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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 467 415
Rank change year-on-year -183 -52 +99
Permanent jobs citing CSS3 80 174 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 2.07% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 66 143 545
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £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 £74,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £87,500 £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 8,744 8,407 20,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 19.87% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,387 6,443 15,667
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -155 71 £55,000 - 79
UK excluding London -118 41 £40,000 -27.27% 73
Work from Home -51 31 £60,000 +20.00% 19
London -42 30 £80,000 +39.13% 17
North of England -54 15 £40,000 -8.57% 17
North West -24 12 £40,000 -38.46% 7
South East -56 12 £33,250 -48.85% 19
Midlands -39 6 £37,500 -34.78% 11
South West -56 6 £55,000 -13.73% 10
East Midlands -42 5 £37,500 -34.78% 6
North East - 2 £46,250 - 4
Wales - 2 £48,750 - 1
West Midlands -25 1 £37,500 -21.05% 5
Yorkshire -64 1 £40,000 -5.88% 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 6 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.00%) CMS
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (2.50%) CICS
4 2 (2.50%) JBoss
4 2 (2.50%) nginx
4 2 (2.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.25%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.25%) Drupal
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.25%) PegaRULES
5 1 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (15.00%) GitHub
4 11 (13.75%) AWS
5 10 (12.50%) GCP
6 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.75%) Serverless
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Functions
9 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.50%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.50%) Figma
11 2 (2.50%) npm
11 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.50%) Sentry
11 2 (2.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Intranet
2 2 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) SQL Server
2 17 (21.25%) MySQL
3 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.75%) Power BI
4 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.00%) DB2
6 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.50%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (33.75%) Git
2 13 (16.25%) webpack
3 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.50%) Vite
5 5 (6.25%) Babel
5 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.75%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.75%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.75%) JIRA
6 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.50%) Selenium
7 2 (2.50%) Storybook
7 2 (2.50%) Subversion
8 1 (1.25%) GitLab
8 1 (1.25%) Gradle
8 1 (1.25%) Mockito
8 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Law
4 6 (7.50%) Finance
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (80.00%) Developer
2 25 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (27.50%) Senior
4 19 (23.75%) Senior Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (11.25%) PHP Developer
7 8 (10.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Lead
10 5 (6.25%) .NET Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Lead Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (100.00%) CSS
2 77 (96.25%) HTML
2 77 (96.25%) HTML5
3 43 (53.75%) React
4 31 (38.75%) RESTful
5 26 (32.50%) .NET
6 24 (30.00%) AngularJS
7 21 (26.25%) Vue
8 20 (25.00%) Sass
9 18 (22.50%) jQuery
10 11 (13.75%) ASP.NET
10 11 (13.75%) Laravel
10 11 (13.75%) Node.js
11 9 (11.25%) .NET Framework
11 9 (11.25%) LESS
12 8 (10.00%) Ajax
12 8 (10.00%) Jest
13 6 (7.50%) .NET Core
13 6 (7.50%) Express.js
13 6 (7.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Animation
5 1 (1.25%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (33.75%) User Experience
4 26 (32.50%) Front End Development
5 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 22 (27.50%) DevOps
7 20 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
8 16 (20.00%) MVC
9 13 (16.25%) Scrum
10 12 (15.00%) Code Quality
10 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 11 (13.75%) AI
11 11 (13.75%) API Integration
11 11 (13.75%) UX Design
12 10 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 10 (12.50%) OO
12 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 9 (11.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 77 (96.25%) JavaScript
2 37 (46.25%) TypeScript
3 26 (32.50%) C#
4 25 (31.25%) SQL
5 15 (18.75%) Java
6 13 (16.25%) Python
7 12 (15.00%) PHP
8 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.50%) RPG
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.50%) VB
10 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) Degree
3 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.75%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.50%) Nagios
2 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Plesk
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
2 3 (3.75%) Pega
3 2 (2.50%) Adobe
3 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.50%) IBM
3 2 (2.50%) New Relic
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
3 2 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (1.25%) Aderant
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) iManage
4 1 (1.25%) Intapp
4 1 (1.25%) Marketo
4 1 (1.25%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.25%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.25%) Zend