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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 461 366
Rank change year-on-year -229 -95 +119
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 114 227 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.46% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 2.64% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 91 111 219
10th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £86,000 £102,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% +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 11,928 8,596 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.39% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,530 5,521 10,739
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -208 102 £48,676 -25.11% 134
UK excluding London -203 83 £42,500 -26.09% 83
Work from Home -146 34 £55,000 -4.35% 34
London -79 27 £79,500 +13.57% 68
North of England -136 27 £42,500 -34.62% 20
South East -42 16 £29,000 -55.38% 19
South West -77 15 £70,000 +80.65% 7
North West -78 15 £40,000 -38.46% 9
Midlands -56 12 £37,500 -34.78% 16
Wales -62 8 £72,500 +107.14% 2
North East -66 8 £50,000 -24.53% 4
East Midlands -46 6 £37,500 -27.88% 9
West Midlands -52 6 £40,250 -46.33% 7
Yorkshire -51 4 £58,750 +30.56% 8
East of England -35 3 £47,500 -5.00% 9
Scotland +4 2 - - 8

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 (12.28%) Confluence
2 10 (8.77%) CMS
2 10 (8.77%) WordPress
3 6 (5.26%) Apache
3 6 (5.26%) IIS
3 6 (5.26%) JBoss
4 5 (4.39%) Drupal
4 5 (4.39%) nginx
4 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Moodle
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.84%) AWS
1 42 (36.84%) Azure
2 24 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.67%) GitHub
4 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.65%) Serverless
6 8 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.39%) Datadog
9 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.63%) GCP
10 3 (2.63%) SaaS
10 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.75%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.75%) npm
11 2 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Intranet
1 5 (4.39%) SSL
2 3 (2.63%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) AMQP
4 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.56%) MySQL
1 28 (24.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (10.53%) Power BI
4 11 (9.65%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.14%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.39%) GIS
7 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (35.09%) Git
2 15 (13.16%) JIRA
3 7 (6.14%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.14%) MSI
4 6 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.39%) GitLab
5 5 (4.39%) Subversion
6 4 (3.51%) JUnit
6 4 (3.51%) Selenium
7 3 (2.63%) Babel
8 2 (1.75%) Maven
8 2 (1.75%) Storybook
9 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.88%) Mocha
9 1 (0.88%) Mockito
9 1 (0.88%) Postman
9 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.88%) RSpec
9 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
4 7 (6.14%) Finance
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Law
6 5 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Publishing
9 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.75%) Marketing
9 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Games
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 91 (79.82%) Developer
2 38 (33.33%) Senior
3 34 (29.82%) Senior Developer
4 31 (27.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (14.91%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.53%) PHP Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.26%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (4.39%) React Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Cloud Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (100.00%) CSS
2 111 (97.37%) HTML
3 110 (96.49%) HTML5
4 51 (44.74%) React
5 47 (41.23%) .NET
6 36 (31.58%) RESTful
7 31 (27.19%) jQuery
8 26 (22.81%) REST
9 25 (21.93%) Ajax
10 22 (19.30%) .NET Framework
10 22 (19.30%) Node.js
11 21 (18.42%) .NET Core
11 21 (18.42%) Vue
12 15 (13.16%) ASP.NET
12 15 (13.16%) Laravel
12 15 (13.16%) Sass
13 14 (12.28%) JSON
14 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
15 12 (10.53%) Terraform
16 11 (9.65%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.14%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.39%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.39%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (4.39%) Social Media
6 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.63%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.75%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.75%) IoT
8 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.75%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Windows
2 6 (5.26%) Linux
3 3 (2.63%) AIX
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 51 (44.74%) Agile
3 39 (34.21%) DevOps
4 33 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (24.56%) User Experience
6 25 (21.93%) Microservices
7 22 (19.30%) AI
7 22 (19.30%) MVC
8 20 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.54%) Web Development
9 19 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
10 17 (14.91%) Scrum
10 17 (14.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (14.04%) Front End Development
12 15 (13.16%) API Development
12 15 (13.16%) API Integration
12 15 (13.16%) Clean Code
12 15 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 102 (89.47%) JavaScript
2 43 (37.72%) TypeScript
3 38 (33.33%) C#
4 29 (25.44%) Python
5 22 (19.30%) PHP
6 21 (18.42%) SQL
7 15 (13.16%) Java
8 7 (6.14%) Bicep
8 7 (6.14%) Ruby
9 3 (2.63%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) C
10 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.88%) ProC
Qualifications
1 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.40%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (30.70%) Accessibility
2 24 (21.05%) WCAG
3 12 (10.53%) QA
4 7 (6.14%) NCSC
5 4 (3.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (21.05%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (4.39%) Nagios
2 5 (4.39%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.63%) Plesk
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 7 (6.14%) OneLogin
4 5 (4.39%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.39%) New Relic
4 5 (4.39%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.75%) Pega
6 2 (1.75%) Sony
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.88%) Solace