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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 78 53
Rank change year-on-year -96 -25 -20
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,074 1,551 4,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 3.66% 4.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.28% 18.54% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 885 1,259 3,304
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 £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 8,745 8,364 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.73% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 6,401 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -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 30 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 30 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 -77 992 £48,088 -19.85% 408
UK excluding London -72 765 £45,000 -18.18% 347
Work from Home -78 344 £55,000 -15.38% 179
London -89 244 £60,000 -14.29% 121
North of England -39 235 £31,500 -30.00% 80
South East -56 198 £50,000 -20.00% 116
Midlands -43 128 £45,000 - 38
North West -34 123 £37,500 -19.35% 41
East of England -54 93 £50,000 -24.48% 58
Yorkshire -38 84 £30,500 -18.67% 25
South West -61 78 £45,000 -25.00% 35
West Midlands -30 74 £42,039 -15.92% 17
East Midlands -49 54 £55,000 +37.50% 20
North East -18 28 £30,500 -40.49% 14
Scotland -77 22 £30,500 -44.55% 14
Wales -49 9 £41,740 -7.25% 7
Northern Ireland -42 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 (9.22%) WordPress
2 47 (4.38%) CMS
3 44 (4.10%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.30%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) IIS
5 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.84%) nginx
7 7 (0.65%) Apache
8 6 (0.56%) Drupal
9 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.093%) Camunda
Applications
1 22 (2.05%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.21%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.02%) Sketch
5 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.74%) InVision
7 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.28%) InDesign
10 2 (0.19%) Elementor
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.093%) Trello
11 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 13 (1.21%) Shopify
2 4 (0.37%) Line 50
2 4 (0.37%) Magento
3 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 419 (39.01%) Azure
2 379 (35.29%) AWS
3 299 (27.84%) GitHub
4 72 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (6.52%) Figma
6 61 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 60 (5.59%) GCP
8 52 (4.84%) Serverless
9 40 (3.72%) SaaS
10 37 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.35%) Google Analytics
11 36 (3.35%) Power Automate
11 36 (3.35%) PowerApps
12 31 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 25 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (2.23%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (1.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 239 (22.25%) Internet
2 11 (1.02%) HTTP
3 7 (0.65%) Intranet
3 7 (0.65%) Network Security
4 4 (0.37%) VoIP
5 3 (0.28%) FTP
6 2 (0.19%) AMQP
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.19%) SMS
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.093%) Broadband
7 1 (0.093%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.093%) NAS
7 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.24%) SQL Server
2 88 (8.19%) MySQL
3 53 (4.93%) Power BI
4 40 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.96%) OLTP
10 13 (1.21%) DB2
11 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.74%) Tableau
14 7 (0.65%) FileMaker
14 7 (0.65%) Looker
14 7 (0.65%) Metadata
15 6 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 352 (32.77%) Git
2 70 (6.52%) JIRA
3 49 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.10%) Selenium
5 27 (2.51%) Postman
6 25 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.23%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.77%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.68%) Axure RP
10 17 (1.58%) webpack
11 15 (1.40%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.21%) Balsamiq
13 12 (1.12%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 11 (1.02%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.02%) Vite
15 10 (0.93%) JUnit
16 9 (0.84%) Babel
16 9 (0.84%) GitLab
17 8 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 265 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 225 (20.95%) Multimedia
3 138 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.94%) Marketing
5 93 (8.66%) Finance
6 57 (5.31%) Law
7 45 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (3.72%) Public Sector
9 31 (2.89%) Legal
10 24 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.23%) Retail
11 17 (1.58%) Banking
12 15 (1.40%) Advertising
13 13 (1.21%) German Language
14 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.65%) Electronics
15 7 (0.65%) Games
16 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 566 (52.70%) Developer
2 229 (21.32%) Trainee
3 162 (15.08%) Senior
4 132 (12.29%) Software Developer
5 127 (11.82%) Senior Developer
6 116 (10.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 94 (8.75%) Trainee Developer
8 81 (7.54%) Trainee Software Developer
9 65 (6.05%) Designer
10 64 (5.96%) Administrator
11 60 (5.59%) .NET Developer
12 58 (5.40%) Web Administrator
13 56 (5.21%) Trainee Administrator
14 55 (5.12%) Lead
15 49 (4.56%) Web Developer
16 48 (4.47%) Software Engineer
17 43 (4.00%) Analyst
17 43 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 39 (3.63%) React Developer
19 34 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (84.45%) CSS
2 279 (25.98%) React
3 214 (19.93%) .NET
4 111 (10.34%) Node.js
5 102 (9.50%) HTML5
6 100 (9.31%) AngularJS
7 95 (8.85%) RESTful
8 93 (8.66%) Vue
9 90 (8.38%) JSON
10 81 (7.54%) jQuery
11 79 (7.36%) CSS3
12 65 (6.05%) .NET Core
13 60 (5.59%) XML
14 58 (5.40%) SOAP
15 53 (4.93%) REST
16 52 (4.84%) ASP.NET
17 42 (3.91%) Laravel
18 38 (3.54%) .NET Framework
19 35 (3.26%) Spring
20 33 (3.07%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.00%) Product Ownership
1 43 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (3.72%) Onboarding
3 31 (2.89%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
5 26 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 20 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.86%) Social Media
9 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.65%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.89%) Windows
2 27 (2.51%) Linux
3 26 (2.42%) Unix
4 15 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.56%) Android
6 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (28.03%) Agile
2 293 (27.28%) Mentoring
3 235 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 219 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (18.34%) User Experience
6 178 (16.57%) Cybersecurity
7 170 (15.83%) CI/CD
8 146 (13.59%) Web Development
9 136 (12.66%) AI
10 135 (12.57%) DevOps
11 119 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (10.89%) Front End Development
13 113 (10.52%) Scrum
14 107 (9.96%) Software Engineering
15 104 (9.68%) Computer Science
16 96 (8.94%) Analytics
17 81 (7.54%) UX Design
18 80 (7.45%) Clean Code
19 78 (7.26%) Microservices
20 70 (6.52%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 779 (72.53%) JavaScript
2 367 (34.17%) Python
3 331 (30.82%) SQL
4 190 (17.69%) C#
5 170 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 131 (12.20%) R
7 121 (11.27%) PHP
8 107 (9.96%) Java
9 30 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.30%) C++
12 12 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.02%) VBA
14 8 (0.74%) C
15 7 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.56%) Bash
17 5 (0.47%) Bicep
17 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.47%) VBScript
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 226 (21.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 224 (20.86%) AWS Certification
2 224 (20.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 224 (20.86%) Azure Certification
3 214 (19.93%) Degree
4 75 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.31%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.28%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (1.02%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.19%) ISEB
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.08%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.10%) QA
2 44 (4.10%) WCAG
3 31 (2.89%) GDPR
4 11 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.02%) SLA
5 9 (0.84%) PERC
6 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
8 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.093%) HL7
11 1 (0.093%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (7.08%) Docker
2 16 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.77%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 357 (33.24%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.17%) Adobe
3 54 (5.03%) Google
4 35 (3.26%) Oracle
5 25 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.65%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.65%) iManage
8 7 (0.65%) Splunk
9 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (0.56%) SAP
10 5 (0.47%) Apple
10 5 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.47%) Sage
10 5 (0.47%) TikTok
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic