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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 82 53
Rank change year-on-year -97 -29 -17
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,080 1,562 4,281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 3.66% 4.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.59% 18.93% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 904 1,005 3,304
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,380 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -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 9,319 8,250 20,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 19.32% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,899 5,556 15,850
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -81 1,006 £50,000 -20.00% 492
UK excluding London -74 797 £47,500 -17.39% 406
Work from Home -74 412 £55,000 -15.38% 222
London -102 228 £59,773 -14.61% 159
North of England -52 227 £42,000 -6.67% 104
South East -19 225 £50,000 -20.00% 104
Midlands -63 123 £45,000 - 67
North West -39 120 £43,750 -12.50% 58
East of England -44 106 £48,760 -26.37% 55
South West -53 85 £45,000 -21.74% 36
Yorkshire -29 73 £37,500 - 31
West Midlands -52 67 £45,000 -5.26% 24
East Midlands -56 56 £55,000 +37.50% 43
North East -22 34 £46,250 -13.95% 15
Scotland -77 17 £30,500 -44.55% 23
Wales -47 11 £45,000 -25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -31 3 £60,000 - 8

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
1 103 (9.54%) WordPress
2 55 (5.09%) CMS
3 45 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.48%) IIS
5 15 (1.39%) Confluence
6 11 (1.02%) Drupal
6 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.93%) Apache
8 7 (0.65%) nginx
9 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) govService
11 3 (0.28%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 3 (0.28%) Liferay
12 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.093%) Moodle
13 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.57%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.39%) Adobe XD
4 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.83%) InDesign
6 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.83%) Sketch
7 8 (0.74%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.46%) InVision
11 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 2 (0.19%) Trello
14 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.093%) Elementor
14 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (2.22%) Shopify
2 14 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.56%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 409 (37.87%) Azure
2 340 (31.48%) AWS
3 262 (24.26%) GitHub
4 111 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (6.20%) Figma
6 65 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 50 (4.63%) Serverless
8 49 (4.54%) SaaS
9 46 (4.26%) GCP
10 41 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (3.61%) PowerApps
12 38 (3.52%) Power Automate
13 34 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 30 (2.78%) Google Analytics
16 28 (2.59%) Azure AI
16 28 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 189 (17.50%) Internet
2 10 (0.93%) HTTP
3 7 (0.65%) Network Security
4 5 (0.46%) Intranet
4 5 (0.46%) VoIP
5 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.37%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) SMS
7 2 (0.19%) SSL
8 1 (0.093%) DNS
8 1 (0.093%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.093%) NAS
8 1 (0.093%) RTP
8 1 (0.093%) RTSP
8 1 (0.093%) SS7
8 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 95 (8.80%) MySQL
3 86 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 56 (5.19%) Power BI
6 47 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.85%) OLTP
10 19 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.83%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.83%) Tableau
15 8 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.65%) DB2
16 7 (0.65%) GIS
16 7 (0.65%) Metadata
17 6 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 305 (28.24%) Git
2 70 (6.48%) JIRA
3 40 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.43%) Selenium
5 28 (2.59%) Postman
6 25 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.22%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.76%) WebDriver
9 15 (1.39%) webpack
10 13 (1.20%) Axure RP
10 13 (1.20%) JUnit
11 12 (1.11%) GitLab
12 11 (1.02%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.93%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.93%) Vite
14 9 (0.83%) Balsamiq
15 8 (0.74%) Mockito
16 7 (0.65%) JMeter
16 7 (0.65%) Subversion
17 6 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 169 (15.65%) Multimedia
3 130 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.72%) Marketing
5 84 (7.78%) Finance
6 50 (4.63%) Law
7 44 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 37 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.87%) Advertising
10 31 (2.87%) Legal
11 30 (2.78%) Retail
12 13 (1.20%) Games
13 12 (1.11%) Banking
14 8 (0.74%) Local Government
14 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.65%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.56%) Electronics
16 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 617 (57.13%) Developer
2 169 (15.65%) Trainee
3 160 (14.81%) Senior
4 131 (12.13%) Senior Developer
5 123 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 119 (11.02%) .NET Developer
7 116 (10.74%) Software Developer
8 66 (6.11%) Designer
9 63 (5.83%) Trainee Developer
10 62 (5.74%) Administrator
11 58 (5.37%) Web Developer
12 56 (5.19%) Software Engineer
12 56 (5.19%) Web Administrator
13 51 (4.72%) Lead
13 51 (4.72%) Trainee Administrator
13 51 (4.72%) Trainee Software Developer
14 45 (4.17%) Analyst
15 41 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 38 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 37 (3.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 932 (86.30%) CSS
2 283 (26.20%) .NET
3 251 (23.24%) React
4 120 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 117 (10.83%) HTML5
6 108 (10.00%) Vue
7 107 (9.91%) Node.js
8 106 (9.81%) jQuery
9 104 (9.63%) ASP.NET
10 103 (9.54%) AngularJS
11 96 (8.89%) RESTful
12 92 (8.52%) CSS3
13 84 (7.78%) JSON
14 77 (7.13%) ASP.NET Core
15 63 (5.83%) REST
16 58 (5.37%) SOAP
17 56 (5.19%) Entity Framework
18 51 (4.72%) XML
19 49 (4.54%) Laravel
20 41 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.33%) Product Ownership
1 36 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
3 30 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 25 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 24 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.13%) Social Media
8 18 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.11%) Graphic Design
12 11 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.83%) Digital TV
15 7 (0.65%) Podcast
15 7 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.89%) Linux
2 41 (3.80%) Windows
3 22 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.74%) Unix
5 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.46%) Android
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (30.19%) Agile
2 304 (28.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 235 (21.76%) Mentoring
4 225 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 221 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (18.52%) User Experience
7 168 (15.56%) DevOps
8 167 (15.46%) Web Development
9 153 (14.17%) AI
10 131 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (10.37%) Front End Development
13 109 (10.09%) Software Engineering
14 108 (10.00%) Computer Science
15 104 (9.63%) Scrum
16 85 (7.87%) Analytics
17 83 (7.69%) Microservices
18 81 (7.50%) UX Design
19 79 (7.31%) Clean Code
20 78 (7.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 727 (67.31%) JavaScript
2 392 (36.30%) SQL
3 303 (28.06%) Python
4 262 (24.26%) C#
5 157 (14.54%) TypeScript
6 144 (13.33%) PHP
7 102 (9.44%) R
8 101 (9.35%) Java
9 34 (3.15%) PowerShell
10 27 (2.50%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.04%) C++
12 14 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.20%) VBA
14 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.74%) C
16 7 (0.65%) VBScript
17 5 (0.46%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.46%) Bash
17 5 (0.46%) Bicep
17 5 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 200 (18.52%) Degree
2 166 (15.37%) AWS Certification
2 166 (15.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 164 (15.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 164 (15.19%) Azure Certification
4 74 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 34 (3.15%) SC Cleared
7 20 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
14 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.63%) QA
3 46 (4.26%) WCAG
4 36 (3.33%) GDPR
5 16 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.02%) SLA
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
7 7 (0.65%) PERC
8 5 (0.46%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 101 (9.35%) Docker
2 17 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.57%) Terraform
3 8 (0.74%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Grafana
6 1 (0.093%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 346 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.13%) Adobe
3 45 (4.17%) Google
4 41 (3.80%) Oracle
5 28 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.30%) Splunk
7 13 (1.20%) Facebook
8 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 9 (0.83%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.83%) iManage
8 9 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.83%) YouTube
9 7 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 7 (0.65%) SAP
10 6 (0.56%) TikTok
11 5 (0.46%) Apple
11 5 (0.46%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.46%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.46%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.46%) Sage