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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -72 +2 -22
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,138 2,606 2,740
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 4.88% 4.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.19% 22.70% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 943 1,314 2,296
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,075
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -0.14% -4.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 7,029 11,479 13,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.52% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 6,737 11,320
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -61 1,040 £48,350 -12.09% 689
UK excluding London -69 788 £40,000 -23.81% 649
Work from Home -74 341 £52,500 -8.70% 351
London -80 285 £62,500 -7.41% 126
North of England -34 256 £30,500 -35.79% 138
South East -65 199 £50,000 -16.67% 191
North West -30 118 £31,000 -34.74% 67
Midlands -63 109 £40,000 -13.51% 93
Yorkshire -20 101 £30,500 -28.24% 50
East of England -32 101 £55,000 +10.00% 93
South West -69 71 £37,250 -35.22% 79
West Midlands -48 60 £30,500 -40.49% 38
East Midlands -51 50 £47,500 +26.67% 55
Scotland -65 39 £30,500 -40.78% 25
North East -8 37 £30,500 -39.00% 21
Wales -44 11 £42,000 +29.23% 36
Northern Ireland -29 3 £31,500 -30.00% 8
Channel Islands +3 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 72 (6.33%) WordPress
2 58 (5.10%) CMS
3 26 (2.28%) Confluence
4 22 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.79%) nginx
7 8 (0.70%) Drupal
8 7 (0.62%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) govService
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (2.64%) Adobe XD
2 24 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
4 14 (1.23%) Photoshop
4 14 (1.23%) Sketch
5 10 (0.88%) InVision
5 10 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) InDesign
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.18%) Elementor
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.49%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.088%) Magento
6 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 474 (41.65%) Azure
2 419 (36.82%) AWS
3 365 (32.07%) GitHub
4 80 (7.03%) Serverless
5 70 (6.15%) Figma
6 49 (4.31%) GCP
7 46 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (4.04%) Power Platform
8 34 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 32 (2.81%) SaaS
10 31 (2.72%) Google Analytics
11 25 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.93%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.93%) PowerApps
13 21 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (1.58%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.41%) Azure Functions
16 15 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 15 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 276 (24.25%) Internet
2 9 (0.79%) FTP
3 8 (0.70%) HTTP
4 6 (0.53%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) DNS
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.088%) Firewall
7 1 (0.088%) SSH
7 1 (0.088%) SSL
7 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.088%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.77%) MySQL
3 57 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 56 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 26 (2.28%) Power BI
8 25 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.85%) OLTP
10 14 (1.23%) DB2
11 12 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 11 (0.97%) Looker
13 7 (0.62%) GIS
14 6 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.53%) Metadata
14 6 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.35%) Redis
15 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 421 (36.99%) Git
2 90 (7.91%) JIRA
3 57 (5.01%) Jenkins
4 55 (4.83%) Selenium
5 40 (3.51%) Postman
6 37 (3.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 35 (3.08%) SoapUI
8 32 (2.81%) WebDriver
8 32 (2.81%) webpack
9 23 (2.02%) Axure RP
10 21 (1.85%) JUnit
11 17 (1.49%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.41%) JMeter
12 16 (1.41%) Mockito
12 16 (1.41%) TeamCity
12 16 (1.41%) Visual Studio
13 14 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.05%) Balsamiq
15 11 (0.97%) Babel
General
1 298 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 282 (24.78%) Multimedia
3 119 (10.46%) Finance
4 111 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.61%) Law
6 93 (8.17%) Marketing
7 59 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.90%) Banking
9 33 (2.90%) Legal
10 32 (2.81%) Retail
11 20 (1.76%) Advertising
12 19 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.32%) German Language
14 12 (1.05%) Publishing
15 10 (0.88%) Games
15 10 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.62%) Electronics
17 5 (0.44%) Local Government
17 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 605 (53.16%) Developer
2 274 (24.08%) Trainee
3 177 (15.55%) Senior
4 174 (15.29%) Software Developer
5 131 (11.51%) Trainee Developer
6 122 (10.72%) Trainee Software Developer
7 121 (10.63%) Senior Developer
8 107 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 72 (6.33%) Analyst
10 64 (5.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (5.54%) .NET Developer
12 57 (5.01%) Lead
13 54 (4.75%) Designer
14 38 (3.34%) React Developer
14 38 (3.34%) Software Engineer
15 37 (3.25%) Java Developer
16 32 (2.81%) Administrator
16 32 (2.81%) Web Developer
17 31 (2.72%) Web Administrator
18 29 (2.55%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (80.23%) CSS
2 301 (26.45%) React
3 210 (18.45%) .NET
4 127 (11.16%) Node.js
5 121 (10.63%) AngularJS
6 118 (10.37%) HTML5
7 109 (9.58%) RESTful
8 103 (9.05%) XML
9 99 (8.70%) JSON
10 84 (7.38%) CSS3
11 79 (6.94%) Vue
12 76 (6.68%) REST
13 69 (6.06%) ASP.NET
14 68 (5.98%) SOAP
15 67 (5.89%) .NET Core
16 59 (5.18%) jQuery
17 46 (4.04%) Web Services
18 42 (3.69%) .NET Framework
19 41 (3.60%) Spring
20 36 (3.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (3.16%) Mobile App
3 36 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.58%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.05%) Social Media
10 11 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (0.88%) Motion Graphics
12 9 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.70%) Cybercrime
13 8 (0.70%) e-Learning
13 8 (0.70%) W3C
14 7 (0.62%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.90%) Unix
2 29 (2.55%) Windows
3 22 (1.93%) Linux
4 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.88%) Android
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (36.47%) Agile
2 389 (34.18%) Mentoring
3 265 (23.29%) Cybersecurity
4 254 (22.32%) User Experience
5 245 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 174 (15.29%) CI/CD
8 161 (14.15%) Front End Development
9 136 (11.95%) DevOps
10 111 (9.75%) Web Development
11 108 (9.49%) Scrum
12 103 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (8.35%) UX Design
14 92 (8.08%) AI
15 91 (8.00%) Software Engineering
16 89 (7.82%) Microservices
17 85 (7.47%) MVC
18 81 (7.12%) Analytics
19 79 (6.94%) Clean Code
20 70 (6.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 881 (77.42%) JavaScript
2 420 (36.91%) Python
3 272 (23.90%) SQL
4 204 (17.93%) C#
5 166 (14.59%) TypeScript
6 143 (12.57%) R
7 141 (12.39%) Java
8 67 (5.89%) PHP
9 33 (2.90%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.97%) Ruby
13 4 (0.35%) ActionScript
13 4 (0.35%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.35%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.35%) XAML
14 3 (0.26%) Bash
14 3 (0.26%) Go
14 3 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 279 (24.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 275 (24.17%) Azure Certification
3 274 (24.08%) AWS Certification
3 274 (24.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 200 (17.57%) Degree
5 85 (7.47%) Security Cleared
6 53 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.78%) SC Cleared
8 36 (3.16%) ISTQB
9 32 (2.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 18 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.35%) ISEB
15 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.26%) PhD
17 2 (0.18%) CCA
17 2 (0.18%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.80%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.66%) QA
2 53 (4.66%) WCAG
3 30 (2.64%) GDPR
4 6 (0.53%) PERC
5 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (0.44%) SLA
6 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.26%) Section 508
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.088%) HL7
8 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.088%) NCSC
8 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (9.05%) Docker
2 14 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (5.89%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.55%) Terraform
3 13 (1.14%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) Argo
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) cPanel
6 3 (0.26%) Grafana
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.088%) Nagios
8 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 403 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.06%) Adobe
3 53 (4.66%) Google
4 44 (3.87%) Oracle
5 27 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.23%) Splunk
9 10 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.79%) Cisco
10 9 (0.79%) Hotjar
10 9 (0.79%) SAP
11 8 (0.70%) Screaming Frog
12 7 (0.62%) YouTube
13 6 (0.53%) Ahrefs
13 6 (0.53%) Facebook
13 6 (0.53%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.44%) Meraki