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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -85 -6 -14
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,106 2,161 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.54% 4.73% 4.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.01% 21.44% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 921 1,315 3,077
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +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 7,897 10,080 17,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 22.05% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,801 6,520 14,491
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,225 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -81 1,004 £50,000 -16.67% 746
UK excluding London -81 777 £42,500 -22.73% 675
Work from Home -91 336 £52,500 -19.23% 301
North of England -37 256 £30,500 -30.29% 178
London -93 254 £62,500 -7.41% 184
South East -58 205 £50,000 -18.37% 156
North West -42 121 £30,500 -32.88% 82
Midlands -58 116 £45,000 -5.26% 106
Yorkshire -26 100 £30,500 -23.75% 67
East of England -59 80 £47,500 -28.27% 93
South West -79 74 £44,000 -26.67% 90
West Midlands -48 62 £30,500 -41.90% 40
East Midlands -52 54 £55,000 +43.79% 62
Scotland -74 36 £30,500 -44.55% 35
North East -10 35 £30,500 -44.55% 33
Wales -49 8 £36,120 +11.14% 30
Northern Ireland -44 3 £60,000 +20.00% 6
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 75 (6.78%) WordPress
2 63 (5.70%) CMS
3 19 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.36%) Confluence
5 11 (0.99%) nginx
6 9 (0.81%) Drupal
7 7 (0.63%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) Joomla!
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) govService
10 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) Liferay
10 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (2.44%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (1.18%) Photoshop
5 12 (1.08%) Sketch
6 9 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.72%) InVision
8 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
10 4 (0.36%) InDesign
11 3 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.27%) Elementor
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.18%) Trello
12 2 (0.18%) Windchill
13 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.81%) Shopify
2 16 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.090%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.090%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.090%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.090%) Magento
6 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 457 (41.32%) Azure
2 415 (37.52%) AWS
3 352 (31.83%) GitHub
4 75 (6.78%) Serverless
5 74 (6.69%) Figma
6 54 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (4.61%) GCP
8 43 (3.89%) Power Platform
9 39 (3.53%) SaaS
10 36 (3.25%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (2.08%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.81%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.63%) PowerApps
18 15 (1.36%) Azure Functions
19 14 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 264 (23.87%) Internet
2 12 (1.08%) HTTP
3 6 (0.54%) FTP
4 4 (0.36%) Intranet
5 3 (0.27%) AMQP
5 3 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.090%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.090%) NAS
7 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 71 (6.42%) MySQL
3 50 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (3.98%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 31 (2.80%) Power BI
6 25 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.81%) OLTP
8 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.27%) DB2
8 14 (1.27%) Looker
9 12 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.63%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.27%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 407 (36.80%) Git
2 76 (6.87%) JIRA
3 52 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.25%) Selenium
5 29 (2.62%) Postman
6 27 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (2.44%) webpack
7 26 (2.35%) SoapUI
8 24 (2.17%) Axure RP
9 23 (2.08%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.63%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.36%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.36%) Vite
12 14 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.27%) JUnit
13 13 (1.18%) Balsamiq
13 13 (1.18%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.99%) Babel
14 11 (0.99%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 264 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 261 (23.60%) Multimedia
3 128 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.22%) Finance
5 85 (7.69%) Marketing
6 67 (6.06%) Law
7 55 (4.97%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (2.53%) Banking
9 28 (2.53%) Retail
10 26 (2.35%) Legal
11 19 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.36%) Advertising
12 15 (1.36%) German Language
13 9 (0.81%) Publishing
14 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.63%) Electronics
15 7 (0.63%) Games
16 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 604 (54.61%) Developer
2 256 (23.15%) Trainee
3 179 (16.18%) Senior
4 167 (15.10%) Software Developer
5 132 (11.93%) Senior Developer
6 122 (11.03%) Trainee Developer
7 117 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 113 (10.22%) Trainee Software Developer
9 64 (5.79%) .NET Developer
10 62 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 61 (5.52%) Designer
12 56 (5.06%) Lead
13 49 (4.43%) Analyst
14 44 (3.98%) Software Engineer
15 42 (3.80%) React Developer
16 38 (3.44%) Web Developer
17 35 (3.16%) Administrator
18 31 (2.80%) UX Designer
18 31 (2.80%) Web Administrator
19 30 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 914 (82.64%) CSS
2 310 (28.03%) React
3 212 (19.17%) .NET
4 122 (11.03%) Node.js
5 119 (10.76%) AngularJS
6 103 (9.31%) HTML5
7 97 (8.77%) RESTful
8 86 (7.78%) Vue
9 83 (7.50%) XML
10 76 (6.87%) CSS3
11 75 (6.78%) JSON
12 66 (5.97%) jQuery
13 63 (5.70%) REST
14 61 (5.52%) SOAP
15 58 (5.24%) ASP.NET
16 55 (4.97%) .NET Core
17 44 (3.98%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.71%) Web Services
19 35 (3.16%) Laravel
20 34 (3.07%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
3 40 (3.62%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.25%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.18%) Social Media
11 11 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.81%) Cybercrime
14 8 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (0.54%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.80%) Unix
2 23 (2.08%) Linux
3 22 (1.99%) Windows
4 13 (1.18%) Android
4 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (33.54%) Agile
2 366 (33.09%) Mentoring
3 245 (22.15%) Cybersecurity
4 244 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
5 240 (21.70%) User Experience
6 227 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 184 (16.64%) CI/CD
8 152 (13.74%) Front End Development
9 137 (12.39%) DevOps
10 112 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (10.13%) Web Development
11 111 (10.04%) AI
12 101 (9.13%) Software Engineering
13 99 (8.95%) Scrum
14 98 (8.86%) Analytics
15 96 (8.68%) UX Design
16 94 (8.50%) Computer Science
17 82 (7.41%) Clean Code
18 80 (7.23%) Microservices
19 70 (6.33%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 840 (75.95%) JavaScript
2 409 (36.98%) Python
3 281 (25.41%) SQL
4 192 (17.36%) C#
5 179 (16.18%) TypeScript
6 135 (12.21%) R
7 117 (10.58%) Java
8 85 (7.69%) PHP
9 31 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.90%) Ruby
10 10 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.54%) Bash
13 6 (0.54%) C++
14 5 (0.45%) C
14 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.36%) SOQL
15 4 (0.36%) SOSL
15 4 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 261 (23.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 257 (23.24%) Azure Certification
3 256 (23.15%) AWS Certification
3 256 (23.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 224 (20.25%) Degree
5 81 (7.32%) Security Cleared
6 75 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (4.70%) SC Cleared
8 28 (2.53%) ISTQB
9 23 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 11 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.36%) ISEB
15 3 (0.27%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 55 (4.97%) WCAG
3 51 (4.61%) QA
4 21 (1.90%) GDPR
5 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.54%) PERC
6 6 (0.54%) SLA
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) NIST
9 2 (0.18%) Section 508
10 1 (0.090%) HL7
10 1 (0.090%) NCSC
System Software
1 89 (8.05%) Docker
2 18 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.44%) Terraform
3 8 (0.72%) Kibana
4 4 (0.36%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) cPanel
5 3 (0.27%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Nagios
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 366 (33.09%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.15%) Google
3 55 (4.97%) Adobe
4 40 (3.62%) Oracle
5 25 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.18%) Hotjar
7 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 11 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 11 (0.99%) Splunk
8 8 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.72%) SAP
9 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.54%) Screaming Frog
11 5 (0.45%) iManage
11 5 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.36%) New Relic
12 4 (0.36%) Pardot
12 4 (0.36%) YouTube
13 3 (0.27%) Ahrefs
13 3 (0.27%) Granicus