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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 78 62
Rank change year-on-year -41 -16 -10
Permanent jobs citing CSS 511 715 993
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.19% 4.36% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.40% 17.57% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 446 391 687
10th Percentile £31,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,149 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -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 4,481 4,070 6,897
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.18% 24.83% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 2,765 5,246
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,890 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +3.13% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 2 September 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 41 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.35%) IIS
2 12 (2.35%) WordPress
3 8 (1.57%) CMS
3 8 (1.57%) Confluence
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) Apache
5 4 (0.78%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 9 (1.76%) Photoshop
2 8 (1.57%) Adobe After Effects
2 8 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (1.57%) InDesign
3 7 (1.37%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Elementor
6 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.39%) Magento
2 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 253 (49.51%) Azure
2 114 (22.31%) AWS
3 111 (21.72%) GitHub
4 98 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (15.46%) GitHub Copilot
6 74 (14.48%) Azure AI
7 47 (9.20%) Power Platform
8 43 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (8.22%) Power Automate
9 42 (8.22%) PowerApps
10 31 (6.07%) SaaS
11 28 (5.48%) Figma
12 22 (4.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 21 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (4.11%) Google Analytics
14 20 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.72%) OneDrive
16 17 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 17 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.72%) Internet
2 5 (0.98%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) SMS
4 2 (0.39%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (34.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 139 (27.20%) MongoDB
3 76 (14.87%) SQL Server
4 60 (11.74%) MySQL
5 47 (9.20%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (6.65%) Power BI
8 32 (6.26%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.15%) Metadata
9 11 (2.15%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.39%) GIS
13 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.39%) Power Query
14 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 66 (12.92%) Git
2 20 (3.91%) JIRA
3 10 (1.96%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.76%) Storybook
5 7 (1.37%) Axure RP
5 7 (1.37%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.78%) GitLab
6 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Postman
7 3 (0.59%) Vite
7 3 (0.59%) webpack
8 2 (0.39%) Babel
8 2 (0.39%) Bower
8 2 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.20%) Ant
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Selenium
9 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 118 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.55%) Finance
2 59 (11.55%) Marketing
3 58 (11.35%) Advertising
4 50 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.63%) Law
6 39 (7.63%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.91%) Games
8 19 (3.72%) Legal
8 19 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.15%) Multimedia
11 9 (1.76%) Local Government
12 8 (1.57%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.37%) Legal Technology
14 6 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Publishing
16 2 (0.39%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 377 (73.78%) Developer
2 184 (36.01%) .NET Developer
3 88 (17.22%) Senior
4 71 (13.89%) Senior Developer
5 51 (9.98%) C# Developer
6 48 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 43 (8.41%) C# Software Developer
8 38 (7.44%) Software Developer
9 37 (7.24%) PHP Developer
10 35 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (5.09%) Graduate
12 25 (4.89%) .NET Software Developer
12 25 (4.89%) C# Software Engineer
13 24 (4.70%) C# .NET Developer
14 23 (4.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 21 (4.11%) Designer
16 20 (3.91%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (3.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 20 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (3.72%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (88.85%) HTML
2 250 (48.92%) .NET
3 195 (38.16%) .NET Core
4 170 (33.27%) ASP.NET
5 160 (31.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 103 (20.16%) React
7 95 (18.59%) Entity Framework
8 74 (14.48%) ML.NET
9 65 (12.72%) Node.js
10 55 (10.76%) jQuery
11 50 (9.78%) Vue
12 43 (8.41%) HTML5
13 41 (8.02%) JSON
14 37 (7.24%) HTML5 Canvas
15 34 (6.65%) Microsoft Graph
16 33 (6.46%) CSS3
17 32 (6.26%) .NET Framework
17 32 (6.26%) LINQ
18 31 (6.07%) RESTful
18 31 (6.07%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.41%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.91%) Digital TV
4 19 (3.72%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.54%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.96%) Social Media
9 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.57%) Graphic Design
11 7 (1.37%) Blog
11 7 (1.37%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.37%) Podcast
12 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.78%) Learning Management System
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.70%) Windows
2 20 (3.91%) Linux
2 20 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (48.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 230 (45.01%) CI/CD
3 219 (42.86%) Agile
4 142 (27.79%) AI
5 124 (24.27%) DevOps
6 101 (19.77%) Machine Learning
7 92 (18.00%) User Experience
8 87 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (16.63%) OO
10 80 (15.66%) Software Engineering
11 70 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (10.96%) Mentoring
13 48 (9.39%) Front End Development
14 47 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (8.61%) Clean Code
15 44 (8.61%) MVC
15 44 (8.61%) OOP
16 43 (8.41%) Analytics
16 43 (8.41%) Web Development
17 41 (8.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 302 (59.10%) SQL
2 290 (56.75%) C#
3 210 (41.10%) JavaScript
4 84 (16.44%) TypeScript
5 66 (12.92%) PHP
6 36 (7.05%) Java
7 34 (6.65%) Python
8 29 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.50%) C++
10 11 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.76%) Ruby
12 7 (1.37%) Dart
13 6 (1.17%) VBA
13 6 (1.17%) VBScript
14 5 (0.98%) Go
15 3 (0.59%) Perl
16 2 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 66 (12.92%) Degree
2 34 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.31%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.85%) WCAG
3 19 (3.72%) GDPR
4 16 (3.13%) QA
5 11 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.57%) SLA
7 7 (1.37%) GRC
8 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 107 (20.94%) Docker
2 9 (1.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.59%) Plesk
4 1 (0.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 253 (49.51%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.22%) Facebook
3 40 (7.83%) Adobe
4 26 (5.09%) Google
5 21 (4.11%) YouTube
6 9 (1.76%) Oracle
7 6 (1.17%) iManage
8 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.59%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.39%) Foundry
10 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.39%) Sage
10 2 (0.39%) Sony
11 1 (0.20%) Braze
11 1 (0.20%) DoubleClick
11 1 (0.20%) MuleSoft