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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 74 53
Rank change year-on-year -107 -21 -21
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,066 1,694 4,264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 3.86% 4.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.69% 19.57% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 883 1,133 3,300
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,400 £31,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,375 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 9,118 8,654 20,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 19.71% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,699 6,032 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,023 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,454 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 17 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 21 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
England -84 992 £50,000 -16.67% 473
UK excluding London -83 777 £47,500 -13.64% 421
Work from Home -77 390 £55,000 -15.38% 198
London -92 231 £60,000 -14.29% 120
North of England -49 225 £40,000 -11.11% 93
South East -26 221 £50,000 -20.00% 120
Midlands -75 118 £45,000 - 66
North West -45 117 £38,750 -22.50% 47
East of England -42 102 £50,000 -24.48% 65
South West -59 83 £45,000 -21.74% 40
Yorkshire -25 76 £37,500 - 34
West Midlands -65 67 £45,000 -5.26% 23
East Midlands -56 51 £55,000 +37.50% 43
North East -21 32 £48,750 -9.30% 12
Scotland -79 17 £30,500 -44.55% 18
Wales -44 8 £43,370 -17.39% 14
Northern Ireland -36 3 £60,000 - 9

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
1 103 (9.66%) WordPress
2 54 (5.07%) CMS
3 44 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.41%) IIS
5 13 (1.22%) Confluence
6 11 (1.03%) Drupal
6 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.75%) Apache
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.094%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.094%) Site Server
Applications
1 21 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (1.50%) Adobe XD
3 15 (1.41%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.84%) Sketch
7 7 (0.66%) InDesign
7 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.47%) InVision
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.38%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.094%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.094%) Elementor
11 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.094%) Trello
11 1 (0.094%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.97%) Shopify
2 12 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.094%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.094%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 405 (37.99%) Azure
2 347 (32.55%) AWS
3 262 (24.58%) GitHub
4 100 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (6.19%) Figma
6 61 (5.72%) Power Platform
7 51 (4.78%) GCP
8 50 (4.69%) Serverless
9 49 (4.60%) SaaS
10 40 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.38%) PowerApps
12 35 (3.28%) Power Automate
13 33 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
14 31 (2.91%) Google Analytics
15 27 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 24 (2.25%) Azure AI
17 23 (2.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 23 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
18 22 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 194 (18.20%) Internet
2 11 (1.03%) HTTP
3 7 (0.66%) Network Security
4 5 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.38%) VoIP
6 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) SMS
7 2 (0.19%) SSL
7 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.094%) AMQP
8 1 (0.094%) Broadband
8 1 (0.094%) DNS
8 1 (0.094%) FTP
8 1 (0.094%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.094%) NAS
8 1 (0.094%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 95 (8.91%) MySQL
3 74 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (5.35%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.97%) Power BI
6 46 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.97%) OLTP
10 14 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.84%) DB2
13 9 (0.84%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.84%) Tableau
14 8 (0.75%) GIS
15 7 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.66%) FileMaker
16 6 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 306 (28.71%) Git
2 64 (6.00%) JIRA
3 43 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.56%) Selenium
5 27 (2.53%) Postman
6 25 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.25%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.78%) WebDriver
9 16 (1.50%) webpack
10 14 (1.31%) Axure RP
10 14 (1.31%) JUnit
11 12 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.03%) GitLab
13 10 (0.94%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.94%) Vite
14 9 (0.84%) Mockito
15 7 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.66%) Subversion
15 7 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 276 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.42%) Multimedia
3 128 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.19%) Marketing
5 86 (8.07%) Finance
6 50 (4.69%) Law
7 42 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.91%) Legal
11 28 (2.63%) Retail
12 27 (2.53%) Advertising
13 13 (1.22%) Games
14 12 (1.13%) Banking
15 9 (0.84%) German Language
16 8 (0.75%) Local Government
17 7 (0.66%) Health Technology
17 7 (0.66%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 599 (56.19%) Developer
2 177 (16.60%) Trainee
3 162 (15.20%) Senior
4 128 (12.01%) Senior Developer
5 126 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 114 (10.69%) Software Developer
7 105 (9.85%) .NET Developer
8 69 (6.47%) Trainee Developer
9 66 (6.19%) Designer
10 63 (5.91%) Administrator
11 57 (5.35%) Web Administrator
12 56 (5.25%) Trainee Software Developer
13 54 (5.07%) Web Developer
14 53 (4.97%) Software Engineer
14 53 (4.97%) Trainee Administrator
15 48 (4.50%) Lead
16 43 (4.03%) Analyst
17 41 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 40 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19 35 (3.28%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (85.27%) CSS
2 264 (24.77%) .NET
3 254 (23.83%) React
4 114 (10.69%) HTML5
5 107 (10.04%) .NET Core
6 105 (9.85%) Node.js
7 103 (9.66%) jQuery
8 102 (9.57%) Vue
9 101 (9.47%) AngularJS
10 99 (9.29%) RESTful
11 92 (8.63%) ASP.NET
12 90 (8.44%) CSS3
13 89 (8.35%) JSON
14 63 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
15 59 (5.53%) REST
16 58 (5.44%) SOAP
17 56 (5.25%) XML
18 47 (4.41%) Entity Framework
19 46 (4.32%) Laravel
20 37 (3.47%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 41 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 37 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.06%) Social Media
9 21 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.84%) Digital TV
15 9 (0.84%) Graphic Design
16 8 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
17 7 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.47%) Windows
2 34 (3.19%) Linux
3 21 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.59%) Unix
5 6 (0.56%) Android
5 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (29.55%) Agile
2 289 (27.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 237 (22.23%) Mentoring
4 216 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (19.98%) CI/CD
6 196 (18.39%) User Experience
7 165 (15.48%) Web Development
8 159 (14.92%) DevOps
9 156 (14.63%) AI
10 134 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
11 124 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (10.41%) Front End Development
13 109 (10.23%) Software Engineering
14 106 (9.94%) Computer Science
15 104 (9.76%) Scrum
16 89 (8.35%) Analytics
17 85 (7.97%) Microservices
18 82 (7.69%) UX Design
19 80 (7.50%) Clean Code
20 75 (7.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 723 (67.82%) JavaScript
2 368 (34.52%) SQL
3 318 (29.83%) Python
4 240 (22.51%) C#
5 157 (14.73%) TypeScript
6 136 (12.76%) PHP
7 104 (9.76%) R
8 101 (9.47%) Java
9 34 (3.19%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.59%) C++
12 13 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.22%) VBA
13 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.75%) C
15 7 (0.66%) VBScript
16 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.47%) Bash
16 5 (0.47%) Bicep
17 4 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 205 (19.23%) Degree
2 174 (16.32%) AWS Certification
2 174 (16.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 172 (16.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 172 (16.14%) Azure Certification
4 73 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.41%) Security Cleared
6 36 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 20 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
14 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.50%) WCAG
3 43 (4.03%) QA
4 34 (3.19%) GDPR
5 14 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.03%) SLA
7 7 (0.66%) GRC
7 7 (0.66%) PERC
8 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) NIST
12 1 (0.094%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (9.01%) Docker
2 17 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.50%) Terraform
3 8 (0.75%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.094%) Grafana
6 1 (0.094%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 338 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.22%) Adobe
3 47 (4.41%) Google
4 39 (3.66%) Oracle
5 24 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.31%) Splunk
7 10 (0.94%) Facebook
7 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 9 (0.84%) iManage
9 8 (0.75%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.75%) YouTube
10 7 (0.66%) SAP
11 6 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.56%) TikTok
12 5 (0.47%) Apple
12 5 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.47%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.47%) Sage