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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 489 420
Rank change year-on-year -152 -69 +98
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 83 169 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.40% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 2.03% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 69 140 547
10th Percentile £30,500 £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 £82,500 £74,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,800 £87,750 £82,500
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 8,740 8,331 20,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 19.69% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,384 6,370 15,763
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £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 £80,000
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 1 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 1 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 -143 74 £55,000 - 40
UK excluding London -103 43 £40,000 -27.27% 35
London -62 31 £80,000 +30.61% 13
Work from Home -43 30 £65,000 +30.00% 16
North of England -59 15 £40,000 -8.57% 8
South East -37 14 £33,250 -48.85% 12
North West -22 13 £40,000 -38.46% 4
Midlands -41 6 £37,500 -34.78% 4
South West -58 6 £65,000 +4.00% 3
East Midlands -43 5 £37,500 -34.78% 1
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 2
North East - 2 £46,250 - 2
West Midlands -34 1 £37,500 -21.05% 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 6 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.02%) CMS
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 3 (3.61%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) CICS
4 2 (2.41%) JBoss
4 2 (2.41%) nginx
4 2 (2.41%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.41%) WordPress
5 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.20%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.20%) Drupal
5 1 (1.20%) IIS
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.20%) PegaRULES
5 1 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (14.46%) GitHub
4 11 (13.25%) AWS
5 10 (12.05%) GCP
5 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.43%) Serverless
7 5 (6.02%) Azure Functions
7 5 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.41%) Algolia
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.41%) Figma
10 2 (2.41%) npm
10 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.41%) Stripe
10 2 (2.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Intranet
2 2 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.51%) SQL Server
2 18 (21.69%) MySQL
3 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.64%) Power BI
4 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.82%) DB2
7 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.41%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Git
2 13 (15.66%) webpack
3 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.23%) Vite
5 5 (6.02%) Babel
6 3 (3.61%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.61%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.61%) JIRA
6 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
7 2 (2.41%) Storybook
7 2 (2.41%) Subversion
8 1 (1.20%) Gradle
8 1 (1.20%) JUnit
8 1 (1.20%) Mockito
8 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Law
4 6 (7.23%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Retail
5 3 (3.61%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Advertising
6 2 (2.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.20%) Automotive
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.20%) Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Front Office
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (80.72%) Developer
2 29 (34.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (27.71%) Senior
4 20 (24.10%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (12.05%) PHP Developer
7 8 (9.64%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Lead
9 6 (7.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.02%) .NET Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.02%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Pega Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (100.00%) CSS
2 79 (95.18%) HTML
2 79 (95.18%) HTML5
3 44 (53.01%) React
4 31 (37.35%) RESTful
5 27 (32.53%) .NET
6 24 (28.92%) AngularJS
6 24 (28.92%) Vue
7 20 (24.10%) jQuery
7 20 (24.10%) Sass
8 12 (14.46%) Laravel
9 11 (13.25%) Node.js
10 10 (12.05%) Ajax
10 10 (12.05%) ASP.NET
10 10 (12.05%) LESS
11 9 (10.84%) .NET Framework
12 8 (9.64%) Bootstrap
12 8 (9.64%) Jest
13 7 (8.43%) Express.js
13 7 (8.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.02%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.41%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.20%) Animation
4 1 (1.20%) Digital TV
4 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.20%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (37.35%) Agile
3 29 (34.94%) User Experience
4 28 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (31.33%) Front End Development
6 24 (28.92%) CI/CD
7 22 (26.51%) DevOps
8 21 (25.30%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (19.28%) MVC
10 14 (16.87%) Scrum
11 13 (15.66%) Code Quality
11 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.46%) AI
12 12 (14.46%) API Integration
12 12 (14.46%) UX Design
13 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
14 10 (12.05%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.05%) Mobile First
14 10 (12.05%) OO
14 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (97.59%) JavaScript
2 39 (46.99%) TypeScript
3 26 (31.33%) C#
4 23 (27.71%) SQL
5 15 (18.07%) Java
6 14 (16.87%) Python
7 13 (15.66%) PHP
8 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.41%) RPG
9 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.41%) VB
10 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) Degree
3 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.02%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.41%) Nagios
2 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
3 1 (1.20%) Plesk
3 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) Google
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) Pega
3 2 (2.41%) Adobe
3 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.41%) IBM
3 2 (2.41%) New Relic
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.41%) SendGrid
3 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) Aderant
4 1 (1.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.20%) iManage
4 1 (1.20%) Intapp
4 1 (1.20%) Marketo
4 1 (1.20%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.20%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.20%) Zend