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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 78 41
Rank change year-on-year -42 -37 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 119 242 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.12% 5.17% 4.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.85% 20.53% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 108 116 317
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £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 859 1,179 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.08% 25.17% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 741 529 1,577
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,600 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,350 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,500 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.14% +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 19 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 19 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 -35 78 £45,000 -18.18% 30
Lancashire +11 15 £40,000 - 11
Merseyside -33 12 £30,500 -6.15% 6
Cheshire -48 12 £30,500 -26.06% 5
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 31 (26.05%) WordPress
2 11 (9.24%) CMS
3 4 (3.36%) IIS
4 3 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.52%) Apache
4 3 (2.52%) nginx
5 2 (1.68%) CICS
5 2 (1.68%) JBoss
6 1 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.84%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Shopify
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.84%) Magento
3 1 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.74%) Azure
2 53 (44.54%) AWS
3 36 (30.25%) GitHub
4 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.88%) GCP
5 7 (5.88%) Google Analytics
6 6 (5.04%) Figma
7 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Datadog
9 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.84%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.84%) Firebase
10 1 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.84%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.84%) Kontent
10 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.05%) Internet
2 3 (2.52%) HTTP
2 3 (2.52%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) MySQL
1 14 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.24%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.68%) DB2
6 2 (1.68%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.84%) Power BI
7 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (56.30%) Git
2 9 (7.56%) JIRA
3 3 (2.52%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.52%) GitLab
3 3 (2.52%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.52%) JUnit
4 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.84%) gulp
5 1 (0.84%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 31 (26.05%) Multimedia
2 22 (18.49%) Marketing
3 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Finance
7 5 (4.20%) Advertising
7 5 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Games
8 4 (3.36%) Banking
9 3 (2.52%) French Language
9 3 (2.52%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (2.52%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.52%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (48.74%) Developer
2 31 (26.05%) Trainee
3 17 (14.29%) Administrator
3 17 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 15 (12.61%) Senior
4 15 (12.61%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (11.76%) Trainee Administrator
5 14 (11.76%) Web Administrator
6 10 (8.40%) Trainee Developer
7 9 (7.56%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.56%) PHP Developer
7 9 (7.56%) Trainee Software Developer
8 7 (5.88%) Coordinator
8 7 (5.88%) Graduate
8 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.04%) Designer
9 6 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.04%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (93.28%) HTML
2 24 (20.17%) .NET
3 23 (19.33%) React
4 19 (15.97%) AngularJS
5 18 (15.13%) CSS3
5 18 (15.13%) RESTful
6 15 (12.61%) HTML5
7 12 (10.08%) .NET Core
7 12 (10.08%) REST
8 11 (9.24%) ASP.NET
9 9 (7.56%) Vue
10 8 (6.72%) Entity Framework
11 7 (5.88%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.88%) JSON
11 7 (5.88%) Node.js
11 7 (5.88%) Spring
11 7 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.04%) Kafka
12 6 (5.04%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.68%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.84%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Android
1 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Agile
1 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
1 33 (27.73%) Mentoring
2 32 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (19.33%) Web Development
4 21 (17.65%) AI
5 20 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (14.29%) User Experience
7 16 (13.45%) Analytics
8 15 (12.61%) DevOps
9 14 (11.76%) Microservices
9 14 (11.76%) OOP
10 13 (10.92%) API Integration
11 12 (10.08%) Clean Code
11 12 (10.08%) Front End Development
11 12 (10.08%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (9.24%) Scrum
12 11 (9.24%) Software Engineering
13 10 (8.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 90 (75.63%) JavaScript
2 44 (36.97%) Python
3 37 (31.09%) SQL
4 21 (17.65%) R
5 18 (15.13%) C#
5 18 (15.13%) Java
5 18 (15.13%) PHP
6 15 (12.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.68%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.84%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (26.05%) AWS Certification
1 31 (26.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 31 (26.05%) Azure Certification
1 31 (26.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (16.81%) Degree
3 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.52%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (1.68%) cPanel
1 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.68%) Nagios
1 2 (1.68%) Plesk
1 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (34.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Google
3 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.20%) Splunk
4 4 (3.36%) Adobe
4 4 (3.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle
5 3 (2.52%) Pega
6 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.68%) New Relic
6 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow