CSS Job Trends in Wales

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 49 45
Rank change year-on-year -48 -4 -11
Permanent jobs citing CSS 27 20 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.02% 2.51% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.30% 22.47% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 33
10th Percentile £30,000 £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,313 £60,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,370 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.75% +35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,563 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,837
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.09% -7.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

CSS 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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 203 89 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.63% 11.17% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 181 82 217
10th Percentile £39,163 £48,743 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year - +19.26% +5.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

CSS job vacancy trend in Wales

CSS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CSS

CSS
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in Wales over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CSS in Wales

CSS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
South Wales -42 14 £45,000 -33.33% 11
West Wales -41 12 £38,500 +10.00% 2
CSS
UK

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Adobe XD
1 5 (18.52%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (18.52%) Figma
4 5 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (18.52%) Miro
4 5 (18.52%) Serverless
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) npm
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Intranet
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
4 3 (11.11%) JUnit
4 3 (11.11%) Selenium
5 2 (7.41%) Bower
6 1 (3.70%) GitLab
6 1 (3.70%) Gradle
6 1 (3.70%) Maven
6 1 (3.70%) Mocha
6 1 (3.70%) RSpec
6 1 (3.70%) Storybook
General
1 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 10 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Designer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Developer
2 5 (18.52%) UX Designer
2 5 (18.52%) Web Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.41%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Support
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Support Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (88.89%) HTML
2 15 (55.56%) React
3 10 (37.04%) RESTful
4 7 (25.93%) CSS3
4 7 (25.93%) HTML5
4 7 (25.93%) Node.js
5 6 (22.22%) jQuery
5 6 (22.22%) Spring
5 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (18.52%) Ajax
6 5 (18.52%) Jest
6 5 (18.52%) JSON
6 5 (18.52%) REST
6 5 (18.52%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (18.52%) Vue
6 5 (18.52%) XML
7 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (14.81%) Next.js
8 3 (11.11%) Playwright
8 3 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Mainframe
4 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) AIX
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (33.33%) User Experience
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
6 8 (29.63%) Front End Development
6 8 (29.63%) UX Design
7 7 (25.93%) Interaction Design
7 7 (25.93%) Kanban
7 7 (25.93%) User Research
8 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (22.22%) Inclusive Design
8 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
8 6 (22.22%) TDD
9 5 (18.52%) Analytics
9 5 (18.52%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) JavaScript
2 6 (22.22%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) PHP
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Ruby
3 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.81%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Dart
5 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Accessibility
2 6 (22.22%) WCAG
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) OneLogin
2 5 (18.52%) Adobe
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft