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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 68 42
Rank change year-on-year -52 -26 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 113 217 445
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.09% 4.99% 4.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.25% 25.89% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 102 121 313
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -0.47%
75th Percentile £61,195 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,676 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +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 793 838 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.68% 19.29% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 674 543 1,559
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,150 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,500 £84,971
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +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 8 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 8 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 -36 76 £45,000 -18.18% 19
Merseyside -36 13 £30,500 -6.15% 7
Cheshire -45 12 £30,500 -28.24% 4
Lancashire -1 10 £34,000 -9.33% 13
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 29 (25.66%) WordPress
2 9 (7.96%) CMS
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) nginx
4 2 (1.77%) CICS
4 2 (1.77%) IIS
4 2 (1.77%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Shopify
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Magento
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (48.67%) Azure
2 52 (46.02%) AWS
3 37 (32.74%) GitHub
4 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.19%) GCP
4 7 (6.19%) Google Analytics
5 6 (5.31%) Figma
6 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.77%) Datadog
7 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.88%) Firebase
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Kontent
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (30.97%) Internet
2 3 (2.65%) HTTP
3 2 (1.77%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.50%) MySQL
2 12 (10.62%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.85%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.77%) DB2
6 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.77%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.88%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (61.06%) Git
2 9 (7.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.65%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.65%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.65%) JUnit
4 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) Subversion
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) gulp
5 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 35 (30.97%) Multimedia
2 18 (15.93%) Marketing
3 17 (15.04%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Finance
6 4 (3.54%) Advertising
6 4 (3.54%) Games
7 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) French Language
7 3 (2.65%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.65%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.65%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.77%) Banking
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (46.02%) Developer
2 35 (30.97%) Trainee
3 17 (15.04%) Administrator
3 17 (15.04%) Software Developer
4 14 (12.39%) Senior
4 14 (12.39%) Senior Developer
4 14 (12.39%) Trainee Administrator
4 14 (12.39%) Web Administrator
5 12 (10.62%) Trainee Developer
6 11 (9.73%) Trainee Software Developer
7 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Coordinator
8 7 (6.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (6.19%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.19%) PHP Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Designer
9 6 (5.31%) HTML CSS Designer
9 6 (5.31%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (94.69%) HTML
2 24 (21.24%) React
3 18 (15.93%) .NET
4 17 (15.04%) AngularJS
5 16 (14.16%) RESTful
6 15 (13.27%) CSS3
7 12 (10.62%) HTML5
8 9 (7.96%) Vue
9 8 (7.08%) REST
10 7 (6.19%) .NET Core
10 7 (6.19%) Spring
10 7 (6.19%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.31%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.31%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.31%) Kafka
11 6 (5.31%) Laravel
12 5 (4.42%) Web Services
13 4 (3.54%) jQuery
13 4 (3.54%) JSON
13 4 (3.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.77%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.77%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.65%) Android
1 3 (2.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.86%) Mentoring
2 30 (26.55%) Agile
3 27 (23.89%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (19.47%) Web Development
7 18 (15.93%) User Experience
8 17 (15.04%) AI
9 15 (13.27%) Analytics
9 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.50%) OOP
11 12 (10.62%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.73%) DevOps
12 11 (9.73%) Front End Development
12 11 (9.73%) Microservices
12 11 (9.73%) Scrum
13 10 (8.85%) Clean Code
13 10 (8.85%) Responsive Web Design
14 8 (7.08%) Data Modelling
14 8 (7.08%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 89 (78.76%) JavaScript
2 44 (38.94%) Python
3 29 (25.66%) SQL
4 23 (20.35%) R
5 16 (14.16%) PHP
5 16 (14.16%) TypeScript
6 15 (13.27%) Java
7 12 (10.62%) C#
8 3 (2.65%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (30.97%) AWS Certification
1 35 (30.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 35 (30.97%) Azure Certification
1 35 (30.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (15.04%) Degree
3 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.65%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (1.77%) cPanel
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.77%) Nagios
1 2 (1.77%) Plesk
1 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.08%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle
5 3 (2.65%) Pega
5 3 (2.65%) Splunk
6 2 (1.77%) Adobe
6 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.77%) New Relic
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow