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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 328 445
Rank change year-on-year -214 +117 -36
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 124 520 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.77% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 3.79% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 100 163 246
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £102,750 £81,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £59,125 £54,500
% change year-on-year -15.43% +8.49% -0.91%

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 7,364 13,706 13,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 20.33% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,260 8,241 11,383
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,281
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 21 November 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 15 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 21 November 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 -176 109 £57,500 -4.17% 165
UK excluding London -204 66 £50,000 -15.43% 128
Work from Home +46 61 £57,500 +15.00% 102
London +38 40 £77,500 +6.90% 56
North of England -29 30 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North West +14 16 £57,500 +15.00% 21
South East -49 15 £50,000 -16.67% 45
Yorkshire -17 10 £40,000 +33.33% 8
South West +14 9 £40,000 -33.33% 10
Midlands -11 6 £52,000 -0.95% 16
East Midlands +2 5 £52,000 +1.46% 2
North East -3 4 £66,250 - 1
East of England -62 4 £50,000 - 16
Wales -1 2 £42,500 -5.56% 5
West Midlands +5 1 - - 14

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 9 (7.26%) CMS
2 6 (4.84%) Confluence
2 6 (4.84%) IIS
2 6 (4.84%) WordPress
3 5 (4.03%) Apache
4 4 (3.23%) Drupal
4 4 (3.23%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.61%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.81%) nginx
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.61%) Elementor
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.42%) Shopify
3 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.00%) Azure
2 25 (20.16%) GitHub
3 22 (17.74%) AWS
4 11 (8.87%) Figma
5 9 (7.26%) Serverless
6 7 (5.65%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.65%) Cloudflare
7 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.84%) GCP
7 6 (4.84%) npm
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.23%) dbt
8 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.23%) Vercel
9 3 (2.42%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.61%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Broadband
1 1 (0.81%) Internet
1 1 (0.81%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 17 (13.71%) MySQL
2 17 (13.71%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.23%) Big Data
7 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.23%) Redis
7 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.61%) Metadata
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.61%) Power BI
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (46.77%) Git
2 21 (16.94%) webpack
3 12 (9.68%) Babel
4 11 (8.87%) Cypress.io
5 10 (8.06%) JIRA
6 9 (7.26%) Jenkins
7 5 (4.03%) NUnit
7 5 (4.03%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.03%) Vite
8 4 (3.23%) GitLab
8 4 (3.23%) Jasmine
8 4 (3.23%) SpecFlow
8 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.42%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.61%) Grunt
10 2 (1.61%) gulp
10 2 (1.61%) Mockito
10 2 (1.61%) Storybook
General
1 48 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Law
4 10 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.65%) Marketing
7 6 (4.84%) Banking
7 6 (4.84%) Legal
8 5 (4.03%) Games
9 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.42%) Automotive
11 2 (1.61%) Back Office
12 1 (0.81%) Electronics
12 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Military
12 1 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (83.06%) Developer
2 37 (29.84%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (18.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 23 (18.55%) Senior
4 21 (16.94%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.32%) Software Developer
6 18 (14.52%) .NET Developer
7 14 (11.29%) React Developer
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) JavaScript Developer
10 8 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.65%) C# Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Lead
12 6 (4.84%) PHP Developer
12 6 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.84%) Web Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (100.00%) CSS
1 124 (100.00%) HTML
2 120 (96.77%) HTML5
3 75 (60.48%) React
4 47 (37.90%) AngularJS
5 46 (37.10%) RESTful
6 43 (34.68%) .NET
7 31 (25.00%) ASP.NET
8 28 (22.58%) Node.js
8 28 (22.58%) REST
8 28 (22.58%) Vue
9 24 (19.35%) .NET Core
10 21 (16.94%) Sass
11 20 (16.13%) Entity Framework
12 16 (12.90%) .NET Framework
12 16 (12.90%) Jest
13 13 (10.48%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (10.48%) GraphQL
14 12 (9.68%) ASP.NET MVC
14 12 (9.68%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Data Centre
1 7 (5.65%) Digital TV
1 7 (5.65%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.23%) Online Games
3 4 (3.23%) Wiki
4 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.61%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.61%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.81%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.81%) Animation
6 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Linux
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.03%) Agile
2 66 (53.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 53 (42.74%) User Experience
4 40 (32.26%) Front End Development
4 40 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (28.23%) CI/CD
6 30 (24.19%) DevOps
7 22 (17.74%) MVC
8 21 (16.94%) TDD
9 20 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 19 (15.32%) Responsive Web Design
11 18 (14.52%) Computer Science
12 17 (13.71%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
12 17 (13.71%) SDLC
13 16 (12.90%) Clean Code
13 16 (12.90%) Code Quality
14 15 (12.10%) AI
14 15 (12.10%) UX Design
15 13 (10.48%) Web Development
16 12 (9.68%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 111 (89.52%) JavaScript
2 62 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 41 (33.06%) SQL
4 40 (32.26%) C#
5 17 (13.71%) Java
6 14 (11.29%) Python
7 13 (10.48%) PHP
8 4 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.42%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) Bash
10 1 (0.81%) Dart
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) Degree
3 16 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (10.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.42%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.65%) WCAG
3 6 (4.84%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Terraform
2 9 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.84%) Oracle
3 5 (4.03%) Rollbar
3 5 (4.03%) Splunk
4 4 (3.23%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) Sybase
5 3 (2.42%) Adobe
6 2 (1.61%) Netlify
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) Marketo
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) WooCommerce