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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 451 474
Rank change year-on-year -214 +23 +51
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 104 247 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 2.79% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 89 126 361
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 £85,200 £90,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.27% +4.76%

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 10,271 8,848 18,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 18.02% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,657 5,833 13,542
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 23 July 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 23 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 -209 91 £55,000 - 35
UK excluding London -168 69 £45,000 -20.00% 29
London -58 30 £80,000 +23.08% 12
Work from Home -151 30 £55,000 - 15
North of England -98 25 £47,500 -7.32% 7
North West -67 17 £40,000 -38.46% 1
South East -26 14 £29,000 -55.38% 10
South West -59 12 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Wales - 8 £71,250 -
Midlands -45 7 £37,500 -34.78% 6
North East -49 7 £55,000 +92.98% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £37,500 -34.78% 2
Scotland +16 2 - - 3
West Midlands -43 2 £43,750 -41.67% 4
East of England -20 1 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire -37 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 11 (10.58%) Confluence
2 10 (9.62%) CMS
3 8 (7.69%) WordPress
4 5 (4.81%) Drupal
4 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.85%) IIS
6 3 (2.88%) Apache
7 2 (1.92%) CICS
7 2 (1.92%) JBoss
7 2 (1.92%) nginx
7 2 (1.92%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.96%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.96%) Moodle
8 1 (0.96%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Sketch
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.58%) Azure
2 32 (30.77%) AWS
3 25 (24.04%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.46%) GitHub
5 13 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.65%) Serverless
7 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.77%) GCP
7 6 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.88%) SaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Datadog
9 2 (1.92%) Figma
9 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.92%) npm
9 2 (1.92%) Yarn
10 1 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Intranet
2 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.92%) SSL
4 1 (0.96%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.92%) MySQL
2 21 (20.19%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.58%) Power BI
5 8 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.77%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.88%) GIS
8 3 (2.88%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.92%) Db2
9 2 (1.92%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (35.58%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) JIRA
3 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.73%) webpack
5 6 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.77%) MSI
6 5 (4.81%) Vite
7 4 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.85%) GitLab
7 4 (3.85%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.85%) JUnit
7 4 (3.85%) Selenium
8 3 (2.88%) Babel
8 3 (2.88%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.92%) Maven
9 2 (1.92%) Subversion
10 1 (0.96%) Gradle
10 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.96%) RSpec
10 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (7.69%) Law
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Finance
6 4 (3.85%) Retail
7 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Automotive
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (75.96%) Developer
2 37 (35.58%) Senior
3 32 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 27 (25.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (10.58%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (9.62%) PHP Developer
7 9 (8.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 6 (5.77%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Lead
9 6 (5.77%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (100.00%) CSS
2 100 (96.15%) HTML
3 99 (95.19%) HTML5
4 46 (44.23%) React
5 39 (37.50%) .NET
6 35 (33.65%) RESTful
7 28 (26.92%) jQuery
8 24 (23.08%) Ajax
9 22 (21.15%) Vue
10 20 (19.23%) REST
11 19 (18.27%) AngularJS
12 18 (17.31%) .NET Framework
13 17 (16.35%) .NET Core
13 17 (16.35%) Node.js
13 17 (16.35%) Sass
14 16 (15.38%) JSON
15 15 (14.42%) Laravel
16 12 (11.54%) LESS
17 9 (8.65%) Bootstrap
17 9 (8.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.81%) Mainframe
4 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.88%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.96%) Animation
8 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.96%) NHS
8 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Social Media
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.96%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Linux
3 3 (2.88%) AIX
4 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (40.38%) Agile
3 35 (33.65%) DevOps
4 31 (29.81%) CI/CD
5 30 (28.85%) User Experience
6 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.19%) AI
7 21 (20.19%) Front End Development
7 21 (20.19%) Responsive Web Design
8 20 (19.23%) Microservices
8 20 (19.23%) MVC
9 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
10 17 (16.35%) Scrum
11 15 (14.42%) Data Modelling
11 15 (14.42%) UX Design
12 14 (13.46%) API Integration
12 14 (13.46%) Machine Learning
12 14 (13.46%) Web Development
13 13 (12.50%) API Development
13 13 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (91.35%) JavaScript
2 37 (35.58%) TypeScript
3 31 (29.81%) C#
4 24 (23.08%) Python
5 21 (20.19%) SQL
6 20 (19.23%) PHP
7 19 (18.27%) Java
8 6 (5.77%) Bicep
9 5 (4.81%) Ruby
10 4 (3.85%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.73%) Accessibility
2 18 (17.31%) WCAG
3 9 (8.65%) QA
4 6 (5.77%) NCSC
5 2 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.58%) Terraform
3 3 (2.88%) Plesk
4 2 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.92%) Nagios
4 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) OneLogin
3 5 (4.81%) Splunk
4 3 (2.88%) Pega
5 2 (1.92%) Adobe
5 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.92%) New Relic
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.96%) Aderant
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) iManage
6 1 (0.96%) Intapp
6 1 (0.96%) Legora
6 1 (0.96%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.96%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.96%) Solace
6 1 (0.96%) Sony