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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 57 50
Rank change year-on-year -78 -7 -13
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,165 1,872 4,121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.52% 4.41% 4.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.33% 20.16% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 979 1,330 3,299
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +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 8,130 9,287 19,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.60% 21.86% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,954 6,649 15,344
10th Percentile £35,825 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -71 1,060 £47,500 -20.83% 507
UK excluding London -62 837 £42,500 -22.73% 421
Work from Home -95 342 £52,500 -19.23% 222
North of England -25 275 £30,500 -32.22% 102
London -102 250 £60,000 -12.73% 145
South East -53 212 £50,000 -16.67% 110
North West -28 131 £31,500 -30.59% 53
Midlands -56 127 £45,000 - 69
Yorkshire -11 106 £30,500 -21.29% 28
East of England -55 89 £46,250 -30.15% 65
South West -52 87 £44,000 -26.67% 52
West Midlands -21 73 £32,500 -35.00% 33
East Midlands -55 54 £55,000 +46.67% 36
North East -5 38 £30,500 -43.26% 21
Scotland -67 35 £30,500 -43.52% 13
Wales -45 10 £36,370 +11.91% 15
Northern Ireland -39 3 £60,000 - 3
Channel Islands - 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
1 121 (10.39%) WordPress
2 59 (5.06%) CMS
3 24 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.03%) Confluence
5 10 (0.86%) nginx
6 8 (0.69%) Drupal
7 7 (0.60%) Apache
7 7 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.34%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) govService
10 3 (0.26%) JBoss
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
10 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.17%) IIS
11 2 (0.17%) Mendix
11 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (2.40%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.03%) Chatbot
5 12 (1.03%) Sketch
6 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.69%) InVision
8 7 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.52%) InDesign
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (0.26%) Elementor
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.17%) Windchill
13 1 (0.086%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.55%) Shopify
2 14 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.086%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.086%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.086%) Magento
5 1 (0.086%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 513 (44.03%) Azure
2 467 (40.09%) AWS
3 391 (33.56%) GitHub
4 78 (6.70%) Figma
5 72 (6.18%) Serverless
6 69 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (5.15%) GCP
8 42 (3.61%) SaaS
9 39 (3.35%) Power Platform
10 37 (3.18%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.32%) Amazon S3
13 26 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.72%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.46%) Entra ID
17 16 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (1.29%) PaaS
19 14 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 308 (26.44%) Internet
2 11 (0.94%) HTTP
3 6 (0.52%) FTP
4 4 (0.34%) Intranet
4 4 (0.34%) Network Security
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.086%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.10%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.61%) MySQL
3 50 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 30 (2.58%) Power BI
6 29 (2.49%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (1.89%) OLTP
8 14 (1.20%) DB2
9 13 (1.12%) Looker
10 12 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.52%) Tableau
13 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.34%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 451 (38.71%) Git
2 71 (6.09%) JIRA
3 54 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.03%) Selenium
5 27 (2.32%) Postman
6 26 (2.23%) webpack
7 25 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 24 (2.06%) Axure RP
8 24 (2.06%) SoapUI
9 21 (1.80%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.20%) Balsamiq
11 14 (1.20%) Vite
12 13 (1.12%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.03%) JUnit
14 11 (0.94%) Babel
14 11 (0.94%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 302 (25.92%) Multimedia
2 257 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 131 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.24%) Finance
5 90 (7.73%) Marketing
6 64 (5.49%) Law
7 55 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 50 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.49%) Retail
10 28 (2.40%) Legal
11 24 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.97%) Banking
13 15 (1.29%) Advertising
13 15 (1.29%) German Language
14 9 (0.77%) Electronics
15 8 (0.69%) Games
15 8 (0.69%) Publishing
16 7 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 617 (52.96%) Developer
2 298 (25.58%) Trainee
3 179 (15.36%) Senior
4 164 (14.08%) Software Developer
5 134 (11.50%) Senior Developer
6 125 (10.73%) Trainee Developer
7 119 (10.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (9.53%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (6.70%) Administrator
10 74 (6.35%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.18%) Trainee Administrator
12 69 (5.92%) .NET Developer
13 68 (5.84%) Designer
14 62 (5.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 58 (4.98%) Lead
16 45 (3.86%) Analyst
16 45 (3.86%) Software Engineer
17 43 (3.69%) React Developer
17 43 (3.69%) Web Developer
18 31 (2.66%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 977 (83.86%) CSS
2 315 (27.04%) React
3 218 (18.71%) .NET
4 121 (10.39%) Node.js
5 116 (9.96%) AngularJS
6 99 (8.50%) RESTful
7 92 (7.90%) HTML5
8 87 (7.47%) Vue
9 81 (6.95%) JSON
10 79 (6.78%) XML
11 70 (6.01%) CSS3
12 64 (5.49%) REST
12 64 (5.49%) SOAP
13 63 (5.41%) jQuery
14 61 (5.24%) ASP.NET
15 59 (5.06%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.69%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.26%) Web Services
18 35 (3.00%) Tailwind CSS
19 34 (2.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.64%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.20%) Social Media
12 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.69%) Cybercrime
15 6 (0.52%) e-Learning
16 5 (0.43%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.66%) Unix
2 23 (1.97%) Linux
3 20 (1.72%) Windows
4 13 (1.12%) Android
4 13 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (31.50%) Mentoring
2 365 (31.33%) Agile
3 242 (20.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 238 (20.43%) Cybersecurity
4 238 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
5 235 (20.17%) User Experience
6 200 (17.17%) CI/CD
7 162 (13.91%) Web Development
8 151 (12.96%) DevOps
9 148 (12.70%) Front End Development
10 133 (11.42%) AI
11 124 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (9.18%) Software Engineering
13 106 (9.10%) Scrum
14 103 (8.84%) Analytics
15 98 (8.41%) Computer Science
16 95 (8.15%) UX Design
17 85 (7.30%) Clean Code
18 75 (6.44%) Microservices
18 75 (6.44%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 878 (75.36%) JavaScript
2 451 (38.71%) Python
3 292 (25.06%) SQL
4 191 (16.39%) C#
5 175 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 174 (14.94%) R
7 114 (9.79%) Java
8 93 (7.98%) PHP
9 34 (2.92%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.94%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.86%) C++
12 9 (0.77%) Ruby
13 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.52%) Bash
15 6 (0.52%) C
16 4 (0.34%) SOQL
16 4 (0.34%) SOSL
16 4 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 300 (25.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (25.58%) AWS Certification
2 298 (25.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (25.58%) Azure Certification
3 227 (19.48%) Degree
4 76 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 75 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 27 (2.32%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.34%) ISEB
16 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
16 3 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (12.19%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.55%) QA
3 52 (4.46%) WCAG
4 22 (1.89%) GDPR
5 10 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.77%) PERC
7 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.52%) SLA
8 5 (0.43%) GRC
9 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.17%) NIST
10 2 (0.17%) Section 508
11 1 (0.086%) HL7
11 1 (0.086%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (7.55%) Docker
2 16 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.40%) Terraform
3 7 (0.60%) Kibana
4 4 (0.34%) Argo
5 3 (0.26%) cPanel
5 3 (0.26%) Plesk
6 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.17%) Nagios
6 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 418 (35.88%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.15%) Adobe
3 57 (4.89%) Google
4 41 (3.52%) Oracle
5 28 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 11 (0.94%) Hotjar
6 11 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 10 (0.86%) Splunk
8 9 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.60%) SAP
10 6 (0.52%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.52%) Screaming Frog
11 4 (0.34%) Ahrefs
11 4 (0.34%) Facebook
11 4 (0.34%) iManage
11 4 (0.34%) New Relic
11 4 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.26%) Guidewire