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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 62 51
Rank change year-on-year -77 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing CSS 343 634 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.00% 4.91% 4.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.90% 15.28% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 276 513 1,391
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 £67,313 £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 3,148 4,148 8,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.33% 32.15% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 3,301 7,449
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £39,658
25th Percentile £52,112 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,375 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +10.37% -9.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £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 7 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 (5.25%) CMS
2 16 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.17%) Drupal
3 4 (1.17%) nginx
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.87%) WordPress
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Mendix
5 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (4.96%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.33%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.87%) Sketch
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.29%) InVision
6 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.21%) Shopify
2 5 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (37.03%) Azure
2 107 (31.20%) AWS
3 62 (18.08%) GitHub
4 44 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (11.66%) SaaS
6 24 (7.00%) Serverless
7 22 (6.41%) Figma
7 22 (6.41%) Power Platform
8 21 (6.12%) GCP
9 19 (5.54%) Google Analytics
10 16 (4.66%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.37%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.92%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 9 (2.62%) OneDrive
15 9 (2.62%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) Intranet
2 3 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.53%) SQL Server
2 63 (18.37%) MySQL
3 22 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.83%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.54%) Power BI
7 13 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.79%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.17%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.87%) FileMaker
10 3 (0.87%) Looker
10 3 (0.87%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.87%) Metadata
11 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.29%) GIS
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (20.99%) Git
2 15 (4.37%) Axure RP
2 15 (4.37%) JIRA
3 14 (4.08%) Balsamiq
4 13 (3.79%) Cypress.io
4 13 (3.79%) webpack
5 10 (2.92%) Vite
6 7 (2.04%) Babel
6 7 (2.04%) Storybook
7 5 (1.46%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.17%) git-flow
8 4 (1.17%) GitLab
9 3 (0.87%) ESLint
10 2 (0.58%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.58%) 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 98 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (11.95%) Law
4 39 (11.37%) Finance
5 29 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.71%) Marketing
8 15 (4.37%) Legal
9 6 (1.75%) Advertising
9 6 (1.75%) Games
9 6 (1.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.46%) Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
12 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 233 (67.93%) Developer
2 58 (16.91%) Senior
3 46 (13.41%) PHP Developer
4 45 (13.12%) Senior Developer
5 44 (12.83%) .NET Developer
6 43 (12.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (11.95%) C# Developer
8 38 (11.08%) C# Software Developer
9 37 (10.79%) Software Developer
10 31 (9.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 28 (8.16%) Graduate
11 28 (8.16%) Graduate Developer
11 28 (8.16%) Software Engineer
12 27 (7.87%) Graduate Software Developer
12 27 (7.87%) SQL Developer
13 25 (7.29%) Azure Developer
13 25 (7.29%) Graduate C# Developer
13 25 (7.29%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 25 (7.29%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 25 (7.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (82.80%) HTML
2 125 (36.44%) React
3 108 (31.49%) .NET
4 52 (15.16%) jQuery
5 49 (14.29%) Vue
6 39 (11.37%) HTML5
7 37 (10.79%) .NET Core
8 35 (10.20%) Laravel
9 33 (9.62%) AngularJS
10 32 (9.33%) CSS3
11 31 (9.04%) ASP.NET
12 30 (8.75%) Node.js
13 28 (8.16%) React Native
13 28 (8.16%) RESTful
14 25 (7.29%) JSON
15 23 (6.71%) REST
16 19 (5.54%) ASP.NET Core
17 18 (5.25%) Sass
18 17 (4.96%) .NET Framework
18 17 (4.96%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.50%) Product Ownership
2 28 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 21 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.21%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.62%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.04%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.04%) Podcast
9 4 (1.17%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.87%) PKI
10 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.62%) Linux
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
2 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (49.27%) Agile
2 100 (29.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (25.66%) CI/CD
4 80 (23.32%) DevOps
5 79 (23.03%) User Experience
6 78 (22.74%) Front End Development
7 67 (19.53%) Mentoring
8 64 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (16.33%) Computer Science
10 55 (16.03%) MVC
11 54 (15.74%) Software Engineering
12 49 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (13.99%) Clean Code
13 48 (13.99%) OOP
14 47 (13.70%) AI
15 43 (12.54%) OO
16 40 (11.66%) Analytics
17 38 (11.08%) Wireframes
18 35 (10.20%) API Integration
18 35 (10.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 202 (58.89%) JavaScript
2 125 (36.44%) SQL
3 112 (32.65%) C#
4 80 (23.32%) TypeScript
5 73 (21.28%) PHP
6 41 (11.95%) Java
7 33 (9.62%) Python
8 27 (7.87%) C++
9 13 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.46%) Bash
10 5 (1.46%) Dart
11 3 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.87%) Ruby
11 3 (0.87%) VB
12 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.58%) SOQL
12 2 (0.58%) SOSL
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (23.32%) Degree
2 50 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.62%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.71%) WCAG
3 16 (4.66%) QA
4 8 (2.33%) SLA
5 7 (2.04%) GDPR
5 7 (2.04%) GRC
6 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (9.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (4.08%) Terraform
2 11 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.17%) Plesk
4 3 (0.87%) cPanel
5 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.16%) Adobe
3 25 (7.29%) Google
4 11 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.46%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.87%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.87%) iManage
8 2 (0.58%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.58%) Facebook
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 2 (0.58%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.58%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.58%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.29%) Apple
9 1 (0.29%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.29%) New Relic
9 1 (0.29%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.29%) Zend