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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 446 410
Rank change year-on-year -192 -36 +99
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 87 222 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 2.58% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 73 140 550
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £82,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +9.09%

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 8,854 8,592 20,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 19.67% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,467 6,328 15,788
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 13 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 7 May 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 -186 79 £55,000 - 82
UK excluding London -148 46 £40,000 -27.27% 76
London -50 32 £80,000 +30.61% 23
Work from Home -81 31 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North of England -88 17 £40,000 -5.88% 18
South East -29 15 £29,000 -55.38% 19
North West -51 14 £40,000 -38.46% 6
Midlands -38 6 £37,500 -34.78% 10
South West -56 6 £60,000 +11.63% 9
East Midlands -33 5 £37,500 -34.78% 8
North East -25 3 £47,500 - 4
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 3
West Midlands -35 1 £37,500 -21.05% 2

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 6 (6.90%) CMS
1 6 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) WordPress
3 2 (2.30%) CICS
3 2 (2.30%) Drupal
3 2 (2.30%) JBoss
3 2 (2.30%) nginx
3 2 (2.30%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.15%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.15%) PegaRULES
4 1 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.63%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (14.94%) AWS
3 13 (14.94%) GitHub
4 11 (12.64%) Power Platform
5 10 (11.49%) GCP
6 7 (8.05%) Serverless
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.30%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.30%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.30%) Figma
10 2 (2.30%) Firebase
10 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.30%) Sentry
10 2 (2.30%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Intranet
2 2 (2.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) SQL Server
2 20 (22.99%) MySQL
3 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.34%) Power BI
5 8 (9.20%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.60%) DB2
8 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.30%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.30%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.15%) GIS
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Git
2 12 (13.79%) webpack
3 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.90%) Vite
5 4 (4.60%) Babel
6 3 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.45%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.45%) JIRA
6 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 2 (2.30%) Storybook
7 2 (2.30%) Subversion
8 1 (1.15%) GitLab
8 1 (1.15%) Gradle
8 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Law
4 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Retail
5 3 (3.45%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Advertising
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Back Office
7 1 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Front Office
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (79.31%) Developer
2 31 (35.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (27.59%) Senior
4 20 (22.99%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (11.49%) PHP Developer
7 8 (9.20%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.75%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.75%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Lead
10 5 (5.75%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 3 (3.45%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (100.00%) CSS
2 83 (95.40%) HTML
2 83 (95.40%) HTML5
3 44 (50.57%) React
4 33 (37.93%) RESTful
5 28 (32.18%) .NET
6 26 (29.89%) Vue
7 25 (28.74%) AngularJS
8 23 (26.44%) jQuery
9 20 (22.99%) Sass
10 14 (16.09%) Ajax
11 13 (14.94%) Laravel
12 12 (13.79%) Node.js
13 11 (12.64%) LESS
14 9 (10.34%) ASP.NET
14 9 (10.34%) JSON
15 8 (9.20%) .NET Framework
15 8 (9.20%) Bootstrap
15 8 (9.20%) Jest
16 7 (8.05%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Animation
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Digital TV
4 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.15%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (35.63%) Agile
3 30 (34.48%) User Experience
4 28 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.89%) Front End Development
6 23 (26.44%) CI/CD
7 22 (25.29%) DevOps
8 21 (24.14%) Responsive Web Design
9 17 (19.54%) MVC
10 13 (14.94%) AI
10 13 (14.94%) Code Quality
10 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
10 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 13 (14.94%) Scrum
10 13 (14.94%) UX Design
11 12 (13.79%) API Integration
12 11 (12.64%) Computer Science
12 11 (12.64%) Mobile First
12 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
13 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 84 (96.55%) JavaScript
2 38 (43.68%) TypeScript
3 26 (29.89%) C#
4 24 (27.59%) SQL
5 17 (19.54%) Java
6 16 (18.39%) Python
7 15 (17.24%) PHP
8 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.30%) RPG
9 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.30%) VB
10 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) Degree
3 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.90%) WCAG
3 4 (4.60%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.30%) Nagios
2 2 (2.30%) Plesk
2 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.30%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Google
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle
2 3 (3.45%) Pega
3 2 (2.30%) Adobe
3 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.30%) IBM
3 2 (2.30%) New Relic
3 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.30%) SendGrid
3 2 (2.30%) Splunk
4 1 (1.15%) Aderant
4 1 (1.15%) Databricks
4 1 (1.15%) iManage
4 1 (1.15%) Intapp
4 1 (1.15%) Marketo
4 1 (1.15%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.15%) SAP
4 1 (1.15%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.15%) Zend