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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -73 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,138 3,014 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.08% 4.75% 5.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.08% 22.42% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 893 1,564 2,128
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £51,789 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.94% -1.35% +5.00%

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 7,079 13,444 13,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 21.19% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,185 8,159 10,946
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -73 1,023 £50,000 -9.09% 918
UK excluding London -73 765 £42,500 -17.94% 845
Work from Home -71 365 £55,000 - 308
London -70 311 £66,250 -1.85% 275
North of England -49 224 £31,500 -37.00% 202
South East -67 187 £47,500 -17.39% 265
East of England -30 112 £55,000 - 97
Midlands -56 107 £43,000 -9.47% 140
North West -46 106 £43,750 -7.89% 122
Yorkshire -26 90 £30,500 -44.55% 54
South West -71 75 £40,000 -30.43% 69
West Midlands -49 55 £32,500 -38.10% 88
East Midlands -38 53 £47,500 +20.25% 52
Scotland -54 38 £30,500 -41.06% 35
North East -8 28 £30,500 -41.90% 28
Wales -34 22 £60,000 +84.62% 37
Northern Ireland -27 3 £31,500 -21.25% 10
Channel Islands +5 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 75 (6.59%) WordPress
2 69 (6.06%) CMS
3 26 (2.28%) Confluence
4 24 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.88%) Drupal
7 9 (0.79%) Headless CMS
7 9 (0.79%) IIS
8 7 (0.62%) Apache
9 6 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.44%) nginx
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.26%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.18%) Mendix
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.088%) FileNet
13 1 (0.088%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 30 (2.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (2.37%) Adobe XD
3 24 (2.11%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.32%) Sketch
7 13 (1.14%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
10 8 (0.70%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.62%) InDesign
11 7 (0.62%) InVision
12 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
12 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.18%) Elementor
14 1 (0.088%) CapCut
14 1 (0.088%) Trello
14 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (2.81%) Shopify
2 17 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.97%) Sprinklr
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.088%) Magento
7 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.088%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 419 (36.82%) Azure
2 350 (30.76%) AWS
3 279 (24.52%) GitHub
4 94 (8.26%) Serverless
5 74 (6.50%) Figma
6 54 (4.75%) Google Analytics
7 50 (4.39%) GCP
8 46 (4.04%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (3.34%) SaaS
11 33 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (2.90%) Power Automate
12 27 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
14 24 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (2.02%) Entra ID
16 22 (1.93%) Azure Functions
16 22 (1.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 199 (17.49%) Internet
2 10 (0.88%) FTP
2 10 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.53%) Intranet
4 3 (0.26%) AMQP
5 2 (0.18%) DNS
5 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.088%) Firewall
6 1 (0.088%) Network Security
6 1 (0.088%) SSH
6 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.088%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 93 (8.17%) MySQL
3 70 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 64 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 37 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 26 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (2.28%) Power BI
8 21 (1.85%) RDBMS
9 20 (1.76%) OLTP
10 12 (1.05%) Looker
11 11 (0.97%) DB2
12 10 (0.88%) GIS
13 9 (0.79%) Redis
14 8 (0.70%) Metadata
15 7 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
15 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 378 (33.22%) Git
2 79 (6.94%) JIRA
3 58 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.60%) Selenium
4 41 (3.60%) webpack
5 31 (2.72%) Cypress.io
6 30 (2.64%) JUnit
6 30 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (2.20%) Mockito
7 25 (2.20%) Postman
8 24 (2.11%) JMeter
9 21 (1.85%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.76%) Axure RP
10 20 (1.76%) SoapUI
10 20 (1.76%) WebDriver
11 14 (1.23%) Babel
12 13 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.14%) Vite
13 12 (1.05%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.05%) Cucumber
General
1 319 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 206 (18.10%) Multimedia
3 147 (12.92%) Finance
4 133 (11.69%) Marketing
5 130 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (11.25%) Law
7 62 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 52 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (4.04%) Retail
10 37 (3.25%) Banking
11 32 (2.81%) Legal
12 22 (1.93%) Advertising
13 16 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.41%) Publishing
14 11 (0.97%) German Language
15 10 (0.88%) Games
16 7 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.53%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.44%) Back Office
18 5 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 586 (51.49%) Developer
2 197 (17.31%) Trainee
3 194 (17.05%) Senior
4 138 (12.13%) Software Developer
5 134 (11.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 133 (11.69%) Senior Developer
7 96 (8.44%) Trainee Developer
8 91 (8.00%) Trainee Software Developer
9 72 (6.33%) .NET Developer
10 70 (6.15%) Analyst
11 64 (5.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 61 (5.36%) Lead
13 59 (5.18%) Software Engineer
14 55 (4.83%) Designer
15 47 (4.13%) Java Developer
16 46 (4.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 40 (3.51%) Web Developer
18 36 (3.16%) React Developer
19 34 (2.99%) C# Developer
20 32 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (79.26%) CSS
2 309 (27.15%) React
3 219 (19.24%) .NET
4 141 (12.39%) HTML5
5 133 (11.69%) RESTful
6 132 (11.60%) JSON
7 130 (11.42%) AngularJS
8 129 (11.34%) Node.js
9 119 (10.46%) XML
10 98 (8.61%) REST
11 93 (8.17%) CSS3
12 80 (7.03%) Vue
13 78 (6.85%) .NET Core
13 78 (6.85%) ASP.NET
14 62 (5.45%) jQuery
14 62 (5.45%) Web Services
15 57 (5.01%) .NET Framework
16 49 (4.31%) Spring
17 48 (4.22%) GraphQL
17 48 (4.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
4 29 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 22 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.58%) Social Media
7 16 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.23%) Motion Graphics
9 12 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.70%) Graphic Design
11 8 (0.70%) Legacy Code
11 8 (0.70%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.81%) Unix
2 27 (2.37%) Windows
3 23 (2.02%) Linux
4 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.88%) Android
6 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (39.02%) Agile
2 312 (27.42%) Mentoring
3 282 (24.78%) User Experience
4 278 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (22.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 196 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
7 178 (15.64%) CI/CD
8 168 (14.76%) Front End Development
9 157 (13.80%) DevOps
10 130 (11.42%) Web Development
11 113 (9.93%) Microservices
12 112 (9.84%) Analytics
12 112 (9.84%) UX Design
13 106 (9.31%) Software Engineering
14 103 (9.05%) Scrum
15 100 (8.79%) AI
16 99 (8.70%) MVC
17 98 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (7.64%) Clean Code
19 85 (7.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 886 (77.86%) JavaScript
2 348 (30.58%) Python
3 278 (24.43%) SQL
4 218 (19.16%) C#
5 186 (16.34%) TypeScript
6 136 (11.95%) Java
7 102 (8.96%) R
8 74 (6.50%) PHP
9 30 (2.64%) PL/SQL
10 23 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.97%) Ruby
13 8 (0.70%) Go
14 7 (0.62%) Bicep
15 4 (0.35%) ActionScript 3.0
15 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.35%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 201 (17.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 199 (17.49%) AWS Certification
2 199 (17.49%) Azure Certification
3 197 (17.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 187 (16.43%) Degree
5 81 (7.12%) Security Cleared
6 52 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.43%) SC Cleared
8 23 (2.02%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.35%) ISEB
15 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) CCA
17 2 (0.18%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (14.59%) Accessibility
2 76 (6.68%) QA
3 50 (4.39%) WCAG
4 39 (3.43%) GDPR
5 6 (0.53%) PERC
5 6 (0.53%) SLA
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.44%) Section 508
7 2 (0.18%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.088%) CDISC
8 1 (0.088%) DICOM
8 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.088%) NCSC
8 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.088%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (10.19%) Docker
2 15 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.28%) Terraform
3 21 (1.85%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) Argo
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) cPanel
6 3 (0.26%) Grafana
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 332 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.47%) Adobe
3 67 (5.89%) Google
4 45 (3.95%) Oracle
5 38 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 23 (2.02%) Splunk
9 12 (1.05%) Cisco
10 9 (0.79%) Apple
11 8 (0.70%) Ahrefs
11 8 (0.70%) Hotjar
11 8 (0.70%) YouTube
12 7 (0.62%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.62%) Facebook
12 7 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
13 6 (0.53%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.53%) Pardot
13 6 (0.53%) SAP