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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 60 55
Rank change year-on-year -73 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing CSS 363 797 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 5.48% 4.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.85% 17.87% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 311 438 1,352
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,818 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -0.75%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £48,676 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +4.76% -7.89%

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 3,345 4,460 8,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.07% 30.68% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 3,044 7,517
10th Percentile £41,925 £39,075 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 14 May 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 29 (7.99%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.86%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) Drupal
3 4 (1.10%) IIS
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (0.55%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.55%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.38%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.28%) InVision
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
5 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.75%) Shopify
2 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (44.35%) Azure
2 104 (28.65%) AWS
3 68 (18.73%) GitHub
4 65 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (9.64%) Power Platform
6 32 (8.82%) SaaS
7 30 (8.26%) PowerApps
8 29 (7.99%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.06%) Azure AI
10 22 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
11 21 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (5.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.23%) Google Analytics
12 19 (5.23%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.41%) Figma
14 13 (3.58%) GCP
14 13 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) Internet
1 5 (1.38%) Intranet
2 2 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (20.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 69 (19.01%) SQL Server
3 52 (14.33%) MySQL
4 45 (12.40%) MongoDB
5 32 (8.82%) Power BI
6 21 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.38%) MariaDB
11 4 (1.10%) Metadata
11 4 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.83%) FileMaker
12 3 (0.83%) Looker
13 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.55%) GIS
13 2 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (18.73%) Git
2 15 (4.13%) JIRA
3 12 (3.31%) Axure RP
4 11 (3.03%) Balsamiq
5 10 (2.75%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.48%) webpack
7 8 (2.20%) Vite
8 7 (1.93%) Storybook
9 4 (1.10%) Babel
10 3 (0.83%) ESLint
10 3 (0.83%) GitLab
10 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.55%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.28%) Maven
12 1 (0.28%) Moq
12 1 (0.28%) MSTest
12 1 (0.28%) NUnit
12 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (12.95%) Finance
4 36 (9.92%) Law
5 23 (6.34%) Marketing
6 22 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.68%) Advertising
8 16 (4.41%) Legal
9 12 (3.31%) Games
10 7 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.83%) Local Government
14 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Retail
15 1 (0.28%) Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Digital Healthcare
15 1 (0.28%) iGaming
15 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 264 (72.73%) Developer
2 86 (23.69%) .NET Developer
3 52 (14.33%) Senior
4 51 (14.05%) C# Developer
5 50 (13.77%) C# Software Developer
6 42 (11.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (11.29%) PHP Developer
8 40 (11.02%) Senior Developer
8 40 (11.02%) Software Developer
9 33 (9.09%) Software Engineer
10 32 (8.82%) Graduate
11 29 (7.99%) Graduate Developer
12 28 (7.71%) Graduate C# Developer
12 28 (7.71%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 28 (7.71%) Graduate Software Developer
12 28 (7.71%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 28 (7.71%) SQL Developer
13 23 (6.34%) .NET Software Developer
13 23 (6.34%) Azure Developer
14 22 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (85.95%) HTML
2 151 (41.60%) .NET
3 100 (27.55%) React
4 81 (22.31%) .NET Core
5 65 (17.91%) ASP.NET
6 60 (16.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (15.70%) jQuery
8 53 (14.60%) Vue
9 45 (12.40%) HTML5
10 39 (10.74%) JSON
11 35 (9.64%) Entity Framework
11 35 (9.64%) RESTful
12 32 (8.82%) AngularJS
12 32 (8.82%) CSS3
12 32 (8.82%) Node.js
13 28 (7.71%) Laravel
14 24 (6.61%) HTML5 Canvas
15 23 (6.34%) React Native
16 22 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
16 22 (6.06%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (5.23%) Mobile App
3 19 (5.23%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.48%) Digital TV
5 9 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.93%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.93%) Podcast
8 6 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.83%) Blog
11 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.65%) Windows
2 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (43.25%) Agile
2 141 (38.84%) Full-Stack Development
3 118 (32.51%) CI/CD
4 86 (23.69%) DevOps
5 78 (21.49%) User Experience
6 66 (18.18%) AI
7 63 (17.36%) Front End Development
8 57 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (15.43%) Software Engineering
10 55 (15.15%) Mentoring
11 54 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (14.60%) Computer Science
13 51 (14.05%) OO
14 50 (13.77%) Clean Code
15 48 (13.22%) Machine Learning
16 45 (12.40%) MVC
17 43 (11.85%) Analytics
18 39 (10.74%) OOP
18 39 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
19 37 (10.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 189 (52.07%) SQL
2 183 (50.41%) JavaScript
3 166 (45.73%) C#
4 78 (21.49%) TypeScript
5 70 (19.28%) PHP
6 42 (11.57%) Java
7 30 (8.26%) Python
8 28 (7.71%) C++
9 26 (7.16%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.38%) Bash
11 5 (1.38%) Dart
12 4 (1.10%) VBA
12 4 (1.10%) VBScript
13 3 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.83%) VB
14 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.55%) Perl
14 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 69 (19.01%) Degree
2 45 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.61%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.51%) WCAG
3 11 (3.03%) QA
3 11 (3.03%) SLA
4 10 (2.75%) GDPR
5 7 (1.93%) GRC
5 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (12.67%) Docker
2 7 (1.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.93%) Terraform
3 5 (1.38%) Plesk
4 2 (0.55%) cPanel
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 129 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.37%) Adobe
3 22 (6.06%) Google
4 10 (2.75%) Facebook
5 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.65%) iManage
6 6 (1.65%) Oracle
6 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.65%) YouTube
7 3 (0.83%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.55%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.28%) Apple
9 1 (0.28%) DoubleClick
9 1 (0.28%) New Relic
9 1 (0.28%) Pardot
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.28%) Splunk
9 1 (0.28%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.28%) Zend