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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 445 484
Rank change year-on-year -228 +39 +26
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 115 247 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 2.85% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 94 125 282
10th Percentile £29,250 £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% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,000 £78,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +14.29%

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 10,564 8,654 16,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 17.44% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,770 5,667 11,657
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £107,500
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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -188 103 £48,676 -15.35% 93
UK excluding London -162 80 £45,000 -18.18% 88
Work from Home -155 35 £55,000 -2.22% 31
London -67 30 £80,000 +23.08% 30
North of England -101 30 £45,000 -21.74% 20
North West -71 17 £40,000 -38.46% 8
South East -31 16 £29,000 -55.38% 21
South West -54 16 £70,000 +55.56% 10
North East -46 9 £47,500 +66.67% 2
Wales -45 7 £72,500 +107.14% 2
Midlands -55 7 £37,500 -34.78% 15
East Midlands -22 5 £37,500 -34.78% 8
Yorkshire -40 4 £58,750 +38.24% 10
Scotland +5 2 - - 8
East of England -36 2 £47,500 -5.00% 9
West Midlands -45 2 £43,750 -41.67% 7

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 12 (10.43%) Confluence
2 11 (9.57%) CMS
3 10 (8.70%) WordPress
4 6 (5.22%) Apache
5 5 (4.35%) Drupal
5 5 (4.35%) IIS
5 5 (4.35%) JBoss
5 5 (4.35%) nginx
5 5 (4.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.74%) CICS
6 2 (1.74%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.87%) Moodle
7 1 (0.87%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Sketch
2 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (40.00%) Azure
2 42 (36.52%) AWS
3 29 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.91%) GitHub
5 14 (12.17%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.83%) Serverless
7 7 (6.09%) GCP
8 6 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.35%) Datadog
10 4 (3.48%) npm
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.61%) SaaS
11 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.74%) Figma
12 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.74%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) SSL
2 4 (3.48%) Intranet
3 3 (2.61%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.87%) AMQP
4 1 (0.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.22%) MySQL
2 25 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.43%) Power BI
5 9 (7.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.09%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.35%) GIS
8 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.61%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.74%) Db2
10 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.74%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (40.00%) Git
2 13 (11.30%) JIRA
3 10 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.09%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.09%) MSI
4 7 (6.09%) webpack
5 5 (4.35%) Subversion
5 5 (4.35%) Vite
6 4 (3.48%) GitLab
6 4 (3.48%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.48%) JUnit
6 4 (3.48%) Selenium
7 3 (2.61%) Babel
7 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.74%) Maven
9 1 (0.87%) Mocha
9 1 (0.87%) Mockito
9 1 (0.87%) RSpec
9 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (7.83%) Law
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.22%) Finance
7 5 (4.35%) Banking
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Legal
8 3 (2.61%) Publishing
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Automotive
9 1 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (78.26%) Developer
2 38 (33.04%) Senior
3 33 (28.70%) Senior Developer
4 30 (26.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (13.04%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (10.43%) PHP Developer
7 10 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.22%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Lead
9 6 (5.22%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.35%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (100.00%) CSS
2 111 (96.52%) HTML
3 110 (95.65%) HTML5
4 53 (46.09%) React
5 45 (39.13%) .NET
6 36 (31.30%) RESTful
7 30 (26.09%) jQuery
8 25 (21.74%) Ajax
8 25 (21.74%) Vue
9 23 (20.00%) REST
10 22 (19.13%) .NET Core
11 21 (18.26%) Node.js
12 20 (17.39%) .NET Framework
13 18 (15.65%) AngularJS
14 16 (13.91%) JSON
14 16 (13.91%) Sass
15 15 (13.04%) Laravel
16 14 (12.17%) ASP.NET
17 11 (9.57%) LESS
18 10 (8.70%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.57%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.09%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.09%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.35%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (4.35%) Social Media
7 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.87%) NHS
9 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.87%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.96%) Windows
2 5 (4.35%) Linux
3 3 (2.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 51 (44.35%) Agile
3 41 (35.65%) DevOps
4 37 (32.17%) CI/CD
5 33 (28.70%) User Experience
6 31 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (20.00%) Microservices
8 22 (19.13%) MVC
9 20 (17.39%) AI
9 20 (17.39%) Front End Development
9 20 (17.39%) Responsive Web Design
10 19 (16.52%) Mentoring
11 18 (15.65%) Scrum
11 18 (15.65%) Web Development
12 17 (14.78%) API Integration
13 16 (13.91%) API Development
13 16 (13.91%) Code Quality
13 16 (13.91%) UX Design
14 15 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 14 (12.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 105 (91.30%) JavaScript
2 41 (35.65%) TypeScript
3 36 (31.30%) C#
4 29 (25.22%) Python
5 22 (19.13%) PHP
5 22 (19.13%) SQL
6 18 (15.65%) Java
7 7 (6.09%) Bicep
8 5 (4.35%) Ruby
9 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.87%) Bash
10 1 (0.87%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) Degree
4 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (33.04%) Accessibility
2 21 (18.26%) WCAG
3 9 (7.83%) QA
4 7 (6.09%) NCSC
5 3 (2.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (21.74%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.43%) Terraform
3 5 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (4.35%) Nagios
3 5 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.61%) Plesk
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Splunk
3 5 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.35%) New Relic
3 5 (4.35%) OneLogin
3 5 (4.35%) Oracle
3 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.61%) Pega
5 2 (1.74%) Adobe
5 2 (1.74%) Sony
6 1 (0.87%) Aderant
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) iManage
6 1 (0.87%) Intapp
6 1 (0.87%) Legora
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.87%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.87%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.87%) Solace