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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 61 52
Rank change year-on-year -76 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing CSS 340 634 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.00% 4.93% 4.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.87% 15.29% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 274 513 1,401
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,600 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £53,064
% change year-on-year -18.18% +3.65% -7.72%

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 3,129 4,146 8,638
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.41% 32.21% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,268 3,299 7,482
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,190 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +10.37% -9.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 5 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 18 (5.29%) CMS
2 15 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.18%) Drupal
3 4 (1.18%) nginx
4 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.88%) WordPress
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) Mendix
5 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.35%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.18%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.88%) Sketch
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.29%) InVision
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Shopify
2 7 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (37.35%) Azure
2 109 (32.06%) AWS
3 61 (17.94%) GitHub
4 44 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (12.35%) SaaS
6 24 (7.06%) Serverless
7 22 (6.47%) Figma
8 21 (6.18%) GCP
9 20 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 19 (5.59%) Google Analytics
11 14 (4.12%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (3.82%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.94%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.65%) Vercel
15 8 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 8 (2.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) Intranet
2 3 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.71%) SQL Server
2 61 (17.94%) MySQL
3 20 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.00%) Power BI
5 13 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.88%) FileMaker
8 3 (0.88%) Looker
8 3 (0.88%) Metadata
9 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.59%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.29%) GIS
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (21.18%) Git
2 15 (4.41%) Axure RP
2 15 (4.41%) JIRA
3 14 (4.12%) Balsamiq
4 13 (3.82%) Cypress.io
4 13 (3.82%) webpack
5 10 (2.94%) Vite
6 7 (2.06%) Babel
6 7 (2.06%) Storybook
7 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.18%) git-flow
8 4 (1.18%) GitLab
9 3 (0.88%) ESLint
10 2 (0.59%) Maven
10 2 (0.59%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.29%) Moq
11 1 (0.29%) MSTest
11 1 (0.29%) NUnit
11 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (11.76%) Law
4 38 (11.18%) Finance
5 29 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.35%) Marketing
8 14 (4.12%) Legal
9 8 (2.35%) Retail
10 7 (2.06%) Banking
11 6 (1.76%) Advertising
11 6 (1.76%) Games
12 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
13 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 229 (67.35%) Developer
2 58 (17.06%) Senior
3 45 (13.24%) PHP Developer
4 44 (12.94%) .NET Developer
4 44 (12.94%) Senior Developer
5 43 (12.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (12.06%) C# Developer
7 38 (11.18%) C# Software Developer
8 36 (10.59%) Software Developer
9 31 (9.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 28 (8.24%) Graduate
10 28 (8.24%) Graduate Developer
11 27 (7.94%) Graduate Software Developer
11 27 (7.94%) Software Engineer
11 27 (7.94%) SQL Developer
12 25 (7.35%) Azure Developer
12 25 (7.35%) Graduate C# Developer
12 25 (7.35%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 25 (7.35%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 25 (7.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (82.65%) HTML
2 124 (36.47%) React
3 109 (32.06%) .NET
4 51 (15.00%) jQuery
5 48 (14.12%) Vue
6 37 (10.88%) HTML5
7 36 (10.59%) .NET Core
8 34 (10.00%) Laravel
9 32 (9.41%) AngularJS
10 31 (9.12%) ASP.NET
10 31 (9.12%) CSS3
11 30 (8.82%) Node.js
12 28 (8.24%) React Native
13 27 (7.94%) RESTful
14 24 (7.06%) JSON
15 23 (6.76%) REST
16 19 (5.59%) ASP.NET Core
17 18 (5.29%) Sass
18 17 (5.00%) .NET Framework
18 17 (5.00%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 28 (8.24%) Mobile App
3 21 (6.18%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.24%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.65%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.06%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.06%) Podcast
9 4 (1.18%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.88%) PKI
10 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.88%) Social Media
11 2 (0.59%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (49.71%) Agile
2 100 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 80 (23.53%) DevOps
5 78 (22.94%) User Experience
6 77 (22.65%) Front End Development
7 67 (19.71%) Mentoring
8 64 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (16.18%) Computer Science
9 55 (16.18%) MVC
10 53 (15.59%) Software Engineering
11 48 (14.12%) Clean Code
11 48 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (14.12%) OOP
12 47 (13.82%) AI
13 42 (12.35%) OO
14 40 (11.76%) Analytics
15 38 (11.18%) Wireframes
16 35 (10.29%) API Integration
16 35 (10.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 124 (36.47%) SQL
3 110 (32.35%) C#
4 79 (23.24%) TypeScript
5 71 (20.88%) PHP
6 41 (12.06%) Java
7 33 (9.71%) Python
8 27 (7.94%) C++
9 11 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.47%) Bash
10 5 (1.47%) Dart
11 3 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.88%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.59%) SOQL
12 2 (0.59%) SOSL
12 2 (0.59%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (23.82%) Degree
2 49 (14.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.18%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.76%) WCAG
3 16 (4.71%) QA
4 8 (2.35%) SLA
5 7 (2.06%) GDPR
5 7 (2.06%) GRC
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (4.12%) Terraform
2 11 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.88%) cPanel
3 3 (0.88%) Plesk
4 2 (0.59%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.94%) Adobe
3 25 (7.35%) Google
4 13 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.47%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.88%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.59%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.59%) Facebook
8 2 (0.59%) iManage
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle
8 2 (0.59%) OutSystems
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%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.29%) New Relic
9 1 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.29%) Zend