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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 88 53
Rank change year-on-year -92 -35 -12
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,086 1,609 4,426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 3.47% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.98% 18.36% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,031 3,264
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £79,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -3.85%

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 9,892 8,765 21,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 18.88% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,419 5,765 16,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 30 June 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 30 June 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 1,006 £50,000 -20.00% 379
UK excluding London -76 818 £50,000 -13.04% 351
Work from Home -67 483 £55,000 -15.38% 163
South East -19 238 £50,000 -20.00% 101
London -112 216 £60,000 -14.29% 99
North of England -56 211 £47,500 -5.00% 88
North West -42 121 £45,000 -14.29% 47
Midlands -73 121 £50,000 -6.10% 52
East of England -35 116 £52,500 -20.71% 44
South West -52 96 £50,000 -4.76% 39
West Midlands -55 62 £45,000 -15.09% 19
East Midlands -56 59 £55,000 +1.85% 33
Yorkshire -29 53 £50,000 +33.33% 28
North East -24 37 £57,500 +15.00% 14
Wales -48 21 £45,000 -25.00% 8
Scotland -67 12 £31,000 -43.64% 16
Northern Ireland -28 3 £60,000 - 6

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 98 (9.02%) WordPress
2 56 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.88%) CMS
4 19 (1.75%) IIS
5 17 (1.57%) Confluence
6 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.01%) Drupal
8 10 (0.92%) Apache
9 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.37%) nginx
11 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) govService
12 2 (0.18%) JBoss
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.092%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.092%) Site Server
13 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (2.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.84%) Photoshop
3 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.20%) Adobe XD
6 12 (1.10%) InDesign
7 10 (0.92%) Sketch
8 9 (0.83%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
9 8 (0.74%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.37%) InVision
12 3 (0.28%) Elementor
12 3 (0.28%) Trello
13 1 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (2.49%) Shopify
2 11 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.55%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 401 (36.92%) Azure
2 262 (24.13%) AWS
3 218 (20.07%) GitHub
4 148 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.81%) Power Platform
6 71 (6.54%) Figma
6 71 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 67 (6.17%) Azure AI
8 54 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
9 50 (4.60%) PowerApps
9 50 (4.60%) Serverless
10 48 (4.42%) Power Automate
10 48 (4.42%) SaaS
11 44 (4.05%) GCP
12 35 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 34 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (2.76%) Google Analytics
15 25 (2.30%) OneDrive
16 23 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 114 (10.50%) Internet
2 10 (0.92%) Intranet
3 7 (0.64%) HTTP
4 6 (0.55%) Network Security
5 5 (0.46%) VoIP
6 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.37%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) DNS
8 2 (0.18%) Firewall
8 2 (0.18%) SMS
8 2 (0.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.092%) AMQP
9 1 (0.092%) FTP
9 1 (0.092%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.092%) NAS
9 1 (0.092%) RTSP
9 1 (0.092%) SCTP
9 1 (0.092%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 134 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 125 (11.51%) SQL Server
4 100 (9.21%) MySQL
5 62 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 58 (5.34%) Power BI
7 48 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.57%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.38%) OLTP
12 10 (0.92%) MariaDB
12 10 (0.92%) Metadata
13 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
13 9 (0.83%) Tableau
14 8 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.64%) GIS
16 6 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 231 (21.27%) Git
2 58 (5.34%) JIRA
3 42 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.12%) Selenium
5 15 (1.38%) Postman
6 14 (1.29%) GitLab
6 14 (1.29%) JUnit
7 12 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.10%) webpack
8 10 (0.92%) Axure RP
9 9 (0.83%) Vite
10 8 (0.74%) Mockito
10 8 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.64%) JMeter
11 7 (0.64%) SoapUI
12 6 (0.55%) Balsamiq
13 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.46%) IntelliJ
13 5 (0.46%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 121 (11.14%) Marketing
3 117 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.73%) Multimedia
5 76 (7.00%) Finance
6 62 (5.71%) Advertising
7 55 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 49 (4.51%) Law
10 40 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (3.13%) Legal
12 32 (2.95%) Retail
13 18 (1.66%) Games
14 10 (0.92%) Banking
15 9 (0.83%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.74%) Legal Technology
17 7 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.64%) Local Government
18 6 (0.55%) Electronics
18 6 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 653 (60.13%) Developer
2 195 (17.96%) .NET Developer
3 163 (15.01%) Senior
4 130 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 120 (11.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 82 (7.55%) Software Developer
7 80 (7.37%) Trainee
8 68 (6.26%) Designer
9 64 (5.89%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.62%) Web Developer
11 52 (4.79%) Administrator
12 46 (4.24%) Web Administrator
13 45 (4.14%) Lead
14 43 (3.96%) Trainee Administrator
15 41 (3.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 40 (3.68%) PHP Developer
17 39 (3.59%) Analyst
18 38 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 37 (3.41%) C# Developer
20 34 (3.13%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 951 (87.57%) CSS
2 347 (31.95%) .NET
3 231 (21.27%) React
4 199 (18.32%) .NET Core
5 178 (16.39%) ASP.NET
6 154 (14.18%) ASP.NET Core
7 124 (11.42%) HTML5
8 117 (10.77%) Node.js
9 111 (10.22%) jQuery
10 108 (9.94%) Vue
11 96 (8.84%) CSS3
12 95 (8.75%) RESTful
13 93 (8.56%) Entity Framework
14 92 (8.47%) AngularJS
15 88 (8.10%) JSON
16 75 (6.91%) REST
17 65 (5.99%) ML.NET
18 54 (4.97%) XML
19 50 (4.60%) Laravel
20 45 (4.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.30%) Social Media
9 23 (2.12%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.03%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.84%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (1.38%) Graphic Design
15 14 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
16 13 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
17 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.74%) Driving Licence
17 8 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.25%) Windows
2 49 (4.51%) Linux
3 26 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.55%) Unix
4 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.46%) Android
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) Debian
9 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (35.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 365 (33.61%) Agile
3 315 (29.01%) CI/CD
4 235 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (19.80%) DevOps
6 208 (19.15%) AI
7 193 (17.77%) User Experience
8 169 (15.56%) Web Development
9 135 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (12.43%) Mentoring
10 116 (10.68%) Machine Learning
11 114 (10.50%) Software Engineering
12 112 (10.31%) Computer Science
13 106 (9.76%) Front End Development
14 92 (8.47%) Analytics
15 89 (8.20%) Microservices
16 84 (7.73%) Scrum
17 77 (7.09%) UX Design
18 74 (6.81%) OO
18 74 (6.81%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 659 (60.68%) JavaScript
2 457 (42.08%) SQL
3 333 (30.66%) C#
4 216 (19.89%) Python
5 160 (14.73%) PHP
6 158 (14.55%) TypeScript
7 82 (7.55%) Java
8 55 (5.06%) R
9 41 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.30%) C++
11 21 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.20%) VBA
14 8 (0.74%) Go
14 8 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.64%) Bicep
15 7 (0.64%) C
15 7 (0.64%) VBScript
16 5 (0.46%) Perl
16 5 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (17.22%) Degree
2 77 (7.09%) AWS Certification
3 76 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 75 (6.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 75 (6.91%) Azure Certification
4 75 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (5.16%) Security Cleared
6 48 (4.42%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.092%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.52%) Accessibility
2 54 (4.97%) QA
3 45 (4.14%) WCAG
4 41 (3.78%) GDPR
5 16 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.01%) SLA
8 7 (0.64%) GRC
8 7 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.64%) PERC
9 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) NIST
13 1 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 145 (13.35%) Docker
2 24 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.03%) Terraform
3 8 (0.74%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.092%) Grafana
6 1 (0.092%) Nagios
6 1 (0.092%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.092%) Puppet
6 1 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 345 (31.77%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.91%) Adobe
3 42 (3.87%) Google
4 36 (3.31%) Facebook
4 36 (3.31%) Oracle
5 34 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.84%) YouTube
7 13 (1.20%) Splunk
8 12 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.74%) iManage
10 8 (0.74%) Sage
11 7 (0.64%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.64%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.64%) TikTok
12 6 (0.55%) Hotjar
12 6 (0.55%) SAP
13 5 (0.46%) Apple
13 5 (0.46%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.46%) WooCommerce