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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 60 51
Rank change year-on-year -96 -9 -14
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,154 1,699 4,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 4.13% 4.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.45% 19.63% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 953 1,292 3,309
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 8,578 8,655 20,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 21.03% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,270 6,548 15,630
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,528 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -83 1,060 £47,500 -20.83% 537
UK excluding London -71 833 £45,000 -18.18% 456
Work from Home -93 349 £52,500 -19.23% 217
North of England -36 268 £31,250 -30.56% 104
London -109 253 £60,000 -14.29% 149
South East -64 205 £50,000 -20.00% 122
Midlands -42 134 £45,000 - 71
North West -32 131 £32,500 -28.57% 51
Yorkshire -23 102 £30,500 -18.67% 35
East of England -65 97 £47,500 -28.26% 66
South West -66 88 £44,000 -26.67% 61
West Midlands -26 77 £35,000 -30.00% 34
East Midlands -49 57 £55,000 +41.94% 36
North East -11 35 £30,500 -41.90% 18
Scotland -70 29 £30,500 -44.55% 21
Wales -46 10 £36,370 -3.01% 18
Northern Ireland -42 3 £60,000 - 8
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
1 119 (10.31%) WordPress
2 54 (4.68%) CMS
3 33 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.13%) Confluence
5 10 (0.87%) nginx
6 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
7 6 (0.52%) Drupal
7 6 (0.52%) IIS
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) govService
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
8 3 (0.26%) Liferay
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.087%) Site Server
Applications
1 27 (2.34%) Adobe XD
2 18 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.30%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (1.04%) Sketch
5 10 (0.87%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.69%) InVision
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.43%) InDesign
10 3 (0.26%) Elementor
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.17%) Windchill
12 1 (0.087%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.39%) Shopify
2 13 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.35%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.17%) Line 50
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.087%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.087%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.087%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 471 (40.81%) Azure
2 441 (38.21%) AWS
3 357 (30.94%) GitHub
4 80 (6.93%) Figma
5 73 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (5.55%) GCP
7 63 (5.46%) Serverless
8 48 (4.16%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.81%) SaaS
10 36 (3.12%) Google Analytics
11 28 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 25 (2.17%) Power Automate
13 25 (2.17%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 14 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 285 (24.70%) Internet
2 10 (0.87%) HTTP
3 6 (0.52%) FTP
3 6 (0.52%) Network Security
4 5 (0.43%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) SMS
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 2 (0.17%) VoIP
7 1 (0.087%) Broadband
7 1 (0.087%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.087%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.087%) NAS
7 1 (0.087%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (9.71%) SQL Server
2 94 (8.15%) MySQL
3 44 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.47%) Power BI
5 39 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 19 (1.65%) OLTP
10 14 (1.21%) DB2
11 12 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.87%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.78%) Looker
13 9 (0.78%) Tableau
14 6 (0.52%) Metadata
15 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.43%) FileMaker
15 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 413 (35.79%) Git
2 71 (6.15%) JIRA
3 50 (4.33%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.90%) Selenium
5 26 (2.25%) Postman
6 24 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 23 (1.99%) SoapUI
8 22 (1.91%) webpack
9 20 (1.73%) Axure RP
10 18 (1.56%) WebDriver
11 14 (1.21%) Balsamiq
11 14 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.04%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.04%) Vite
13 10 (0.87%) Babel
14 9 (0.78%) GitLab
14 9 (0.78%) JUnit
14 9 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 273 (23.66%) Multimedia
2 264 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 142 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.67%) Marketing
5 95 (8.23%) Finance
6 57 (4.94%) Law
7 48 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 28 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.25%) Legal
10 26 (2.25%) Retail
11 22 (1.91%) Banking
12 15 (1.30%) Advertising
12 15 (1.30%) German Language
13 9 (0.78%) Electronics
14 8 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.61%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.61%) Games
15 7 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 602 (52.17%) Developer
2 274 (23.74%) Trainee
3 169 (14.64%) Senior
4 150 (13.00%) Software Developer
5 130 (11.27%) Senior Developer
6 119 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 111 (9.62%) Trainee Developer
8 97 (8.41%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (6.76%) Administrator
10 73 (6.33%) Web Administrator
11 71 (6.15%) Trainee Administrator
12 69 (5.98%) Designer
13 68 (5.89%) .NET Developer
14 61 (5.29%) Lead
15 53 (4.59%) Software Engineer
16 52 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 49 (4.25%) Web Developer
18 47 (4.07%) Analyst
19 41 (3.55%) React Developer
20 35 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 976 (84.58%) CSS
2 302 (26.17%) React
3 219 (18.98%) .NET
4 116 (10.05%) Node.js
5 107 (9.27%) AngularJS
6 97 (8.41%) Vue
7 96 (8.32%) RESTful
8 94 (8.15%) HTML5
9 90 (7.80%) JSON
10 76 (6.59%) jQuery
11 70 (6.07%) CSS3
12 69 (5.98%) XML
13 60 (5.20%) .NET Core
14 59 (5.11%) ASP.NET
15 58 (5.03%) SOAP
16 55 (4.77%) REST
17 44 (3.81%) Laravel
18 39 (3.38%) .NET Framework
19 35 (3.03%) Sass
19 35 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 45 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.95%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 22 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.82%) Social Media
10 20 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.87%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.87%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.69%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.69%) Graphic Design
16 7 (0.61%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.86%) Unix
2 28 (2.43%) Linux
3 25 (2.17%) Windows
4 9 (0.78%) Android
4 9 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.087%) VMS
8 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (29.29%) Mentoring
2 325 (28.16%) Agile
3 244 (21.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 229 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (18.46%) Cybersecurity
6 209 (18.11%) User Experience
7 185 (16.03%) CI/CD
8 166 (14.38%) Web Development
9 144 (12.48%) DevOps
10 138 (11.96%) AI
11 133 (11.53%) Front End Development
12 126 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (9.88%) Software Engineering
14 110 (9.53%) Scrum
15 107 (9.27%) Computer Science
16 105 (9.10%) Analytics
17 89 (7.71%) UX Design
18 86 (7.45%) Clean Code
19 80 (6.93%) Microservices
20 73 (6.33%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 852 (73.83%) JavaScript
2 429 (37.18%) Python
3 322 (27.90%) SQL
4 190 (16.46%) C#
5 173 (14.99%) TypeScript
6 161 (13.95%) R
7 121 (10.49%) PHP
8 112 (9.71%) Java
9 26 (2.25%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.39%) C++
12 9 (0.78%) C
13 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.61%) VBA
15 6 (0.52%) Bash
15 6 (0.52%) Ruby
16 5 (0.43%) Bicep
16 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 272 (23.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 271 (23.48%) AWS Certification
2 271 (23.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 271 (23.48%) Azure Certification
3 227 (19.67%) Degree
4 77 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (5.37%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.07%) SC Cleared
7 24 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.35%) ISEB
13 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.26%) PhD
13 3 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (11.35%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.16%) QA
3 45 (3.90%) WCAG
4 29 (2.51%) GDPR
5 10 (0.87%) PERC
5 10 (0.87%) SLA
6 9 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.61%) GRC
8 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.17%) NIST
10 1 (0.087%) HL7
10 1 (0.087%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (7.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.25%) Terraform
3 4 (0.35%) Kibana
3 4 (0.35%) Plesk
4 3 (0.26%) Argo
4 3 (0.26%) cPanel
5 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.17%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.17%) Nagios
5 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 396 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.33%) Adobe
3 55 (4.77%) Google
4 34 (2.95%) Oracle
5 26 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 10 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.78%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.61%) Splunk
9 6 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (0.52%) SAP
10 5 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.43%) iManage
11 4 (0.35%) Ahrefs
11 4 (0.35%) New Relic
11 4 (0.35%) Screaming Frog
12 3 (0.26%) Granicus
12 3 (0.26%) TikTok