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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -65 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 328 586 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.81% 4.35% 4.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.32% 14.90% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 273 474 1,372
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -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 3,177 3,932 8,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.54% 29.21% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 3,187 7,513
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £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 £79,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,842 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -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 30 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 29 (8.84%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.96%) CMS
3 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 4 (1.22%) Drupal
3 4 (1.22%) IIS
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.22%) nginx
4 3 (0.91%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (4.57%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.52%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.61%) Sketch
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Shopify
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.30%) Magento
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (38.72%) Azure
2 103 (31.40%) AWS
3 51 (15.55%) GitHub
4 43 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.98%) Power Platform
6 34 (10.37%) SaaS
7 30 (9.15%) PowerApps
8 29 (8.84%) Power Automate
9 24 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (6.40%) Google Analytics
11 19 (5.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.79%) Figma
11 19 (5.79%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.88%) GCP
12 16 (4.88%) Serverless
13 10 (3.05%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.74%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Intranet
2 2 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) AMQP
3 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.87%) SQL Server
2 54 (16.46%) MySQL
3 33 (10.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 33 (10.06%) Power BI
4 14 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.52%) Metadata
9 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.91%) FileMaker
10 3 (0.91%) Looker
10 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.61%) Power Query
12 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (18.90%) Git
2 15 (4.57%) JIRA
3 14 (4.27%) Axure RP
4 13 (3.96%) Balsamiq
5 10 (3.05%) Cypress.io
5 10 (3.05%) webpack
6 8 (2.44%) Vite
7 7 (2.13%) Storybook
8 5 (1.52%) Babel
8 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.22%) GitLab
10 3 (0.91%) ESLint
11 2 (0.61%) Maven
11 2 (0.61%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.30%) Gradle
12 1 (0.30%) Moq
12 1 (0.30%) NUnit
General
1 103 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (14.63%) Finance
4 41 (12.50%) Law
5 26 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.40%) Marketing
8 17 (5.18%) Legal
9 6 (1.83%) Advertising
9 6 (1.83%) Games
9 6 (1.83%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Retail
11 3 (0.91%) Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.30%) iGaming
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 228 (69.51%) Developer
2 53 (16.16%) Senior
3 50 (15.24%) C# Developer
4 49 (14.94%) C# Software Developer
5 46 (14.02%) PHP Developer
6 45 (13.72%) Software Developer
7 42 (12.80%) .NET Developer
7 42 (12.80%) Senior Developer
8 38 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 34 (10.37%) Graduate
10 33 (10.06%) Graduate Developer
11 32 (9.76%) Graduate C# Developer
11 32 (9.76%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 32 (9.76%) Graduate Software Developer
11 32 (9.76%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 32 (9.76%) SQL Developer
12 27 (8.23%) Azure Developer
13 24 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 24 (7.32%) Software Engineer
14 22 (6.71%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (83.54%) HTML
2 110 (33.54%) .NET
3 107 (32.62%) React
4 56 (17.07%) jQuery
5 47 (14.33%) Vue
6 41 (12.50%) .NET Core
7 40 (12.20%) JSON
8 39 (11.89%) HTML5
9 30 (9.15%) CSS3
9 30 (9.15%) Laravel
10 29 (8.84%) AngularJS
11 28 (8.54%) RESTful
12 26 (7.93%) Node.js
13 25 (7.62%) ASP.NET
13 25 (7.62%) React Native
14 24 (7.32%) HTML5 Canvas
15 22 (6.71%) Microsoft Graph
15 22 (6.71%) SPFx
16 20 (6.10%) REST
17 18 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.40%) Mobile App
3 18 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.18%) Virtual Team
5 14 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.13%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.13%) Podcast
9 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.91%) Digital TV
11 3 (0.91%) Social Media
12 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.61%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 5 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (45.43%) Agile
2 92 (28.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 79 (24.09%) User Experience
4 77 (23.48%) CI/CD
5 72 (21.95%) DevOps
6 68 (20.73%) Front End Development
7 59 (17.99%) Mentoring
8 55 (16.77%) Computer Science
9 52 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (15.55%) MVC
11 49 (14.94%) Clean Code
12 47 (14.33%) AI
12 47 (14.33%) Software Engineering
13 45 (13.72%) OOP
14 43 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (12.50%) OO
16 40 (12.20%) Analytics
17 35 (10.67%) Microservices
17 35 (10.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 186 (56.71%) JavaScript
2 149 (45.43%) SQL
3 126 (38.41%) C#
4 79 (24.09%) TypeScript
5 72 (21.95%) PHP
6 46 (14.02%) Java
7 32 (9.76%) C++
8 31 (9.45%) Python
9 26 (7.93%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.52%) Bash
11 5 (1.52%) Dart
12 4 (1.22%) VBA
12 4 (1.22%) VBScript
13 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.91%) VB
14 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.61%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 74 (22.56%) Degree
2 49 (14.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.84%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.54%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.10%) WCAG
3 12 (3.66%) QA
4 11 (3.35%) SLA
5 10 (3.05%) GDPR
6 7 (2.13%) GRC
6 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.30%) HL7
9 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (8.84%) Docker
2 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.74%) Terraform
3 3 (0.91%) Plesk
4 2 (0.61%) Argo
4 2 (0.61%) cPanel
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 92 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.98%) Adobe
3 26 (7.93%) Google
4 10 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.83%) iManage
7 4 (1.22%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.61%) Facebook
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle
9 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.61%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.30%) Apple
10 1 (0.30%) DoubleClick
10 1 (0.30%) New Relic
10 1 (0.30%) Pardot
10 1 (0.30%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.30%) Splunk
10 1 (0.30%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.30%) Zend