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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 91 35
Rank change year-on-year -57 -56 +38
Permanent jobs citing CSS 107 203 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.87% 3.91% 4.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.07% 17.55% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 98 80 213
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,825 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £64,375 £70,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -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 1,180 1,157 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.64% 22.31% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 940 488 1,042
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,131 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,094 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%

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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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -45 72 £51,000 -7.27% 36
Lancashire +5 18 £42,500 -10.53% 18
Cheshire -48 8 £40,000 -30.43% 14
Merseyside -21 7 £60,000 +84.62% 11
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 19 (17.76%) WordPress
2 18 (16.82%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (5.61%) CMS
5 5 (4.67%) IIS
6 2 (1.87%) CICS
7 1 (0.93%) Apache
7 1 (0.93%) Confluence
7 1 (0.93%) JBoss
7 1 (0.93%) nginx
7 1 (0.93%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Magento
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.14%) Azure
2 35 (32.71%) AWS
3 27 (25.23%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (20.56%) GitHub
4 22 (20.56%) Power Automate
5 19 (17.76%) Power Platform
6 18 (16.82%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (15.89%) PowerApps
8 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (5.61%) Azure AI
9 6 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.74%) Figma
10 4 (3.74%) npm
11 3 (2.80%) GCP
11 3 (2.80%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.87%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Internet
2 3 (2.80%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.87%) HTTP
3 2 (1.87%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (15.89%) MongoDB
3 16 (14.95%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.61%) MySQL
5 6 (5.61%) Power BI
6 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.87%) Db2
7 2 (1.87%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Git
2 5 (4.67%) JIRA
3 4 (3.74%) Maven
3 4 (3.74%) Storybook
4 3 (2.80%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.80%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) gulp
5 1 (0.93%) Subversion
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Marketing
3 10 (9.35%) Multimedia
4 9 (8.41%) Advertising
4 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Games
5 6 (5.61%) Legal
6 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Finance
7 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.74%) Publishing
8 3 (2.80%) Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 75 (70.09%) Developer
2 20 (18.69%) .NET Developer
2 20 (18.69%) Senior
3 19 (17.76%) Senior Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Software Developer
6 11 (10.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Trainee
8 8 (7.48%) Administrator
8 8 (7.48%) Trainee Administrator
8 8 (7.48%) Web Administrator
9 7 (6.54%) Lead
10 6 (5.61%) C# Developer
10 6 (5.61%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Designer
11 5 (4.67%) Web Designer
12 4 (3.74%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (89.72%) HTML
2 35 (32.71%) .NET
3 25 (23.36%) .NET Core
4 24 (22.43%) ASP.NET
5 20 (18.69%) Node.js
6 18 (16.82%) AngularJS
6 18 (16.82%) CSS3
7 17 (15.89%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (15.89%) Entity Framework
7 17 (15.89%) REST
8 15 (14.02%) HTML5
9 13 (12.15%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (11.21%) React
11 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (8.41%) SPFx
13 7 (6.54%) .NET Framework
13 7 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.54%) JSON
13 7 (6.54%) RESTful
13 7 (6.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (9.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.48%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.54%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.66%) Agile
2 50 (46.73%) CI/CD
3 42 (39.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (33.64%) DevOps
5 31 (28.97%) AI
6 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (20.56%) TDD
8 20 (18.69%) Web Development
9 19 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (15.89%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.15%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.15%) OO
11 13 (12.15%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (11.21%) API Integration
12 12 (11.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (10.28%) BDD
13 11 (10.28%) Scrum
13 11 (10.28%) Software Engineering
13 11 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 74 (69.16%) JavaScript
2 49 (45.79%) C#
3 47 (43.93%) SQL
4 25 (23.36%) Python
5 21 (19.63%) Java
6 17 (15.89%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.28%) PHP
8 8 (7.48%) R
9 3 (2.80%) Go
9 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.87%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) AWS Certification
2 10 (9.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (9.35%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (10.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.93%) Nagios
2 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (45.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) Adobe
3 4 (3.74%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.74%) Splunk
4 3 (2.80%) Google
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Pega
4 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud