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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 62 41
Rank change year-on-year -56 -21 -23
Permanent jobs citing CSS 120 246 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.17% 5.45% 4.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.58% 24.58% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 109 121 315
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -0.47%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £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 823 1,001 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.06% 22.17% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 705 546 1,568
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,375 £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 £89,375 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

CSS
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 11 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 11 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 79 £45,000 -18.18% 20
Merseyside -40 14 £30,500 -6.15% 6
Lancashire +10 13 £40,000 +6.67% 13
Cheshire -55 12 £30,500 -28.24% 5
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 30 (25.00%) WordPress
2 10 (8.33%) CMS
3 3 (2.50%) Apache
3 3 (2.50%) IIS
3 3 (2.50%) nginx
4 2 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.67%) CICS
4 2 (1.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Shopify
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Magento
3 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.00%) Azure
2 55 (45.83%) AWS
3 39 (32.50%) GitHub
4 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.83%) GCP
5 7 (5.83%) Google Analytics
6 6 (5.00%) Figma
7 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.50%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Datadog
8 2 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.83%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.83%) Firebase
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.83%) Kontent
9 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (29.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (1.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) MySQL
2 12 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.67%) DB2
7 2 (1.67%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (58.33%) Git
2 9 (7.50%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.50%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) JUnit
4 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) Subversion
5 1 (0.83%) gulp
5 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 35 (29.17%) Multimedia
2 20 (16.67%) Marketing
3 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Finance
7 5 (4.17%) Advertising
7 5 (4.17%) Games
8 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Banking
9 3 (2.50%) French Language
9 3 (2.50%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.50%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.50%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (47.50%) Developer
2 35 (29.17%) Trainee
3 18 (15.00%) Software Developer
4 17 (14.17%) Administrator
5 14 (11.67%) Senior
5 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.67%) Trainee Administrator
5 14 (11.67%) Web Administrator
6 12 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (10.00%) Trainee Developer
7 11 (9.17%) Trainee Software Developer
8 9 (7.50%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.67%) PHP Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Coordinator
10 7 (5.83%) Graduate
10 7 (5.83%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Designer
11 6 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (5.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (94.17%) HTML
2 23 (19.17%) .NET
2 23 (19.17%) React
3 18 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 17 (14.17%) CSS3
4 17 (14.17%) RESTful
5 14 (11.67%) HTML5
6 11 (9.17%) .NET Core
7 10 (8.33%) ASP.NET
7 10 (8.33%) REST
8 9 (7.50%) Vue
9 7 (5.83%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.83%) Entity Framework
9 7 (5.83%) Spring
9 7 (5.83%) Spring Boot
10 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (5.00%) JSON
10 6 (5.00%) Kafka
10 6 (5.00%) Laravel
10 6 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Android
1 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.83%) Mentoring
2 33 (27.50%) Agile
3 32 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 29 (24.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (19.17%) Web Development
7 20 (16.67%) AI
8 18 (15.00%) User Experience
9 16 (13.33%) Analytics
9 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.67%) DevOps
10 14 (11.67%) OOP
11 13 (10.83%) Microservices
12 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.17%) Clean Code
13 11 (9.17%) Front End Development
13 11 (9.17%) Responsive Web Design
13 11 (9.17%) Scrum
14 10 (8.33%) API Integration
15 9 (7.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 92 (76.67%) JavaScript
2 46 (38.33%) Python
3 35 (29.17%) SQL
4 23 (19.17%) R
5 17 (14.17%) C#
5 17 (14.17%) Java
5 17 (14.17%) PHP
6 16 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.67%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (29.17%) AWS Certification
1 35 (29.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 35 (29.17%) Azure Certification
1 35 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (15.83%) Degree
3 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.83%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.67%) cPanel
2 2 (1.67%) Nagios
2 2 (1.67%) Plesk
2 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) Google
3 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) Splunk
5 3 (2.50%) Adobe
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle
5 3 (2.50%) Pega
6 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.67%) New Relic
6 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow