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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 437 406
Rank change year-on-year -224 -31 +91
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 97 247 627
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 2.82% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 84 123 566
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,355 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,625 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +6.98%

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 9,764 8,745 21,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 19.29% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,303 5,754 16,441
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS3 in the UK

CSS3
Top 14 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 25 June 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 -202 86 £49,338 -10.29% 61
UK excluding London -169 62 £40,000 -27.27% 64
London -68 30 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Work from Home -139 27 £55,000 - 7
North of England -105 23 £45,000 - 17
North West -66 17 £40,000 -38.46% 6
South East -34 15 £29,000 -55.38% 13
South West -59 10 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Midlands -35 7 £37,500 -50.00% 8
North East -43 6 £57,500 +101.75% 3
Wales - 6 £71,250 - 3
East Midlands -31 5 £37,500 - 6
West Midlands -31 2 £43,750 -41.67% 2
Scotland +3 1 - - 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 9 (9.28%) CMS
2 7 (7.22%) Confluence
2 7 (7.22%) WordPress
3 5 (5.15%) Drupal
3 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.12%) IIS
5 2 (2.06%) Apache
5 2 (2.06%) CICS
5 2 (2.06%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.03%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.03%) JBoss
6 1 (1.03%) Moodle
6 1 (1.03%) nginx
6 1 (1.03%) PegaRULES
6 1 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Sketch
2 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.11%) Azure
2 25 (25.77%) AWS
2 25 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.46%) GitHub
4 14 (14.43%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.25%) GCP
6 7 (7.22%) Serverless
7 6 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.06%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.06%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Intranet
2 3 (3.09%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.03%) AMQP
3 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.84%) MySQL
2 24 (24.74%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.37%) Power BI
4 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.09%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.09%) GIS
6 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.06%) Db2
7 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.06%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (29.90%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.25%) JIRA
2 8 (8.25%) webpack
3 6 (6.19%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.19%) Vite
4 4 (4.12%) GitLab
4 4 (4.12%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.09%) JUnit
5 3 (3.09%) MSI
6 2 (2.06%) Babel
6 2 (2.06%) Maven
6 2 (2.06%) Selenium
6 2 (2.06%) Subversion
7 1 (1.03%) Gradle
7 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.22%) Law
3 5 (5.15%) Banking
3 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Finance
4 4 (4.12%) Retail
5 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.09%) Legal
6 2 (2.06%) Advertising
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.03%) Front Office
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 74 (76.29%) Developer
2 35 (36.08%) Senior
3 29 (29.90%) Senior Developer
4 27 (27.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (10.31%) Software Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) PHP Developer
7 8 (8.25%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.19%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 6 (6.19%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (4.12%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (100.00%) CSS
2 93 (95.88%) HTML
3 92 (94.85%) HTML5
4 40 (41.24%) React
5 38 (39.18%) .NET
6 31 (31.96%) jQuery
6 31 (31.96%) RESTful
7 25 (25.77%) Ajax
8 24 (24.74%) Vue
9 20 (20.62%) AngularJS
10 19 (19.59%) Sass
11 16 (16.49%) JSON
12 15 (15.46%) Laravel
12 15 (15.46%) LESS
12 15 (15.46%) REST
13 14 (14.43%) .NET Framework
14 13 (13.40%) .NET Core
15 12 (12.37%) Node.js
16 10 (10.31%) ASP.NET
17 9 (9.28%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Animation
7 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
3 2 (2.06%) AIX
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (37.11%) Agile
3 31 (31.96%) DevOps
4 29 (29.90%) User Experience
5 28 (28.87%) CI/CD
6 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.68%) Front End Development
7 22 (22.68%) MVC
8 21 (21.65%) AI
8 21 (21.65%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
11 15 (15.46%) Machine Learning
12 14 (14.43%) Microservices
13 13 (13.40%) Code Quality
13 13 (13.40%) Mobile First
13 13 (13.40%) Scrum
13 13 (13.40%) Visualisation
13 13 (13.40%) Web Development
14 12 (12.37%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 89 (91.75%) JavaScript
2 34 (35.05%) TypeScript
3 32 (32.99%) C#
4 21 (21.65%) Python
5 20 (20.62%) SQL
6 19 (19.59%) PHP
7 18 (18.56%) Java
8 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.09%) Bicep
9 3 (3.09%) Ruby
10 2 (2.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) Degree
4 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.80%) Accessibility
2 12 (12.37%) WCAG
3 7 (7.22%) QA
4 3 (3.09%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (17.53%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Plesk
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.03%) Nagios
4 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) Splunk
4 3 (3.09%) OneLogin
4 3 (3.09%) Pega
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
6 1 (1.03%) Aderant
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) iManage
6 1 (1.03%) Intapp
6 1 (1.03%) Legora
6 1 (1.03%) New Relic
6 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.03%) Solace