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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 108 49
Rank change year-on-year -89 -59 +2
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,119 1,367 3,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 2.77% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.45% 15.95% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 874 810 1,733
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,110 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11,840 8,572 16,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 17.36% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,484 5,491 10,707
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 16 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 16 September 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 -73 1,049 £52,000 -5.45% 1,079
UK excluding London -65 836 £50,000 - 592
Work from Home -49 509 £53,712 -2.34% 449
South East +1 264 £50,000 -4.76% 129
London -107 236 £60,000 -7.69% 610
North of England -53 220 £50,000 +11.11% 146
East of England -9 124 £48,760 -11.35% 54
North West -54 112 £47,500 -9.52% 79
South West -28 107 £52,500 +35.48% 70
Midlands -89 90 £50,000 -4.76% 106
North East -20 60 £53,500 +40.42% 25
Yorkshire -32 48 £50,000 +25.00% 45
East Midlands -73 45 £50,000 -9.09% 47
West Midlands -77 45 £48,750 -0.51% 59
Wales -76 24 £38,500 -42.96% 16
Scotland -56 7 £32,500 -38.10% 50

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 73 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 54 (4.83%) CMS
3 46 (4.11%) WordPress
4 41 (3.66%) Confluence
5 39 (3.49%) IIS
6 17 (1.52%) Apache
7 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.89%) Drupal
10 7 (0.63%) JBoss
11 6 (0.54%) Moodle
11 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.45%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.45%) nginx
13 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.089%) Oracle 10gAS
15 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.70%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.25%) Adobe XD
5 13 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
8 9 (0.80%) InDesign
8 9 (0.80%) Sketch
9 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.36%) Elementor
11 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.27%) Trello
11 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.18%) InVision
13 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (2.50%) Shopify
2 26 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.63%) Magento
4 4 (0.36%) Line 50
4 4 (0.36%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.27%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.089%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.089%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 346 (30.92%) Azure
2 200 (17.87%) AWS
3 153 (13.67%) GitHub
4 150 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.94%) Power Platform
6 81 (7.24%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (6.70%) Azure AI
8 73 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
9 72 (6.43%) Power Automate
10 70 (6.26%) PowerApps
11 65 (5.81%) Figma
12 40 (3.57%) Serverless
13 34 (3.04%) SaaS
14 33 (2.95%) GCP
14 33 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (2.95%) Google Analytics
15 28 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (2.23%) OneDrive
18 21 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.56%) Internet
2 10 (0.89%) Intranet
3 9 (0.80%) HTTP
3 9 (0.80%) SSL
3 9 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.63%) DNS
5 6 (0.54%) SMS
5 6 (0.54%) SNMP
5 6 (0.54%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.45%) VoIP
7 4 (0.36%) 5G
7 4 (0.36%) Network Security
8 3 (0.27%) 4G
8 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.27%) SSH
9 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.18%) Firewall
10 1 (0.089%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.089%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.089%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 166 (14.83%) SQL Server
3 142 (12.69%) MongoDB
4 123 (10.99%) MySQL
5 93 (8.31%) Relational Database
6 72 (6.43%) Power BI
7 61 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (2.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.52%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.43%) Metadata
12 11 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.98%) GIS
12 11 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.89%) Redis
14 8 (0.71%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.63%) OLTP
15 7 (0.63%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (17.61%) Git
2 65 (5.81%) JIRA
3 46 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.70%) Selenium
5 15 (1.34%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.34%) GitLab
6 14 (1.25%) JUnit
6 14 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.16%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.80%) Mockito
9 9 (0.80%) Postman
10 8 (0.71%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.71%) JMeter
10 8 (0.71%) Maven
11 7 (0.63%) MSI
11 7 (0.63%) Storybook
11 7 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 353 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 158 (14.12%) Marketing
3 123 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 87 (7.77%) Finance
6 84 (7.51%) Law
7 63 (5.63%) Advertising
8 39 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (3.22%) Legal
9 36 (3.22%) Retail
10 21 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (1.70%) Games
12 18 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 17 (1.52%) Banking
14 14 (1.25%) Publishing
15 11 (0.98%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.89%) Aviation
16 10 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 709 (63.36%) Developer
2 219 (19.57%) .NET Developer
3 209 (18.68%) Senior
4 155 (13.85%) Senior Developer
5 126 (11.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 75 (6.70%) Web Developer
7 66 (5.90%) Software Developer
8 60 (5.36%) PHP Developer
9 58 (5.18%) Designer
9 58 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 53 (4.74%) Analyst
10 53 (4.74%) C# Developer
11 50 (4.47%) Lead
12 43 (3.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 38 (3.40%) C# .NET Developer
14 35 (3.13%) .NET Software Developer
15 32 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 31 (2.77%) Junior
16 31 (2.77%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 30 (2.68%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 963 (86.06%) CSS
2 393 (35.12%) .NET
3 235 (21.00%) .NET Core
4 224 (20.02%) ASP.NET
5 207 (18.50%) React
6 177 (15.82%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (12.96%) HTML5
8 133 (11.89%) Node.js
9 127 (11.35%) jQuery
10 125 (11.17%) Entity Framework
11 110 (9.83%) CSS3
12 109 (9.74%) Vue
13 105 (9.38%) RESTful
14 102 (9.12%) REST
15 91 (8.13%) JSON
16 83 (7.42%) AngularJS
17 81 (7.24%) .NET Framework
18 70 (6.26%) ML.NET
19 63 (5.63%) XML
20 61 (5.45%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
2 45 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
3 40 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.22%) Social Media
5 34 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 27 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 25 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 24 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
10 19 (1.70%) Biopharmaceutical
10 19 (1.70%) Digital TV
10 19 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.25%) Graphic Design
12 12 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (1.07%) Robotics
13 11 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.97%) Windows
2 72 (6.43%) Linux
3 33 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.63%) Unix
5 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.27%) AIX
8 3 (0.27%) Debian
9 2 (0.18%) Android
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.089%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (38.07%) Agile
2 389 (34.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 352 (31.46%) CI/CD
4 284 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (21.27%) AI
6 235 (21.00%) DevOps
7 207 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 207 (18.50%) User Experience
8 159 (14.21%) Web Development
9 131 (11.71%) Mentoring
10 120 (10.72%) Software Engineering
11 118 (10.55%) Test Automation
12 109 (9.74%) Machine Learning
13 104 (9.29%) Analytics
13 104 (9.29%) Front End Development
14 96 (8.58%) Microservices
15 95 (8.49%) Scrum
16 94 (8.40%) Computer Science
17 89 (7.95%) UX Design
18 83 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 677 (60.50%) JavaScript
2 457 (40.84%) SQL
3 393 (35.12%) C#
4 187 (16.71%) TypeScript
5 159 (14.21%) PHP
6 158 (14.12%) Python
7 80 (7.15%) Java
8 37 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 32 (2.86%) C++
10 19 (1.70%) VBA
11 15 (1.34%) Go
11 15 (1.34%) VB.NET
12 14 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.16%) C
13 13 (1.16%) Ruby
14 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.80%) Bicep
16 8 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.63%) VBScript
18 6 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 194 (17.34%) Degree
2 102 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 87 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.70%) MBA
7 9 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.089%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.089%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (17.25%) Accessibility
2 88 (7.86%) WCAG
3 75 (6.70%) QA
4 42 (3.75%) GDPR
5 15 (1.34%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.07%) SLA
7 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.63%) NCSC
8 7 (0.63%) PERC
9 6 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.27%) GRC
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) WAI
11 3 (0.27%) WAI-ARIA
12 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 175 (15.64%) Docker
2 23 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.71%) Kibana
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.45%) Nagios
5 4 (0.36%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.089%) Ansible
8 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 324 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.42%) Adobe
3 46 (4.11%) Google
4 41 (3.66%) Facebook
5 34 (3.04%) Oracle
6 30 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.06%) YouTube
8 16 (1.43%) Splunk
9 14 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 10 (0.89%) Sage
12 9 (0.80%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.71%) OneLogin
14 7 (0.63%) TikTok
15 6 (0.54%) iManage
16 5 (0.45%) Hotjar
16 5 (0.45%) New Relic
16 5 (0.45%) Pinterest
16 5 (0.45%) WooCommerce