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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 87 65
Rank change year-on-year -57 -22 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 472 636 928
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.90% 3.77% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.59% 16.77% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 414 313 556
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year - +0.39% -5.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% -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 4,458 3,792 6,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 22.50% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 2,466 4,566
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%

CSS
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 4 October 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 33 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.39%) WordPress
3 14 (2.97%) IIS
4 8 (1.69%) CMS
5 7 (1.48%) Confluence
6 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.27%) Moodle
7 4 (0.85%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) ExpressionEngine
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (2.33%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.12%) Adobe After Effects
2 10 (2.12%) Adobe Illustrator
3 9 (1.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (1.69%) InDesign
5 6 (1.27%) Adobe XD
5 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.42%) Elementor
7 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Magento
2 2 (0.42%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 225 (47.67%) Azure
2 100 (21.19%) GitHub
3 88 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
4 85 (18.01%) AWS
5 75 (15.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 70 (14.83%) Azure AI
7 41 (8.69%) Power Platform
8 38 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (7.63%) Power Automate
9 36 (7.63%) PowerApps
10 27 (5.72%) Figma
11 22 (4.66%) Google Analytics
11 22 (4.66%) SaaS
12 16 (3.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.18%) Serverless
14 13 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.75%) Google Ads
15 12 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.03%) Internet
2 3 (0.64%) Intranet
2 3 (0.64%) SMS
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (33.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 134 (28.39%) MongoDB
3 67 (14.19%) SQL Server
4 50 (10.59%) MySQL
5 49 (10.38%) Relational Database
6 44 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (5.93%) Power BI
9 13 (2.75%) Metadata
10 11 (2.33%) NonStop SQL
10 11 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.64%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.42%) GIS
12 2 (0.42%) Power Query
13 1 (0.21%) Db2
13 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.21%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 66 (13.98%) Git
2 15 (3.18%) JIRA
3 6 (1.27%) Axure RP
3 6 (1.27%) Balsamiq
3 6 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.27%) GitLab
3 6 (1.27%) Storybook
4 5 (1.06%) Vite
5 4 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.85%) Postman
5 4 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.64%) webpack
7 2 (0.42%) Babel
7 2 (0.42%) Bower
7 2 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.42%) ESLint
8 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 103 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.35%) Marketing
3 54 (11.44%) Advertising
4 53 (11.23%) Finance
5 44 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (8.26%) Public Sector
8 29 (6.14%) Law
9 18 (3.81%) Games
9 18 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.75%) Multimedia
12 12 (2.54%) Legal
13 9 (1.91%) Local Government
14 6 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.27%) Publishing
15 3 (0.64%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 332 (70.34%) Developer
2 171 (36.23%) .NET Developer
3 85 (18.01%) Senior
4 63 (13.35%) Senior Developer
5 43 (9.11%) Software Engineer
6 34 (7.20%) C# Developer
7 30 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (6.36%) Software Developer
8 26 (5.51%) C# Software Developer
9 22 (4.66%) PHP Developer
10 20 (4.24%) Designer
11 19 (4.03%) Analyst
11 19 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 18 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.60%) .NET Software Developer
13 17 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
13 17 (3.60%) Graduate
13 17 (3.60%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 17 (3.60%) Web Developer
14 16 (3.39%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (90.25%) HTML
2 226 (47.88%) .NET
3 182 (38.56%) .NET Core
4 161 (34.11%) ASP.NET
5 152 (32.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 94 (19.92%) Entity Framework
7 88 (18.64%) React
8 70 (14.83%) ML.NET
9 63 (13.35%) Node.js
10 43 (9.11%) Vue
11 41 (8.69%) jQuery
12 35 (7.42%) HTML5
13 33 (6.99%) .NET Framework
13 33 (6.99%) RESTful
14 32 (6.78%) JSON
14 32 (6.78%) LINQ
15 29 (6.14%) HTML5 Canvas
15 29 (6.14%) REST
16 26 (5.51%) AngularJS
17 25 (5.30%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.90%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (4.03%) Digital TV
4 15 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.12%) Graphic Design
7 10 (2.12%) Social Media
7 10 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.48%) Blog
11 6 (1.27%) Animation
11 6 (1.27%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.27%) Learning Management System
12 5 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.06%) NHS
12 5 (1.06%) SCORM
12 5 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.51%) Windows
2 22 (4.66%) Windows Server
3 20 (4.24%) Linux
4 6 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (47.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 209 (44.28%) CI/CD
3 196 (41.53%) Agile
4 136 (28.81%) AI
5 118 (25.00%) DevOps
6 90 (19.07%) Machine Learning
7 85 (18.01%) User Experience
8 75 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (14.62%) Software Engineering
10 64 (13.56%) OO
11 54 (11.44%) Mentoring
12 43 (9.11%) Analytics
13 41 (8.69%) Web Development
14 40 (8.47%) Front End Development
15 38 (8.05%) UX Design
16 34 (7.20%) Clean Code
17 33 (6.99%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 33 (6.99%) OOP
17 33 (6.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 266 (56.36%) SQL
2 260 (55.08%) C#
3 199 (42.16%) JavaScript
4 72 (15.25%) TypeScript
5 49 (10.38%) PHP
6 28 (5.93%) Java
7 27 (5.72%) Python
8 22 (4.66%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.97%) C++
10 11 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.91%) Ruby
12 6 (1.27%) VBA
12 6 (1.27%) VBScript
13 5 (1.06%) Go
14 3 (0.64%) Perl
15 2 (0.42%) Bash
15 2 (0.42%) C
15 2 (0.42%) Dart
15 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (11.23%) Degree
2 33 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (15.68%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.32%) WCAG
3 21 (4.45%) GDPR
4 19 (4.03%) QA
5 10 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 105 (22.25%) Docker
2 9 (1.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 80 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.64%) Plesk
4 1 (0.21%) Argo
4 1 (0.21%) Consul
Vendors
1 225 (47.67%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.47%) Facebook
3 33 (6.99%) Adobe
4 28 (5.93%) Google
5 21 (4.45%) YouTube
6 9 (1.91%) Oracle
7 6 (1.27%) iManage
8 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.64%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.42%) Foundry
11 2 (0.42%) Sage
11 2 (0.42%) Sony
12 1 (0.21%) Braze
12 1 (0.21%) DoubleClick
12 1 (0.21%) HP
12 1 (0.21%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.21%) Optimizely