HTML Job Trends

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HTML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -88 -6 -13
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,084 2,045 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.50% 4.64% 4.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.88% 20.80% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 901 1,366 3,261
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

HTML 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,811 9,832 18,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 22.31% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 6,754 15,121
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HTML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

HTML job vacancy trend in the UK

HTML
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML

HTML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTML over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the UK over the 6 months to 9 March 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
England -80 982 £50,000 -16.67% 691
UK excluding London -74 765 £45,000 -18.18% 638
Work from Home -100 327 £52,500 -17.97% 258
North of England -29 255 £30,500 -32.22% 159
London -101 243 £62,500 -10.71% 167
South East -62 201 £50,000 -16.67% 160
North West -37 122 £31,500 -30.77% 72
Midlands -62 113 £45,000 -5.26% 96
Yorkshire -18 98 £30,500 -23.75% 62
East of England -61 75 £46,250 -30.15% 89
South West -70 75 £44,500 -25.83% 86
West Midlands -41 61 £30,500 -41.90% 39
East Midlands -51 52 £55,000 +41.03% 56
Scotland -70 36 £30,500 -42.18% 31
North East -7 35 £30,500 -44.55% 29
Wales -42 8 £36,120 +11.14% 29
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 74 (6.83%) WordPress
2 60 (5.54%) CMS
3 18 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.20%) Confluence
5 10 (0.92%) nginx
6 9 (0.83%) Drupal
7 7 (0.65%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.37%) Joomla!
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) IIS
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.40%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.20%) Photoshop
5 11 (1.01%) Sketch
6 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.74%) InVision
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.46%) InDesign
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.28%) Elementor
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 18 (1.66%) Shopify
2 13 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.092%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.092%) Magento
6 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 456 (42.07%) Azure
2 415 (38.28%) AWS
3 350 (32.29%) GitHub
4 74 (6.83%) Figma
5 73 (6.73%) Serverless
6 59 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (4.98%) GCP
8 39 (3.60%) SaaS
9 38 (3.51%) Power Platform
10 35 (3.23%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (1.66%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.57%) PowerApps
17 15 (1.38%) Entra ID
18 14 (1.29%) Azure Functions
18 14 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 263 (24.26%) Internet
2 11 (1.01%) HTTP
3 6 (0.55%) FTP
4 4 (0.37%) Intranet
4 4 (0.37%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.092%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.092%) NAS
7 1 (0.092%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 71 (6.55%) MySQL
3 48 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 29 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.68%) Power BI
6 21 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.85%) OLTP
8 15 (1.38%) DB2
9 14 (1.29%) Looker
10 12 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.65%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.28%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 406 (37.45%) Git
2 73 (6.73%) JIRA
3 53 (4.89%) Jenkins
4 46 (4.24%) Selenium
5 29 (2.68%) Postman
6 27 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 26 (2.40%) SoapUI
7 26 (2.40%) webpack
8 24 (2.21%) Axure RP
9 23 (2.12%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.66%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.29%) Vite
12 13 (1.20%) Balsamiq
12 13 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.11%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.11%) JUnit
14 11 (1.01%) Babel
14 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 259 (23.89%) Multimedia
2 252 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 126 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (8.95%) Finance
5 83 (7.66%) Marketing
6 61 (5.63%) Law
7 54 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 42 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.49%) Banking
9 27 (2.49%) Retail
10 24 (2.21%) Legal
11 20 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.38%) German Language
13 13 (1.20%) Advertising
14 9 (0.83%) Publishing
15 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.65%) Electronics
16 7 (0.65%) Games
17 6 (0.55%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 596 (54.98%) Developer
2 255 (23.52%) Trainee
3 176 (16.24%) Senior
4 165 (15.22%) Software Developer
5 130 (11.99%) Senior Developer
6 122 (11.25%) Trainee Developer
7 117 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 113 (10.42%) Trainee Software Developer
9 62 (5.72%) Designer
10 61 (5.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (5.44%) .NET Developer
12 54 (4.98%) Lead
13 44 (4.06%) Software Engineer
14 43 (3.97%) Analyst
15 42 (3.87%) React Developer
16 38 (3.51%) Web Developer
17 35 (3.23%) Administrator
18 31 (2.86%) Web Administrator
19 30 (2.77%) UX Designer
20 29 (2.68%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (83.39%) CSS
2 306 (28.23%) React
3 205 (18.91%) .NET
4 120 (11.07%) Node.js
5 117 (10.79%) AngularJS
6 101 (9.32%) HTML5
7 95 (8.76%) RESTful
8 86 (7.93%) Vue
9 80 (7.38%) XML
10 77 (7.10%) CSS3
11 75 (6.92%) JSON
12 64 (5.90%) SOAP
13 62 (5.72%) REST
14 61 (5.63%) jQuery
15 54 (4.98%) ASP.NET
16 51 (4.70%) .NET Core
17 42 (3.87%) .NET Framework
18 38 (3.51%) Web Services
19 34 (3.14%) Laravel
20 33 (3.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 24 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.48%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.20%) Social Media
12 11 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.83%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.74%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 6 (0.55%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.86%) Unix
2 24 (2.21%) Linux
3 20 (1.85%) Windows
4 13 (1.20%) Android
4 13 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (33.39%) Mentoring
2 360 (33.21%) Agile
3 241 (22.23%) Cybersecurity
4 231 (21.31%) User Experience
5 230 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
6 224 (20.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 183 (16.88%) CI/CD
8 149 (13.75%) Front End Development
9 140 (12.92%) DevOps
10 112 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (10.24%) AI
12 110 (10.15%) Web Development
13 101 (9.32%) Software Engineering
14 100 (9.23%) Scrum
15 97 (8.95%) Analytics
16 94 (8.67%) UX Design
17 93 (8.58%) Computer Science
18 81 (7.47%) Clean Code
19 74 (6.83%) Microservices
20 70 (6.46%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 824 (76.01%) JavaScript
2 404 (37.27%) Python
3 277 (25.55%) SQL
4 183 (16.88%) C#
5 177 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 134 (12.36%) R
7 116 (10.70%) Java
8 82 (7.56%) PHP
9 34 (3.14%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.92%) Ruby
11 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.65%) C++
14 6 (0.55%) Bash
14 6 (0.55%) C
14 6 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.37%) Bicep
15 4 (0.37%) SOQL
15 4 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 258 (23.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 255 (23.52%) AWS Certification
2 255 (23.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 255 (23.52%) Azure Certification
3 222 (20.48%) Degree
4 80 (7.38%) Security Cleared
5 74 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (4.80%) SC Cleared
7 28 (2.58%) ISTQB
8 23 (2.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.28%) PhD
14 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.55%) Accessibility
2 52 (4.80%) QA
2 52 (4.80%) WCAG
3 19 (1.75%) GDPR
4 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.55%) PERC
5 6 (0.55%) SLA
6 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) NIST
8 2 (0.18%) Section 508
9 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.092%) GRC
9 1 (0.092%) HL7
9 1 (0.092%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (7.84%) Docker
2 16 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.49%) Terraform
3 7 (0.65%) Kibana
4 4 (0.37%) Argo
5 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Nagios
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 357 (32.93%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.17%) Google
3 54 (4.98%) Adobe
4 41 (3.78%) Oracle
5 25 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.20%) Hotjar
7 11 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.92%) Splunk
9 7 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.65%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.65%) SAP
10 6 (0.55%) Screaming Frog
11 5 (0.46%) iManage
11 5 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.37%) New Relic
12 4 (0.37%) Pardot
13 3 (0.28%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.28%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.28%) Zoho