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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -69 +3 -20
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,160 2,788 2,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 4.94% 4.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.51% 22.83% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 942 1,485 2,001
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 7,025 12,214 12,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.91% 21.63% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,266 7,374 10,441
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,527 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £107,500
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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -62 1,055 £47,500 -13.64% 606
UK excluding London -71 800 £42,000 -20.00% 571
Work from Home -80 356 £52,500 -8.70% 222
London -70 295 £65,000 -3.70% 160
North of England -37 250 £30,500 -39.00% 146
South East -62 203 £48,750 -18.75% 165
East of England -30 117 £55,000 +10.00% 73
North West -34 116 £34,500 -27.37% 76
Midlands -80 102 £40,000 -15.79% 97
Yorkshire -19 101 £30,500 -41.90% 52
South West -77 73 £40,000 -30.43% 55
West Midlands -60 56 £30,500 -40.49% 56
East Midlands -52 47 £45,000 +17.65% 41
Scotland -64 36 £30,500 -41.90% 27
North East -5 33 £30,500 -41.90% 21
Wales -45 17 £60,000 +84.62% 19
Northern Ireland -25 3 £31,500 -21.25% 2
Channel Islands +4 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 76 (6.55%) WordPress
2 66 (5.69%) CMS
3 26 (2.24%) Confluence
4 22 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.12%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.78%) Drupal
6 9 (0.78%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.60%) Apache
7 7 (0.60%) IIS
7 7 (0.60%) nginx
8 6 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.17%) Mendix
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) Camunda
Applications
1 28 (2.41%) Adobe XD
2 25 (2.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 17 (1.47%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.29%) Sketch
6 13 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.78%) InVision
8 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
9 8 (0.69%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.26%) InDesign
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.17%) Elementor
12 2 (0.17%) Windchill
13 1 (0.086%) CapCut
13 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (2.41%) Shopify
2 18 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.52%) Sprinklr
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.086%) Magento
7 1 (0.086%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 461 (39.74%) Azure
2 397 (34.22%) AWS
3 328 (28.28%) GitHub
4 83 (7.16%) Serverless
5 74 (6.38%) Figma
6 52 (4.48%) GCP
7 47 (4.05%) Google Analytics
8 46 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.97%) Power Platform
9 35 (3.02%) SaaS
10 34 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 27 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (1.98%) Entra ID
14 22 (1.90%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.64%) Azure Functions
16 18 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 246 (21.21%) Internet
2 11 (0.95%) FTP
3 8 (0.69%) HTTP
4 6 (0.52%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) DNS
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) Network Security
7 1 (0.086%) Firewall
7 1 (0.086%) SSH
7 1 (0.086%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.086%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 94 (8.10%) MySQL
3 65 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 61 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.16%) Power BI
8 23 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.81%) OLTP
10 16 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 14 (1.21%) DB2
12 10 (0.86%) GIS
12 10 (0.86%) Looker
13 9 (0.78%) Metadata
14 6 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (0.52%) Redis
15 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 412 (35.52%) Git
2 86 (7.41%) JIRA
3 55 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 50 (4.31%) Selenium
5 36 (3.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 35 (3.02%) webpack
7 34 (2.93%) Postman
8 29 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 27 (2.33%) WebDriver
10 25 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 24 (2.07%) JUnit
12 21 (1.81%) Axure RP
13 20 (1.72%) JMeter
13 20 (1.72%) Mockito
14 18 (1.55%) Visual Studio
15 16 (1.38%) TeamCity
16 15 (1.29%) Babel
17 14 (1.21%) Bitbucket
17 14 (1.21%) Cucumber
18 11 (0.95%) Balsamiq
General
1 320 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 254 (21.90%) Multimedia
3 127 (10.95%) Finance
4 119 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (9.83%) Law
6 112 (9.66%) Marketing
7 60 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.45%) Retail
9 37 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (2.93%) Banking
11 32 (2.76%) Legal
12 21 (1.81%) Advertising
13 18 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.38%) Publishing
15 15 (1.29%) German Language
16 10 (0.86%) Games
17 9 (0.78%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.43%) Electronics
18 5 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 606 (52.24%) Developer
2 245 (21.12%) Trainee
3 196 (16.90%) Senior
4 155 (13.36%) Software Developer
5 137 (11.81%) Senior Developer
6 130 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 115 (9.91%) Trainee Developer
8 106 (9.14%) Trainee Software Developer
9 76 (6.55%) Analyst
10 68 (5.86%) .NET Developer
11 61 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 54 (4.66%) Lead
13 52 (4.48%) Designer
14 44 (3.79%) Web Developer
15 41 (3.53%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 41 (3.53%) Software Engineer
16 33 (2.84%) React Developer
17 32 (2.76%) Administrator
17 32 (2.76%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 925 (79.74%) CSS
2 305 (26.29%) React
3 218 (18.79%) .NET
4 134 (11.55%) RESTful
5 130 (11.21%) HTML5
6 128 (11.03%) Node.js
7 123 (10.60%) JSON
8 120 (10.34%) AngularJS
8 120 (10.34%) XML
9 89 (7.67%) CSS3
10 84 (7.24%) REST
11 80 (6.90%) Vue
12 73 (6.29%) .NET Core
12 73 (6.29%) ASP.NET
13 60 (5.17%) SOAP
14 59 (5.09%) jQuery
15 58 (5.00%) Web Services
16 53 (4.57%) .NET Framework
17 43 (3.71%) GraphQL
17 43 (3.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
2 47 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
4 32 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 20 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.21%) Social Media
11 12 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.03%) Motion Graphics
12 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.69%) Cybercrime
14 8 (0.69%) W3C
15 7 (0.60%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.02%) Unix
2 30 (2.59%) Windows
3 25 (2.16%) Linux
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.86%) Android
6 7 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (37.41%) Agile
2 361 (31.12%) Mentoring
3 275 (23.71%) User Experience
4 269 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (21.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 237 (20.43%) Cybersecurity
7 179 (15.43%) CI/CD
8 163 (14.05%) Front End Development
9 154 (13.28%) DevOps
10 131 (11.29%) Web Development
11 110 (9.48%) UX Design
12 106 (9.14%) Scrum
13 103 (8.88%) Analytics
14 100 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 100 (8.62%) Microservices
15 96 (8.28%) AI
16 94 (8.10%) MVC
17 88 (7.59%) Software Engineering
18 84 (7.24%) Clean Code
19 79 (6.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 902 (77.76%) JavaScript
2 389 (33.53%) Python
3 272 (23.45%) SQL
4 216 (18.62%) C#
5 180 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 135 (11.64%) Java
7 131 (11.29%) R
8 74 (6.38%) PHP
9 31 (2.67%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.95%) Ruby
13 5 (0.43%) Bicep
13 5 (0.43%) Go
14 4 (0.34%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.34%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.34%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.34%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 250 (21.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 246 (21.21%) Azure Certification
3 245 (21.12%) AWS Certification
3 245 (21.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 193 (16.64%) Degree
5 85 (7.33%) Security Cleared
6 49 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (3.62%) SC Cleared
8 31 (2.67%) ISTQB
9 27 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.43%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.34%) ISEB
15 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.26%) PhD
17 2 (0.17%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (14.14%) Accessibility
2 69 (5.95%) QA
3 49 (4.22%) WCAG
4 34 (2.93%) GDPR
5 6 (0.52%) PERC
5 6 (0.52%) SLA
6 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.43%) Section 508
7 2 (0.17%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.086%) CDISC
8 1 (0.086%) DICOM
8 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.086%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.086%) NCSC
8 1 (0.086%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.086%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 115 (9.91%) Docker
2 15 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.41%) Terraform
3 17 (1.47%) Kibana
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.26%) cPanel
7 3 (0.26%) Grafana
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 2 (0.17%) Ansible
8 2 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.086%) Nagios
9 1 (0.086%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 374 (32.24%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.72%) Adobe
3 61 (5.26%) Google
4 44 (3.79%) Oracle
5 37 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.55%) Splunk
9 12 (1.03%) Cisco
10 10 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.78%) Apple
12 8 (0.69%) Ahrefs
12 8 (0.69%) Hotjar
12 8 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.69%) Screaming Frog
13 7 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.60%) YouTube
14 6 (0.52%) Facebook
14 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.52%) SAP