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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 452 404
Rank change year-on-year -182 -48 +108
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 70 173 554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.42% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.97% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 58 146 527
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,375 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,200 £85,000 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +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 8,272 8,797 19,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 21.49% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,059 6,587 15,468
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -146 60 £56,343 +12.69% 79
UK excluding London -109 36 £45,000 -10.00% 75
Work from Home -51 27 £67,500 +35.00% 18
London -64 23 £80,000 +45.45% 21
North of England -51 14 £47,500 +11.76% 16
North West -13 11 £47,500 +11.76% 6
South East -48 10 £42,500 -33.33% 20
South West -44 6 £65,000 +1.96% 7
Midlands -30 4 £37,500 -28.57% 11
East Midlands -46 3 £37,500 -34.78% 8
Yorkshire -46 2 £40,000 -5.88% 5
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 3
West Midlands -12 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £47,500 - 5

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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
1 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) CICS
2 2 (2.86%) CMS
2 2 (2.86%) JBoss
2 2 (2.86%) nginx
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.43%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) PegaRULES
3 1 (1.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (41.43%) Azure
2 16 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.29%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) AWS
4 9 (12.86%) GCP
5 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.57%) Serverless
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.29%) npm
7 3 (4.29%) Yarn
8 2 (2.86%) Algolia
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.86%) Datadog
8 2 (2.86%) Figma
8 2 (2.86%) Firebase
8 2 (2.86%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) SSL
2 1 (1.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.29%) MySQL
3 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.14%) Power BI
5 4 (5.71%) DB2
5 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.86%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (40.00%) Git
2 16 (22.86%) webpack
3 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.43%) Vite
5 7 (10.00%) Babel
5 7 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.29%) Eclipse
7 3 (4.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.29%) JIRA
7 3 (4.29%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.86%) Selenium
8 2 (2.86%) Storybook
8 2 (2.86%) Subversion
9 1 (1.43%) GitLab
9 1 (1.43%) Gradle
9 1 (1.43%) Maven
9 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Law
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Retail
6 3 (4.29%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Advertising
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Military
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (82.86%) Developer
2 21 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (24.29%) Senior
4 14 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 14 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Software Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (8.57%) .NET Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Lead
8 5 (7.14%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.71%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Pega Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (100.00%) CSS
2 69 (98.57%) HTML
2 69 (98.57%) HTML5
3 44 (62.86%) React
4 33 (47.14%) RESTful
5 24 (34.29%) AngularJS
6 23 (32.86%) .NET
7 19 (27.14%) Sass
8 17 (24.29%) Vue
9 15 (21.43%) ASP.NET
10 11 (15.71%) Node.js
11 10 (14.29%) jQuery
12 8 (11.43%) .NET Core
12 8 (11.43%) Jest
13 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (8.57%) .NET Framework
14 6 (8.57%) Entity Framework
14 6 (8.57%) Laravel
14 6 (8.57%) LESS
14 6 (8.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.43%) Animation
5 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) Agile
2 34 (48.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (44.29%) User Experience
4 28 (40.00%) Front End Development
5 26 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
7 24 (34.29%) DevOps
8 21 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 13 (18.57%) MVC
9 13 (18.57%) SDLC
10 12 (17.14%) Scrum
11 11 (15.71%) AI
11 11 (15.71%) UX Design
12 10 (14.29%) API Integration
12 10 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 9 (12.86%) Code Quality
13 9 (12.86%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 8 (11.43%) API Development
14 8 (11.43%) Clean Code
14 8 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 66 (94.29%) JavaScript
2 36 (51.43%) TypeScript
3 26 (37.14%) SQL
4 24 (34.29%) C#
5 15 (21.43%) Java
6 12 (17.14%) Python
7 6 (8.57%) PHP
8 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.86%) RPG
9 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.86%) VB
10 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Degree
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.14%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.86%) Nagios
2 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) Google
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle
2 3 (4.29%) Pega
3 2 (2.86%) Adobe
3 2 (2.86%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.86%) IBM
3 2 (2.86%) New Relic
3 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.86%) SendGrid
3 2 (2.86%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) Aderant
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) iManage
4 1 (1.43%) Intapp
4 1 (1.43%) Marketo
4 1 (1.43%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Zend