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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 83 40
Rank change year-on-year -49 -43 -14
Permanent jobs citing CSS 114 226 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.02% 4.89% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.36% 19.72% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 105 104 331
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,063 £65,625
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 922 1,146 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.22% 24.81% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 792 487 1,630
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,761 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

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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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -36 75 £47,500 -13.64% 33
Lancashire +11 16 £40,000 - 9
Merseyside -31 11 £30,500 -6.15% 3
Cheshire -47 10 £33,000 -22.35% 3
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 26 (22.81%) WordPress
2 11 (9.65%) CMS
3 5 (4.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.51%) IIS
4 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.63%) Apache
5 3 (2.63%) nginx
6 2 (1.75%) CICS
6 2 (1.75%) Confluence
6 2 (1.75%) JBoss
7 1 (0.88%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.88%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.49%) Azure
2 45 (39.47%) AWS
3 31 (27.19%) GitHub
4 17 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.02%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.14%) Google Analytics
7 6 (5.26%) Figma
8 5 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.39%) GCP
8 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.63%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.75%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.75%) Datadog
11 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.30%) Internet
2 3 (2.63%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.75%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.40%) MySQL
3 8 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.75%) DB2
8 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (44.74%) Git
2 9 (7.89%) JIRA
3 3 (2.63%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.63%) GitLab
3 3 (2.63%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) Subversion
5 1 (0.88%) gulp
5 1 (0.88%) JUnit
5 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 23 (20.18%) Marketing
2 22 (19.30%) Multimedia
3 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.14%) Advertising
5 7 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Games
7 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Finance
8 4 (3.51%) Legal
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) French Language
9 3 (2.63%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.63%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.63%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (51.75%) Developer
2 22 (19.30%) Trainee
3 15 (13.16%) Software Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (11.40%) Senior
5 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Administrator
7 11 (9.65%) .NET Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Trainee Administrator
8 9 (7.89%) Web Administrator
9 8 (7.02%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Coordinator
10 7 (6.14%) Graduate
10 7 (6.14%) Lead
10 7 (6.14%) PHP Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Trainee Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.26%) HTML CSS Designer
11 6 (5.26%) Trainee Software Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (92.11%) HTML
2 26 (22.81%) .NET
3 19 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 19 (16.67%) React
4 18 (15.79%) CSS3
5 15 (13.16%) HTML5
6 14 (12.28%) .NET Core
6 14 (12.28%) RESTful
7 13 (11.40%) ASP.NET
8 12 (10.53%) REST
9 11 (9.65%) Entity Framework
10 10 (8.77%) Node.js
10 10 (8.77%) Vue
11 7 (6.14%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (6.14%) JSON
12 5 (4.39%) Laravel
12 5 (4.39%) Middleware
12 5 (4.39%) OAuth
12 5 (4.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.39%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Android
1 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.46%) Agile
1 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
2 34 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (24.56%) Mentoring
4 23 (20.18%) AI
5 20 (17.54%) DevOps
5 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (14.91%) Analytics
6 17 (14.91%) Web Development
7 16 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (14.04%) User Experience
8 15 (13.16%) API Integration
9 14 (12.28%) TDD
10 13 (11.40%) CRM
10 13 (11.40%) OOP
10 13 (11.40%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
11 11 (9.65%) Microservices
11 11 (9.65%) Scrum
11 11 (9.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (71.05%) JavaScript
2 43 (37.72%) SQL
3 37 (32.46%) Python
4 23 (20.18%) C#
5 20 (17.54%) Java
6 17 (14.91%) PHP
7 15 (13.16%) R
8 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.63%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) AWS Certification
1 22 (19.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 22 (19.30%) Azure Certification
1 22 (19.30%) Degree
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.91%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.75%) Nagios
1 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Adobe
3 6 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.39%) Splunk
5 4 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 4 (3.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.63%) Pega
7 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.75%) New Relic
7 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow