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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 117 46
Rank change year-on-year -91 -71 +4
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,079 1,322 3,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 2.67% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.01% 15.73% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 836 773 1,658
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £66,063 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 11,970 8,403 16,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 16.94% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,491 5,355 10,127
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,957 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -75 1,008 £52,000 -5.45% 1,063
UK excluding London -78 802 £50,000 - 650
Work from Home -60 484 £52,597 -4.37% 452
South East -2 256 £50,000 - 154
London -114 232 £60,000 -7.69% 535
North of England -52 209 £51,000 +7.37% 162
East of England -25 116 £47,500 -13.64% 65
South West -27 105 £52,500 +31.25% 76
North West -70 104 £51,000 - 84
Midlands -115 82 £50,000 -9.09% 102
North East -14 66 £56,250 +38.55% 24
West Midlands -85 42 £50,000 -2.91% 62
East Midlands -83 40 £50,000 -9.09% 40
Yorkshire -38 39 £50,000 +29.03% 57
Wales -74 25 £40,756 -39.62% 19
Scotland -54 9 £37,500 -28.57% 55

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 68 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 56 (5.19%) CMS
3 44 (4.08%) WordPress
4 41 (3.80%) IIS
5 40 (3.71%) Confluence
6 18 (1.67%) Apache
7 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (1.02%) Drupal
9 8 (0.74%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.65%) JBoss
11 6 (0.56%) Moodle
11 6 (0.56%) nginx
12 5 (0.46%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.093%) Oracle 10gAS
15 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 22 (2.04%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.30%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.02%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
8 9 (0.83%) InDesign
8 9 (0.83%) Sketch
9 4 (0.37%) Elementor
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.28%) Trello
10 3 (0.28%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.19%) InVision
12 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (2.69%) Shopify
2 23 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.65%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
4 4 (0.37%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.093%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 340 (31.51%) Azure
2 193 (17.89%) AWS
3 153 (14.18%) GitHub
4 144 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (9.45%) Power Platform
6 81 (7.51%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (6.95%) Azure AI
8 72 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 71 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
9 71 (6.58%) PowerApps
10 61 (5.65%) Figma
11 36 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (3.34%) Serverless
12 33 (3.06%) Google Analytics
12 33 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (2.69%) GCP
14 28 (2.59%) SaaS
15 24 (2.22%) OneDrive
16 21 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.82%) Internet
2 10 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.83%) HTTP
3 9 (0.83%) SSL
4 8 (0.74%) Intranet
5 7 (0.65%) DNS
5 7 (0.65%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.56%) SMS
6 6 (0.56%) SNMP
7 5 (0.46%) VoIP
8 4 (0.37%) 5G
8 4 (0.37%) Network Security
9 3 (0.28%) 4G
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) SSH
10 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.093%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.093%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.093%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 163 (15.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 141 (13.07%) MongoDB
4 113 (10.47%) MySQL
5 95 (8.80%) Relational Database
6 69 (6.39%) Power BI
7 62 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.67%) Metadata
11 12 (1.11%) Redis
12 11 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.02%) GIS
12 11 (1.02%) NonStop SQL
12 11 (1.02%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.74%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.56%) OLTP
16 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 193 (17.89%) Git
2 61 (5.65%) JIRA
3 47 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.58%) Selenium
5 16 (1.48%) Claude Code
5 16 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 16 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.39%) GitLab
7 14 (1.30%) JUnit
8 13 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.93%) Postman
10 9 (0.83%) Maven
10 9 (0.83%) Mockito
11 8 (0.74%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.74%) JMeter
12 7 (0.65%) MSI
12 7 (0.65%) Storybook
12 7 (0.65%) Subversion
12 7 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 352 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 156 (14.46%) Marketing
3 120 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 91 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (8.06%) Finance
7 82 (7.60%) Law
8 60 (5.56%) Advertising
9 38 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 38 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (3.15%) Legal
10 34 (3.15%) Retail
11 20 (1.85%) Games
11 20 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 19 (1.76%) Multimedia
13 18 (1.67%) Banking
14 16 (1.48%) Publishing
15 12 (1.11%) Aviation
16 10 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.93%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 684 (63.39%) Developer
2 211 (19.56%) .NET Developer
3 209 (19.37%) Senior
4 151 (13.99%) Senior Developer
5 116 (10.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (6.77%) Web Developer
7 67 (6.21%) Software Developer
8 55 (5.10%) Designer
9 50 (4.63%) PHP Developer
9 50 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 48 (4.45%) Analyst
11 47 (4.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 46 (4.26%) C# Developer
13 45 (4.17%) Lead
14 33 (3.06%) Junior
15 31 (2.87%) C# .NET Developer
15 31 (2.87%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 30 (2.78%) UX Designer
17 27 (2.50%) .NET Software Developer
18 26 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 929 (86.10%) CSS
2 378 (35.03%) .NET
3 229 (21.22%) .NET Core
4 223 (20.67%) ASP.NET
5 202 (18.72%) React
6 177 (16.40%) ASP.NET Core
7 137 (12.70%) Node.js
8 136 (12.60%) HTML5
9 125 (11.58%) Entity Framework
10 119 (11.03%) jQuery
11 105 (9.73%) REST
12 102 (9.45%) CSS3
13 97 (8.99%) RESTful
14 90 (8.34%) Vue
15 88 (8.16%) JSON
16 83 (7.69%) AngularJS
17 81 (7.51%) .NET Framework
18 70 (6.49%) ML.NET
19 66 (6.12%) XML
20 49 (4.54%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 45 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 43 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.34%) Social Media
5 31 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 27 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 27 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
10 19 (1.76%) Biopharmaceutical
10 19 (1.76%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.48%) Robotics
13 12 (1.11%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (1.02%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.41%) Windows
2 73 (6.77%) Linux
3 33 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.65%) Unix
5 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.28%) AIX
8 3 (0.28%) Debian
9 2 (0.19%) Android
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (39.94%) Agile
2 368 (34.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 355 (32.90%) CI/CD
4 277 (25.67%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (22.06%) AI
6 231 (21.41%) DevOps
7 205 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 201 (18.63%) User Experience
9 154 (14.27%) Web Development
10 126 (11.68%) Mentoring
11 116 (10.75%) Test Automation
12 109 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 105 (9.73%) Front End Development
14 104 (9.64%) Analytics
15 103 (9.55%) Machine Learning
16 94 (8.71%) Scrum
17 92 (8.53%) Computer Science
18 88 (8.16%) Microservices
18 88 (8.16%) UX Design
19 85 (7.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 656 (60.80%) JavaScript
2 422 (39.11%) SQL
3 376 (34.85%) C#
4 191 (17.70%) TypeScript
5 152 (14.09%) Python
6 141 (13.07%) PHP
7 82 (7.60%) Java
8 33 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 28 (2.59%) C++
10 19 (1.76%) VBA
11 17 (1.58%) VB.NET
12 14 (1.30%) Go
13 13 (1.20%) Ruby
13 13 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.11%) C
14 12 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.74%) Bicep
16 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.65%) VBScript
17 6 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 191 (17.70%) Degree
2 111 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 95 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 72 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.76%) MBA
7 11 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.093%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.093%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.093%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (18.54%) Accessibility
2 90 (8.34%) WCAG
3 81 (7.51%) QA
4 41 (3.80%) GDPR
5 16 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.02%) SLA
7 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.65%) NCSC
9 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) PERC
11 3 (0.28%) WAI
11 3 (0.28%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 176 (16.31%) Docker
2 22 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 125 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.74%) Kibana
4 5 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.46%) Nagios
5 4 (0.37%) Puppet
6 3 (0.28%) Grafana
6 3 (0.28%) Plesk
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.093%) Ansible
8 1 (0.093%) Argo
8 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 323 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.23%) Adobe
3 46 (4.26%) Google
4 41 (3.80%) Facebook
5 36 (3.34%) Oracle
6 28 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.13%) YouTube
8 16 (1.48%) Splunk
9 15 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.83%) Sage
12 8 (0.74%) OneLogin
13 7 (0.65%) TikTok
14 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.56%) iManage
14 6 (0.56%) WooCommerce
15 5 (0.46%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.46%) New Relic
15 5 (0.46%) Pinterest