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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 459 480
Rank change year-on-year -207 +21 +17
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 116 247 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 2.88% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 94 125 279
10th Percentile £29,250 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £73,438 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £93,250 £79,000
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 10,686 8,587 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 17.20% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 5,603 11,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 10 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 10 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 -202 105 £48,676 -15.35% 143
UK excluding London -175 82 £45,000 -18.18% 91
Work from Home -154 34 £55,000 -4.35% 36
North of England -109 31 £45,000 -18.18% 21
London -84 30 £80,000 +23.08% 72
North West -71 18 £40,000 -38.46% 10
South East -33 16 £29,000 -55.38% 21
South West -61 16 £70,000 +55.56% 10
North East -51 9 £47,500 +66.67% 3
Wales -46 7 £72,500 +107.14% 2
Midlands -48 7 £37,500 -34.78% 17
East Midlands -25 5 £37,500 -34.78% 10
Yorkshire -46 4 £58,750 +38.24% 9
East of England -38 3 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Scotland +7 2 - - 8
West Midlands -39 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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 11 (9.48%) CMS
3 10 (8.62%) WordPress
4 6 (5.17%) Apache
4 6 (5.17%) IIS
4 6 (5.17%) JBoss
5 5 (4.31%) Drupal
5 5 (4.31%) nginx
5 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.72%) CICS
6 2 (1.72%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.86%) Moodle
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.86%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Sketch
2 1 (0.86%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.52%) Azure
2 43 (37.07%) AWS
3 29 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.79%) GitHub
5 14 (12.07%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.76%) Serverless
7 7 (6.03%) GCP
8 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.31%) Datadog
10 4 (3.45%) npm
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.59%) SaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.72%) Figma
12 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) SSL
2 4 (3.45%) Intranet
3 3 (2.59%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) AMQP
5 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.00%) MySQL
2 27 (23.28%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.34%) Power BI
5 11 (9.48%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.03%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.31%) GIS
8 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.59%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.72%) Db2
10 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.72%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (39.66%) Git
2 13 (11.21%) JIRA
3 10 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.03%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.03%) MSI
5 6 (5.17%) webpack
6 5 (4.31%) Subversion
6 5 (4.31%) Vite
7 4 (3.45%) GitLab
7 4 (3.45%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.45%) JUnit
7 4 (3.45%) Selenium
8 3 (2.59%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.59%) Maven
9 2 (1.72%) Babel
10 1 (0.86%) Gradle
10 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 35 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (7.76%) Law
5 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Finance
7 5 (4.31%) Banking
7 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Legal
8 3 (2.59%) Publishing
8 3 (2.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Automotive
10 1 (0.86%) Billing
10 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (79.31%) Developer
2 38 (32.76%) Senior
3 33 (28.45%) Senior Developer
4 31 (26.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (14.66%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.34%) PHP Developer
7 11 (9.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (8.62%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.17%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.17%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Lead
10 6 (5.17%) Senior JavaScript Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (100.00%) CSS
2 113 (97.41%) HTML
3 112 (96.55%) HTML5
4 51 (43.97%) React
5 47 (40.52%) .NET
6 37 (31.90%) RESTful
7 31 (26.72%) jQuery
8 25 (21.55%) Ajax
8 25 (21.55%) Vue
9 23 (19.83%) .NET Core
9 23 (19.83%) REST
10 21 (18.10%) .NET Framework
10 21 (18.10%) Node.js
11 19 (16.38%) AngularJS
12 16 (13.79%) ASP.NET
12 16 (13.79%) JSON
13 15 (12.93%) Laravel
13 15 (12.93%) Sass
14 11 (9.48%) Bootstrap
14 11 (9.48%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.48%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.76%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.03%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.31%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.31%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (4.31%) Social Media
6 4 (3.45%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.72%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.86%) NHS
9 1 (0.86%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) AIX
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (46.55%) Agile
3 43 (37.07%) DevOps
4 36 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 33 (28.45%) User Experience
6 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (20.69%) Microservices
7 24 (20.69%) MVC
8 20 (17.24%) AI
8 20 (17.24%) Front End Development
8 20 (17.24%) Web Development
9 19 (16.38%) Mentoring
9 19 (16.38%) Responsive Web Design
9 19 (16.38%) Scrum
10 17 (14.66%) API Integration
10 17 (14.66%) UX Design
11 16 (13.79%) API Development
11 16 (13.79%) Clean Code
11 16 (13.79%) Code Quality
12 15 (12.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 106 (91.38%) JavaScript
2 40 (34.48%) TypeScript
3 38 (32.76%) C#
4 29 (25.00%) Python
5 25 (21.55%) SQL
6 22 (18.97%) PHP
7 19 (16.38%) Java
8 7 (6.03%) Bicep
9 5 (4.31%) Ruby
10 4 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.72%) Go
12 1 (0.86%) Bash
12 1 (0.86%) C
12 1 (0.86%) ProC
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.79%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (31.90%) Accessibility
2 21 (18.10%) WCAG
3 9 (7.76%) QA
4 7 (6.03%) NCSC
5 4 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (21.55%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.34%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (4.31%) Nagios
3 5 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.59%) Plesk
5 1 (0.86%) Ansible
5 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.90%) Splunk
3 6 (5.17%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.31%) New Relic
4 5 (4.31%) OneLogin
4 5 (4.31%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.59%) Pega
6 2 (1.72%) Adobe
6 2 (1.72%) Sony
7 1 (0.86%) Aderant
7 1 (0.86%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) iManage
7 1 (0.86%) Intapp
7 1 (0.86%) Legora
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.86%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.86%) Solace