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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 54 55
Rank change year-on-year -67 +1 -24
Permanent jobs citing CSS 347 894 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.26% 5.12% 5.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.61% 16.69% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 272 559 939
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,125 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +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 2,751 5,358 6,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.95% 30.69% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 3,517 5,153
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,688 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -0.47%

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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 19 December 2025.

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 25 (7.20%) CMS
2 11 (3.17%) WordPress
3 8 (2.31%) Headless CMS
4 7 (2.02%) Confluence
5 5 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.15%) Drupal
6 4 (1.15%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.86%) nginx
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.58%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.58%) Mendix
9 1 (0.29%) Apache
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.29%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 14 (4.03%) Adobe XD
2 12 (3.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (2.31%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.73%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (1.15%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.86%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.86%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.86%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) InVision
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.90%) Shopify
2 9 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 130 (37.46%) Azure
2 67 (19.31%) AWS
3 44 (12.68%) GitHub
4 34 (9.80%) Serverless
5 33 (9.51%) Figma
6 29 (8.36%) SaaS
7 28 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (7.20%) Google Analytics
9 17 (4.90%) GCP
10 15 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (3.17%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.59%) Vercel
14 8 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.31%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.86%) HTTP
2 2 (0.58%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (21.61%) MySQL
1 75 (21.61%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.78%) Relational Database
3 24 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.44%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.44%) Power BI
7 5 (1.44%) Redis
8 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.15%) Metadata
9 3 (0.86%) GIS
9 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.29%) FileMaker
10 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (21.61%) Git
2 17 (4.90%) Cypress.io
2 17 (4.90%) webpack
3 13 (3.75%) Axure RP
4 12 (3.46%) JIRA
5 11 (3.17%) Babel
5 11 (3.17%) Balsamiq
6 7 (2.02%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.73%) Vite
8 5 (1.44%) git-flow
8 5 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.15%) Storybook
10 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.86%) GitLab
10 3 (0.86%) JMeter
10 3 (0.86%) Postman
10 3 (0.86%) Selenium
10 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.54%) Law
3 44 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (12.68%) Finance
4 37 (10.66%) Marketing
5 27 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.61%) Retail
8 7 (2.02%) Banking
9 6 (1.73%) Games
9 6 (1.73%) Legal
10 5 (1.44%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Advertising
12 2 (0.58%) Front Office
12 2 (0.58%) Local Government
12 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.58%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 231 (66.57%) Developer
2 64 (18.44%) Senior
3 49 (14.12%) Senior Developer
4 38 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (10.09%) Graduate
5 35 (10.09%) Graduate Developer
5 35 (10.09%) PHP Developer
6 31 (8.93%) .NET Developer
6 31 (8.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 30 (8.65%) Software Developer
8 23 (6.63%) C# Developer
8 23 (6.63%) Designer
8 23 (6.63%) IT Graduate
9 21 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.76%) React Developer
11 18 (5.19%) Azure Developer
12 17 (4.90%) SQL Developer
13 16 (4.61%) Lead
14 15 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (4.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (81.56%) HTML
2 126 (36.31%) React
3 110 (31.70%) .NET
4 56 (16.14%) ASP.NET
5 51 (14.70%) jQuery
6 45 (12.97%) Node.js
7 44 (12.68%) RESTful
8 43 (12.39%) HTML5
9 39 (11.24%) AngularJS
9 39 (11.24%) CSS3
10 37 (10.66%) .NET Core
11 36 (10.37%) Vue
12 32 (9.22%) REST
13 29 (8.36%) Laravel
14 28 (8.07%) JSON
15 25 (7.20%) Sass
16 24 (6.92%) GraphQL
17 23 (6.63%) XML
18 20 (5.76%) .NET Framework
19 19 (5.48%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.36%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.19%) Mobile App
3 17 (4.90%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.46%) Motion Graphics
6 10 (2.88%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.73%) Digital TV
10 5 (1.44%) Animation
10 5 (1.44%) Social Media
11 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.15%) CMDB
11 4 (1.15%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.15%) PKI
12 3 (0.86%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.15%) Linux
2 3 (0.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Solaris
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
3 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (53.89%) Agile
2 107 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (26.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (24.21%) MVC
4 84 (24.21%) User Experience
5 81 (23.34%) Front End Development
6 63 (18.16%) DevOps
7 59 (17.00%) CI/CD
8 58 (16.71%) Computer Science
9 54 (15.56%) OOP
10 53 (15.27%) Mentoring
11 48 (13.83%) OO
12 42 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (11.53%) Clean Code
14 38 (10.95%) Analytics
14 38 (10.95%) Software Engineering
14 38 (10.95%) UX Design
15 34 (9.80%) Microservices
16 33 (9.51%) Web Development
17 28 (8.07%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 240 (69.16%) JavaScript
2 107 (30.84%) C#
3 92 (26.51%) SQL
4 82 (23.63%) TypeScript
5 70 (20.17%) PHP
6 48 (13.83%) Java
7 33 (9.51%) C++
8 28 (8.07%) Python
9 7 (2.02%) Ruby
10 3 (0.86%) Go
10 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.86%) VB
11 1 (0.29%) Bash
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (26.51%) Degree
2 56 (16.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.49%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.20%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.73%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (20.17%) Accessibility
2 33 (9.51%) QA
3 25 (7.20%) WCAG
4 7 (2.02%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (8.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.46%) Terraform
2 6 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.86%) cPanel
3 3 (0.86%) Plesk
4 2 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.07%) Adobe
3 23 (6.63%) Google
4 21 (6.05%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.31%) Apple
7 6 (1.73%) Ahrefs
8 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.86%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.86%) Oracle
8 3 (0.86%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (0.58%) ESRI
9 2 (0.58%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.58%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Samsung
9 2 (0.58%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.29%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.29%) WooCommerce