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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 438 417
Rank change year-on-year -209 -21 +95
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 94 245 577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 2.81% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 83 128 555
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,676 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £80,250
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 9,088 8,725 20,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 19.78% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,685 6,094 15,739
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 20 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 20 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 -196 87 £52,500 -4.55% 64
UK excluding London -152 56 £40,000 -27.27% 66
London -46 31 £80,000 +39.13% 16
Work from Home -99 31 £55,000 +7.32% 15
North of England -95 23 £47,500 +11.76% 16
North West -55 18 £40,000 -38.46% 6
South East -18 17 £29,000 -62.58% 14
Midlands -48 7 £37,500 -34.78% 10
South West -64 7 £55,000 +2.33% 8
East Midlands -32 5 £37,500 -34.78% 9
North East -36 5 £67,500 - 5
West Midlands -47 2 £43,750 -7.89% 1
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 3

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 9 (9.57%) CMS
2 6 (6.38%) WordPress
3 5 (5.32%) Drupal
3 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.26%) Confluence
4 4 (4.26%) IIS
5 3 (3.19%) Apache
6 2 (2.13%) CICS
6 2 (2.13%) JBoss
6 2 (2.13%) nginx
6 2 (2.13%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.06%) ColdFusion
7 1 (1.06%) PegaRULES
7 1 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Sketch
2 1 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.23%) Azure
2 23 (24.47%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.34%) AWS
4 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
5 13 (13.83%) GitHub
6 10 (10.64%) GCP
7 5 (5.32%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (5.32%) Serverless
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.19%) SaaS
8 3 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.13%) Algolia
9 2 (2.13%) Datadog
9 2 (2.13%) Figma
9 2 (2.13%) Firebase
9 2 (2.13%) npm
9 2 (2.13%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) Intranet
2 3 (3.19%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.72%) MySQL
1 27 (28.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.77%) Power BI
3 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.26%) DB2
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.19%) GIS
6 3 (3.19%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) Git
2 11 (11.70%) webpack
3 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.38%) Vite
5 4 (4.26%) GitLab
5 4 (4.26%) JIRA
6 3 (3.19%) Babel
6 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 2 (2.13%) Storybook
7 2 (2.13%) Subversion
8 1 (1.06%) Mockito
8 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Law
4 6 (6.38%) Retail
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Finance
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Advertising
7 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 74 (78.72%) Developer
2 31 (32.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (31.91%) Senior
4 25 (26.60%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (10.64%) PHP Developer
6 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.32%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Lead
9 5 (5.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.26%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.26%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) CSS
2 90 (95.74%) HTML
2 90 (95.74%) HTML5
3 40 (42.55%) React
4 36 (38.30%) .NET
5 32 (34.04%) RESTful
6 30 (31.91%) jQuery
7 26 (27.66%) Vue
8 24 (25.53%) Ajax
8 24 (25.53%) AngularJS
8 24 (25.53%) Sass
9 16 (17.02%) JSON
9 16 (17.02%) Laravel
10 15 (15.96%) LESS
11 11 (11.70%) .NET Framework
11 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET
11 11 (11.70%) Node.js
12 10 (10.64%) .NET Core
13 9 (9.57%) REST
14 8 (8.51%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.06%) Animation
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.06%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (34.04%) Agile
3 31 (32.98%) User Experience
4 30 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (28.72%) DevOps
6 25 (26.60%) Front End Development
7 24 (25.53%) CI/CD
7 24 (25.53%) Responsive Web Design
8 23 (24.47%) MVC
9 18 (19.15%) AI
10 16 (17.02%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
11 15 (15.96%) API Integration
11 15 (15.96%) Machine Learning
11 15 (15.96%) Mobile First
11 15 (15.96%) Web Development
12 13 (13.83%) Scrum
12 13 (13.83%) Visualisation
13 12 (12.77%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.77%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (93.62%) JavaScript
2 33 (35.11%) TypeScript
3 30 (31.91%) C#
4 22 (23.40%) SQL
5 20 (21.28%) Python
6 19 (20.21%) PHP
7 16 (17.02%) Java
8 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.13%) RPG
9 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.60%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.57%) WCAG
3 7 (7.45%) QA
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.19%) Plesk
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.13%) Nagios
3 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.32%) Splunk
3 3 (3.19%) Google
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle
3 3 (3.19%) Pega
4 2 (2.13%) Adobe
4 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.13%) New Relic
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.13%) SendGrid
5 1 (1.06%) Aderant
5 1 (1.06%) iManage
5 1 (1.06%) Intapp
5 1 (1.06%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.06%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.06%) Zend