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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 87 43
Rank change year-on-year -30 -44 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 115 138 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.11% 3.31% 4.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.23% 20.44% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 103 122 306
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -0.47%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 755 675 1,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.29% 16.19% 20.51%
Number of salaries quoted 642 560 1,554
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,675 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -24 78 £45,000 -18.18% 15
Merseyside -33 14 £30,500 -6.15% 5
Cheshire -23 12 £30,500 -28.24% 6
Lancashire +1 9 £30,500 -18.67% 10
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 -
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 28 (24.35%) WordPress
2 8 (6.96%) CMS
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) nginx
4 2 (1.74%) CICS
4 2 (1.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) IIS
5 1 (0.87%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Shopify
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Magento
3 1 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (48.70%) Azure
2 55 (47.83%) AWS
3 40 (34.78%) GitHub
4 7 (6.09%) GCP
4 7 (6.09%) Google Analytics
5 6 (5.22%) Figma
6 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Datadog
8 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.87%) Firebase
9 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.87%) Kontent
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (33.91%) Internet
2 3 (2.61%) HTTP
3 2 (1.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) MySQL
1 13 (11.30%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.74%) DB2
5 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.74%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.87%) Metadata
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (64.35%) Git
2 9 (7.83%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.61%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.74%) Subversion
5 1 (0.87%) gulp
5 1 (0.87%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 39 (33.91%) Multimedia
2 17 (14.78%) Marketing
2 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Advertising
6 3 (2.61%) French Language
6 3 (2.61%) Games
6 3 (2.61%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.61%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.61%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.87%) Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (45.22%) Developer
2 39 (33.91%) Trainee
3 18 (15.65%) Software Developer
4 17 (14.78%) Administrator
5 14 (12.17%) Trainee Administrator
5 14 (12.17%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Web Administrator
6 13 (11.30%) Senior
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.30%) Trainee Software Developer
7 9 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Coordinator
9 7 (6.09%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.09%) PHP Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Designer
10 6 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.22%) HTML CSS Designer
10 6 (5.22%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (95.65%) HTML
2 25 (21.74%) React
3 17 (14.78%) AngularJS
4 16 (13.91%) .NET
4 16 (13.91%) RESTful
5 13 (11.30%) CSS3
6 10 (8.70%) HTML5
7 9 (7.83%) Vue
8 7 (6.09%) Spring
8 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
9 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
9 6 (5.22%) Kafka
9 6 (5.22%) Laravel
9 6 (5.22%) REST
9 6 (5.22%) Web Services
10 5 (4.35%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.48%) jQuery
11 4 (3.48%) Node.js
11 4 (3.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.87%) Social Media
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Android
1 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.65%) Mentoring
2 30 (26.09%) Agile
3 28 (24.35%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (22.61%) CI/CD
5 21 (18.26%) User Experience
5 21 (18.26%) Web Development
6 20 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (13.04%) AI
7 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.17%) Analytics
9 13 (11.30%) OOP
9 13 (11.30%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.43%) Front End Development
11 11 (9.57%) Clean Code
11 11 (9.57%) Microservices
11 11 (9.57%) Scrum
12 9 (7.83%) DevOps
12 9 (7.83%) Responsive Web Design
12 9 (7.83%) SEO
13 8 (6.96%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (80.87%) JavaScript
2 47 (40.87%) Python
3 27 (23.48%) SQL
4 25 (21.74%) R
5 18 (15.65%) TypeScript
6 16 (13.91%) PHP
7 13 (11.30%) Java
8 10 (8.70%) C#
9 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.61%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (33.91%) AWS Certification
1 39 (33.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 39 (33.91%) Azure Certification
1 39 (33.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (2.61%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (6.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.74%) cPanel
2 2 (1.74%) Nagios
2 2 (1.74%) Plesk
2 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) Google
3 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle
5 3 (2.61%) Pega
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) New Relic
6 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.74%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.87%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.87%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow