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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 57 54
Rank change year-on-year -80 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing CSS 351 782 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 5.44% 4.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.72% 18.37% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 297 456 1,370
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,818 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -0.75%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -7.98%

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 3,273 4,257 8,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.85% 29.62% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,362 3,141 7,516
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 9 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 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.99%) CMS
3 4 (1.14%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) Drupal
3 4 (1.14%) IIS
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.14%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.85%) 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 (2.85%) Shopify
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.28%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (42.74%) Azure
2 105 (29.91%) AWS
3 63 (17.95%) GitHub
4 58 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 33 (9.40%) SaaS
7 30 (8.55%) PowerApps
8 29 (8.26%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.41%) Google Analytics
11 19 (5.41%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.56%) Figma
12 16 (4.56%) GCP
13 15 (4.27%) Serverless
14 14 (3.99%) Azure AI
14 14 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.42%) Intranet
2 2 (0.57%) HTTP
2 2 (0.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) AMQP
3 1 (0.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (20.23%) SQL Server
2 58 (16.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (14.81%) MySQL
4 33 (9.40%) Power BI
5 32 (9.12%) MongoDB
6 22 (6.27%) Relational Database
7 19 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.85%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.42%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.14%) Metadata
10 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.85%) FileMaker
11 3 (0.85%) Looker
11 3 (0.85%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.57%) GIS
12 2 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (19.09%) Git
2 15 (4.27%) JIRA
3 12 (3.42%) Axure RP
4 11 (3.13%) Balsamiq
5 9 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.56%) webpack
6 8 (2.28%) Vite
7 7 (1.99%) Storybook
8 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.14%) Babel
9 4 (1.14%) GitLab
10 3 (0.85%) ESLint
11 2 (0.57%) Maven
11 2 (0.57%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.28%) Moq
12 1 (0.28%) MSTest
12 1 (0.28%) NUnit
12 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 107 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (13.39%) Finance
4 36 (10.26%) Law
5 22 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.27%) Marketing
5 22 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.56%) Legal
7 14 (3.99%) Advertising
8 10 (2.85%) Games
9 7 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.71%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Retail
12 2 (0.57%) Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 252 (71.79%) Developer
2 70 (19.94%) .NET Developer
3 55 (15.67%) Senior
4 49 (13.96%) C# Developer
5 48 (13.68%) C# Software Developer
6 42 (11.97%) Senior Developer
7 41 (11.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (11.68%) PHP Developer
7 41 (11.68%) Software Developer
8 31 (8.83%) Graduate
9 30 (8.55%) Software Engineer
10 29 (8.26%) Graduate Developer
11 28 (7.98%) Graduate C# Developer
11 28 (7.98%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 28 (7.98%) Graduate Software Developer
11 28 (7.98%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 28 (7.98%) SQL Developer
12 23 (6.55%) Azure Developer
13 21 (5.98%) .NET Software Developer
13 21 (5.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (85.75%) HTML
2 137 (39.03%) .NET
3 104 (29.63%) React
4 66 (18.80%) .NET Core
5 58 (16.52%) jQuery
6 53 (15.10%) Vue
7 51 (14.53%) ASP.NET
8 45 (12.82%) HTML5
9 44 (12.54%) ASP.NET Core
10 39 (11.11%) JSON
11 34 (9.69%) RESTful
12 33 (9.40%) AngularJS
13 32 (9.12%) CSS3
14 29 (8.26%) Node.js
15 28 (7.98%) Entity Framework
15 28 (7.98%) Laravel
16 24 (6.84%) HTML5 Canvas
16 24 (6.84%) React Native
16 24 (6.84%) REST
17 22 (6.27%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.70%) Mobile App
3 19 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.99%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.99%) Digital TV
7 7 (1.99%) Podcast
8 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.70%) Linux
2 5 (1.42%) Windows
2 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (44.44%) Agile
2 126 (35.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 103 (29.34%) CI/CD
4 82 (23.36%) DevOps
5 77 (21.94%) User Experience
6 65 (18.52%) Front End Development
7 59 (16.81%) AI
8 56 (15.95%) Mentoring
9 55 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (15.10%) Computer Science
10 53 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (15.10%) Software Engineering
11 50 (14.25%) Clean Code
12 47 (13.39%) OO
13 46 (13.11%) MVC
14 42 (11.97%) Analytics
15 40 (11.40%) OOP
16 39 (11.11%) Machine Learning
16 39 (11.11%) Microservices
16 39 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 187 (53.28%) JavaScript
2 176 (50.14%) SQL
3 151 (43.02%) C#
4 79 (22.51%) TypeScript
5 70 (19.94%) PHP
6 44 (12.54%) Java
7 33 (9.40%) Python
8 28 (7.98%) C++
9 26 (7.41%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.42%) Bash
11 5 (1.42%) Dart
12 4 (1.14%) VBA
12 4 (1.14%) VBScript
13 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.85%) VB
14 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.57%) Ruby
14 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (19.94%) Degree
2 46 (13.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.12%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 19 (5.41%) WCAG
3 12 (3.42%) QA
4 11 (3.13%) SLA
5 10 (2.85%) GDPR
6 7 (1.99%) GRC
6 7 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (11.68%) Docker
2 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.42%) Plesk
4 2 (0.57%) Argo
4 2 (0.57%) cPanel
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 114 (32.48%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.69%) Adobe
3 23 (6.55%) Google
4 8 (2.28%) Facebook
4 8 (2.28%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.71%) iManage
6 6 (1.71%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) YouTube
8 3 (0.85%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.57%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.28%) Apple
10 1 (0.28%) DoubleClick
10 1 (0.28%) New Relic
10 1 (0.28%) Pardot
10 1 (0.28%) Splunk
10 1 (0.28%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.28%) Zend