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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -79 -5 -13
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,115 2,302 3,581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.60% 4.84% 4.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.41% 21.75% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 928 1,334 3,001
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.55% +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 7,740 10,586 17,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 22.24% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,684 6,605 14,195
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -79 1,009 £47,500 -20.83% 305
UK excluding London -76 784 £41,500 -24.55% 236
Work from Home -95 331 £52,500 -19.23% 129
North of England -37 262 £30,500 -28.24% 54
London -95 254 £62,500 -7.41% 96
South East -63 201 £50,000 -16.67% 62
North West -41 122 £30,500 -32.51% 33
Midlands -61 118 £43,750 -7.89% 34
Yorkshire -32 102 £30,500 -23.75% 15
East of England -61 80 £50,000 -24.49% 33
South West -77 73 £40,000 -30.43% 41
West Midlands -42 63 £30,500 -41.90% 15
East Midlands -46 56 £55,000 +46.67% 19
Scotland -72 40 £30,500 -44.55% 7
North East -5 38 £30,500 -44.55% 6
Wales -44 8 £36,120 +11.14% 10
Northern Ireland -39 3 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Channel Islands 0 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 75 (6.73%) WordPress
2 62 (5.56%) CMS
3 18 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.35%) Confluence
5 11 (0.99%) nginx
6 9 (0.81%) Drupal
7 8 (0.72%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) Joomla!
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) govService
10 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) Liferay
10 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (2.42%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 13 (1.17%) Photoshop
3 13 (1.17%) Sketch
4 9 (0.81%) InVision
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.36%) InDesign
7 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.27%) Elementor
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Windchill
10 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.79%) Shopify
2 16 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.090%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.090%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.090%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.090%) Magento
6 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 473 (42.42%) Azure
2 434 (38.92%) AWS
3 371 (33.27%) GitHub
4 75 (6.73%) Serverless
5 73 (6.55%) Figma
6 51 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.48%) GCP
8 43 (3.86%) Power Platform
9 37 (3.32%) SaaS
10 36 (3.23%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.42%) Amazon S3
13 23 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.61%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.61%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (1.26%) Azure Functions
18 13 (1.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 284 (25.47%) Internet
2 12 (1.08%) HTTP
3 6 (0.54%) FTP
4 5 (0.45%) Intranet
5 3 (0.27%) AMQP
5 3 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.090%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.090%) NAS
7 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 64 (5.74%) MySQL
3 49 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.87%) NoSQL
6 31 (2.78%) Power BI
7 25 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.70%) OLTP
9 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.26%) DB2
9 14 (1.26%) Looker
10 12 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.72%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.27%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 425 (38.12%) Git
2 73 (6.55%) JIRA
3 53 (4.75%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.22%) Selenium
5 29 (2.60%) Postman
6 28 (2.51%) webpack
7 27 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 26 (2.33%) SoapUI
9 23 (2.06%) Axure RP
9 23 (2.06%) WebDriver
10 19 (1.70%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.43%) Vite
12 15 (1.35%) JUnit
12 15 (1.35%) TeamCity
13 14 (1.26%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.17%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.08%) Balsamiq
16 11 (0.99%) Babel
16 11 (0.99%) Visual Studio
17 9 (0.81%) Mockito
General
1 282 (25.29%) Multimedia
2 264 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 122 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (8.70%) Finance
5 85 (7.62%) Marketing
6 70 (6.28%) Law
7 56 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.42%) Banking
9 27 (2.42%) Legal
9 27 (2.42%) Retail
10 20 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.35%) Advertising
11 15 (1.35%) German Language
12 10 (0.90%) Publishing
13 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.63%) Electronics
14 7 (0.63%) Games
15 5 (0.45%) Back Office
15 5 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 606 (54.35%) Developer
2 277 (24.84%) Trainee
3 178 (15.96%) Senior
4 176 (15.78%) Software Developer
5 133 (11.93%) Trainee Developer
6 131 (11.75%) Senior Developer
7 124 (11.12%) Trainee Software Developer
8 116 (10.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (5.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 61 (5.47%) .NET Developer
11 59 (5.29%) Designer
12 54 (4.84%) Lead
13 52 (4.66%) Analyst
14 41 (3.68%) React Developer
14 41 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 36 (3.23%) Web Developer
16 35 (3.14%) Administrator
17 31 (2.78%) Web Administrator
18 30 (2.69%) UX Designer
19 29 (2.60%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 921 (82.60%) CSS
2 307 (27.53%) React
3 204 (18.30%) .NET
4 121 (10.85%) Node.js
5 117 (10.49%) AngularJS
6 107 (9.60%) HTML5
7 99 (8.88%) RESTful
8 84 (7.53%) Vue
9 83 (7.44%) XML
10 80 (7.17%) CSS3
11 76 (6.82%) JSON
12 67 (6.01%) jQuery
13 62 (5.56%) REST
14 58 (5.20%) SOAP
15 57 (5.11%) ASP.NET
16 56 (5.02%) .NET Core
17 43 (3.86%) .NET Framework
18 40 (3.59%) Web Services
19 36 (3.23%) Laravel
20 35 (3.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.02%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.08%) Social Media
13 11 (0.99%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.81%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 6 (0.54%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.78%) Unix
2 21 (1.88%) Windows
3 20 (1.79%) Linux
4 13 (1.17%) Android
4 13 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (34.44%) Mentoring
2 372 (33.36%) Agile
3 264 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
4 246 (22.06%) User Experience
5 245 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 181 (16.23%) CI/CD
8 153 (13.72%) Front End Development
9 132 (11.84%) DevOps
10 109 (9.78%) AI
11 108 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (9.33%) Web Development
13 98 (8.79%) Software Engineering
14 97 (8.70%) Analytics
14 97 (8.70%) UX Design
15 95 (8.52%) Scrum
16 88 (7.89%) Computer Science
17 78 (7.00%) Clean Code
17 78 (7.00%) Microservices
18 69 (6.19%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 856 (76.77%) JavaScript
2 428 (38.39%) Python
3 270 (24.22%) SQL
4 184 (16.50%) C#
5 176 (15.78%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.91%) R
7 116 (10.40%) Java
8 81 (7.26%) PHP
9 30 (2.69%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.90%) Ruby
10 10 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.54%) Bash
13 5 (0.45%) C++
14 4 (0.36%) C
14 4 (0.36%) SOQL
14 4 (0.36%) SOSL
14 4 (0.36%) XAML
15 3 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 282 (25.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 278 (24.93%) Azure Certification
3 277 (24.84%) AWS Certification
3 277 (24.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (19.28%) Degree
5 83 (7.44%) Security Cleared
6 71 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (4.66%) SC Cleared
8 28 (2.51%) ISTQB
9 23 (2.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 12 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.36%) ISEB
15 3 (0.27%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.45%) Accessibility
2 55 (4.93%) WCAG
3 50 (4.48%) QA
4 23 (2.06%) GDPR
5 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.54%) PERC
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) SLA
9 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.18%) Section 508
11 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.090%) HL7
11 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.090%) NCSC
System Software
1 89 (7.98%) Docker
2 15 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.42%) Terraform
3 9 (0.81%) Kibana
4 4 (0.36%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) cPanel
5 3 (0.27%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Nagios
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 383 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.20%) Google
3 55 (4.93%) Adobe
4 38 (3.41%) Oracle
5 26 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.17%) Hotjar
7 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.90%) Splunk
9 9 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.81%) SAP
9 9 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.63%) Screaming Frog
11 5 (0.45%) Ahrefs
11 5 (0.45%) iManage
11 5 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.36%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.36%) New Relic
12 4 (0.36%) Pardot
12 4 (0.36%) YouTube