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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 69 55
Rank change year-on-year -62 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 372 731 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 5.02% 4.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.03% 17.32% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 319 383 1,349
10th Percentile £30,400 £25,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +7.62% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,950 £85,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £48,676 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +7.62% -5.73%

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 3,372 4,220 8,640
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.80% 29.00% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,441 2,800 7,565
10th Percentile £41,925 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,236 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,313 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

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

CSS
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

CSS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CSS over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

CSS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CSS
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 28 (7.53%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.49%) CMS
3 8 (2.15%) Confluence
4 6 (1.61%) IIS
4 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.08%) Drupal
6 3 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.69%) Adobe XD
2 9 (2.42%) Photoshop
3 8 (2.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (1.34%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (1.34%) InDesign
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) InVision
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Shopify
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (42.47%) Azure
2 104 (27.96%) AWS
3 71 (19.09%) GitHub
4 64 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 34 (9.14%) SaaS
7 28 (7.53%) Power Automate
7 28 (7.53%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (5.91%) Azure AI
10 22 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
11 21 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (5.65%) Figma
12 19 (5.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.11%) OneDrive
13 18 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.57%) Google Analytics
15 13 (3.49%) Serverless
16 12 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.34%) Internet
2 3 (0.81%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 70 (18.82%) SQL Server
3 52 (13.98%) MySQL
4 47 (12.63%) MongoDB
5 32 (8.60%) Power BI
6 24 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 21 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.42%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.34%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.08%) Metadata
12 4 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.81%) GIS
13 3 (0.81%) Looker
14 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.54%) FileMaker
14 2 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (18.55%) Git
2 20 (5.38%) JIRA
3 11 (2.96%) Cypress.io
4 10 (2.69%) Axure RP
5 9 (2.42%) Balsamiq
6 8 (2.15%) webpack
7 7 (1.88%) Storybook
7 7 (1.88%) Vite
8 3 (0.81%) Babel
8 3 (0.81%) ESLint
8 3 (0.81%) GitLab
8 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.54%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.27%) Ant
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) NUnit
10 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 115 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (12.90%) Finance
3 33 (8.87%) Law
4 31 (8.33%) Marketing
5 26 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.57%) Advertising
8 16 (4.30%) Legal
9 14 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.96%) Games
11 7 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.61%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.34%) Local Government
13 5 (1.34%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.81%) Retail
15 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.27%) Back Office
16 1 (0.27%) Banking
16 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 266 (71.51%) Developer
2 90 (24.19%) .NET Developer
3 53 (14.25%) Senior
4 52 (13.98%) C# Developer
5 51 (13.71%) C# Software Developer
6 43 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (11.02%) Senior Developer
8 38 (10.22%) PHP Developer
8 38 (10.22%) Software Engineer
9 37 (9.95%) Software Developer
10 30 (8.06%) Graduate
11 27 (7.26%) Graduate Developer
12 26 (6.99%) .NET Software Developer
12 26 (6.99%) Graduate C# Developer
12 26 (6.99%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 26 (6.99%) Graduate Software Developer
12 26 (6.99%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 26 (6.99%) SQL Developer
13 25 (6.72%) C# .NET Developer
13 25 (6.72%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (86.02%) HTML
2 152 (40.86%) .NET
3 95 (25.54%) React
4 81 (21.77%) .NET Core
5 67 (18.01%) ASP.NET
6 60 (16.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 58 (15.59%) jQuery
8 56 (15.05%) Vue
9 46 (12.37%) HTML5
10 37 (9.95%) JSON
11 36 (9.68%) RESTful
12 35 (9.41%) Entity Framework
13 32 (8.60%) AngularJS
14 31 (8.33%) CSS3
14 31 (8.33%) Node.js
15 26 (6.99%) REST
16 25 (6.72%) Laravel
17 24 (6.45%) HTML5 Canvas
18 22 (5.91%) Microsoft Graph
18 22 (5.91%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
1 20 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.11%) Virtual Team
3 18 (4.84%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.42%) Digital TV
6 9 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.88%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.88%) Podcast
7 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.88%) Social Media
8 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.34%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.08%) Blog
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.03%) Linux
2 9 (2.42%) Windows
2 9 (2.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (40.59%) Agile
2 144 (38.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 121 (32.53%) CI/CD
4 86 (23.12%) User Experience
5 84 (22.58%) DevOps
6 74 (19.89%) AI
7 63 (16.94%) Front End Development
8 62 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (15.86%) Software Engineering
10 53 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (13.44%) OO
12 49 (13.17%) Computer Science
13 48 (12.90%) Machine Learning
13 48 (12.90%) Mentoring
14 47 (12.63%) Clean Code
15 42 (11.29%) Analytics
16 41 (11.02%) SDLC
17 40 (10.75%) Microservices
17 40 (10.75%) MVC
18 38 (10.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 195 (52.42%) SQL
2 181 (48.66%) JavaScript
3 168 (45.16%) C#
4 76 (20.43%) TypeScript
5 67 (18.01%) PHP
6 40 (10.75%) Java
7 30 (8.06%) Python
8 28 (7.53%) PowerShell
9 26 (6.99%) C++
10 8 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.61%) VBA
11 6 (1.61%) VBScript
12 5 (1.34%) Dart
13 4 (1.08%) Bash
14 3 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.81%) Perl
14 3 (0.81%) VB
15 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 63 (16.94%) Degree
2 41 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.11%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.10%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.38%) WCAG
3 11 (2.96%) SLA
4 10 (2.69%) GDPR
5 9 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.42%) QA
6 7 (1.88%) GRC
7 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (13.17%) Docker
2 9 (2.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.88%) Terraform
3 3 (0.81%) Plesk
4 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 128 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.95%) Adobe
3 22 (5.91%) Google
4 10 (2.69%) Facebook
4 10 (2.69%) Oracle
5 8 (2.15%) iManage
6 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.61%) YouTube
8 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.54%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.54%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.27%) Apple
10 1 (0.27%) DoubleClick
10 1 (0.27%) New Relic
10 1 (0.27%) Pardot
10 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Splunk
10 1 (0.27%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.27%) Zend