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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 55 53
Rank change year-on-year -82 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing CSS 312 858 1,249
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.04% 5.22% 5.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.40% 16.88% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 245 519 1,134
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £74,230
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -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 2,736 5,082 6,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.87% 30.92% 30.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,099 3,236 5,998
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £67,500 £62,734
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +7.60% -3.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 18 January 2026.

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 22 (7.05%) CMS
2 8 (2.56%) Confluence
3 7 (2.24%) WordPress
4 6 (1.92%) nginx
5 5 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.28%) Drupal
6 4 (1.28%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.64%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.64%) Mendix
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.32%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 15 (4.81%) Adobe XD
2 9 (2.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (2.56%) Chatbot
4 7 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.96%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.96%) Sketch
6 1 (0.32%) InVision
6 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.85%) Shopify
2 9 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.32%) Magento
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (37.82%) Azure
2 65 (20.83%) AWS
3 56 (17.95%) GitHub
4 32 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (9.62%) Serverless
6 29 (9.29%) SaaS
7 26 (8.33%) Figma
8 19 (6.09%) GCP
9 16 (5.13%) Google Analytics
10 12 (3.85%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (2.88%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.56%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.56%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.24%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.60%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) HTTP
2 2 (0.64%) Intranet
3 1 (0.32%) AMQP
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.83%) MySQL
2 62 (19.87%) SQL Server
3 26 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.53%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.92%) Power BI
9 5 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.60%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.28%) Metadata
10 4 (1.28%) Redis
11 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.96%) GIS
12 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.64%) Looker
13 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (23.08%) Git
2 14 (4.49%) Axure RP
2 14 (4.49%) JIRA
2 14 (4.49%) webpack
3 12 (3.85%) Balsamiq
4 10 (3.21%) Cypress.io
4 10 (3.21%) Vite
5 8 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.24%) Babel
7 5 (1.60%) git-flow
7 5 (1.60%) Storybook
8 4 (1.28%) GitLab
8 4 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.96%) ESLint
9 3 (0.96%) JMeter
9 3 (0.96%) Postman
9 3 (0.96%) Selenium
9 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.64%) gulp
General
1 101 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (13.14%) Law
4 38 (12.18%) Finance
5 27 (8.65%) Marketing
6 26 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 23 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.17%) Retail
9 8 (2.56%) Legal
10 7 (2.24%) Banking
11 6 (1.92%) Games
12 5 (1.60%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Advertising
14 2 (0.64%) Front Office
14 2 (0.64%) Local Government
14 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.32%) Automotive
15 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 207 (66.35%) Developer
2 56 (17.95%) Senior
3 42 (13.46%) Senior Developer
4 34 (10.90%) PHP Developer
5 30 (9.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 28 (8.97%) .NET Developer
6 28 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (8.65%) Graduate
7 27 (8.65%) Graduate Developer
8 26 (8.33%) Software Developer
9 21 (6.73%) Designer
9 21 (6.73%) React Developer
10 20 (6.41%) Azure Developer
10 20 (6.41%) C# Developer
11 19 (6.09%) Software Engineer
12 17 (5.45%) Lead
12 17 (5.45%) SQL Developer
12 17 (5.45%) Support Engineer
13 16 (5.13%) Customer Support Engineer
13 16 (5.13%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (81.09%) HTML
2 118 (37.82%) React
3 94 (30.13%) .NET
4 45 (14.42%) ASP.NET
5 44 (14.10%) jQuery
6 40 (12.82%) HTML5
7 38 (12.18%) Node.js
8 37 (11.86%) CSS3
8 37 (11.86%) Vue
9 32 (10.26%) REST
10 31 (9.94%) AngularJS
11 30 (9.62%) .NET Core
12 29 (9.29%) Laravel
13 27 (8.65%) RESTful
14 23 (7.37%) Sass
15 18 (5.77%) JSON
16 16 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
16 16 (5.13%) Bootstrap
16 16 (5.13%) React Native
16 16 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.90%) Product Ownership
2 22 (7.05%) Mobile App
3 17 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.81%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.88%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.88%) Motion Graphics
6 6 (1.92%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.60%) Animation
7 5 (1.60%) CMDB
7 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.28%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.28%) PKI
9 3 (0.96%) Digital Signage
9 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.92%) Linux
2 3 (0.96%) Windows
3 2 (0.64%) Solaris
3 2 (0.64%) Unix
3 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (55.77%) Agile
2 81 (25.96%) Front End Development
2 81 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (23.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 73 (23.40%) User Experience
5 68 (21.79%) MVC
6 67 (21.47%) DevOps
7 64 (20.51%) CI/CD
8 54 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 49 (15.71%) Computer Science
10 47 (15.06%) OOP
11 41 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (12.50%) OO
13 38 (12.18%) Clean Code
14 37 (11.86%) Software Engineering
15 32 (10.26%) API Integration
15 32 (10.26%) Wireframes
16 30 (9.62%) Analytics
16 30 (9.62%) Web Development
17 28 (8.97%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 205 (65.71%) JavaScript
2 87 (27.88%) C#
3 83 (26.60%) SQL
4 70 (22.44%) TypeScript
5 62 (19.87%) PHP
6 42 (13.46%) Java
7 26 (8.33%) C++
7 26 (8.33%) Python
8 7 (2.24%) Ruby
9 4 (1.28%) Bash
9 4 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.28%) VB
10 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 79 (25.32%) Degree
2 47 (15.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 26 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.92%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (17.63%) Accessibility
2 28 (8.97%) QA
3 26 (8.33%) WCAG
4 4 (1.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (9.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (4.17%) Terraform
2 9 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.96%) cPanel
3 3 (0.96%) Plesk
4 2 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 49 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.01%) Adobe
3 23 (7.37%) Google
4 17 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.28%) Ahrefs
7 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.96%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.96%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle
7 3 (0.96%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (0.96%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.64%) ESRI
8 2 (0.64%) iManage
8 2 (0.64%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.32%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.32%) Instagram
9 1 (0.32%) Samsung
9 1 (0.32%) TikTok