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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 -39
Permanent jobs citing CSS 121 210 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.70% 4.39% 4.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.84% 24.82% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 107 119 227
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56,875 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% - -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 554 846 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.80% 17.70% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 473 528 1,271
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 2026. 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 -14 83 £47,500 -13.64% 35
Merseyside -24 24 £30,500 -6.15% 9
Lancashire -5 7 £41,500 -17.00% 18
Cheshire -28 7 £62,500 +78.57% 14
CSS
England

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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 14 (11.57%) WordPress
2 6 (4.96%) CMS
3 5 (4.13%) nginx
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.65%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.65%) Sketch
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.85%) Azure
2 67 (55.37%) AWS
3 52 (42.98%) GitHub
4 6 (4.96%) GCP
5 4 (3.31%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.48%) SaaS
6 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Datadog
7 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.65%) Figma
8 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.83%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.83%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.83%) Kontent
8 1 (0.83%) npm
8 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 50 (41.32%) Internet
2 5 (4.13%) HTTP
3 2 (1.65%) SSL
4 1 (0.83%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.09%) MySQL
1 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 82 (67.77%) Git
2 7 (5.79%) JIRA
3 5 (4.13%) JUnit
4 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.65%) Subversion
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Protractor
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 50 (41.32%) Multimedia
2 24 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Marketing
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Finance
6 4 (3.31%) Games
6 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) French Language
7 3 (2.48%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.48%) Legal
7 3 (2.48%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.48%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Publishing
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (55.37%) Developer
2 50 (41.32%) Trainee
3 29 (23.97%) Software Developer
4 22 (18.18%) Trainee Developer
4 22 (18.18%) Trainee Software Developer
5 18 (14.88%) Senior
6 16 (13.22%) Senior Developer
7 15 (12.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (9.09%) Administrator
9 9 (7.44%) PHP Developer
10 8 (6.61%) Trainee Administrator
10 8 (6.61%) Web Administrator
11 7 (5.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.13%) .NET Developer
14 4 (3.31%) Coordinator
14 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 4 (3.31%) Lead
14 4 (3.31%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (96.69%) HTML
2 37 (30.58%) React
3 16 (13.22%) .NET
4 15 (12.40%) AngularJS
4 15 (12.40%) RESTful
5 11 (9.09%) CSS3
5 11 (9.09%) HTML5
6 8 (6.61%) Laravel
6 8 (6.61%) REST
7 7 (5.79%) ASP.NET
7 7 (5.79%) Node.js
7 7 (5.79%) Vue
8 6 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.96%) jQuery
8 6 (4.96%) Web Services
9 5 (4.13%) Spring
9 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.31%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.31%) gRPC
10 4 (3.31%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.65%) Animation
5 2 (1.65%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.65%) NHS
5 2 (1.65%) Social Media
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Android
1 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (49.59%) Mentoring
2 45 (37.19%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (29.75%) Agile
4 29 (23.97%) User Experience
5 27 (22.31%) CI/CD
6 18 (14.88%) AI
6 18 (14.88%) Front End Development
6 18 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (12.40%) Web Development
8 13 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (10.74%) Software Engineering
9 12 (9.92%) Clean Code
9 12 (9.92%) DevOps
10 11 (9.09%) Microservices
11 10 (8.26%) Analytics
11 10 (8.26%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.26%) Responsive Web Design
12 9 (7.44%) OOP
13 8 (6.61%) Scrum
13 8 (6.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 109 (90.08%) JavaScript
2 59 (48.76%) Python
3 28 (23.14%) R
4 27 (22.31%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.74%) C#
5 13 (10.74%) SQL
6 10 (8.26%) PHP
7 7 (5.79%) Java
8 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (41.32%) AWS Certification
1 50 (41.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 50 (41.32%) Azure Certification
1 50 (41.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (8.26%) Degree
3 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.96%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) cPanel
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.48%) Plesk
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.65%) Nagios
2 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 53 (43.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.79%) Google
3 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Adobe
5 2 (1.65%) Ahrefs
5 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.65%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.65%) New Relic
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle
5 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.65%) Screaming Frog
5 2 (1.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) iManage