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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 105 52
Rank change year-on-year -81 -53 0
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,179 1,442 3,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 2.87% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 17.04% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 957 864 2,163
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 10,680 8,463 15,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 16.87% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 5,490 11,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -69 1,099 £50,000 -9.09% 765
UK excluding London -45 902 £50,000 -4.76% 496
Work from Home -55 516 £55,000 - 297
South East -2 266 £50,000 -13.04% 122
North of England -28 237 £50,000 -4.76% 128
London -121 230 £60,000 -14.29% 368
East of England +3 133 £48,130 -3.74% 45
North West -48 126 £47,500 -13.64% 73
South West -32 122 £50,000 +11.11% 64
Midlands -82 105 £50,000 -9.09% 85
Yorkshire -15 57 £50,000 +25.00% 41
North East -18 54 £52,000 +9.47% 18
West Midlands -52 54 £45,000 -18.18% 40
East Midlands -66 51 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Wales -63 26 £38,500 -42.96% 11
Scotland -60 11 £31,500 -37.56% 35
Northern Ireland -74 2 £45,500 +44.44% 14

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 95 (8.06%) WordPress
2 66 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.24%) CMS
4 32 (2.71%) IIS
5 30 (2.54%) Confluence
6 17 (1.44%) Apache
7 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.68%) Drupal
10 7 (0.59%) JBoss
11 5 (0.42%) nginx
11 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.34%) Moodle
13 2 (0.17%) CICS
13 2 (0.17%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.085%) Oracle 10gAS
14 1 (0.085%) PegaRULES
14 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.44%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.36%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.02%) Sketch
5 11 (0.93%) InDesign
6 10 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (0.68%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.25%) Elementor
9 3 (0.25%) InVision
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 2 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (2.63%) Shopify
2 17 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.59%) Magento
4 4 (0.34%) Line 50
4 4 (0.34%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 417 (35.37%) Azure
2 273 (23.16%) AWS
3 213 (18.07%) GitHub
4 161 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 85 (7.21%) GitHub Copilot
7 78 (6.62%) Azure AI
7 78 (6.62%) Figma
8 67 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (5.34%) Power Automate
10 61 (5.17%) PowerApps
11 44 (3.73%) GCP
12 41 (3.48%) Serverless
13 40 (3.39%) SaaS
14 35 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (2.80%) Google Analytics
16 31 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (2.21%) OneDrive
18 22 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 22 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 106 (8.99%) Internet
2 9 (0.76%) Intranet
3 8 (0.68%) SSL
4 7 (0.59%) HTTP
5 6 (0.51%) SNMP
5 6 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) SMS
6 5 (0.42%) VoIP
7 4 (0.34%) DNS
8 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.17%) Firewall
10 1 (0.085%) AMQP
10 1 (0.085%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.085%) SCTP
10 1 (0.085%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.085%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.085%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (14.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 164 (13.91%) SQL Server
3 147 (12.47%) MongoDB
4 134 (11.37%) MySQL
5 84 (7.12%) Relational Database
6 65 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (5.34%) Power BI
8 32 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.36%) Metadata
10 16 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.93%) MariaDB
11 11 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
12 10 (0.85%) OLTP
13 9 (0.76%) GIS
14 8 (0.68%) Tableau
15 7 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 257 (21.80%) Git
2 61 (5.17%) JIRA
3 49 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.78%) Selenium
5 16 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.27%) JUnit
7 13 (1.10%) GitLab
8 12 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (1.02%) webpack
9 11 (0.93%) Axure RP
9 11 (0.93%) Postman
9 11 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.85%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.76%) Maven
11 9 (0.76%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.68%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.68%) Mockito
12 8 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 342 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 138 (11.70%) Marketing
3 128 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (7.38%) Finance
6 86 (7.29%) Public Sector
7 78 (6.62%) Law
8 71 (6.02%) Multimedia
9 67 (5.68%) Advertising
10 43 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (3.14%) Legal
12 34 (2.88%) Retail
13 24 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.78%) Games
15 14 (1.19%) Banking
16 11 (0.93%) Health Technology
17 10 (0.85%) Aviation
17 10 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.85%) Publishing
18 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 722 (61.24%) Developer
2 219 (18.58%) .NET Developer
3 194 (16.45%) Senior
4 149 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 128 (10.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (6.70%) Software Developer
7 78 (6.62%) Web Developer
8 71 (6.02%) Designer
9 64 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 64 (5.43%) Trainee
10 59 (5.00%) PHP Developer
11 51 (4.33%) Lead
12 50 (4.24%) Administrator
12 50 (4.24%) Analyst
13 47 (3.99%) C# Developer
13 47 (3.99%) Web Administrator
14 43 (3.65%) Trainee Administrator
15 38 (3.22%) .NET Software Developer
16 37 (3.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 34 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,032 (87.53%) CSS
2 399 (33.84%) .NET
3 238 (20.19%) .NET Core
4 237 (20.10%) React
5 222 (18.83%) ASP.NET
6 178 (15.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (12.30%) HTML5
8 130 (11.03%) Node.js
9 123 (10.43%) jQuery
10 119 (10.09%) Entity Framework
11 116 (9.84%) CSS3
12 109 (9.25%) Vue
13 97 (8.23%) AngularJS
13 97 (8.23%) RESTful
14 93 (7.89%) REST
15 92 (7.80%) JSON
16 74 (6.28%) ML.NET
17 71 (6.02%) .NET Framework
18 61 (5.17%) XML
19 60 (5.09%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 44 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
1 44 (3.73%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
3 39 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 36 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.54%) Social Media
7 25 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.04%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 20 (1.70%) Digital TV
11 20 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 12 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.53%) Windows
2 68 (5.77%) Linux
3 31 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.59%) Unix
5 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.25%) AIX
8 3 (0.25%) Debian
9 2 (0.17%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (36.30%) Agile
2 410 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 361 (30.62%) CI/CD
4 278 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (20.78%) DevOps
6 235 (19.93%) AI
7 215 (18.24%) Web Development
8 210 (17.81%) User Experience
9 191 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (10.94%) Software Engineering
11 127 (10.77%) Mentoring
12 119 (10.09%) Machine Learning
13 105 (8.91%) Front End Development
14 104 (8.82%) Scrum
15 101 (8.57%) Computer Science
16 99 (8.40%) Analytics
17 97 (8.23%) Microservices
18 94 (7.97%) Clean Code
19 93 (7.89%) Test Automation
20 86 (7.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 724 (61.41%) JavaScript
2 479 (40.63%) SQL
3 394 (33.42%) C#
4 214 (18.15%) Python
5 184 (15.61%) TypeScript
6 177 (15.01%) PHP
7 85 (7.21%) Java
8 48 (4.07%) R
9 42 (3.56%) PowerShell
10 34 (2.88%) C++
11 15 (1.27%) Go
12 14 (1.19%) C
12 14 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.19%) VBA
13 12 (1.02%) Ruby
13 12 (1.02%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.85%) Bicep
15 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 193 (16.37%) Degree
2 93 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 80 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 67 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.68%) MBA
10 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.34%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.085%) FFIEC
14 1 (0.085%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (15.01%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.28%) WCAG
3 69 (5.85%) QA
4 44 (3.73%) GDPR
5 15 (1.27%) SLA
6 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.68%) PERC
9 7 (0.59%) GRC
9 7 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.59%) NCSC
10 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.25%) WAI
12 3 (0.25%) WAI-ARIA
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
14 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 177 (15.01%) Docker
2 24 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.63%) Terraform
3 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.68%) Kibana
5 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.42%) Nagios
6 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 3 (0.25%) Plesk
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.085%) Ansible
9 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 379 (32.15%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.87%) Adobe
3 47 (3.99%) Google
4 42 (3.56%) Facebook
5 38 (3.22%) Oracle
6 27 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.95%) YouTube
8 17 (1.44%) Splunk
9 14 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.85%) Sage
10 10 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.76%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.68%) OneLogin
13 7 (0.59%) iManage
13 7 (0.59%) TikTok
14 6 (0.51%) New Relic
15 5 (0.42%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.42%) Pinterest
15 5 (0.42%) WooCommerce