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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -73 +2 -22
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,140 2,616 2,726
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.90% 4.89% 4.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.10% 22.66% 19.78%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,324 2,279
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -0.27% -4.09%
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 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £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 £109,875 £109,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -58 1,039 £49,200 -12.53% 705
UK excluding London -69 786 £40,000 -23.81% 665
Work from Home -80 344 £52,500 -8.70% 312
London -77 287 £62,500 -7.41% 133
North of England -36 257 £30,500 -35.79% 144
South East -61 194 £50,000 -16.67% 196
North West -34 118 £31,000 -38.00% 69
Midlands -70 111 £40,000 -13.51% 88
Yorkshire -24 101 £30,500 -28.24% 54
East of England -34 101 £55,000 +10.00% 98
South West -71 70 £38,500 -33.04% 81
West Midlands -53 62 £30,500 -40.49% 35
East Midlands -50 50 £47,500 +26.67% 53
Scotland -59 40 £30,500 -42.18% 28
North East -2 38 £30,500 -39.00% 22
Wales -43 11 £42,000 +29.23% 36
Northern Ireland -28 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 (6.32%) WordPress
2 59 (5.18%) CMS
3 26 (2.28%) Confluence
4 22 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.79%) Drupal
6 9 (0.79%) nginx
7 7 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) govService
9 3 (0.26%) IIS
9 3 (0.26%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.26%) Liferay
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (2.63%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.93%) 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 (0.61%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.088%) Magento
6 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 474 (41.58%) Azure
2 417 (36.58%) AWS
3 370 (32.46%) GitHub
4 80 (7.02%) Serverless
5 69 (6.05%) Figma
6 47 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 43 (3.77%) GCP
8 34 (2.98%) Power Automate
9 32 (2.81%) Google Analytics
9 32 (2.81%) SaaS
10 25 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 22 (1.93%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (1.58%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.40%) Azure Functions
14 16 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 280 (24.56%) 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
1 109 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.75%) MySQL
3 57 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 56 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.37%) Power BI
8 25 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.84%) OLTP
10 14 (1.23%) DB2
11 12 (1.05%) Looker
11 12 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.61%) GIS
13 6 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.53%) Metadata
13 6 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 421 (36.93%) Git
2 90 (7.89%) JIRA
3 57 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 55 (4.82%) Selenium
5 40 (3.51%) Postman
6 37 (3.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 35 (3.07%) SoapUI
8 32 (2.81%) WebDriver
8 32 (2.81%) webpack
9 23 (2.02%) Axure RP
10 21 (1.84%) JUnit
11 17 (1.49%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.40%) JMeter
12 16 (1.40%) Mockito
12 16 (1.40%) TeamCity
12 16 (1.40%) Visual Studio
13 14 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.05%) Balsamiq
15 11 (0.96%) Babel
General
1 293 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 286 (25.09%) Multimedia
3 120 (10.53%) Finance
4 112 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (8.07%) Law
6 86 (7.54%) Marketing
7 59 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.89%) Banking
9 33 (2.89%) Legal
10 32 (2.81%) Retail
11 20 (1.75%) 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 (0.61%) Electronics
17 5 (0.44%) Local Government
17 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 606 (53.16%) Developer
2 278 (24.39%) Trainee
3 178 (15.61%) Software Developer
4 172 (15.09%) Senior
5 134 (11.75%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (10.96%) Trainee Software Developer
7 116 (10.18%) Senior Developer
8 101 (8.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 72 (6.32%) Analyst
10 64 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (5.53%) .NET Developer
12 57 (5.00%) Lead
13 52 (4.56%) Designer
14 40 (3.51%) Software Engineer
15 38 (3.33%) React Developer
16 37 (3.25%) Java Developer
17 32 (2.81%) Administrator
18 31 (2.72%) Web Administrator
19 29 (2.54%) C# Developer
19 29 (2.54%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (80.26%) CSS
2 296 (25.96%) React
3 212 (18.60%) .NET
4 122 (10.70%) AngularJS
5 121 (10.61%) Node.js
6 118 (10.35%) HTML5
7 103 (9.04%) RESTful
7 103 (9.04%) XML
8 99 (8.68%) JSON
9 84 (7.37%) CSS3
10 79 (6.93%) Vue
11 78 (6.84%) REST
12 70 (6.14%) SOAP
13 69 (6.05%) ASP.NET
14 67 (5.88%) .NET Core
15 59 (5.18%) jQuery
16 46 (4.04%) Web Services
17 42 (3.68%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.60%) Spring
19 36 (3.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (3.25%) Mobile App
3 37 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.58%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.05%) Social Media
10 11 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.79%) Motion Graphics
13 8 (0.70%) Cybercrime
13 8 (0.70%) e-Learning
13 8 (0.70%) W3C
14 7 (0.61%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.89%) Unix
2 29 (2.54%) Windows
3 22 (1.93%) Linux
4 11 (0.96%) 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
1 413 (36.23%) Agile
2 394 (34.56%) Mentoring
3 269 (23.60%) Cybersecurity
4 249 (21.84%) User Experience
5 240 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 217 (19.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 171 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 163 (14.30%) Front End Development
9 133 (11.67%) DevOps
10 108 (9.47%) Scrum
11 106 (9.30%) Web Development
12 104 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (8.25%) Software Engineering
14 92 (8.07%) AI
15 90 (7.89%) UX Design
16 89 (7.81%) Microservices
17 85 (7.46%) MVC
18 82 (7.19%) Analytics
19 80 (7.02%) Clean Code
20 70 (6.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 882 (77.37%) JavaScript
2 424 (37.19%) Python
3 274 (24.04%) SQL
4 205 (17.98%) C#
5 167 (14.65%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.63%) R
7 141 (12.37%) Java
8 67 (5.88%) PHP
9 33 (2.89%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.96%) Ruby
13 6 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.35%) XAML
15 3 (0.26%) C++
15 3 (0.26%) RPG
15 3 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 283 (24.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.47%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.39%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 199 (17.46%) Degree
5 87 (7.63%) Security Cleared
6 54 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.86%) SC Cleared
8 36 (3.16%) ISTQB
9 32 (2.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 18 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.79%) 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 (13.77%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.65%) WCAG
3 48 (4.21%) QA
4 29 (2.54%) GDPR
5 6 (0.53%) PERC
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.44%) SLA
7 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.26%) Section 508
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.088%) HL7
9 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.088%) NCSC
9 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (8.51%) Docker
2 14 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.54%) 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
1 407 (35.70%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.88%) Adobe
3 54 (4.74%) Google
4 44 (3.86%) Oracle
5 27 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.23%) Splunk
9 10 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.88%) Hotjar
10 9 (0.79%) Cisco
10 9 (0.79%) SAP
11 8 (0.70%) Screaming Frog
12 7 (0.61%) YouTube
13 6 (0.53%) Ahrefs
13 6 (0.53%) Facebook
13 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.44%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.44%) Meraki
14 5 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud