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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -55 0 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 369 943 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.42% 4.95% 5.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.41% 16.23% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 293 573 1,003
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% -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 2,752 5,811 6,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.04% 30.49% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 3,808 5,414
10th Percentile £39,777 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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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 3 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 28 (7.59%) CMS
2 15 (4.07%) WordPress
3 8 (2.17%) Confluence
3 8 (2.17%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.08%) Drupal
5 4 (1.08%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.54%) Mendix
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 16 (4.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 14 (3.79%) Adobe XD
3 9 (2.44%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (2.17%) Chatbot
5 7 (1.90%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.81%) InDesign
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.54%) Sketch
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.61%) Shopify
2 8 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Sage 1000
Cloud Services
1 144 (39.02%) Azure
2 66 (17.89%) AWS
3 41 (11.11%) GitHub
4 34 (9.21%) Serverless
5 32 (8.67%) Figma
5 32 (8.67%) SaaS
6 27 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (7.32%) Google Analytics
7 19 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (4.88%) GCP
9 14 (3.79%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.98%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.71%) Vercel
13 9 (2.44%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.44%) PowerApps
14 8 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.36%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) AMQP
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (22.76%) SQL Server
2 80 (21.68%) MySQL
3 27 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 25 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.69%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.17%) Redis
9 6 (1.63%) Power BI
10 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.36%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.08%) Metadata
11 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.81%) GIS
13 2 (0.54%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.54%) Looker
14 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 75 (20.33%) Git
2 21 (5.69%) Cypress.io
3 18 (4.88%) webpack
4 13 (3.52%) JIRA
5 12 (3.25%) Axure RP
6 11 (2.98%) Balsamiq
7 10 (2.71%) Babel
8 9 (2.44%) Visual Studio
9 8 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.90%) Jenkins
11 6 (1.63%) Vite
12 5 (1.36%) git-flow
12 5 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.08%) MSBuild
13 4 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.81%) GitLab
14 3 (0.81%) JMeter
14 3 (0.81%) Postman
14 3 (0.81%) Selenium
14 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 127 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.26%) Finance
3 47 (12.74%) Law
4 43 (11.65%) Marketing
5 41 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.88%) Retail
9 7 (1.90%) Banking
10 6 (1.63%) Games
10 6 (1.63%) Legal
11 5 (1.36%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.81%) Advertising
12 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Automotive
13 2 (0.54%) Front Office
13 2 (0.54%) Local Government
13 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 238 (64.50%) Developer
2 64 (17.34%) Senior
3 47 (12.74%) Senior Developer
4 43 (11.65%) Graduate
4 43 (11.65%) Graduate Developer
5 38 (10.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (9.76%) PHP Developer
7 34 (9.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 33 (8.94%) .NET Developer
9 31 (8.40%) IT Graduate
10 30 (8.13%) Software Developer
11 27 (7.32%) C# Developer
11 27 (7.32%) Designer
12 25 (6.78%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.69%) Azure Developer
13 21 (5.69%) React Developer
13 21 (5.69%) SQL Developer
14 18 (4.88%) Graduate C# Developer
15 17 (4.61%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 17 (4.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (81.03%) HTML
2 128 (34.69%) React
3 122 (33.06%) .NET
4 67 (18.16%) ASP.NET
5 59 (15.99%) jQuery
6 50 (13.55%) Node.js
7 46 (12.47%) AngularJS
8 45 (12.20%) HTML5
9 44 (11.92%) RESTful
10 42 (11.38%) CSS3
11 40 (10.84%) .NET Core
12 37 (10.03%) REST
13 33 (8.94%) Vue
14 31 (8.40%) JSON
15 28 (7.59%) GraphQL
16 26 (7.05%) Laravel
17 24 (6.50%) Jest
17 24 (6.50%) Sass
17 24 (6.50%) XML
18 23 (6.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.07%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.79%) Motion Graphics
5 12 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.90%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.90%) Social Media
9 6 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.36%) Animation
11 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.08%) CMDB
11 4 (1.08%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.08%) PKI
12 3 (0.81%) Digital Signage
12 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 2 (0.54%) Solaris
3 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (54.20%) Agile
2 119 (32.25%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 92 (24.93%) MVC
5 89 (24.12%) User Experience
6 85 (23.04%) Front End Development
7 67 (18.16%) Computer Science
8 64 (17.34%) DevOps
9 61 (16.53%) OOP
10 58 (15.72%) CI/CD
11 57 (15.45%) OO
12 53 (14.36%) Mentoring
13 51 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (11.65%) Software Engineering
15 39 (10.57%) Analytics
15 39 (10.57%) UX Design
16 38 (10.30%) Clean Code
17 37 (10.03%) Microservices
18 34 (9.21%) Web Development
19 32 (8.67%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 251 (68.02%) JavaScript
2 123 (33.33%) C#
3 99 (26.83%) SQL
4 90 (24.39%) TypeScript
5 77 (20.87%) PHP
6 56 (15.18%) Java
7 41 (11.11%) C++
8 29 (7.86%) Python
9 7 (1.90%) Ruby
10 3 (0.81%) Go
10 3 (0.81%) VB
11 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (27.91%) Degree
2 65 (17.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.50%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.63%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (18.70%) Accessibility
2 38 (10.30%) QA
3 24 (6.50%) WCAG
4 11 (2.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) HL7
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (9.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.71%) Terraform
2 7 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.81%) cPanel
3 3 (0.81%) Plesk
4 2 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 50 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.67%) Adobe
3 25 (6.78%) Google
4 20 (5.42%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.17%) Apple
7 7 (1.90%) Ahrefs
8 5 (1.36%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.81%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.54%) ESRI
10 2 (0.54%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle
10 2 (0.54%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) Sage
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) Samsung
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) Sybase