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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 42 65
Rank change year-on-year -58 +23 -42
Permanent jobs citing CSS 117 287 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.42% 4.14% 4.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.56% 23.84% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 76 159 140
10th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £77,542
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £58,400
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.82% +1.57%

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 863 1,204 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.86% 17.38% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 407 717 798
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,100 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

CSS
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

CSS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSS in the North West over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -32 67 £50,500 -3.81% 71
Cheshire -6 21 £57,500 +64.29% 27
Merseyside -22 17 £30,500 -6.15% 19
Lancashire -14 12 £46,186 -16.03% 54
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 5 (4.27%) WordPress
2 4 (3.42%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.56%) Sketch
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.85%) InVision
3 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (58.97%) Azure
2 67 (57.26%) AWS
3 28 (23.93%) GitHub
4 5 (4.27%) GCP
5 4 (3.42%) SaaS
6 3 (2.56%) Figma
7 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.71%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.71%) Serverless
7 2 (1.71%) Supabase
7 2 (1.71%) Vercel
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.85%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.85%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.85%) Firebase
8 1 (0.85%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.95%) Internet
2 3 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.40%) MySQL
3 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.27%) Redis
4 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.56%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.71%) Metadata
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) GIS
7 1 (0.85%) Power BI
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (36.75%) Git
2 33 (28.21%) JIRA
3 31 (26.50%) Maven
3 31 (26.50%) Selenium
4 30 (25.64%) Bitbucket
4 30 (25.64%) Cucumber
4 30 (25.64%) GitLab
4 30 (25.64%) SonarQube
4 30 (25.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (6.84%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.42%) JUnit
6 4 (3.42%) webpack
7 2 (1.71%) Babel
8 1 (0.85%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.85%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.85%) Mockito
8 1 (0.85%) Protractor
General
1 42 (35.90%) Finance
2 32 (27.35%) Retail
3 31 (26.50%) Banking
4 29 (24.79%) Corporate Banking
4 29 (24.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (24.79%) Investment Banking
5 24 (20.51%) Social Skills
6 21 (17.95%) Multimedia
7 6 (5.13%) Marketing
8 5 (4.27%) Games
9 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.56%) Legal
11 2 (1.71%) Law
12 1 (0.85%) Automotive
12 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (52.99%) Developer
2 36 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 21 (17.95%) Trainee
4 18 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 16 (13.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (8.55%) Senior
6 10 (8.55%) Trainee Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (5.98%) .NET Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.13%) PHP Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Principal Developer
9 5 (4.27%) React Developer
10 4 (3.42%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Lead
11 3 (2.56%) SEO Manager
12 2 (1.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 2 (1.71%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (96.58%) HTML
2 67 (57.26%) React
3 45 (38.46%) CSS3
4 44 (37.61%) HTML5
5 42 (35.90%) RESTful
6 40 (34.19%) REST
7 38 (32.48%) Jest
8 34 (29.06%) Redux
8 34 (29.06%) Spring Boot
9 33 (28.21%) Spring
10 31 (26.50%) Kafka
10 31 (26.50%) Sass
11 30 (25.64%) JPA
12 16 (13.68%) .NET
13 13 (11.11%) AngularJS
13 13 (11.11%) Node.js
14 9 (7.69%) ASP.NET
14 9 (7.69%) Vue
15 8 (6.84%) Laravel
16 7 (5.98%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.50%) Product Ownership
2 29 (24.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.56%) Social Media
4 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.71%) Animation
4 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.71%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.71%) Online Games
4 2 (1.71%) Wiki
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.85%) Life Science
5 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.99%) Agile
2 55 (47.01%) Mentoring
3 54 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 53 (45.30%) User Experience
5 51 (43.59%) Front End Development
6 46 (39.32%) CI/CD
7 44 (37.61%) DevOps
8 42 (35.90%) Software Engineering
9 39 (33.33%) Microservices
10 38 (32.48%) Performance Optimisation
11 34 (29.06%) Containerisation
11 34 (29.06%) Responsive Web Design
11 34 (29.06%) Test Automation
12 33 (28.21%) SDLC
13 31 (26.50%) Migration
14 30 (25.64%) Strategic Thinking
15 20 (17.09%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (11.97%) Scrum
17 12 (10.26%) AI
17 12 (10.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (95.73%) JavaScript
2 56 (47.86%) TypeScript
3 40 (34.19%) SQL
4 38 (32.48%) Java
5 25 (21.37%) Python
6 17 (14.53%) C#
7 11 (9.40%) R
8 9 (7.69%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Ruby
9 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (17.95%) AWS Certification
1 21 (17.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 21 (17.95%) Azure Certification
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (4.27%) Degree
3 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 31 (26.50%) QA
3 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (35.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (29.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.71%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) cPanel
3 1 (0.85%) Plesk
3 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (24.79%) Solace
2 26 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) Google
4 3 (2.56%) Adobe
4 3 (2.56%) Ahrefs
4 3 (2.56%) Screaming Frog
5 2 (1.71%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.85%) Hootsuite
6 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.85%) iManage
6 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.85%) Veracode