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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 444 478
Rank change year-on-year -218 +34 +38
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 112 247 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 2.83% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 92 125 332
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £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 £90,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +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 10,419 8,722 16,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 17.68% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,720 5,725 12,373
10th Percentile £41,225 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £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 £113,888 £105,000
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 29 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 29 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 -205 100 £50,000 -9.09% 74
UK excluding London -167 77 £45,000 -20.00% 74
Work from Home -168 33 £55,000 - 17
London -51 30 £80,000 +23.08% 18
North of England -98 29 £47,500 -7.32% 18
North West -77 19 £40,000 -38.46% 4
South East -37 16 £29,000 -55.38% 17
South West -58 14 £70,000 +55.56% 9
North East -46 8 £51,250 +79.82% 3
Wales -50 7 £72,500 +107.14% 2
Midlands -51 7 £37,500 -34.78% 13
East Midlands -29 5 £37,500 -34.78% 9
Scotland +9 2 - - 6
East of England -36 2 £47,500 -5.00% 9
Yorkshire -36 2 £58,750 +38.24% 11
West Midlands -42 2 £43,750 -41.67% 4

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 (9.82%) CMS
1 11 (9.82%) Confluence
2 9 (8.04%) WordPress
3 7 (6.25%) Apache
4 6 (5.36%) JBoss
4 6 (5.36%) nginx
5 5 (4.46%) Drupal
5 5 (4.46%) IIS
5 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.79%) CICS
6 2 (1.79%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.89%) Moodle
7 1 (0.89%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Sketch
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (39.29%) Azure
2 39 (34.82%) AWS
3 27 (24.11%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.39%) GitHub
5 14 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.04%) Serverless
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.36%) Datadog
7 6 (5.36%) GCP
7 6 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.68%) npm
9 3 (2.68%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.79%) Figma
10 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.79%) Yarn
11 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) SSL
2 4 (3.57%) Intranet
3 3 (2.68%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.89%) AMQP
4 1 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.00%) MySQL
2 24 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.71%) Power BI
5 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.36%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.57%) GIS
7 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.68%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.79%) Db2
9 2 (1.79%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (39.29%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) JIRA
3 10 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.25%) webpack
6 6 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.36%) MSI
6 6 (5.36%) Subversion
7 5 (4.46%) Vite
8 4 (3.57%) GitLab
8 4 (3.57%) IntelliJ
8 4 (3.57%) JUnit
8 4 (3.57%) Selenium
9 3 (2.68%) Babel
9 3 (2.68%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.79%) Maven
11 1 (0.89%) Mocha
11 1 (0.89%) Mockito
11 1 (0.89%) RSpec
11 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.14%) Law
5 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Banking
6 5 (4.46%) Finance
6 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Advertising
8 2 (1.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (77.68%) Developer
2 37 (33.04%) Senior
3 32 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 28 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 11 (9.82%) PHP Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.36%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Lead
8 6 (5.36%) Senior JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Applications Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (100.00%) CSS
2 108 (96.43%) HTML
3 107 (95.54%) HTML5
4 52 (46.43%) React
5 42 (37.50%) .NET
6 36 (32.14%) RESTful
7 30 (26.79%) jQuery
8 25 (22.32%) Ajax
9 24 (21.43%) Vue
10 20 (17.86%) REST
11 19 (16.96%) .NET Core
11 19 (16.96%) .NET Framework
11 19 (16.96%) AngularJS
11 19 (16.96%) Node.js
12 17 (15.18%) Sass
13 16 (14.29%) JSON
14 15 (13.39%) Laravel
15 12 (10.71%) ASP.NET
15 12 (10.71%) LESS
16 9 (8.04%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.04%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.46%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.46%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.46%) Social Media
6 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.89%) Animation
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.25%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) AIX
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 50 (44.64%) Agile
3 38 (33.93%) DevOps
4 33 (29.46%) CI/CD
4 33 (29.46%) User Experience
5 29 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.64%) MVC
7 21 (18.75%) AI
7 21 (18.75%) Front End Development
7 21 (18.75%) Microservices
7 21 (18.75%) Responsive Web Design
8 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
9 18 (16.07%) Scrum
10 17 (15.18%) API Integration
10 17 (15.18%) UX Design
10 17 (15.18%) Web Development
11 16 (14.29%) API Development
12 15 (13.39%) Data Modelling
13 14 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 14 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (91.96%) JavaScript
2 39 (34.82%) TypeScript
3 34 (30.36%) C#
4 29 (25.89%) Python
5 22 (19.64%) SQL
6 21 (18.75%) PHP
7 19 (16.96%) Java
8 6 (5.36%) Bicep
9 5 (4.46%) Ruby
10 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.89%) Bash
11 1 (0.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 19 (16.96%) WCAG
3 9 (8.04%) QA
4 6 (5.36%) NCSC
5 3 (2.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (20.54%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.82%) Terraform
3 6 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (5.36%) Nagios
3 6 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.68%) Plesk
5 1 (0.89%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) Splunk
3 6 (5.36%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.36%) New Relic
3 6 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.46%) OneLogin
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle
5 3 (2.68%) Pega
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe
7 1 (0.89%) Aderant
7 1 (0.89%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) iManage
7 1 (0.89%) Intapp
7 1 (0.89%) Legora
7 1 (0.89%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.89%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.89%) Solace
7 1 (0.89%) Sony