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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 83 41
Rank change year-on-year -40 -42 -21
Permanent jobs citing CSS 118 219 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.07% 4.85% 4.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.94% 19.57% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 108 98 326
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,625 £38,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.01% +4.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62,813 £62,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 912 1,119 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.29% 24.78% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 783 463 1,594
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,200 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,772 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 28 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 28 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 -37 76 £45,000 -18.18% 34
Lancashire +13 17 £40,000 - 9
Merseyside -34 12 £30,500 -6.15% 6
Cheshire -42 11 £31,000 -24.85% 2
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 -
CSS
England

CSS
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 (24.58%) WordPress
2 11 (9.32%) CMS
3 5 (4.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.39%) IIS
5 3 (2.54%) Apache
5 3 (2.54%) nginx
6 2 (1.69%) CICS
6 2 (1.69%) Confluence
6 2 (1.69%) JBoss
6 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.85%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.31%) Azure
2 50 (42.37%) AWS
3 36 (30.51%) GitHub
4 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.93%) Google Analytics
6 6 (5.08%) Figma
6 6 (5.08%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.24%) GCP
8 3 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.69%) Datadog
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.88%) Internet
2 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.69%) HTTP
3 2 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.02%) MySQL
3 9 (7.63%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (6.78%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.69%) DB2
8 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.85%) Power BI
9 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (49.15%) Git
2 10 (8.47%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.54%) GitLab
3 3 (2.54%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.69%) JUnit
4 2 (1.69%) Subversion
5 1 (0.85%) gulp
5 1 (0.85%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 27 (22.88%) Multimedia
2 23 (19.49%) Marketing
3 19 (16.10%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.08%) Advertising
6 6 (5.08%) Games
7 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Finance
8 4 (3.39%) Banking
8 4 (3.39%) Legal
9 3 (2.54%) French Language
9 3 (2.54%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.54%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.54%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 3 (2.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (50.00%) Developer
2 27 (22.88%) Trainee
3 16 (13.56%) Software Developer
4 15 (12.71%) Administrator
5 14 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (10.17%) .NET Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Senior
6 12 (10.17%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Trainee Administrator
6 12 (10.17%) Web Administrator
7 8 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Trainee Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Coordinator
8 7 (5.93%) Graduate
8 7 (5.93%) Lead
8 7 (5.93%) PHP Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Trainee Software Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (5.08%) HTML CSS Designer
9 6 (5.08%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (92.37%) HTML
2 27 (22.88%) .NET
3 20 (16.95%) AngularJS
4 19 (16.10%) React
5 18 (15.25%) CSS3
6 16 (13.56%) RESTful
7 15 (12.71%) .NET Core
7 15 (12.71%) HTML5
8 14 (11.86%) ASP.NET
9 12 (10.17%) REST
10 11 (9.32%) Entity Framework
11 10 (8.47%) Node.js
11 10 (8.47%) Vue
12 8 (6.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (5.93%) .NET Framework
13 7 (5.93%) JSON
14 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (5.08%) Spring
14 6 (5.08%) Spring Boot
15 5 (4.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.24%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Android
1 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.36%) CI/CD
2 36 (30.51%) Agile
2 36 (30.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (24.58%) Mentoring
4 21 (17.80%) AI
5 20 (16.95%) Web Development
6 19 (16.10%) DevOps
7 18 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.41%) Analytics
9 16 (13.56%) User Experience
10 15 (12.71%) API Integration
11 14 (11.86%) OOP
11 14 (11.86%) TDD
12 13 (11.02%) CRM
12 13 (11.02%) Microservices
12 13 (11.02%) Responsive Web Design
13 12 (10.17%) Scrum
14 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
14 11 (9.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (72.03%) JavaScript
2 42 (35.59%) SQL
3 41 (34.75%) Python
4 22 (18.64%) C#
5 21 (17.80%) Java
6 19 (16.10%) R
7 17 (14.41%) PHP
8 13 (11.02%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.54%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) AWS Certification
1 27 (22.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 27 (22.88%) Azure Certification
1 27 (22.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (18.64%) Degree
3 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.54%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.41%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.69%) Nagios
1 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) Adobe
3 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.24%) Splunk
5 4 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Pega
7 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.69%) New Relic
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow