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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 444 505
Rank change year-on-year -212 +61 +10
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 112 247 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 2.83% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 92 125 301
10th Percentile £28,750 £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 £90,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.91% -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 10,576 8,719 16,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 17.61% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 5,725 12,012
10th Percentile £40,775 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £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 £113,979 £106,250
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 1 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 1 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 -194 100 £55,000 - 77
UK excluding London -169 76 £46,250 -15.91% 82
Work from Home -148 35 £55,000 - 18
London -59 31 £80,000 +23.08% 21
North of England -106 28 £47,500 -7.32% 16
North West -66 17 £40,000 -38.46% 4
South East -39 15 £29,000 -55.38% 20
South West -67 15 £70,000 +55.56% 9
North East -47 8 £51,250 +79.82% 2
Midlands -47 7 £37,500 -34.78% 14
Wales -55 7 £72,500 +107.14% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £37,500 -34.78% 8
Yorkshire -37 3 £60,000 +41.18% 10
Scotland +11 2 - - 8
East of England -28 2 £47,500 -5.00% 9
West Midlands -42 2 £43,750 -41.67% 6

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 (10.71%) CMS
1 12 (10.71%) Confluence
2 10 (8.93%) WordPress
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 5 (4.46%) Drupal
4 5 (4.46%) IIS
4 5 (4.46%) JBoss
4 5 (4.46%) nginx
4 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.79%) CICS
5 2 (1.79%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.89%) Moodle
6 1 (0.89%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
6 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 43 (38.39%) Azure
2 40 (35.71%) AWS
3 27 (24.11%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.39%) GitHub
5 13 (11.61%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.04%) Serverless
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.36%) GCP
7 6 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.46%) Datadog
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.68%) npm
10 3 (2.68%) SaaS
10 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.79%) Figma
11 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.79%) Yarn
12 1 (0.89%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) 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 29 (25.89%) MySQL
2 23 (20.54%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (9.82%) Power BI
5 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.25%) 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%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.79%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (39.29%) Git
2 13 (11.61%) JIRA
3 10 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.25%) MSI
4 7 (6.25%) webpack
5 6 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.46%) Subversion
6 5 (4.46%) Vite
7 4 (3.57%) GitLab
7 4 (3.57%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.57%) JUnit
7 4 (3.57%) Selenium
8 3 (2.68%) Babel
8 3 (2.68%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.79%) Maven
10 1 (0.89%) Gradle
10 1 (0.89%) Mockito
10 1 (0.89%) RSpec
10 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.04%) 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%) Publishing
7 3 (2.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Advertising
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 39 (34.82%) Senior
3 34 (30.36%) Senior Developer
4 27 (24.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.71%) PHP Developer
7 11 (9.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (8.93%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.36%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Lead
10 6 (5.36%) Senior JavaScript Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.57%) Applications Developer
12 4 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
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 29 (25.89%) jQuery
8 24 (21.43%) Ajax
8 24 (21.43%) Vue
9 21 (18.75%) REST
10 20 (17.86%) .NET Core
10 20 (17.86%) .NET Framework
10 20 (17.86%) Node.js
11 18 (16.07%) AngularJS
12 16 (14.29%) JSON
12 16 (14.29%) Sass
13 15 (13.39%) Laravel
14 12 (10.71%) ASP.NET
15 11 (9.82%) LESS
16 9 (8.04%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.82%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.46%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.46%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.46%) Social Media
7 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.89%) Animation
9 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.89%) NHS
9 1 (0.89%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.89%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) 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 51 (45.54%) Agile
3 39 (34.82%) DevOps
4 35 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 32 (28.57%) User Experience
6 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.64%) Microservices
8 21 (18.75%) MVC
9 20 (17.86%) Front End Development
10 19 (16.96%) AI
10 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
10 19 (16.96%) Responsive Web Design
11 18 (16.07%) Scrum
12 17 (15.18%) UX Design
12 17 (15.18%) Web Development
13 16 (14.29%) API Development
13 16 (14.29%) API Integration
14 15 (13.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 14 (12.50%) Clean Code
15 14 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 103 (91.96%) JavaScript
2 40 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 34 (30.36%) C#
4 28 (25.00%) Python
5 22 (19.64%) PHP
5 22 (19.64%) SQL
6 19 (16.96%) Java
7 7 (6.25%) Bicep
8 5 (4.46%) Ruby
9 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.89%) Bash
10 1 (0.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) 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 38 (33.93%) Accessibility
2 21 (18.75%) WCAG
3 9 (8.04%) QA
4 7 (6.25%) NCSC
5 3 (2.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.71%) Terraform
3 5 (4.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (4.46%) Nagios
3 5 (4.46%) 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 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.14%) Splunk
3 5 (4.46%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.46%) New Relic
3 5 (4.46%) OneLogin
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.68%) Pega
5 2 (1.79%) Adobe
5 2 (1.79%) Sony
6 1 (0.89%) Aderant
6 1 (0.89%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) iManage
6 1 (0.89%) Intapp
6 1 (0.89%) Legora
6 1 (0.89%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.89%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.89%) Solace