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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 447 469
Rank change year-on-year -214 +22 +50
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 101 247 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 2.77% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 88 124 410
10th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,960 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,300 £90,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% -2.65% +7.62%

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 10,188 8,909 19,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.13% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,609 5,889 14,710
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 17 July 2026.

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 17 July 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 -211 89 £50,000 -9.09% 24
UK excluding London -166 67 £42,500 -22.73% 23
London -47 29 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Work from Home -157 29 £55,000 - 11
North of England -93 25 £47,500 +5.56% 7
North West -69 17 £40,000 -38.46% 1
South East -27 16 £29,000 -55.38% 7
South West -55 10 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Midlands -44 7 £37,500 -43.40% 3
North East -53 7 £55,000 +92.98% 1
Wales - 7 £72,500 - 1
East Midlands -14 5 £37,500 -34.78% 2
Scotland +2 2 - - 1
West Midlands -32 2 £43,750 -41.67% 1
Yorkshire -42 1 £57,500 +35.29% 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 10 (9.90%) CMS
2 9 (8.91%) Confluence
3 8 (7.92%) WordPress
4 5 (4.95%) Drupal
4 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.96%) IIS
6 2 (1.98%) Apache
6 2 (1.98%) CICS
6 2 (1.98%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.99%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.99%) JBoss
7 1 (0.99%) Moodle
7 1 (0.99%) nginx
7 1 (0.99%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Sketch
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.65%) Azure
2 28 (27.72%) AWS
3 25 (24.75%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
5 13 (12.87%) GitHub
6 8 (7.92%) Serverless
7 6 (5.94%) GCP
7 6 (5.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.97%) SaaS
9 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.98%) Figma
10 2 (1.98%) npm
10 2 (1.98%) Yarn
11 1 (0.99%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.99%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Intranet
2 3 (2.97%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.99%) AMQP
3 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.73%) MySQL
2 22 (21.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.88%) Power BI
4 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.95%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.97%) GIS
7 3 (2.97%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.98%) Db2
8 2 (1.98%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (32.67%) Git
2 10 (9.90%) JIRA
3 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) webpack
5 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.95%) MSI
5 5 (4.95%) Vite
6 4 (3.96%) GitLab
6 4 (3.96%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.96%) JUnit
7 3 (2.97%) Babel
7 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.97%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.97%) Selenium
8 2 (1.98%) Maven
8 2 (1.98%) Subversion
9 1 (0.99%) Gradle
9 1 (0.99%) Mocha
9 1 (0.99%) Mockito
9 1 (0.99%) RSpec
General
1 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.90%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.93%) Law
4 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.95%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Finance
6 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.97%) Legal
8 2 (1.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Automotive
9 1 (0.99%) Back Office
9 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (77.23%) Developer
2 36 (35.64%) Senior
3 31 (30.69%) Senior Developer
4 28 (27.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (9.90%) PHP Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.92%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 6 (5.94%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Lead
9 6 (5.94%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (100.00%) CSS
2 97 (96.04%) HTML
3 96 (95.05%) HTML5
4 43 (42.57%) React
5 38 (37.62%) .NET
6 32 (31.68%) RESTful
7 29 (28.71%) jQuery
8 25 (24.75%) Ajax
9 22 (21.78%) Vue
10 19 (18.81%) AngularJS
10 19 (18.81%) REST
11 18 (17.82%) Sass
12 17 (16.83%) Node.js
13 16 (15.84%) .NET Framework
13 16 (15.84%) JSON
14 15 (14.85%) .NET Core
14 15 (14.85%) Laravel
15 13 (12.87%) LESS
16 9 (8.91%) Bootstrap
17 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.94%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.95%) Mainframe
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Animation
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) NHS
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.99%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Windows
2 4 (3.96%) Linux
3 3 (2.97%) AIX
4 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (37.62%) Agile
3 33 (32.67%) DevOps
4 30 (29.70%) User Experience
5 28 (27.72%) CI/CD
5 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.78%) AI
6 22 (21.78%) Responsive Web Design
7 21 (20.79%) Front End Development
8 20 (19.80%) MVC
9 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
10 18 (17.82%) Microservices
11 16 (15.84%) Data Modelling
12 15 (14.85%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.85%) Scrum
13 14 (13.86%) UX Design
14 13 (12.87%) Mobile First
14 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
14 13 (12.87%) Visualisation
14 13 (12.87%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (91.09%) JavaScript
2 35 (34.65%) TypeScript
3 31 (30.69%) C#
4 23 (22.77%) Python
5 20 (19.80%) PHP
5 20 (19.80%) SQL
6 18 (17.82%) Java
7 5 (4.95%) Bicep
8 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.90%) Degree
4 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.98%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (29.70%) Accessibility
2 16 (15.84%) WCAG
3 7 (6.93%) QA
4 5 (4.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (19.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (14.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.91%) Terraform
3 3 (2.97%) Plesk
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.99%) Nagios
4 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) OneLogin
3 4 (3.96%) Splunk
4 3 (2.97%) Pega
5 2 (1.98%) Adobe
6 1 (0.99%) Aderant
6 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.99%) Google
6 1 (0.99%) iManage
6 1 (0.99%) Intapp
6 1 (0.99%) Legora
6 1 (0.99%) New Relic
6 1 (0.99%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.99%) Solace