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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 100 41
Rank change year-on-year -67 -59 +25
Permanent jobs citing CSS 96 185 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.75% 3.63% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.22% 17.34% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 83 64 163
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,849 £35,313 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +3.50% -0.24%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,988 £77,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -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 1,168 1,067 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.07% 20.95% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 899 415 790
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,625 £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 15 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 15 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 -77 63 £51,000 -7.27% 36
Lancashire +6 17 £42,500 -12.82% 5
Merseyside -22 8 £60,000 +96.72% 6
Cheshire -39 8 £50,000 -13.04% 8
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 (21.88%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (6.25%) CMS
3 6 (6.25%) WordPress
4 5 (5.21%) IIS
5 2 (2.08%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.04%) Apache
6 1 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (1.04%) JBoss
6 1 (1.04%) Kentico
6 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
1 1 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (47.92%) Azure
2 25 (26.04%) AWS
2 25 (26.04%) Power Automate
3 23 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (22.92%) Power Platform
5 21 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (20.83%) PowerApps
7 14 (14.58%) GitHub
7 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (6.25%) Azure AI
8 6 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.17%) npm
10 3 (3.13%) Figma
10 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.13%) iPaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (2.08%) Serverless
12 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) SSL
3 1 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.79%) MongoDB
2 18 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (14.58%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.38%) Power BI
5 7 (7.29%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.17%) MySQL
7 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) GitLab
3 4 (4.17%) Maven
3 4 (4.17%) Storybook
4 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.04%) Subversion
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (19.79%) Marketing
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Advertising
5 6 (6.25%) Games
5 6 (6.25%) Legal
5 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Finance
6 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.17%) Publishing
8 3 (3.13%) Banking
8 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (72.92%) Developer
2 25 (26.04%) Senior
3 22 (22.92%) Senior Developer
4 20 (20.83%) .NET Developer
5 16 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 9 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Lead
8 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (5.21%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.21%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Consultant
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Angular Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Graduate
12 3 (3.13%) Senior C# Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Senior UI Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
12 3 (3.13%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (87.50%) HTML
2 33 (34.38%) .NET
3 24 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 23 (23.96%) ASP.NET
4 23 (23.96%) Node.js
5 21 (21.88%) REST
6 17 (17.71%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (15.63%) Entity Framework
8 13 (13.54%) CSS3
8 13 (13.54%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
10 11 (11.46%) HTML5
10 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (10.42%) React
12 9 (9.38%) SPFx
13 7 (7.29%) JSON
13 7 (7.29%) OAuth
14 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.42%) Marketing Technology
3 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Online Gambling
5 2 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.04%) Blog
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.04%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Photography
6 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) Agile
1 48 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (40.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (35.42%) DevOps
4 33 (34.38%) AI
5 23 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (23.96%) TDD
6 20 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
10 12 (12.50%) API Integration
10 12 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (11.46%) BDD
11 11 (11.46%) Microservices
11 11 (11.46%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (10.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (71.88%) JavaScript
2 51 (53.13%) C#
3 39 (40.63%) SQL
4 20 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 17 (17.71%) Java
5 17 (17.71%) Python
6 4 (4.17%) PHP
7 3 (3.13%) Go
8 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.33%) WCAG
3 7 (7.29%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.04%) Nagios
2 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Adobe
3 4 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.17%) Splunk
4 2 (2.08%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) New Relic
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud