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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 -41
Permanent jobs citing CSS 115 228 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.77% 4.49% 4.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.42% 25.73% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 105 126 159
10th Percentile - - £32,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56,250 £59,875 £66,660
90th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £76,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -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 537 886 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.25% 17.46% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 461 556 958
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £36,270
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

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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

CSS
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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -13 78 £47,500 -13.64% 43
Merseyside -23 24 £30,500 -6.15% 14
Lancashire -5 7 £41,500 -22.79% 28
Cheshire -26 6 £50,000 +42.86% 18
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 12 (10.43%) WordPress
2 4 (3.48%) CMS
2 4 (3.48%) nginx
3 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.61%) Sketch
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.87%) InVision
3 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (60.87%) Azure
2 66 (57.39%) AWS
3 53 (46.09%) GitHub
4 6 (5.22%) GCP
5 3 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.61%) Figma
5 3 (2.61%) SaaS
6 2 (1.74%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.87%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.87%) Datadog
7 1 (0.87%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.87%) npm
7 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (43.48%) Internet
2 5 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.87%) SSH
3 1 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) MySQL
1 12 (10.43%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.74%) Metadata
4 2 (1.74%) Redis
5 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (69.57%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) JIRA
3 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.35%) JUnit
4 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.87%) Babel
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.87%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.87%) Protractor
5 1 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.87%) Subversion
5 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 50 (43.48%) Multimedia
2 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Finance
4 7 (6.09%) Games
5 6 (5.22%) Marketing
6 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Automotive
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (61.74%) Developer
2 50 (43.48%) Trainee
3 29 (25.22%) Software Developer
4 22 (19.13%) Trainee Developer
4 22 (19.13%) Trainee Software Developer
5 17 (14.78%) Senior
6 16 (13.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 15 (13.04%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.83%) PHP Developer
9 8 (6.96%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Administrator
9 8 (6.96%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (6.96%) Web Administrator
10 7 (6.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Lead
11 5 (4.35%) React Developer
12 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (96.52%) HTML
2 37 (32.17%) React
3 17 (14.78%) .NET
4 14 (12.17%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.30%) RESTful
6 12 (10.43%) CSS3
6 12 (10.43%) HTML5
7 10 (8.70%) REST
8 8 (6.96%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.96%) Node.js
9 7 (6.09%) jQuery
10 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (5.22%) Laravel
10 6 (5.22%) Web Services
11 5 (4.35%) Jest
11 5 (4.35%) Spring
11 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.35%) Vue
12 4 (3.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.61%) Social Media
5 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Animation
5 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.74%) Online Games
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.87%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.83%) Mentoring
2 42 (36.52%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (32.17%) Agile
4 26 (22.61%) CI/CD
4 26 (22.61%) User Experience
5 20 (17.39%) Front End Development
6 18 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (15.65%) Web Development
7 15 (13.04%) Clean Code
8 14 (12.17%) DevOps
9 13 (11.30%) AI
10 10 (8.70%) Containerisation
10 10 (8.70%) Microservices
10 10 (8.70%) Scrum
10 10 (8.70%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.83%) OOP
11 9 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.96%) TDD
13 7 (6.09%) Code Quality
13 7 (6.09%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 110 (95.65%) JavaScript
2 55 (47.83%) Python
3 28 (24.35%) R
3 28 (24.35%) TypeScript
4 17 (14.78%) C#
5 9 (7.83%) PHP
6 8 (6.96%) SQL
7 7 (6.09%) Java
8 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (43.48%) AWS Certification
1 50 (43.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 50 (43.48%) Azure Certification
1 50 (43.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.61%) Degree
2 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.87%) QA
2 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) cPanel
2 3 (2.61%) Plesk
3 2 (1.74%) Grafana
3 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.87%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (46.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) Google
3 4 (3.48%) Adobe
4 3 (2.61%) Ahrefs
4 3 (2.61%) Screaming Frog
5 2 (1.74%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.87%) Hootsuite
6 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.87%) iManage
6 1 (0.87%) New Relic
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.87%) Splunk