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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 90 37
Rank change year-on-year -48 -53 +37
Permanent jobs citing CSS 109 215 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.94% 4.17% 4.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.23% 18.49% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 102 92 261
10th Percentile £28,550 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,938 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,886
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 1,066 1,163 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.24% 22.56% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 880 490 1,218
10th Percentile £39,875 £35,854 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -9.33% 25
Lancashire +8 18 £42,500 -2.86% 11
Cheshire -46 10 £36,250 -27.50% 8
Merseyside -31 7 £60,000 +84.62% 7
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 23 (21.10%) WordPress
2 13 (11.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (8.26%) CMS
4 5 (4.59%) IIS
5 2 (1.83%) Apache
5 2 (1.83%) CICS
5 2 (1.83%) JBoss
5 2 (1.83%) nginx
6 1 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.92%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Magento
2 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (53.21%) Azure
2 37 (33.94%) AWS
3 24 (22.02%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (21.10%) GitHub
5 17 (15.60%) Power Automate
6 14 (12.84%) Power Platform
7 13 (11.93%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (11.93%) PowerApps
8 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (5.50%) Azure AI
9 6 (5.50%) Figma
9 6 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (4.59%) Google Analytics
11 4 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.67%) GCP
11 4 (3.67%) npm
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.83%) Datadog
12 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.75%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.83%) SSL
4 1 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (15.60%) MongoDB
3 16 (14.68%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.26%) MySQL
5 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.59%) Power BI
8 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.83%) Db2
9 2 (1.83%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (27.52%) Git
2 7 (6.42%) JIRA
3 4 (3.67%) Maven
3 4 (3.67%) Storybook
4 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.75%) GitLab
4 3 (2.75%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.83%) Subversion
6 1 (0.92%) gulp
6 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 19 (17.43%) Marketing
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Advertising
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Games
6 4 (3.67%) Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Legal
6 4 (3.67%) Publishing
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.75%) Finance
8 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (64.22%) Developer
2 21 (19.27%) .NET Developer
3 19 (17.43%) Senior
4 18 (16.51%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Software Developer
7 10 (9.17%) Trainee
8 9 (8.26%) Administrator
9 8 (7.34%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (7.34%) Web Administrator
10 6 (5.50%) C# Developer
10 6 (5.50%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Designer
10 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.50%) HTML CSS Designer
10 6 (5.50%) Lead
10 6 (5.50%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (90.83%) HTML
2 34 (31.19%) .NET
3 25 (22.94%) .NET Core
4 24 (22.02%) ASP.NET
5 21 (19.27%) AngularJS
6 19 (17.43%) CSS3
7 18 (16.51%) Node.js
8 17 (15.60%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (15.60%) Entity Framework
9 16 (14.68%) HTML5
10 14 (12.84%) React
11 13 (11.93%) REST
12 11 (10.09%) RESTful
13 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (8.26%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (8.26%) Vue
15 8 (7.34%) SPFx
16 7 (6.42%) .NET Framework
16 7 (6.42%) JSON
17 6 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.50%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Social Media
7 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.79%) CI/CD
2 50 (45.87%) Agile
3 43 (39.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (30.28%) AI
5 32 (29.36%) DevOps
6 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.35%) TDD
7 20 (18.35%) Web Development
8 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.76%) Mentoring
10 13 (11.93%) API Integration
11 12 (11.01%) Analytics
11 12 (11.01%) BDD
11 12 (11.01%) Clean Code
11 12 (11.01%) OO
11 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.09%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (10.09%) User Experience
13 10 (9.17%) Microservices
13 10 (9.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 70 (64.22%) JavaScript
2 50 (45.87%) SQL
3 44 (40.37%) C#
4 26 (23.85%) Python
5 23 (21.10%) Java
6 15 (13.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (11.93%) PHP
8 8 (7.34%) R
9 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.75%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.92%) C++
10 1 (0.92%) Go
10 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
2 10 (9.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (9.17%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.83%) Nagios
2 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (42.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.26%) Adobe
3 6 (5.50%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) Splunk
5 4 (3.67%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.75%) Oracle
6 3 (2.75%) Pega
7 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.83%) New Relic
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow