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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -78 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,127 2,581 3,350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 4.97% 4.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.29% 22.70% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 936 1,323 2,834
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £84,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 7,373 11,370 16,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 21.88% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,419 6,662 13,819
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,984
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,514 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.81% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -76 1,027 £47,500 -17.39% 628
UK excluding London -72 784 £40,000 -27.27% 572
Work from Home -91 336 £52,500 -12.50% 228
London -86 272 £62,500 -7.41% 168
North of England -39 256 £30,500 -32.22% 144
South East -61 201 £50,000 -16.67% 161
North West -32 119 £30,500 -39.00% 68
Midlands -75 109 £41,020 -13.64% 84
Yorkshire -28 99 £30,500 -28.24% 55
East of England -40 95 £55,000 -16.93% 66
South West -79 73 £39,250 -31.74% 69
West Midlands -58 58 £30,500 -41.90% 32
East Midlands -47 52 £52,500 +40.00% 52
Scotland -66 40 £30,500 -44.55% 27
North East -9 38 £30,500 -44.55% 23
Wales -47 9 £42,000 +29.23% 22
Northern Ireland -31 2 £31,500 -37.00% 4
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 72 (6.39%) WordPress
2 59 (5.24%) CMS
3 25 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.13%) Confluence
5 10 (0.89%) nginx
5 10 (0.89%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.80%) Drupal
7 7 (0.62%) Apache
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.35%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) govService
10 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) Liferay
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 27 (2.40%) Adobe XD
2 20 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.15%) Photoshop
6 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (1.06%) Sketch
7 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.80%) InVision
9 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.35%) InDesign
11 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.27%) Elementor
13 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.18%) Windchill
14 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.69%) Shopify
2 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.089%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.089%) Magento
5 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 476 (42.24%) Azure
2 424 (37.62%) AWS
3 374 (33.19%) GitHub
4 80 (7.10%) Serverless
5 62 (5.50%) Figma
6 52 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (4.35%) GCP
7 49 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 33 (2.93%) Power Automate
9 31 (2.75%) SaaS
10 30 (2.66%) Google Analytics
11 26 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 23 (2.04%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.86%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (1.60%) Azure Functions
17 16 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 282 (25.02%) Internet
2 10 (0.89%) HTTP
3 6 (0.53%) FTP
3 6 (0.53%) Intranet
4 3 (0.27%) AMQP
5 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.18%) Network Security
6 1 (0.089%) DNS
6 1 (0.089%) Firewall
6 1 (0.089%) SSH
6 1 (0.089%) SSL
6 1 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.089%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.94%) MySQL
3 52 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (4.61%) Relational Database
4 34 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 31 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 30 (2.66%) Power BI
7 22 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.60%) OLTP
9 14 (1.24%) DB2
10 13 (1.15%) Looker
11 10 (0.89%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.35%) GIS
14 4 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 420 (37.27%) Git
2 82 (7.28%) JIRA
3 55 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.70%) Selenium
5 37 (3.28%) Postman
6 34 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (2.84%) SoapUI
8 29 (2.57%) WebDriver
9 26 (2.31%) webpack
10 21 (1.86%) Axure RP
11 19 (1.69%) JUnit
12 18 (1.60%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.33%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.24%) Mockito
14 14 (1.24%) Visual Studio
15 13 (1.15%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.15%) JMeter
16 11 (0.98%) Balsamiq
16 11 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 286 (25.38%) Multimedia
2 284 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 116 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.49%) Finance
5 87 (7.72%) Marketing
6 85 (7.54%) Law
7 55 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.66%) Legal
9 30 (2.66%) Retail
10 29 (2.57%) Banking
11 21 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.69%) Advertising
13 15 (1.33%) German Language
14 10 (0.89%) Publishing
15 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.62%) Electronics
16 7 (0.62%) Games
17 5 (0.44%) Local Government
17 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 603 (53.50%) Developer
2 278 (24.67%) Trainee
3 174 (15.44%) Software Developer
4 172 (15.26%) Senior
5 134 (11.89%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (11.09%) Trainee Software Developer
7 122 (10.83%) Senior Developer
8 106 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (6.12%) Analyst
10 61 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (5.24%) .NET Developer
12 55 (4.88%) Lead
13 49 (4.35%) Designer
14 42 (3.73%) Software Engineer
15 39 (3.46%) React Developer
16 34 (3.02%) Administrator
17 33 (2.93%) Web Developer
18 32 (2.84%) Java Developer
19 31 (2.75%) Web Administrator
20 29 (2.57%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 914 (81.10%) CSS
2 297 (26.35%) React
3 204 (18.10%) .NET
4 126 (11.18%) Node.js
5 110 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 110 (9.76%) HTML5
6 102 (9.05%) RESTful
7 93 (8.25%) XML
8 86 (7.63%) JSON
9 83 (7.36%) CSS3
10 79 (7.01%) Vue
11 70 (6.21%) REST
12 67 (5.94%) SOAP
13 64 (5.68%) jQuery
14 63 (5.59%) ASP.NET
15 60 (5.32%) .NET Core
16 39 (3.46%) Web Services
17 38 (3.37%) .NET Framework
18 36 (3.19%) Spring
19 35 (3.11%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.79%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.98%) Social Media
13 10 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.71%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.71%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.71%) Digital Media
15 8 (0.71%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.93%) Unix
2 27 (2.40%) Windows
3 19 (1.69%) Linux
4 14 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.15%) Android
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (34.96%) Mentoring
2 393 (34.87%) Agile
3 272 (24.13%) Cybersecurity
4 255 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
5 242 (21.47%) User Experience
6 218 (19.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 175 (15.53%) CI/CD
8 158 (14.02%) Front End Development
9 130 (11.54%) DevOps
10 109 (9.67%) Web Development
11 103 (9.14%) AI
11 103 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (9.05%) Software Engineering
13 99 (8.78%) Scrum
14 90 (7.99%) UX Design
15 85 (7.54%) Analytics
16 83 (7.36%) Microservices
17 79 (7.01%) MVC
18 77 (6.83%) Computer Science
19 76 (6.74%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 877 (77.82%) JavaScript
2 437 (38.78%) Python
3 276 (24.49%) SQL
4 193 (17.13%) C#
5 161 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.78%) R
7 130 (11.54%) Java
8 70 (6.21%) PHP
9 32 (2.84%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.98%) Ruby
13 8 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.35%) Bash
14 4 (0.35%) C++
14 4 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 283 (25.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.76%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.67%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (19.08%) Degree
5 87 (7.72%) Security Cleared
6 65 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 33 (2.93%) ISTQB
9 29 (2.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.35%) ISEB
14 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (13.22%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.44%) WCAG
3 47 (4.17%) QA
4 28 (2.48%) GDPR
5 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.53%) PERC
7 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.27%) SLA
9 2 (0.18%) Section 508
10 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.089%) HL7
10 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.089%) NCSC
10 1 (0.089%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (8.43%) Docker
2 15 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.57%) Terraform
3 11 (0.98%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) Argo
5 4 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) cPanel
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.089%) Nagios
Vendors
1 404 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.24%) Adobe
3 55 (4.88%) Google
4 43 (3.82%) Oracle
5 27 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.06%) Splunk
9 11 (0.98%) Hotjar
10 10 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.80%) SAP
12 7 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
13 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.53%) YouTube
14 5 (0.44%) Ahrefs
14 5 (0.44%) Facebook
15 4 (0.35%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.35%) iManage
15 4 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud