CSS Job Trends in the North West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 -30
Permanent jobs citing CSS 106 270 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.01% 4.37% 4.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.99% 24.73% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 94 149 129
10th Percentile - - £34,900
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,438 £59,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £67,500 £78,033
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 505 1,092 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.59% 17.66% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 417 672 742
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,909 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,013 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

CSS job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CSS

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the North West over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CSS in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -25 70 £47,500 -9.52% 70
Merseyside -21 19 £30,500 -6.15% 20
Cheshire -21 11 £57,500 +64.29% 23
Lancashire -10 6 £45,000 -18.18% 51
CSS
England

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (10.38%) WordPress
2 4 (3.77%) CMS
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.83%) Sketch
3 1 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.94%) InVision
3 1 (0.94%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (53.77%) Azure
2 52 (49.06%) AWS
3 43 (40.57%) GitHub
4 5 (4.72%) GCP
5 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.83%) Figma
5 3 (2.83%) SaaS
6 2 (1.89%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.94%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.94%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.94%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.94%) Kontent
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) npm
7 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (35.85%) Internet
2 4 (3.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.26%) MySQL
2 11 (10.38%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.77%) Redis
5 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.89%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (61.32%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) Cypress.io
2 6 (5.66%) JIRA
3 5 (4.72%) JUnit
4 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) webpack
6 2 (1.89%) Babel
6 2 (1.89%) Maven
6 2 (1.89%) Selenium
7 1 (0.94%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.94%) GitLab
7 1 (0.94%) Mockito
7 1 (0.94%) Protractor
7 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (35.85%) Multimedia
2 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Finance
4 6 (5.66%) Marketing
5 5 (4.72%) Games
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Automotive
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (65.09%) Developer
2 38 (35.85%) Trainee
3 25 (23.58%) Software Developer
4 17 (16.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 17 (16.04%) Trainee Developer
4 17 (16.04%) Trainee Software Developer
5 14 (13.21%) Senior
6 12 (11.32%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.55%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.55%) PHP Developer
7 8 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Administrator
8 7 (6.60%) Trainee Administrator
8 7 (6.60%) Web Administrator
9 5 (4.72%) Lead
9 5 (4.72%) React Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (96.23%) HTML
2 38 (35.85%) React
3 18 (16.98%) .NET
4 14 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 13 (12.26%) CSS3
5 13 (12.26%) RESTful
6 12 (11.32%) HTML5
7 11 (10.38%) Node.js
8 10 (9.43%) REST
9 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET
9 9 (8.49%) Laravel
10 8 (7.55%) Vue
11 7 (6.60%) Jest
11 7 (6.60%) jQuery
12 6 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.66%) Spring Boot
12 6 (5.66%) Web Services
12 6 (5.66%) WebSockets
13 5 (4.72%) .NET Framework
13 5 (4.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.83%) Social Media
4 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.89%) Animation
4 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.89%) NHS
4 2 (1.89%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.89%) Online Games
5 1 (0.94%) Life Science
5 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (39.62%) Mentoring
2 38 (35.85%) Agile
3 31 (29.25%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (24.53%) User Experience
5 24 (22.64%) CI/CD
5 24 (22.64%) Front End Development
6 23 (21.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (16.04%) Web Development
8 16 (15.09%) DevOps
9 15 (14.15%) Clean Code
10 14 (13.21%) Scrum
11 13 (12.26%) Microservices
12 12 (11.32%) AI
13 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (10.38%) Software Engineering
14 10 (9.43%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (8.49%) Code Quality
15 9 (8.49%) Software Testing
16 8 (7.55%) Containerisation
16 8 (7.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 101 (95.28%) JavaScript
2 42 (39.62%) Python
3 28 (26.42%) TypeScript
4 21 (19.81%) R
5 19 (17.92%) C#
6 11 (10.38%) PHP
7 9 (8.49%) SQL
8 8 (7.55%) Java
9 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (35.85%) AWS Certification
1 38 (35.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 38 (35.85%) Azure Certification
1 38 (35.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.77%) Degree
3 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (11.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.83%) cPanel
2 3 (2.83%) Plesk
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.72%) Google
3 3 (2.83%) Adobe
3 3 (2.83%) Ahrefs
3 3 (2.83%) Screaming Frog
4 2 (1.89%) Hotjar
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) Hootsuite
5 1 (0.94%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.94%) iManage
5 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.94%) Veracode