CSS3 Job Trends

CSS 3
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CSS3 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 379 484
Rank change year-on-year -82 +105 -160
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 226 528 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 3.44% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 110 220 260
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £81,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

CSS3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CSS3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CSS3 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -87 211 £63,750 +6.25% 143
Work from Home +133 160 £57,500 +9.52% 88
UK excluding London -99 159 £57,500 -4.17% 124
North of England +18 100 £65,000 +30.00% 36
North West +41 85 £65,000 +30.00% 22
London +60 47 £68,750 -5.17% 42
Midlands 0 24 £57,500 +21.05% 17
South East -55 17 £65,000 +8.33% 37
West Midlands +18 14 £75,000 +76.47% 13
East Midlands +10 10 £52,000 +9.47% 4
Yorkshire +1 9 £45,000 +50.00% 11
East of England -87 9 £50,000 -23.08% 17
South West +57 6 £38,750 -35.42% 9
North East +9 6 £66,250 +120.83% 4
Scotland +33 2 £107,500 +100.00% 2
Wales -1 1 £35,000 -50.00% 7

CSS3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.08%) CMS
2 12 (5.31%) IIS
3 8 (3.54%) WordPress
4 6 (2.65%) Drupal
4 6 (2.65%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.21%) Apache
5 5 (2.21%) Confluence
6 4 (1.77%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.88%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.88%) Elementor
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) JDE OneWorld
1 4 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.33%) Magento
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 129 (57.08%) AWS
2 123 (54.42%) Azure
3 18 (7.96%) GitHub
4 14 (6.19%) Figma
5 13 (5.75%) Cloudflare
5 13 (5.75%) GCP
5 13 (5.75%) Serverless
6 8 (3.54%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (2.65%) Contentful
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.77%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.77%) Boomi
8 4 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.77%) dbt
8 4 (1.77%) npm
8 4 (1.77%) Vercel
9 3 (1.33%) SaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
2 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.44%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (53.98%) SQL Server
2 27 (11.95%) MySQL
3 18 (7.96%) MongoDB
3 18 (7.96%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.21%) Redis
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.77%) Big Data
8 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.77%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.88%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.88%) Metadata
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 101 (44.69%) JIRA
2 95 (42.04%) GitLab
3 94 (41.59%) SonarQube
4 93 (41.15%) Maven
5 92 (40.71%) Bitbucket
5 92 (40.71%) Selenium
6 91 (40.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 90 (39.82%) Cucumber
8 63 (27.88%) Git
9 17 (7.52%) webpack
10 11 (4.87%) Cypress.io
10 11 (4.87%) NUnit
10 11 (4.87%) TeamCity
11 10 (4.42%) Jasmine
12 8 (3.54%) Babel
13 7 (3.10%) Jenkins
13 7 (3.10%) Storybook
14 5 (2.21%) Subversion
15 4 (1.77%) SpecFlow
15 4 (1.77%) Vite
General
1 127 (56.19%) Finance
2 99 (43.81%) Banking
3 94 (41.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (41.59%) Retail
4 93 (41.15%) Investment Banking
5 90 (39.82%) Corporate Banking
6 44 (19.47%) Social Skills
7 10 (4.42%) Law
8 9 (3.98%) Games
9 8 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.65%) Marketing
11 5 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.77%) Legal
13 3 (1.33%) Automotive
14 2 (0.88%) Back Office
15 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (51.77%) Developer
2 96 (42.48%) Software Engineer
3 40 (17.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (13.27%) Senior
5 28 (12.39%) Senior Developer
6 24 (10.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 23 (10.18%) .NET Developer
8 16 (7.08%) React Developer
9 15 (6.64%) C# Developer
9 15 (6.64%) JavaScript Developer
10 14 (6.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.42%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 9 (3.98%) Lead
14 8 (3.54%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.54%) PHP Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 7 (3.10%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (100.00%) CSS
1 226 (100.00%) HTML
2 218 (96.46%) HTML5
3 163 (72.12%) React
4 134 (59.29%) RESTful
5 124 (54.87%) REST
6 112 (49.56%) Jest
7 108 (47.79%) Sass
8 102 (45.13%) Redux
9 99 (43.81%) Spring
9 99 (43.81%) Spring Boot
10 93 (41.15%) Kafka
11 92 (40.71%) JPA
12 52 (23.01%) AngularJS
13 45 (19.91%) .NET
14 41 (18.14%) Vue
15 31 (13.72%) ASP.NET
16 29 (12.83%) Node.js
17 23 (10.18%) .NET Core
18 18 (7.96%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (41.15%) Enterprise Software
2 90 (39.82%) Product Ownership
3 21 (9.29%) Mobile App
4 16 (7.08%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.10%) Digital TV
6 5 (2.21%) Online Games
7 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.77%) Wiki
8 3 (1.33%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.33%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.88%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.88%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.88%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Animation
10 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (69.47%) Agile
2 154 (68.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 138 (61.06%) User Experience
4 132 (58.41%) CI/CD
5 126 (55.75%) Front End Development
6 117 (51.77%) DevOps
7 114 (50.44%) Software Engineering
8 112 (49.56%) Mentoring
9 110 (48.67%) Responsive Web Design
10 109 (48.23%) Microservices
11 102 (45.13%) Test Automation
12 100 (44.25%) SDLC
13 99 (43.81%) Containerisation
14 98 (43.36%) Performance Optimisation
15 93 (41.15%) Migration
16 90 (39.82%) Strategic Thinking
17 37 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (14.60%) MVC
19 21 (9.29%) Clean Code
19 21 (9.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 214 (94.69%) JavaScript
2 149 (65.93%) TypeScript
3 133 (58.85%) SQL
4 106 (46.90%) Java
5 40 (17.70%) C#
6 19 (8.41%) PHP
7 9 (3.98%) Python
8 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.88%) Groovy
9 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) C++
10 1 (0.44%) Dart
10 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.64%) Degree
4 14 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (55.31%) Accessibility
2 95 (42.04%) QA
3 7 (3.10%) WCAG
4 3 (1.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) HL7
System Software
1 107 (47.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 100 (44.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.08%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (39.82%) Solace
2 23 (10.18%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.87%) Google
3 11 (4.87%) Rollbar
4 6 (2.65%) Oracle
4 6 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.65%) Splunk
5 4 (1.77%) Dell
5 4 (1.77%) Sybase
6 3 (1.33%) Adobe
7 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.88%) Netlify
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.44%) SAP
8 1 (0.44%) WooCommerce