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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 63 53
Rank change year-on-year -66 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing CSS 351 628 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.04% 4.86% 4.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.20% 15.25% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 283 506 1,396
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,763 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,253 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 3,133 4,117 8,667
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.19% 31.85% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 3,280 7,496
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,930 £39,622
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +10.35% -8.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 9 April 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 18 (5.13%) CMS
1 18 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.14%) Drupal
2 4 (1.14%) nginx
3 3 (0.85%) Confluence
3 3 (0.85%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.85%) WordPress
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) Mendix
4 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (4.84%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.28%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.85%) Sketch
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.28%) InVision
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Shopify
2 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.28%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.28%) Magento
4 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (37.61%) Azure
2 111 (31.62%) AWS
3 61 (17.38%) GitHub
4 45 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (11.40%) SaaS
6 25 (7.12%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.55%) Figma
7 23 (6.55%) Serverless
8 20 (5.70%) GCP
8 20 (5.70%) Google Analytics
9 19 (5.41%) PowerApps
10 18 (5.13%) Power Automate
11 15 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 10 (2.85%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.85%) OneDrive
14 9 (2.56%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) Intranet
2 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) AMQP
3 1 (0.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (20.80%) SQL Server
2 64 (18.23%) MySQL
3 23 (6.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (6.27%) Power BI
5 21 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.70%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.42%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.14%) Metadata
10 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.85%) FileMaker
10 3 (0.85%) Looker
10 3 (0.85%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.28%) GIS
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (20.80%) Git
2 16 (4.56%) JIRA
3 15 (4.27%) Axure RP
4 14 (3.99%) Balsamiq
5 13 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 13 (3.70%) webpack
6 10 (2.85%) Vite
7 7 (1.99%) Babel
7 7 (1.99%) Storybook
8 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.14%) GitLab
10 3 (0.85%) ESLint
10 3 (0.85%) git-flow
11 2 (0.57%) Maven
11 2 (0.57%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.28%) MSTest
12 1 (0.28%) NUnit
12 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (12.25%) Finance
4 41 (11.68%) Law
5 29 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.55%) Marketing
8 15 (4.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.71%) Advertising
9 6 (1.71%) Games
9 6 (1.71%) Retail
10 5 (1.42%) Banking
11 4 (1.14%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 240 (68.38%) Developer
2 58 (16.52%) Senior
3 48 (13.68%) PHP Developer
4 46 (13.11%) C# Developer
5 45 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 44 (12.54%) .NET Developer
7 43 (12.25%) C# Software Developer
8 42 (11.97%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (11.68%) Software Developer
10 32 (9.12%) Graduate
10 32 (9.12%) Graduate Developer
11 31 (8.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 31 (8.83%) Graduate Software Developer
11 31 (8.83%) SQL Developer
12 29 (8.26%) Graduate C# Developer
12 29 (8.26%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 29 (8.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 29 (8.26%) Software Engineer
13 27 (7.69%) Azure Developer
14 25 (7.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (82.05%) HTML
2 124 (35.33%) React
3 109 (31.05%) .NET
4 56 (15.95%) jQuery
5 50 (14.25%) Vue
6 39 (11.11%) HTML5
7 37 (10.54%) .NET Core
8 35 (9.97%) Laravel
9 33 (9.40%) AngularJS
10 31 (8.83%) CSS3
11 30 (8.55%) ASP.NET
11 30 (8.55%) Node.js
12 28 (7.98%) JSON
12 28 (7.98%) React Native
12 28 (7.98%) RESTful
13 23 (6.55%) REST
14 19 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
15 18 (5.13%) Sass
16 17 (4.84%) .NET Framework
16 17 (4.84%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.98%) Mobile App
3 20 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.27%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.56%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.99%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.99%) Podcast
9 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.14%) Social Media
10 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.85%) Animation
10 3 (0.85%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (49.00%) Agile
2 99 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 87 (24.79%) CI/CD
4 81 (23.08%) User Experience
5 80 (22.79%) DevOps
6 78 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 69 (19.66%) Mentoring
8 65 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (17.09%) Computer Science
10 58 (16.52%) MVC
11 55 (15.67%) Software Engineering
12 52 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (14.81%) OOP
13 50 (14.25%) Clean Code
14 48 (13.68%) AI
15 45 (12.82%) OO
16 41 (11.68%) Analytics
17 38 (10.83%) Wireframes
18 35 (9.97%) API Integration
18 35 (9.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 204 (58.12%) JavaScript
2 132 (37.61%) SQL
3 118 (33.62%) C#
4 80 (22.79%) TypeScript
5 77 (21.94%) PHP
6 45 (12.82%) Java
7 35 (9.97%) Python
8 31 (8.83%) C++
9 14 (3.99%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.42%) Bash
10 5 (1.42%) Dart
11 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.85%) Ruby
11 3 (0.85%) VB
12 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.57%) SOQL
12 2 (0.57%) SOSL
12 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 83 (23.65%) Degree
2 54 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.40%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.12%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.52%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.55%) WCAG
3 16 (4.56%) QA
4 9 (2.56%) SLA
5 8 (2.28%) GDPR
6 7 (1.99%) GRC
7 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (9.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.99%) Terraform
2 11 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.14%) Plesk
4 3 (0.85%) cPanel
5 2 (0.57%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 79 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.26%) Adobe
3 26 (7.41%) Google
4 11 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.42%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.85%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.85%) iManage
8 2 (0.57%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.57%) Facebook
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle
8 2 (0.57%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.57%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.57%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.28%) Apple
9 1 (0.28%) DoubleClick
9 1 (0.28%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.28%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.28%) Zend