CSS Jobs in the North West

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring CSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 33 40
Rank change year-on-year -79 +7 -11
Permanent jobs citing CSS 226 541 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.95% 4.83% 6.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.93% 24.28% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 102 338 201
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,743 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

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 1,194 2,228 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.58% 19.89% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 498 1,650 1,042
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £37,845
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,525 £81,250 £84,950
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CSS in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CSS in the North West.

Salary trend for CSS in the North West

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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 July 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 1 July 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 -27 113 £56,250 +7.14% 147
Cheshire +7 63 £57,500 +39.39% 33
Lancashire -94 26 £45,050 -9.90% 63
Merseyside -10 23 £32,500 -29.73% 26
CSS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (18.14%) Confluence
2 18 (7.96%) CMS
3 13 (5.75%) Umbraco
4 6 (2.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 147 (65.04%) AWS
2 130 (57.52%) Azure
3 51 (22.57%) GCP
4 11 (4.87%) SaaS
4 11 (4.87%) Serverless
5 8 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.21%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (2.21%) CloudFront
6 5 (2.21%) GitHub
6 5 (2.21%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.77%) Firebase
7 4 (1.77%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.88%) Datadog
8 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.88%) Supabase
8 2 (0.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.75%) Intranet
2 4 (1.77%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (65.04%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.31%) MySQL
3 11 (4.87%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.65%) Redis
6 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.21%) Power BI
7 4 (1.77%) Hazelcast
7 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.44%) GIS
10 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (50.88%) JIRA
2 111 (49.12%) Cucumber
3 110 (48.67%) Bitbucket
3 110 (48.67%) GitLab
3 110 (48.67%) Maven
3 110 (48.67%) Selenium
3 110 (48.67%) SonarQube
3 110 (48.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 36 (15.93%) Git
5 6 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.65%) Jasmine
5 6 (2.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (2.21%) JUnit
6 5 (2.21%) webpack
7 3 (1.33%) Babel
7 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.33%) JMeter
8 2 (0.88%) MSTest
8 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 130 (57.52%) Finance
2 109 (48.23%) Banking
2 109 (48.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 71 (31.42%) Retail
4 70 (30.97%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (30.97%) Investment Banking
5 40 (17.70%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.87%) Games
7 9 (3.98%) Marketing
8 3 (1.33%) Law
8 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Front Office
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Back Office
10 1 (0.44%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 125 (55.31%) Software Engineer
2 72 (31.86%) Developer
3 26 (11.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 21 (9.29%) Senior
5 14 (6.19%) Lead
6 13 (5.75%) Umbraco Developer
7 12 (5.31%) .NET Developer
7 12 (5.31%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.87%) PHP Developer
9 10 (4.42%) C# Developer
9 10 (4.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.54%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 7 (3.10%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.65%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.65%) Senior PHP Developer
14 5 (2.21%) C# .NET Developer
14 5 (2.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 5 (2.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 5 (2.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (96.90%) HTML
2 153 (67.70%) React
3 116 (51.33%) Redux
4 115 (50.88%) Spring Boot
5 114 (50.44%) Spring
6 113 (50.00%) Kafka
7 110 (48.67%) JPA
8 100 (44.25%) HTML5
9 93 (41.15%) RESTful
10 82 (36.28%) CSS3
10 82 (36.28%) REST
10 82 (36.28%) Sass
11 79 (34.96%) Jest
12 40 (17.70%) Hibernate
13 36 (15.93%) .NET
14 29 (12.83%) AngularJS
15 23 (10.18%) jQuery
16 20 (8.85%) Node.js
17 17 (7.52%) ASP.NET
17 17 (7.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (50.44%) Product Ownership
2 111 (49.12%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.75%) NHS
4 5 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.21%) Sports Betting
5 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.33%) IoT
6 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (0.88%) Derivative
7 2 (0.88%) Equities
7 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.88%) Wiki
8 1 (0.44%) PDA
8 1 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.21%) Linux
2 2 (0.88%) Android
2 2 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (66.37%) Agile
2 139 (61.50%) Software Engineering
3 138 (61.06%) Front End Development
4 137 (60.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 129 (57.08%) Microservices
6 127 (56.19%) DevOps
7 126 (55.75%) CI/CD
8 121 (53.54%) Test Automation
9 119 (52.65%) SDLC
10 118 (52.21%) Performance Optimisation
11 113 (50.00%) Containerisation
12 90 (39.82%) User Experience
13 83 (36.73%) Mentoring
14 72 (31.86%) Migration
14 72 (31.86%) Responsive Web Design
15 70 (30.97%) Strategic Thinking
16 59 (26.11%) Clean Code
17 51 (22.57%) TDD
18 45 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
19 31 (13.72%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 205 (90.71%) JavaScript
2 149 (65.93%) SQL
3 128 (56.64%) Java
4 110 (48.67%) TypeScript
5 45 (19.91%) C#
6 18 (7.96%) PHP
7 6 (2.65%) Python
8 4 (1.77%) C++
8 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.44%) Ada
9 1 (0.44%) Go
9 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
9 1 (0.44%) Rust
9 1 (0.44%) Swift
9 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (12.39%) Degree
2 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (48.23%) QA
2 92 (40.71%) Accessibility
3 15 (6.64%) GDPR
4 14 (6.19%) WCAG
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 126 (55.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 113 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.33%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.88%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 109 (48.23%) Solace
2 13 (5.75%) HP
3 10 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.10%) Google
5 4 (1.77%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.33%) Twitter
7 2 (0.88%) Adobe
7 2 (0.88%) Sage
7 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.44%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.44%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle
8 1 (0.44%) Veracode
8 1 (0.44%) Zend