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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 78 63
Rank change year-on-year -43 -15 -15
Permanent jobs citing CSS 520 744 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.34% 4.50% 3.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.57% 18.02% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 463 415 814
10th Percentile £29,350 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.90%

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 4,138 4,128 6,608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.63% 24.96% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 2,786 5,417
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +5.76% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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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 1 August 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 37 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.12%) CMS
3 9 (1.73%) IIS
3 9 (1.73%) WordPress
4 8 (1.54%) Confluence
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Moodle
8 2 (0.38%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) ExpressionEngine
9 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 9 (1.73%) Photoshop
2 8 (1.54%) Adobe After Effects
2 8 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (1.54%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.54%) InDesign
3 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Elementor
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 262 (50.38%) Azure
2 129 (24.81%) AWS
3 109 (20.96%) GitHub
4 101 (19.42%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (14.62%) GitHub Copilot
6 74 (14.23%) Azure AI
7 45 (8.65%) Power Platform
8 39 (7.50%) PowerApps
9 38 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (7.31%) SaaS
10 37 (7.12%) Power Automate
11 27 (5.19%) Figma
12 22 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (4.23%) Google Analytics
13 21 (4.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 20 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 19 (3.65%) OneDrive
16 18 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (2.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.65%) Internet
2 5 (0.96%) Intranet
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Broadband
4 1 (0.19%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (33.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 140 (26.92%) MongoDB
3 84 (16.15%) SQL Server
4 67 (12.88%) MySQL
5 36 (6.92%) Relational Database
6 35 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (6.54%) Power BI
8 32 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.12%) Metadata
9 11 (2.12%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.77%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.77%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.38%) GIS
13 2 (0.38%) Power Query
14 1 (0.19%) Looker
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (13.46%) Git
2 21 (4.04%) JIRA
3 12 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.73%) webpack
5 8 (1.54%) Axure RP
5 8 (1.54%) Balsamiq
6 7 (1.35%) Storybook
7 6 (1.15%) Vite
8 5 (0.96%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.58%) GitLab
10 3 (0.58%) Postman
11 2 (0.38%) Babel
11 2 (0.38%) Bower
12 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 65 (12.50%) Finance
3 60 (11.54%) Advertising
4 58 (11.15%) Marketing
5 43 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (6.73%) Law
8 26 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 19 (3.65%) Games
10 17 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.08%) Legal
12 13 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.92%) Multimedia
14 7 (1.35%) Legal Technology
15 6 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.15%) Local Government
16 4 (0.77%) Publishing
17 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.38%) Retail
18 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 382 (73.46%) Developer
2 192 (36.92%) .NET Developer
3 74 (14.23%) Senior
4 57 (10.96%) C# Developer
4 57 (10.96%) Senior Developer
5 53 (10.19%) C# Software Developer
6 45 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (8.65%) Software Engineer
7 44 (8.46%) PHP Developer
8 43 (8.27%) Software Developer
9 34 (6.54%) Graduate
10 29 (5.58%) C# Software Engineer
11 28 (5.38%) .NET Software Developer
12 27 (5.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 27 (5.19%) Graduate Developer
13 26 (5.00%) Graduate C# Developer
13 26 (5.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 26 (5.00%) Graduate Software Developer
13 26 (5.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 26 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (88.85%) HTML
2 261 (50.19%) .NET
3 188 (36.15%) .NET Core
4 169 (32.50%) ASP.NET
5 160 (30.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 103 (19.81%) React
7 92 (17.69%) Entity Framework
8 74 (14.23%) ML.NET
9 67 (12.88%) jQuery
10 58 (11.15%) Node.js
11 56 (10.77%) Vue
12 49 (9.42%) HTML5
13 38 (7.31%) JSON
14 35 (6.73%) CSS3
15 34 (6.54%) HTML5 Canvas
16 33 (6.35%) Microsoft Graph
16 33 (6.35%) RESTful
17 32 (6.15%) .NET Framework
17 32 (6.15%) AngularJS
17 32 (6.15%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.85%) Digital TV
3 20 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 14 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.12%) Social Media
7 9 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.54%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.35%) Culture of Ownership
9 7 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.35%) Podcast
10 5 (0.96%) Blog
10 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.42%) Windows
2 20 (3.85%) Linux
3 19 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (49.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 231 (44.42%) CI/CD
3 217 (41.73%) Agile
4 146 (28.08%) AI
5 126 (24.23%) DevOps
6 104 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 91 (17.50%) User Experience
8 78 (15.00%) OO
9 76 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (14.23%) Software Engineering
11 72 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (10.19%) Computer Science
13 51 (9.81%) MVC
14 50 (9.62%) Analytics
15 49 (9.42%) Front End Development
15 49 (9.42%) OOP
16 48 (9.23%) Mentoring
17 44 (8.46%) Clean Code
18 41 (7.88%) SDLC
19 40 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 317 (60.96%) SQL
2 300 (57.69%) C#
3 206 (39.62%) JavaScript
4 83 (15.96%) TypeScript
5 75 (14.42%) PHP
6 42 (8.08%) Java
7 33 (6.35%) Python
8 30 (5.77%) C++
8 30 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.15%) Dart
10 6 (1.15%) Ruby
10 6 (1.15%) VBA
10 6 (1.15%) VBScript
11 3 (0.58%) Perl
12 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.38%) Go
13 1 (0.19%) Bash
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (14.42%) Degree
2 42 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.35%) Accessibility
2 28 (5.38%) WCAG
3 21 (4.04%) GDPR
4 15 (2.88%) QA
5 11 (2.12%) SLA
6 10 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.35%) GRC
8 6 (1.15%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 104 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.73%) Terraform
3 3 (0.58%) Plesk
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 251 (48.27%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.08%) Facebook
3 39 (7.50%) Adobe
4 28 (5.38%) Google
5 21 (4.04%) YouTube
6 10 (1.92%) Oracle
7 6 (1.15%) iManage
8 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.58%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.38%) Foundry
10 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.38%) Sony
11 1 (0.19%) Apple
11 1 (0.19%) DoubleClick
11 1 (0.19%) Pardot
11 1 (0.19%) Sage
11 1 (0.19%) Splunk
11 1 (0.19%) Xamarin