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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 433 402
Rank change year-on-year -213 -31 +100
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 97 248 644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 2.84% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 85 122 583
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,052 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +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 9,598 8,744 21,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 19.50% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,167 5,731 16,559
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -212 87 £52,500 -4.55% 62
UK excluding London -161 61 £40,000 -27.27% 65
London -61 30 £80,000 +28.00% 17
Work from Home -127 28 £55,000 - 13
North of England -95 23 £45,000 - 17
North West -59 17 £40,000 -38.46% 6
South East -29 15 £29,000 -55.38% 14
South West -56 10 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Midlands -32 7 £37,500 -50.00% 8
North East -39 6 £57,500 +101.75% 3
East Midlands -25 5 £37,500 - 6
Wales - 5 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -26 2 £43,750 -41.67% 2
Scotland +6 1 - - 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 9 (9.28%) CMS
2 7 (7.22%) WordPress
3 6 (6.19%) Confluence
4 5 (5.15%) Drupal
4 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (4.12%) IIS
6 2 (2.06%) Apache
6 2 (2.06%) CICS
6 2 (2.06%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.03%) ColdFusion
7 1 (1.03%) JBoss
7 1 (1.03%) Moodle
7 1 (1.03%) nginx
7 1 (1.03%) PegaRULES
7 1 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Sketch
2 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.11%) Azure
2 25 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (23.71%) AWS
4 16 (16.49%) GitHub
5 14 (14.43%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.28%) GCP
7 7 (7.22%) Serverless
8 6 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.06%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.06%) Figma
10 2 (2.06%) npm
10 2 (2.06%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Intranet
2 3 (3.09%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.03%) AMQP
3 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.84%) MySQL
2 24 (24.74%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.37%) Power BI
4 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.09%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.09%) GIS
6 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.06%) Db2
7 2 (2.06%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (29.90%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.25%) webpack
3 7 (7.22%) JIRA
4 6 (6.19%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.19%) Vite
5 4 (4.12%) GitLab
5 4 (4.12%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.09%) MSI
7 2 (2.06%) Babel
7 2 (2.06%) JUnit
7 2 (2.06%) Maven
7 2 (2.06%) Subversion
8 1 (1.03%) Gradle
8 1 (1.03%) Selenium
8 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.03%) Storybook
General
1 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.22%) Law
4 5 (5.15%) Finance
4 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Banking
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.09%) Legal
7 2 (2.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Back Office
8 1 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Front Office
8 1 (1.03%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 74 (76.29%) Developer
2 33 (34.02%) Senior
3 28 (28.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (27.84%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) PHP Developer
6 9 (9.28%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.25%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.19%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Lead
9 6 (6.19%) Senior JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.12%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (100.00%) CSS
2 93 (95.88%) HTML
3 92 (94.85%) HTML5
4 39 (40.21%) React
5 38 (39.18%) .NET
6 32 (32.99%) RESTful
7 31 (31.96%) jQuery
8 25 (25.77%) Ajax
8 25 (25.77%) Vue
9 22 (22.68%) AngularJS
10 20 (20.62%) Sass
11 16 (16.49%) JSON
12 15 (15.46%) Laravel
12 15 (15.46%) LESS
12 15 (15.46%) REST
13 14 (14.43%) .NET Framework
14 13 (13.40%) .NET Core
14 13 (13.40%) Node.js
15 10 (10.31%) ASP.NET
16 9 (9.28%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.19%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.09%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Animation
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
3 1 (1.03%) AIX
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (49.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (37.11%) Agile
3 30 (30.93%) DevOps
3 30 (30.93%) User Experience
4 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
4 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.71%) Front End Development
6 22 (22.68%) MVC
6 22 (22.68%) Responsive Web Design
7 21 (21.65%) AI
8 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
9 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
10 15 (15.46%) Machine Learning
11 14 (14.43%) Microservices
11 14 (14.43%) Mobile First
11 14 (14.43%) Web Development
12 13 (13.40%) API Integration
12 13 (13.40%) Scrum
12 13 (13.40%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (92.78%) JavaScript
2 34 (35.05%) TypeScript
3 32 (32.99%) C#
4 22 (22.68%) Python
5 21 (21.65%) SQL
6 19 (19.59%) PHP
7 17 (17.53%) Java
8 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.09%) Bicep
10 2 (2.06%) Ruby
10 2 (2.06%) VB
11 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.87%) Accessibility
2 12 (12.37%) WCAG
3 8 (8.25%) QA
4 3 (3.09%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Plesk
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.03%) Nagios
4 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle
2 4 (4.12%) Splunk
3 3 (3.09%) Pega
4 2 (2.06%) Adobe
4 2 (2.06%) Google
4 2 (2.06%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.03%) Aderant
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) iManage
5 1 (1.03%) Intapp
5 1 (1.03%) Legora
5 1 (1.03%) New Relic
5 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.03%) SendGrid
5 1 (1.03%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.03%) Solace