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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 88 37
Rank change year-on-year -61 -51 +40
Permanent jobs citing CSS 110 208 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.91% 4.00% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.20% 17.58% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 101 85 229
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -6.96%

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 1,196 1,183 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.93% 22.74% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 960 506 1,119
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,854 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £49,243 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,692 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -40 76 £51,000 -11.30% 18
Lancashire +6 17 £42,500 -2.86% 15
Cheshire -49 8 £33,000 -42.61% 8
Merseyside -26 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 21 (19.09%) WordPress
2 17 (15.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (6.36%) CMS
5 5 (4.55%) IIS
6 2 (1.82%) CICS
7 1 (0.91%) Apache
7 1 (0.91%) Confluence
7 1 (0.91%) JBoss
7 1 (0.91%) nginx
7 1 (0.91%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (54.55%) Azure
2 36 (32.73%) AWS
3 27 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (20.91%) GitHub
5 21 (19.09%) Power Automate
6 18 (16.36%) Power Platform
7 17 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (14.55%) PowerApps
9 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (5.45%) Azure AI
10 6 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (4.55%) Figma
12 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.64%) GCP
12 4 (3.64%) Google Analytics
12 4 (3.64%) npm
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) Internet
2 3 (2.73%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.82%) HTTP
3 2 (1.82%) SSL
4 1 (0.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (15.45%) MongoDB
2 17 (15.45%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.27%) MySQL
4 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.55%) Power BI
7 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.82%) Db2
8 2 (1.82%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (24.55%) Git
2 6 (5.45%) JIRA
3 4 (3.64%) Maven
3 4 (3.64%) Storybook
4 3 (2.73%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.73%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) gulp
5 1 (0.91%) Subversion
5 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 19 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Marketing
3 10 (9.09%) Advertising
3 10 (9.09%) Multimedia
4 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Games
5 6 (5.45%) Legal
6 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Finance
7 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Publishing
7 4 (3.64%) Retail
8 3 (2.73%) Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 74 (67.27%) Developer
2 20 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 19 (17.27%) Senior
4 18 (16.36%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Trainee
7 8 (7.27%) Administrator
7 8 (7.27%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (7.27%) Web Administrator
8 7 (6.36%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Lead
9 6 (5.45%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.45%) C# Software Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Designer
9 6 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Web Designer
10 5 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (90.00%) HTML
2 35 (31.82%) .NET
3 25 (22.73%) .NET Core
4 24 (21.82%) ASP.NET
5 19 (17.27%) AngularJS
5 19 (17.27%) CSS3
5 19 (17.27%) Node.js
6 17 (15.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (15.45%) Entity Framework
6 17 (15.45%) REST
7 16 (14.55%) HTML5
8 13 (11.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 13 (11.82%) React
9 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (8.18%) SPFx
11 8 (7.27%) RESTful
11 8 (7.27%) Vue
12 7 (6.36%) .NET Framework
12 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (6.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.36%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.82%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.91%) Blog
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.91%) CMDB
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.27%) Agile
2 51 (46.36%) CI/CD
3 43 (39.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (32.73%) DevOps
5 32 (29.09%) AI
6 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (19.09%) TDD
7 21 (19.09%) Web Development
8 17 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (15.45%) Mentoring
9 14 (12.73%) Clean Code
10 13 (11.82%) OO
10 13 (11.82%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (10.91%) API Integration
11 12 (10.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 12 (10.91%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (10.91%) Scrum
11 12 (10.91%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.00%) Analytics
12 11 (10.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 74 (67.27%) JavaScript
2 49 (44.55%) C#
2 49 (44.55%) SQL
3 26 (23.64%) Python
4 23 (20.91%) Java
5 16 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.91%) PHP
7 8 (7.27%) R
8 3 (2.73%) Go
8 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.82%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.91%) C++
10 1 (0.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 10 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.91%) Nagios
2 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.18%) Adobe
3 5 (4.55%) Google
4 4 (3.64%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.64%) Splunk
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.73%) Pega
5 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.91%) New Relic
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud