Hybrid/Remote CSS Job Trends

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 57 52
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 -24
Permanent jobs citing CSS 627 903 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.86% 4.45% 5.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.57% 15.05% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 303 541 1,132
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,784 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -8.69% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,376 6,000 7,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.77% 29.58% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,181 4,012 6,280
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,450
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CSS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CSS

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CSS over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

CSS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 168 (26.79%) Confluence
2 28 (4.47%) CMS
3 21 (3.35%) WordPress
4 11 (1.75%) IIS
5 8 (1.28%) Headless CMS
6 7 (1.12%) Drupal
6 7 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.80%) nginx
8 4 (0.64%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.32%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.32%) Mendix
10 1 (0.16%) Apache
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
10 1 (0.16%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.16%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 19 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (2.39%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (2.23%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.91%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.96%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.80%) InDesign
7 4 (0.64%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.32%) Elementor
9 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (2.39%) Shopify
2 6 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.80%) Magento
4 4 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.64%) Sage 1000
5 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 389 (62.04%) Azure
2 310 (49.44%) AWS
3 171 (27.27%) GCP
4 31 (4.94%) Serverless
5 29 (4.63%) Figma
5 29 (4.63%) GitHub
6 27 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.31%) Google Analytics
7 25 (3.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 24 (3.83%) SaaS
9 17 (2.71%) Cloudflare
10 14 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.23%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.07%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (1.91%) Vercel
13 11 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.44%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) DNS
2 1 (0.16%) FTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (54.07%) SQL Server
2 93 (14.83%) MySQL
3 25 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 22 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.55%) Redis
8 11 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.96%) Power BI
11 5 (0.80%) Metadata
12 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.48%) GIS
12 3 (0.48%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.32%) Looker
13 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 267 (42.58%) JIRA
2 255 (40.67%) Selenium
3 252 (40.19%) SonarQube
4 250 (39.87%) Bitbucket
5 249 (39.71%) GitLab
6 248 (39.55%) Maven
6 248 (39.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 247 (39.39%) Cucumber
8 100 (15.95%) Git
9 24 (3.83%) Cypress.io
10 23 (3.67%) webpack
11 16 (2.55%) Visual Studio
12 14 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (2.07%) Babel
14 11 (1.75%) Jasmine
15 9 (1.44%) Axure RP
15 9 (1.44%) Balsamiq
15 9 (1.44%) MSBuild
15 9 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (1.44%) TeamCity
General
1 317 (50.56%) Finance
2 270 (43.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 252 (40.19%) Banking
4 128 (20.41%) Social Skills
5 113 (18.02%) Retail
6 90 (14.35%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (14.35%) Investment Banking
7 42 (6.70%) Law
8 41 (6.54%) Marketing
9 34 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.23%) Games
12 7 (1.12%) Legal
13 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.96%) Multimedia
14 5 (0.80%) Automotive
15 4 (0.64%) Advertising
15 4 (0.64%) Front Office
15 4 (0.64%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.64%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 268 (42.74%) Software Engineer
2 266 (42.42%) Developer
3 71 (11.32%) Senior
4 60 (9.57%) Senior Developer
5 54 (8.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 44 (7.02%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.38%) Graduate
8 40 (6.38%) Graduate Developer
9 36 (5.74%) IT Graduate
10 28 (4.47%) Designer
10 28 (4.47%) React Developer
11 26 (4.15%) C# Developer
11 26 (4.15%) PHP Developer
12 24 (3.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (3.51%) Software Developer
14 15 (2.39%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 13 (2.07%) Senior .NET Developer
16 12 (1.91%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 12 (1.91%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 566 (90.27%) HTML
2 394 (62.84%) React
3 258 (41.15%) Redux
4 257 (40.99%) Spring
5 256 (40.83%) Kafka
5 256 (40.83%) Spring Boot
6 247 (39.39%) JPA
7 159 (25.36%) HTML5
8 158 (25.20%) Hibernate
9 156 (24.88%) RESTful
10 154 (24.56%) CSS3
11 142 (22.65%) .NET
11 142 (22.65%) REST
12 132 (21.05%) Jest
13 118 (18.82%) Sass
14 89 (14.19%) ASP.NET
15 61 (9.73%) jQuery
16 58 (9.25%) AngularJS
17 50 (7.97%) Node.js
18 44 (7.02%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 267 (42.58%) Product Ownership
2 248 (39.55%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (2.23%) Motion Graphics
3 14 (2.23%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.12%) Digital TV
9 6 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.96%) Social Media
10 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.80%) Online Games
11 4 (0.64%) Animation
11 4 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.12%) Linux
1 7 (1.12%) Windows
2 6 (0.96%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.32%) Solaris
4 2 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (69.38%) Agile
2 360 (57.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 340 (54.23%) Front End Development
4 311 (49.60%) DevOps
5 306 (48.80%) CI/CD
6 294 (46.89%) Software Engineering
7 290 (46.25%) Microservices
8 283 (45.14%) Test Automation
9 277 (44.18%) Performance Optimisation
10 269 (42.90%) Containerisation
10 269 (42.90%) SDLC
11 207 (33.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 190 (30.30%) Clean Code
13 189 (30.14%) User Experience
14 187 (29.82%) TDD
15 133 (21.21%) Mentoring
16 131 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
17 118 (18.82%) Responsive Web Design
18 99 (15.79%) MVC
19 96 (15.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 521 (83.09%) JavaScript
2 348 (55.50%) SQL
3 300 (47.85%) Java
4 195 (31.10%) TypeScript
5 152 (24.24%) C#
6 80 (12.76%) PHP
7 37 (5.90%) C++
8 24 (3.83%) Python
9 16 (2.55%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.96%) Ruby
10 6 (0.96%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.64%) VBA
12 3 (0.48%) Go
12 3 (0.48%) R
12 3 (0.48%) VB
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (15.79%) Degree
2 67 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (46.57%) QA
2 146 (23.29%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.87%) GDPR
3 18 (2.87%) WCAG
4 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.16%) MiFID
5 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 288 (45.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 257 (40.99%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 247 (39.39%) Solace
2 65 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.26%) Adobe
4 23 (3.67%) Google
5 14 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.59%) Rollbar
8 8 (1.28%) Apple
9 6 (0.96%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.80%) Ahrefs
10 5 (0.80%) Sage
11 4 (0.64%) WooCommerce
12 3 (0.48%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.48%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.48%) Netlify
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle
13 2 (0.32%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.32%) ESRI
13 2 (0.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.32%) Sybase