 £72,500 +70.59% 2
West Midlands -52 7 £40,250 -46.33% 1
North East -70 7 £55,000 -16.98% 1
Yorkshire -35 4 £58,750 +46.88% 4
East of England -41 3 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Scotland - 3 - - 6
East Midlands -44 1 £37,500 -27.88% 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 14 (13.08%) Confluence
1 14 (13.08%) WordPress
2 13 (12.15%) CMS
3 8 (7.48%) Drupal
4 6 (5.61%) Apache
4 6 (5.61%) IIS
4 6 (5.61%) JBoss
5 5 (4.67%) nginx
6 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.93%) Moodle
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Acrobat
1 1 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.93%) AWS
2 39 (36.45%) Azure
3 23 (21.50%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (16.82%) GitHub
5 11 (10.28%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.28%) Serverless
6 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.67%) Datadog
7 5 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.74%) SaaS
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.80%) GCP
9 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.87%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.87%) Figma
10 2 (1.87%) npm
10 2 (1.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) SSL
2 3 (2.80%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.80%) Intranet
3 2 (1.87%) HTTP
3 2 (1.87%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) AMQP
4 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) SQL Server
2 23 (21.50%) MySQL
3 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
5 10 (9.35%) Power BI
6 7 (6.54%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.67%) GIS
8 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.87%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (42.99%) Git
2 15 (14.02%) JIRA
3 8 (7.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.54%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.54%) MSI
5 6 (5.61%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.67%) GitLab
6 5 (4.67%) JUnit
6 5 (4.67%) Subversion
7 4 (3.74%) Selenium
8 3 (2.80%) Babel
8 3 (2.80%) Maven
9 2 (1.87%) Mockito
9 2 (1.87%) Storybook
10 1 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.93%) Gradle
10 1 (0.93%) Mocha
10 1 (0.93%) Postman
10 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.48%) Finance
5 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Law
8 3 (2.80%) Publishing
9 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (76.64%) Developer
2 38 (35.51%) Senior
3 35 (32.71%) Senior Developer
4 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (14.95%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) PHP Developer
8 8 (7.48%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.61%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior PHP Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.67%) React Developer
12 4 (3.74%) .NET Software Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Applications Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Cloud Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) CSS
2 104 (97.20%) HTML
3 102 (95.33%) HTML5
4 50 (46.73%) React
5 41 (38.32%) .NET
6 36 (33.64%) RESTful
7 27 (25.23%) REST
8 26 (24.30%) Ajax
9 21 (19.63%) Node.js
10 20 (18.69%) .NET Core
10 20 (18.69%) jQuery
11 19 (17.76%) .NET Framework
11 19 (17.76%) Vue
12 16 (14.95%) JSON
13 15 (14.02%) Sass
14 14 (13.08%) AngularJS
15 13 (12.15%) ASP.NET
15 13 (12.15%) Terraform
16 11 (10.28%) Spring
16 11 (10.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.28%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (9.35%) Data Centre
3 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.54%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.54%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.67%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.67%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (4.67%) Social Media
6 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.80%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.87%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.87%) IoT
8 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (1.87%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) AIX
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Agile
2 53 (49.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (37.38%) DevOps
4 34 (31.78%) CI/CD
5 30 (28.04%) Microservices
6 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (24.30%) User Experience
8 22 (20.56%) Test Automation
9 21 (19.63%) AI
9 21 (19.63%) Mentoring
9 21 (19.63%) Scrum
9 21 (19.63%) Web Development
10 18 (16.82%) MVC
11 17 (15.89%) API Development
11 17 (15.89%) Clean Code
11 17 (15.89%) Responsive Web Design
11 17 (15.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (14.95%) API Integration
12 16 (14.95%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (14.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 94 (87.85%) JavaScript
2 44 (41.12%) TypeScript
3 32 (29.91%) C#
4 27 (25.23%) Python
5 17 (15.89%) Java
5 17 (15.89%) PHP
6 15 (14.02%) SQL
7 7 (6.54%) Bicep
7 7 (6.54%) Ruby
8 3 (2.80%) Go
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) ProC
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) Degree
4 5 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (37.38%) Accessibility
2 30 (28.04%) WCAG
3 14 (13.08%) QA
4 7 (6.54%) NCSC
5 4 (3.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) WAI
6 1 (0.93%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 27 (25.23%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (4.67%) Nagios
2 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.87%) Plesk
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Splunk
3 7 (6.54%) OneLogin
4 5 (4.67%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.67%) New Relic
4 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.87%) Adobe
6 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.87%) Pega
6 2 (1.87%) Sony
7 1 (0.93%) Solace