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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 98 40
Rank change year-on-year -72 -58 +30
Permanent jobs citing CSS 93 183 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.72% 3.55% 4.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.09% 17.28% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 80 62 166
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,648 £33,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +3.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,106 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -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 1,150 1,059 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.96% 20.52% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 888 407 797
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £36,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.12% -7.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -67 60 £51,000 -7.27% 35
Lancashire +10 17 £42,500 -12.82% 3
Merseyside -25 8 £60,000 +96.72% 5
Cheshire -45 8 £50,000 -13.04% 3
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 21 (22.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (6.45%) CMS
3 6 (6.45%) WordPress
4 5 (5.38%) IIS
5 2 (2.15%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.08%) Apache
6 1 (1.08%) Confluence
6 1 (1.08%) JBoss
6 1 (1.08%) Kentico
6 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) Magento
1 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (47.31%) Azure
2 25 (26.88%) Power Automate
3 23 (24.73%) AWS
3 23 (24.73%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (23.66%) Power Platform
5 21 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (21.51%) PowerApps
7 14 (15.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (12.90%) GitHub
9 6 (6.45%) Azure AI
9 6 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.30%) npm
11 3 (3.23%) Figma
11 3 (3.23%) iPaaS
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.15%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (2.15%) Serverless
13 1 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
2 2 (2.15%) SSL
3 1 (1.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (18.28%) MongoDB
3 14 (15.05%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.68%) Power BI
5 7 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.30%) MySQL
6 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) Maven
2 4 (4.30%) Storybook
3 3 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (2.15%) JIRA
5 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.08%) Subversion
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 18 (19.35%) Marketing
2 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Advertising
5 6 (6.45%) Games
5 6 (6.45%) Legal
5 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Finance
6 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Publishing
8 3 (3.23%) Banking
8 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Retail
10 1 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (75.27%) Developer
2 23 (24.73%) Senior
3 22 (23.66%) Senior Developer
4 20 (21.51%) .NET Developer
5 16 (17.20%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Lead
8 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (5.38%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.38%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Consultant
11 4 (4.30%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Angular Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Senior UI Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Technical Consultant
12 3 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (87.10%) HTML
2 33 (35.48%) .NET
3 24 (25.81%) .NET Core
4 23 (24.73%) ASP.NET
5 21 (22.58%) Node.js
6 19 (20.43%) REST
7 17 (18.28%) ASP.NET Core
8 15 (16.13%) Entity Framework
9 13 (13.98%) CSS3
9 13 (13.98%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (12.90%) AngularJS
11 11 (11.83%) HTML5
11 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (9.68%) SPFx
13 8 (8.60%) React
14 7 (7.53%) JSON
14 7 (7.53%) OAuth
15 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (6.45%) JWT
15 6 (6.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (10.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.75%) Marketing Technology
3 9 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Online Gambling
5 2 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.08%) Blog
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) CMDB
6 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) Photography
6 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Social Media
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Agile
1 46 (49.46%) CI/CD
2 37 (39.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (35.48%) AI
4 32 (34.41%) DevOps
5 23 (24.73%) TDD
6 22 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.98%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.90%) API Integration
9 12 (12.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (11.83%) BDD
10 11 (11.83%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (11.83%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (10.75%) Clean Code
11 10 (10.75%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (70.97%) JavaScript
2 51 (54.84%) C#
3 37 (39.78%) SQL
4 18 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 17 (18.28%) Python
6 15 (16.13%) Java
7 4 (4.30%) PHP
8 3 (3.23%) Go
9 1 (1.08%) Ruby
9 1 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.60%) WCAG
3 7 (7.53%) QA
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.08%) Nagios
2 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.75%) Adobe
3 4 (4.30%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.30%) Splunk
4 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.08%) Google
5 1 (1.08%) New Relic
5 1 (1.08%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud