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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 57 55
Rank change year-on-year -70 -2 -17
Permanent jobs citing CSS 337 869 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 5.08% 5.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.31% 16.65% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 265 537 978
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £84,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -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 2,737 5,218 6,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.01% 30.53% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,142 3,371 5,322
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £50,227 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 30 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 23 (6.82%) CMS
2 9 (2.67%) WordPress
3 8 (2.37%) Confluence
4 6 (1.78%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.19%) nginx
6 4 (1.19%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.89%) Drupal
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.59%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.59%) Mendix
9 1 (0.30%) Apache
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.30%) IIS
9 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 14 (4.15%) Adobe XD
2 11 (3.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (2.37%) Chatbot
4 7 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.48%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.89%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.89%) Sketch
7 1 (0.30%) InVision
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.75%) Shopify
2 9 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) Magento
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 130 (38.58%) Azure
2 67 (19.88%) AWS
3 48 (14.24%) GitHub
4 34 (10.09%) Serverless
5 31 (9.20%) Figma
6 29 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (8.61%) SaaS
7 21 (6.23%) Google Analytics
8 18 (5.34%) GCP
9 13 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (3.26%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.67%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.37%) PowerApps
14 7 (2.08%) Vercel
15 6 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) HTTP
2 2 (0.59%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) AMQP
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.26%) MySQL
2 74 (21.96%) SQL Server
3 27 (8.01%) Relational Database
4 24 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (6.23%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.48%) Power BI
9 4 (1.19%) Metadata
9 4 (1.19%) Redis
10 3 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.89%) GIS
10 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (21.96%) Git
2 16 (4.75%) Cypress.io
3 15 (4.45%) webpack
4 13 (3.86%) Axure RP
4 13 (3.86%) JIRA
5 11 (3.26%) Balsamiq
6 9 (2.67%) Babel
7 7 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.08%) Vite
8 5 (1.48%) git-flow
8 5 (1.48%) Storybook
8 5 (1.48%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.89%) GitLab
9 3 (0.89%) JMeter
9 3 (0.89%) Postman
9 3 (0.89%) Selenium
9 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (13.06%) Law
4 42 (12.46%) Finance
5 31 (9.20%) Marketing
6 27 (8.01%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.45%) Retail
9 7 (2.08%) Banking
9 7 (2.08%) Legal
10 6 (1.78%) Games
11 5 (1.48%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Advertising
13 2 (0.59%) Front Office
13 2 (0.59%) Local Government
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 226 (67.06%) Developer
2 63 (18.69%) Senior
3 48 (14.24%) Senior Developer
4 36 (10.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (10.39%) Graduate
5 35 (10.39%) Graduate Developer
6 34 (10.09%) PHP Developer
7 32 (9.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 30 (8.90%) .NET Developer
8 30 (8.90%) Software Developer
9 23 (6.82%) C# Developer
9 23 (6.82%) IT Graduate
10 22 (6.53%) Designer
11 20 (5.93%) React Developer
11 20 (5.93%) Software Engineer
12 18 (5.34%) Azure Developer
13 17 (5.04%) Lead
13 17 (5.04%) SQL Developer
13 17 (5.04%) Support Engineer
14 16 (4.75%) Customer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (79.82%) HTML
2 124 (36.80%) React
3 109 (32.34%) .NET
4 55 (16.32%) ASP.NET
5 51 (15.13%) jQuery
6 44 (13.06%) Node.js
7 42 (12.46%) HTML5
8 39 (11.57%) AngularJS
8 39 (11.57%) RESTful
9 38 (11.28%) CSS3
10 37 (10.98%) Vue
11 36 (10.68%) .NET Core
12 32 (9.50%) REST
13 29 (8.61%) Laravel
14 25 (7.42%) Sass
15 22 (6.53%) GraphQL
15 22 (6.53%) JSON
16 19 (5.64%) .NET Framework
16 19 (5.64%) XML
17 18 (5.34%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.64%) Mobile App
3 18 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.45%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.26%) Motion Graphics
6 10 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.67%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.78%) Digital TV
10 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.48%) Animation
10 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.19%) CMDB
11 4 (1.19%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.19%) PKI
11 4 (1.19%) Social Media
12 3 (0.89%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.48%) Linux
2 3 (0.89%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) Solaris
3 2 (0.59%) Unix
3 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (54.60%) Agile
2 102 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (25.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 82 (24.33%) MVC
5 81 (24.04%) Front End Development
6 79 (23.44%) User Experience
7 65 (19.29%) DevOps
8 61 (18.10%) CI/CD
9 58 (17.21%) Computer Science
10 54 (16.02%) Mentoring
10 54 (16.02%) OOP
11 47 (13.95%) OO
12 44 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.28%) Software Engineering
14 37 (10.98%) Clean Code
15 36 (10.68%) Analytics
16 34 (10.09%) UX Design
17 32 (9.50%) Web Development
18 31 (9.20%) Microservices
19 30 (8.90%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 226 (67.06%) JavaScript
2 105 (31.16%) C#
3 90 (26.71%) SQL
4 80 (23.74%) TypeScript
5 70 (20.77%) PHP
6 47 (13.95%) Java
7 33 (9.79%) C++
8 26 (7.72%) Python
9 7 (2.08%) Ruby
10 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.89%) VB
12 2 (0.59%) Bash
13 1 (0.30%) Go
13 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) Perl
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 91 (27.00%) Degree
2 56 (16.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.72%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.42%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (18.99%) Accessibility
2 31 (9.20%) QA
3 25 (7.42%) WCAG
4 5 (1.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (8.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.56%) Terraform
2 6 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.89%) cPanel
3 3 (0.89%) Plesk
4 2 (0.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.01%) Adobe
3 22 (6.53%) Google
4 18 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.78%) Apple
7 5 (1.48%) Ahrefs
8 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.89%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle
8 3 (0.89%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (0.89%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.59%) ESRI
9 2 (0.59%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.59%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) Samsung
10 1 (0.30%) Instagram
10 1 (0.30%) WooCommerce