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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 65 54
Rank change year-on-year -80 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing CSS 340 598 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.89% 4.48% 4.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.70% 14.88% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 279 481 1,383
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,250 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.92% +5.71% -8.70%

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 3,179 4,018 8,563
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.71% 30.11% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 3,226 7,512
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,300 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £98,722
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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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 24 April 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 26 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.82%) CMS
3 4 (1.18%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) Drupal
3 4 (1.18%) nginx
4 3 (0.88%) IIS
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.88%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (4.71%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.47%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.59%) Sketch
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.29%) InVision
6 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.94%) Shopify
2 4 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Magento
3 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (36.76%) Azure
2 104 (30.59%) AWS
3 53 (15.59%) GitHub
4 45 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.59%) SaaS
6 33 (9.71%) Power Platform
7 27 (7.94%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.65%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.47%) Google Analytics
10 21 (6.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (6.18%) Figma
11 20 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.00%) Serverless
14 16 (4.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.71%) GCP
14 16 (4.71%) OneDrive
15 10 (2.94%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.65%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) Intranet
2 2 (0.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
3 1 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.18%) SQL Server
2 56 (16.47%) MySQL
3 30 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (8.82%) Power BI
4 16 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.76%) Metadata
9 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.88%) FileMaker
10 3 (0.88%) Looker
10 3 (0.88%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.59%) Power Query
12 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (20.00%) Git
2 16 (4.71%) JIRA
3 15 (4.41%) Axure RP
4 14 (4.12%) Balsamiq
5 10 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 10 (2.94%) webpack
6 8 (2.35%) Vite
7 7 (2.06%) Storybook
8 5 (1.47%) Babel
8 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.18%) GitLab
10 3 (0.88%) ESLint
11 2 (0.59%) Maven
11 2 (0.59%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.29%) Gradle
12 1 (0.29%) NUnit
12 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (12.94%) Finance
4 42 (12.35%) Law
5 27 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.76%) Marketing
6 23 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.00%) Legal
8 6 (1.76%) Advertising
8 6 (1.76%) Games
8 6 (1.76%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.47%) Retail
10 4 (1.18%) Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.29%) iGaming
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 231 (67.94%) Developer
2 55 (16.18%) Senior
3 47 (13.82%) C# Developer
3 47 (13.82%) PHP Developer
4 46 (13.53%) C# Software Developer
5 42 (12.35%) .NET Developer
5 42 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 41 (12.06%) Software Developer
7 39 (11.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 31 (9.12%) Graduate
9 30 (8.82%) Graduate Developer
9 30 (8.82%) SQL Developer
10 29 (8.53%) Graduate C# Developer
10 29 (8.53%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 29 (8.53%) Graduate Software Developer
10 29 (8.53%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 28 (8.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 28 (8.24%) Software Engineer
12 27 (7.94%) Azure Developer
13 22 (6.47%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (83.82%) HTML
2 111 (32.65%) React
3 109 (32.06%) .NET
4 53 (15.59%) jQuery
5 49 (14.41%) Vue
6 40 (11.76%) HTML5
7 39 (11.47%) .NET Core
8 37 (10.88%) JSON
9 32 (9.41%) Laravel
10 31 (9.12%) AngularJS
10 31 (9.12%) CSS3
11 28 (8.24%) Node.js
11 28 (8.24%) RESTful
12 26 (7.65%) ASP.NET
12 26 (7.65%) React Native
13 21 (6.18%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.88%) REST
15 19 (5.59%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.59%) SPFx
16 18 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.76%) Mobile App
3 18 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.12%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.06%) Culture of Ownership
6 7 (2.06%) Podcast
7 6 (1.76%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.18%) Social Media
10 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.88%) Digital TV
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.94%) Linux
2 4 (1.18%) Windows
2 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (45.00%) Agile
2 95 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development
3 80 (23.53%) User Experience
4 77 (22.65%) CI/CD
5 74 (21.76%) DevOps
6 73 (21.47%) Front End Development
7 64 (18.82%) Mentoring
8 55 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (15.88%) Computer Science
10 53 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (15.29%) MVC
12 51 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 46 (13.53%) AI
13 46 (13.53%) Clean Code
14 45 (13.24%) OOP
15 41 (12.06%) Analytics
16 40 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (11.47%) OO
18 37 (10.88%) Wireframes
19 35 (10.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 197 (57.94%) JavaScript
2 144 (42.35%) SQL
3 120 (35.29%) C#
4 80 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 74 (21.76%) PHP
6 43 (12.65%) Java
7 29 (8.53%) C++
7 29 (8.53%) Python
8 22 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.47%) Bash
9 5 (1.47%) Dart
9 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.88%) VB
10 3 (0.88%) VBA
10 3 (0.88%) VBScript
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.59%) Ruby
11 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (22.06%) Degree
2 47 (13.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.59%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.47%) WCAG
3 12 (3.53%) QA
4 11 (3.24%) SLA
5 10 (2.94%) GDPR
6 7 (2.06%) GRC
7 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (8.82%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 10 (2.94%) Terraform
2 3 (0.88%) Plesk
3 2 (0.59%) Argo
3 2 (0.59%) cPanel
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.29%) Adobe
3 28 (8.24%) Google
4 10 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.47%) Hotjar
6 5 (1.47%) iManage
7 3 (0.88%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.59%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.59%) Facebook
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle
8 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.59%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.59%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.29%) Apple
9 1 (0.29%) DoubleClick
9 1 (0.29%) New Relic
9 1 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.29%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.29%) Zend