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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 80 63
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 -12
Permanent jobs citing CSS 517 728 994
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.23% 4.40% 4.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.48% 17.70% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 452 400 721
10th Percentile £30,750 £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% -5.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.39% -4.72%

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 4,505 4,112 6,970
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.45% 24.85% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 2,787 5,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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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 25 August 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 38 (7.35%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.13%) WordPress
3 10 (1.93%) IIS
4 8 (1.55%) CMS
4 8 (1.55%) Confluence
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
6 4 (0.77%) Moodle
7 1 (0.19%) ExpressionEngine
7 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 9 (1.74%) Photoshop
2 8 (1.55%) Adobe After Effects
2 8 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (1.55%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.55%) InDesign
3 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Elementor
5 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.39%) Magento
2 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 257 (49.71%) Azure
2 121 (23.40%) AWS
3 112 (21.66%) GitHub
4 100 (19.34%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (15.28%) GitHub Copilot
6 74 (14.31%) Azure AI
7 44 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 40 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (7.54%) Power Automate
9 39 (7.54%) PowerApps
10 33 (6.38%) SaaS
11 29 (5.61%) Figma
12 22 (4.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 22 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (4.26%) Google Analytics
13 20 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.68%) OneDrive
15 18 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (3.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.68%) Internet
2 5 (0.97%) Intranet
3 3 (0.58%) SMS
4 2 (0.39%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (33.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 139 (26.89%) MongoDB
3 81 (15.67%) SQL Server
4 66 (12.77%) MySQL
5 45 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (6.00%) Power BI
8 11 (2.13%) Metadata
8 11 (2.13%) NonStop SQL
8 11 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.77%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.39%) GIS
12 2 (0.39%) Power Query
13 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 69 (13.35%) Git
2 21 (4.06%) JIRA
3 11 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.74%) Storybook
5 8 (1.55%) Axure RP
5 8 (1.55%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.77%) GitLab
6 4 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.77%) Vite
6 4 (0.77%) webpack
7 3 (0.58%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) Bower
8 2 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.19%) Ant
9 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 119 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 64 (12.38%) Finance
3 60 (11.61%) Marketing
4 59 (11.41%) Advertising
5 50 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (7.74%) Law
8 37 (7.16%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.87%) Games
10 19 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (3.48%) Legal
12 15 (2.90%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.13%) Multimedia
14 9 (1.74%) Local Government
15 8 (1.55%) Health Technology
16 7 (1.35%) Legal Technology
17 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.58%) Publishing
19 2 (0.39%) Retail
19 2 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 378 (73.11%) Developer
2 187 (36.17%) .NET Developer
3 85 (16.44%) Senior
4 68 (13.15%) Senior Developer
5 56 (10.83%) C# Developer
6 50 (9.67%) Software Engineer
7 48 (9.28%) C# Software Developer
8 41 (7.93%) Software Developer
9 40 (7.74%) PHP Developer
10 39 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (5.61%) Graduate
12 27 (5.22%) .NET Software Developer
12 27 (5.22%) C# Software Engineer
13 26 (5.03%) C# .NET Developer
14 22 (4.26%) Designer
14 22 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 22 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (4.26%) Graduate C# Software Developer
14 22 (4.26%) Graduate Developer
14 22 (4.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (88.20%) HTML
2 256 (49.52%) .NET
3 195 (37.72%) .NET Core
4 170 (32.88%) ASP.NET
5 160 (30.95%) ASP.NET Core
6 105 (20.31%) React
7 95 (18.38%) Entity Framework
8 74 (14.31%) ML.NET
9 62 (11.99%) Node.js
10 58 (11.22%) jQuery
11 53 (10.25%) Vue
12 42 (8.12%) HTML5
13 39 (7.54%) JSON
14 36 (6.96%) HTML5 Canvas
15 34 (6.58%) Microsoft Graph
16 33 (6.38%) .NET Framework
17 32 (6.19%) CSS3
17 32 (6.19%) LINQ
18 31 (6.00%) SPFx
19 30 (5.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.93%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.87%) Digital TV
4 19 (3.68%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.32%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.93%) Social Media
9 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.55%) Graphic Design
11 7 (1.35%) Blog
11 7 (1.35%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.35%) Podcast
12 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.77%) CMDB
13 4 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.45%) Windows
2 21 (4.06%) Linux
3 19 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (48.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 234 (45.26%) CI/CD
3 224 (43.33%) Agile
4 142 (27.47%) AI
5 126 (24.37%) DevOps
6 102 (19.73%) Machine Learning
7 90 (17.41%) User Experience
8 85 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (16.44%) OO
9 83 (16.05%) Software Engineering
10 73 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (10.64%) Mentoring
12 49 (9.48%) OOP
13 47 (9.09%) Clean Code
13 47 (9.09%) MVC
14 45 (8.70%) Analytics
14 45 (8.70%) Front End Development
15 44 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (8.32%) Computer Science
16 43 (8.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 307 (59.38%) SQL
2 296 (57.25%) C#
3 207 (40.04%) JavaScript
4 82 (15.86%) TypeScript
5 68 (13.15%) PHP
6 41 (7.93%) Java
7 34 (6.58%) Python
8 30 (5.80%) PowerShell
9 26 (5.03%) C++
10 11 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.74%) Ruby
12 7 (1.35%) Dart
13 6 (1.16%) VBA
13 6 (1.16%) VBScript
14 5 (0.97%) Go
15 3 (0.58%) Perl
16 2 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 71 (13.73%) Degree
2 36 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 27 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 33 (6.38%) WCAG
3 19 (3.68%) GDPR
4 16 (3.09%) QA
5 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.93%) SLA
7 7 (1.35%) GRC
8 4 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.58%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 107 (20.70%) Docker
2 10 (1.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.58%) Plesk
4 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 250 (48.36%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.12%) Facebook
3 41 (7.93%) Adobe
4 27 (5.22%) Google
5 21 (4.06%) YouTube
6 10 (1.93%) Oracle
7 6 (1.16%) iManage
7 6 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.58%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.58%) 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 (0.19%) Braze
11 1 (0.19%) DoubleClick
11 1 (0.19%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.19%) Splunk