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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -90 -23 -18
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,099 1,565 4,315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 3.72% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.61% 18.54% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 903 1,266 3,303
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £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% -7.89%
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 8,714 8,443 20,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 20.09% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,363 6,441 15,734
10th Percentile £39,240 £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 £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 26 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 26 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 1,016 £47,500 -20.83% 405
UK excluding London -74 787 £45,000 -20.35% 351
Work from Home -84 349 £52,500 -19.23% 298
London -94 247 £60,000 -14.29% 112
North of England -28 246 £31,500 -30.00% 76
South East -59 198 £50,000 -20.00% 115
Midlands -47 131 £45,000 - 47
North West -27 126 £36,250 -22.04% 39
East of England -66 95 £49,380 -25.42% 60
Yorkshire -30 89 £30,500 -18.67% 25
South West -61 83 £44,000 -26.67% 36
West Midlands -39 76 £42,039 -15.92% 24
East Midlands -59 55 £55,000 +37.50% 22
North East -27 31 £30,500 -40.49% 12
Scotland -75 23 £30,500 -44.55% 14
Wales -48 9 £41,740 -7.25% 8
Northern Ireland -41 3 £60,000 - 8
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 (9.01%) WordPress
2 47 (4.28%) CMS
3 41 (3.73%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.27%) Confluence
5 9 (0.82%) IIS
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.82%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) Apache
6 6 (0.55%) Drupal
7 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.27%) govService
8 3 (0.27%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) Liferay
8 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.091%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.091%) Site Server
10 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.18%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.00%) Sketch
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
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 (1.36%) Shopify
2 13 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.45%) Magento
4 4 (0.36%) 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
1 430 (39.13%) Azure
2 394 (35.85%) AWS
3 312 (28.39%) GitHub
4 73 (6.64%) Figma
5 72 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.46%) GCP
7 58 (5.28%) Power Platform
8 54 (4.91%) Serverless
9 41 (3.73%) SaaS
10 36 (3.28%) Google Analytics
11 33 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.00%) Power Automate
11 33 (3.00%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (1.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 249 (22.66%) Internet
2 11 (1.00%) HTTP
3 7 (0.64%) Intranet
3 7 (0.64%) Network Security
4 4 (0.36%) FTP
4 4 (0.36%) VoIP
5 2 (0.18%) AMQP
5 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.18%) SMS
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.091%) Broadband
6 1 (0.091%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.091%) NAS
6 1 (0.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 89 (8.10%) MySQL
3 50 (4.55%) Power BI
4 40 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 34 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.91%) OLTP
10 13 (1.18%) DB2
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.73%) Tableau
14 7 (0.64%) FileMaker
14 7 (0.64%) Looker
14 7 (0.64%) Metadata
15 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.45%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 369 (33.58%) Git
2 71 (6.46%) JIRA
3 50 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.00%) Selenium
5 27 (2.46%) Postman
6 25 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.18%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.73%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.64%) Axure RP
9 18 (1.64%) webpack
10 14 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.18%) Balsamiq
12 12 (1.09%) 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 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 236 (21.47%) Multimedia
3 139 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.92%) Marketing
5 93 (8.46%) Finance
6 57 (5.19%) Law
7 45 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.64%) Legal
10 26 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.18%) Retail
12 18 (1.64%) Banking
13 15 (1.36%) Advertising
14 14 (1.27%) 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
1 581 (52.87%) Developer
2 240 (21.84%) Trainee
3 162 (14.74%) Senior
4 139 (12.65%) Software Developer
5 126 (11.46%) Senior Developer
6 116 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 100 (9.10%) Trainee Developer
8 87 (7.92%) Trainee Software Developer
9 65 (5.91%) Administrator
10 64 (5.82%) .NET Developer
10 64 (5.82%) Designer
11 59 (5.37%) Web Administrator
12 57 (5.19%) Lead
12 57 (5.19%) Trainee Administrator
13 51 (4.64%) Software Engineer
14 48 (4.37%) Web Developer
15 46 (4.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 43 (3.91%) Analyst
17 39 (3.55%) React Developer
18 34 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (84.26%) CSS
2 284 (25.84%) React
3 216 (19.65%) .NET
4 111 (10.10%) Node.js
5 102 (9.28%) AngularJS
6 100 (9.10%) HTML5
7 96 (8.74%) RESTful
8 92 (8.37%) Vue
9 91 (8.28%) JSON
10 80 (7.28%) jQuery
11 77 (7.01%) CSS3
12 65 (5.91%) XML
13 63 (5.73%) .NET Core
14 59 (5.37%) SOAP
15 55 (5.00%) ASP.NET
16 54 (4.91%) REST
17 42 (3.82%) Laravel
18 39 (3.55%) .NET Framework
19 36 (3.28%) Spring
20 35 (3.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.91%) Onboarding
2 43 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
5 26 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 21 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.82%) Social Media
9 18 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.73%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.64%) Cybercrime
15 7 (0.64%) Graphic Design
15 7 (0.64%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.64%) Unix
1 29 (2.64%) Windows
2 27 (2.46%) Linux
3 13 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.64%) Android
5 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (28.12%) Mentoring
2 306 (27.84%) Agile
3 238 (21.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 222 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (17.65%) User Experience
6 189 (17.20%) Cybersecurity
7 174 (15.83%) CI/CD
8 151 (13.74%) Web Development
9 137 (12.47%) AI
10 136 (12.37%) DevOps
11 121 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (10.92%) Front End Development
13 113 (10.28%) Scrum
14 110 (10.01%) Software Engineering
15 103 (9.37%) Computer Science
16 98 (8.92%) Analytics
17 81 (7.37%) Clean Code
18 80 (7.28%) UX Design
19 79 (7.19%) Microservices
20 69 (6.28%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 798 (72.61%) JavaScript
2 382 (34.76%) Python
3 333 (30.30%) SQL
4 192 (17.47%) C#
5 169 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 136 (12.37%) R
7 122 (11.10%) PHP
8 109 (9.92%) Java
9 28 (2.55%) PL/SQL
10 26 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.27%) C++
12 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.91%) 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 (0.45%) Bicep
18 4 (0.36%) Ruby
18 4 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 237 (21.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (21.38%) AWS Certification
2 235 (21.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 235 (21.38%) Azure Certification
3 218 (19.84%) Degree
4 74 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.19%) Security Cleared
6 45 (4.09%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.00%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 10 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.36%) 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
1 123 (11.19%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.00%) QA
2 44 (4.00%) WCAG
3 32 (2.91%) GDPR
4 11 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.00%) SLA
5 9 (0.82%) PERC
6 7 (0.64%) GRC
6 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.18%) NIST
10 1 (0.091%) HL7
10 1 (0.091%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (7.19%) Docker
2 15 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.82%) Terraform
3 5 (0.45%) 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
1 365 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.82%) Adobe
3 54 (4.91%) Google
4 36 (3.28%) Oracle
5 24 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.73%) Splunk
9 7 (0.64%) Hotjar
10 6 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.55%) iManage
10 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (0.55%) SAP
11 5 (0.45%) Apple
11 5 (0.45%) Pinterest
11 5 (0.45%) Sage
11 5 (0.45%) TikTok
12 4 (0.36%) New Relic