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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -100 -23 -19
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,095 1,565 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 3.70% 4.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.52% 18.62% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 900 1,267 3,288
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £39,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.35% +13.00% -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 8,744 8,407 20,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 19.87% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,387 6,443 15,667
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £79,600
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 28 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 28 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 -79 1,012 £47,500 -20.83% 467
UK excluding London -73 784 £45,000 -20.35% 393
Work from Home -88 347 £52,500 -19.23% 242
London -91 247 £60,000 -14.29% 145
North of England -27 243 £31,500 -30.00% 86
South East -62 198 £50,000 -20.00% 129
Midlands -46 131 £45,000 - 52
North West -26 125 £35,000 -24.73% 49
East of England -62 96 £50,000 -24.48% 66
Yorkshire -33 88 £30,500 -18.67% 25
South West -68 82 £44,000 -26.67% 35
West Midlands -33 76 £42,039 -15.92% 27
East Midlands -47 55 £55,000 +37.50% 24
North East -25 30 £30,500 -40.49% 12
Scotland -78 23 £30,500 -44.55% 16
Wales -48 9 £41,740 -7.25% 12
Northern Ireland -40 3 £60,000 - 10
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 99 (9.04%) WordPress
2 47 (4.29%) CMS
3 43 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.28%) Confluence
5 10 (0.91%) IIS
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.55%) Drupal
8 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.27%) govService
9 3 (0.27%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) Liferay
9 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.091%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.091%) Site Server
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.10%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.19%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.00%) Sketch
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.82%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.73%) InVision
7 8 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.27%) InDesign
10 2 (0.18%) Elementor
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.091%) Trello
11 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.37%) Shopify
2 12 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.091%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.091%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 431 (39.36%) Azure
2 392 (35.80%) AWS
3 311 (28.40%) GitHub
4 73 (6.67%) Figma
5 72 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.48%) GCP
6 60 (5.48%) Power Platform
7 53 (4.84%) Serverless
8 40 (3.65%) SaaS
9 36 (3.29%) Google Analytics
9 36 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.20%) Power Automate
10 35 (3.20%) PowerApps
11 30 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (2.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 24 (2.19%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 249 (22.74%) Internet
2 11 (1.00%) HTTP
3 7 (0.64%) Intranet
3 7 (0.64%) Network Security
4 4 (0.37%) VoIP
5 3 (0.27%) FTP
6 2 (0.18%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.18%) SMS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.091%) Broadband
7 1 (0.091%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.091%) NAS
7 1 (0.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 88 (8.04%) MySQL
3 52 (4.75%) Power BI
4 40 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.92%) OLTP
9 13 (1.19%) DB2
10 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.73%) Tableau
13 7 (0.64%) FileMaker
13 7 (0.64%) Looker
13 7 (0.64%) Metadata
14 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 366 (33.42%) Git
2 71 (6.48%) JIRA
3 50 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.02%) Selenium
5 27 (2.47%) Postman
6 25 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.19%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.74%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.64%) Axure RP
9 18 (1.64%) webpack
10 14 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.19%) Balsamiq
12 12 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.00%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.00%) JUnit
13 11 (1.00%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.00%) Vite
14 9 (0.82%) Babel
14 9 (0.82%) GitLab
15 8 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 267 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 236 (21.55%) Multimedia
3 139 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (8.86%) Marketing
5 94 (8.58%) Finance
6 58 (5.30%) Law
7 45 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.74%) Legal
10 25 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.10%) Retail
12 17 (1.55%) Banking
13 15 (1.37%) Advertising
14 14 (1.28%) German Language
15 8 (0.73%) Electronics
15 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.64%) Games
17 6 (0.55%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.55%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 576 (52.60%) Developer
2 240 (21.92%) Trainee
3 161 (14.70%) Senior
4 139 (12.69%) Software Developer
5 125 (11.42%) Senior Developer
6 116 (10.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 100 (9.13%) Trainee Developer
8 87 (7.95%) Trainee Software Developer
9 65 (5.94%) Administrator
10 64 (5.84%) Designer
11 63 (5.75%) .NET Developer
12 59 (5.39%) Web Administrator
13 57 (5.21%) Trainee Administrator
14 56 (5.11%) Lead
15 51 (4.66%) Software Engineer
16 48 (4.38%) Web Developer
17 43 (3.93%) Analyst
17 43 (3.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 39 (3.56%) React Developer
19 34 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 923 (84.29%) CSS
2 284 (25.94%) React
3 216 (19.73%) .NET
4 111 (10.14%) Node.js
5 102 (9.32%) AngularJS
6 100 (9.13%) HTML5
7 96 (8.77%) RESTful
8 92 (8.40%) JSON
8 92 (8.40%) Vue
9 80 (7.31%) jQuery
10 77 (7.03%) CSS3
11 65 (5.94%) .NET Core
12 64 (5.84%) XML
13 58 (5.30%) SOAP
14 55 (5.02%) ASP.NET
15 53 (4.84%) REST
16 42 (3.84%) Laravel
17 38 (3.47%) .NET Framework
18 36 (3.29%) Spring
19 34 (3.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.02%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.93%) Onboarding
2 43 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 26 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.83%) Social Media
10 18 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.82%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.73%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.64%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.64%) Graphic Design
16 7 (0.64%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.74%) Windows
2 29 (2.65%) Unix
3 27 (2.47%) Linux
4 14 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.64%) Android
6 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (27.85%) Mentoring
2 303 (27.67%) Agile
3 237 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 220 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (17.81%) User Experience
6 189 (17.26%) Cybersecurity
7 174 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 148 (13.52%) Web Development
9 137 (12.51%) AI
10 136 (12.42%) DevOps
11 121 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (10.68%) Front End Development
13 113 (10.32%) Scrum
14 110 (10.05%) Software Engineering
15 103 (9.41%) Computer Science
16 98 (8.95%) Analytics
17 81 (7.40%) Clean Code
18 80 (7.31%) UX Design
19 79 (7.21%) Microservices
20 69 (6.30%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 795 (72.60%) JavaScript
2 381 (34.79%) Python
3 333 (30.41%) SQL
4 193 (17.63%) C#
5 171 (15.62%) TypeScript
6 136 (12.42%) R
7 122 (11.14%) PHP
8 109 (9.95%) Java
9 29 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.56%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.28%) C++
12 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.00%) VBA
14 8 (0.73%) C
15 7 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.55%) Bash
16 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.46%) Bicep
17 5 (0.46%) VBScript
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 237 (21.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (21.46%) AWS Certification
2 235 (21.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 235 (21.46%) Azure Certification
3 217 (19.82%) Degree
4 74 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.21%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.11%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.01%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 10 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.27%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.18%) ISEB
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (10.96%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.02%) QA
2 44 (4.02%) WCAG
3 32 (2.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.00%) SLA
5 9 (0.82%) PERC
6 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.64%) GRC
8 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
11 1 (0.091%) HL7
11 1 (0.091%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (7.12%) Docker
2 16 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.74%) Terraform
3 5 (0.46%) Kibana
4 3 (0.27%) Argo
4 3 (0.27%) Plesk
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) cPanel
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.18%) Nagios
5 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 366 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.03%) Adobe
3 54 (4.93%) Google
4 36 (3.29%) Oracle
5 23 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.73%) Splunk
9 7 (0.64%) Hotjar
9 7 (0.64%) iManage
10 6 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (0.55%) SAP
11 5 (0.46%) Apple
11 5 (0.46%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.46%) Sage
11 5 (0.46%) TikTok
12 4 (0.37%) New Relic