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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 64 52
Rank change year-on-year -71 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing CSS 347 610 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.94% 4.57% 4.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.85% 15.02% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 281 488 1,380
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,088 £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 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £81,250
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 3,198 4,060 8,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.90% 30.43% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 3,247 7,466
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,690 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +10.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 21 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 24 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.03%) CMS
3 4 (1.15%) Drupal
3 4 (1.15%) nginx
4 3 (0.86%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) IIS
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.86%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.86%) WordPress
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) Mendix
Applications
1 17 (4.90%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.44%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.86%) Sketch
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.29%) InVision
5 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.17%) Shopify
2 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Magento
3 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.60%) Azure
2 108 (31.12%) AWS
3 59 (17.00%) GitHub
4 46 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (10.66%) SaaS
6 31 (8.93%) Power Platform
7 25 (7.20%) PowerApps
8 24 (6.92%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.34%) Figma
9 22 (6.34%) Google Analytics
10 21 (6.05%) Serverless
11 19 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (5.19%) GCP
12 18 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (4.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (4.03%) OneDrive
15 10 (2.88%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.59%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) Intranet
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
3 1 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 57 (16.43%) MySQL
3 28 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (8.07%) Power BI
4 17 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.73%) Metadata
9 5 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.86%) FileMaker
11 3 (0.86%) Looker
11 3 (0.86%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.58%) Power Query
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (20.17%) Git
2 15 (4.32%) Axure RP
2 15 (4.32%) JIRA
3 14 (4.03%) Balsamiq
4 11 (3.17%) Cypress.io
4 11 (3.17%) webpack
5 9 (2.59%) Vite
6 7 (2.02%) Storybook
7 5 (1.44%) Babel
7 5 (1.44%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.86%) ESLint
10 2 (0.58%) git-flow
10 2 (0.58%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.29%) MSTest
11 1 (0.29%) NUnit
11 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.97%) Finance
4 42 (12.10%) Law
5 26 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (6.92%) Marketing
6 24 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.90%) Legal
8 6 (1.73%) Advertising
8 6 (1.73%) Games
8 6 (1.73%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.44%) Retail
10 4 (1.15%) Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.29%) iGaming
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 233 (67.15%) Developer
2 55 (15.85%) Senior
3 47 (13.54%) PHP Developer
4 46 (13.26%) C# Developer
5 45 (12.97%) C# Software Developer
6 42 (12.10%) Senior Developer
6 42 (12.10%) Software Developer
7 41 (11.82%) .NET Developer
8 40 (11.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (9.22%) Graduate
10 31 (8.93%) Graduate Developer
10 31 (8.93%) SQL Developer
11 30 (8.65%) Graduate Software Developer
12 29 (8.36%) Graduate C# Developer
12 29 (8.36%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 29 (8.36%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 29 (8.36%) Software Engineer
13 28 (8.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 27 (7.78%) Azure Developer
15 24 (6.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (83.00%) HTML
2 116 (33.43%) React
3 109 (31.41%) .NET
4 54 (15.56%) jQuery
5 50 (14.41%) Vue
6 40 (11.53%) HTML5
7 38 (10.95%) .NET Core
8 35 (10.09%) JSON
9 32 (9.22%) AngularJS
9 32 (9.22%) Laravel
10 31 (8.93%) CSS3
11 29 (8.36%) Node.js
12 28 (8.07%) ASP.NET
12 28 (8.07%) RESTful
13 26 (7.49%) React Native
14 21 (6.05%) REST
15 19 (5.48%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (5.19%) ASP.NET Core
17 17 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
17 17 (4.90%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.63%) Mobile App
3 19 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.02%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (2.02%) Podcast
8 6 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.15%) Social Media
11 3 (0.86%) Animation
11 3 (0.86%) Digital TV
11 3 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.88%) Linux
2 4 (1.15%) Windows
2 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (46.40%) Agile
2 95 (27.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 81 (23.34%) CI/CD
4 80 (23.05%) User Experience
5 78 (22.48%) DevOps
6 73 (21.04%) Front End Development
7 68 (19.60%) Mentoring
8 59 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (15.85%) Computer Science
10 54 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (15.56%) MVC
11 52 (14.99%) Software Engineering
12 49 (14.12%) Clean Code
12 49 (14.12%) OOP
13 45 (12.97%) AI
14 42 (12.10%) Analytics
15 41 (11.82%) OO
16 39 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (10.66%) Wireframes
18 35 (10.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (57.64%) JavaScript
2 143 (41.21%) SQL
3 120 (34.58%) C#
4 80 (23.05%) TypeScript
5 75 (21.61%) PHP
6 44 (12.68%) Java
7 33 (9.51%) Python
8 30 (8.65%) C++
9 20 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.44%) Bash
10 5 (1.44%) Dart
10 5 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.86%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.86%) VB
11 3 (0.86%) VBA
11 3 (0.86%) VBScript
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (21.61%) Degree
2 48 (13.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.34%) WCAG
3 14 (4.03%) QA
4 11 (3.17%) SLA
5 10 (2.88%) GDPR
6 7 (2.02%) GRC
7 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (9.51%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.75%) Terraform
2 10 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.15%) Plesk
4 3 (0.86%) cPanel
5 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 85 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.51%) Adobe
3 28 (8.07%) Google
4 10 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.44%) Hotjar
6 5 (1.44%) iManage
7 3 (0.86%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.58%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.58%) Facebook
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.58%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.58%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.29%) Apple
9 1 (0.29%) DoubleClick
9 1 (0.29%) New Relic
9 1 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.29%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.29%) Zend