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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 111 47
Rank change year-on-year -95 -64 +3
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,064 1,331 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 2.68% 4.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.02% 15.89% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 832 785 1,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11,800 8,375 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 5,333 9,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 16 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 8 October 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 -76 993 £51,000 -7.27% 856
UK excluding London -72 793 £50,000 - 433
Work from Home -62 476 £52,500 -4.55% 377
South East -6 255 £50,000 - 102
London -119 226 £60,000 -7.69% 479
North of England -58 211 £51,000 +20.00% 109
East of England -19 112 £47,500 -13.64% 44
North West -63 106 £51,000 +2.00% 54
South West -32 102 £52,500 +31.25% 43
Midlands -112 79 £50,000 -4.76% 65
North East -13 67 £57,500 +86.39% 22
East Midlands -77 40 £50,000 -9.09% 20
West Midlands -85 39 £51,250 +6.22% 45
Yorkshire -44 38 £48,750 +30.00% 35
Wales -74 25 £40,756 -39.62% 13
Scotland -64 9 £37,500 -0.66% 42

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 67 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 53 (4.98%) CMS
3 43 (4.04%) WordPress
4 40 (3.76%) IIS
5 39 (3.67%) Confluence
6 18 (1.69%) Apache
7 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (1.13%) Drupal
9 11 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.66%) JBoss
10 7 (0.66%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.56%) Moodle
11 6 (0.56%) nginx
12 4 (0.38%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.094%) ExpressionEngine
15 1 (0.094%) Oracle 10gAS
15 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
15 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (1.97%) Photoshop
3 17 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.32%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.03%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.85%) InDesign
7 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
7 9 (0.85%) Sketch
8 5 (0.47%) Elementor
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.28%) Trello
9 3 (0.28%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.19%) InVision
11 1 (0.094%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.094%) MadCap Flare
11 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (2.73%) Shopify
2 21 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.56%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.28%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.094%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 335 (31.48%) Azure
2 191 (17.95%) AWS
3 153 (14.38%) GitHub
4 142 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (9.12%) Power Platform
6 81 (7.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (7.05%) Azure AI
8 70 (6.58%) Power Automate
9 69 (6.48%) PowerApps
10 68 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
11 62 (5.83%) Figma
12 35 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (3.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 34 (3.20%) Google Analytics
13 34 (3.20%) Serverless
14 26 (2.44%) SaaS
15 25 (2.35%) GCP
16 24 (2.26%) OneDrive
17 19 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.98%) Internet
2 10 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.85%) HTTP
3 9 (0.85%) SSL
4 8 (0.75%) Intranet
5 7 (0.66%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.56%) SNMP
7 5 (0.47%) SMS
8 4 (0.38%) 5G
8 4 (0.38%) VoIP
9 3 (0.28%) 4G
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) Network Security
9 3 (0.28%) SSH
10 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.094%) DKIM
11 1 (0.094%) DMARC
11 1 (0.094%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.98%) SQL Server
2 160 (15.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 141 (13.25%) MongoDB
4 111 (10.43%) MySQL
5 94 (8.83%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.92%) Power BI
7 59 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.69%) Metadata
11 12 (1.13%) Redis
12 11 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.03%) GIS
12 11 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
12 11 (1.03%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.66%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.56%) OLTP
14 6 (0.56%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 194 (18.23%) Git
2 59 (5.55%) JIRA
3 46 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.60%) Claude Code
4 17 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.41%) GitLab
6 15 (1.41%) Selenium
7 14 (1.32%) JUnit
7 14 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.85%) Maven
8 9 (0.85%) Mockito
8 9 (0.85%) Postman
9 8 (0.75%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.66%) JMeter
10 7 (0.66%) MSI
10 7 (0.66%) NUnit
10 7 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 340 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 151 (14.19%) Marketing
3 115 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 88 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (7.71%) Finance
7 81 (7.61%) Law
8 60 (5.64%) Advertising
9 38 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 35 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (3.20%) Legal
12 33 (3.10%) Retail
13 21 (1.97%) Multimedia
14 20 (1.88%) Games
14 20 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (1.60%) Banking
16 16 (1.50%) Publishing
17 12 (1.13%) Aviation
18 10 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 683 (64.19%) Developer
2 211 (19.83%) .NET Developer
3 208 (19.55%) Senior
4 150 (14.10%) Senior Developer
5 116 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (7.14%) Web Developer
7 66 (6.20%) Software Developer
8 54 (5.08%) Designer
9 52 (4.89%) PHP Developer
10 48 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 45 (4.23%) C# Developer
11 45 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 44 (4.14%) Analyst
13 43 (4.04%) Lead
14 33 (3.10%) Junior
15 32 (3.01%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 30 (2.82%) C# .NET Developer
16 30 (2.82%) UX Designer
17 26 (2.44%) .NET Software Developer
17 26 (2.44%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (86.28%) CSS
2 372 (34.96%) .NET
3 228 (21.43%) .NET Core
4 224 (21.05%) ASP.NET
5 198 (18.61%) React
6 178 (16.73%) ASP.NET Core
7 140 (13.16%) Node.js
8 134 (12.59%) HTML5
9 127 (11.94%) Entity Framework
10 117 (11.00%) jQuery
11 105 (9.87%) REST
12 102 (9.59%) CSS3
13 93 (8.74%) RESTful
14 85 (7.99%) Vue
15 84 (7.89%) AngularJS
16 82 (7.71%) JSON
17 81 (7.61%) .NET Framework
18 70 (6.58%) ML.NET
19 65 (6.11%) XML
20 49 (4.61%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.79%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (3.20%) Social Media
6 29 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
12 19 (1.79%) Biopharmaceutical
12 19 (1.79%) Digital TV
13 17 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.50%) Robotics
15 12 (1.13%) Graphic Design
16 11 (1.03%) Animation
16 11 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.24%) Windows
2 70 (6.58%) Linux
3 31 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.56%) Unix
5 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.28%) AIX
7 3 (0.28%) Debian
7 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (40.32%) Agile
2 365 (34.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 355 (33.36%) CI/CD
4 271 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (22.18%) AI
6 230 (21.62%) DevOps
7 203 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 193 (18.14%) User Experience
9 155 (14.57%) Web Development
10 127 (11.94%) Mentoring
11 119 (11.18%) Test Automation
12 104 (9.77%) Front End Development
13 101 (9.49%) Software Engineering
14 100 (9.40%) Analytics
14 100 (9.40%) Machine Learning
15 91 (8.55%) Scrum
16 87 (8.18%) Computer Science
17 86 (8.08%) Microservices
18 85 (7.99%) UX Design
19 84 (7.89%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 651 (61.18%) JavaScript
2 408 (38.35%) SQL
3 368 (34.59%) C#
4 192 (18.05%) TypeScript
5 147 (13.82%) Python
6 139 (13.06%) PHP
7 78 (7.33%) Java
8 31 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.44%) C++
10 18 (1.69%) VB.NET
11 17 (1.60%) VBA
12 14 (1.32%) Go
13 13 (1.22%) Ruby
13 13 (1.22%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.03%) C
14 11 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.75%) Bicep
16 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.56%) Perl
17 6 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (17.58%) Degree
2 115 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 71 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.79%) MBA
7 12 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.094%) HNC
13 1 (0.094%) HND
13 1 (0.094%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.094%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.094%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (18.70%) Accessibility
2 91 (8.55%) WCAG
3 83 (7.80%) QA
4 38 (3.57%) GDPR
5 16 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.85%) SLA
7 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.38%) WAI
10 4 (0.38%) WAI-ARIA
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) PERC
13 1 (0.094%) GRC
13 1 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 173 (16.26%) Docker
2 21 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 122 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.66%) Kibana
4 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.47%) Nagios
5 4 (0.38%) Puppet
6 3 (0.28%) Grafana
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Plesk
8 1 (0.094%) Ansible
8 1 (0.094%) Argo
8 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 319 (29.98%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.86%) Adobe
3 46 (4.32%) Google
4 41 (3.85%) Facebook
5 36 (3.38%) Oracle
6 27 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.16%) YouTube
8 15 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.41%) Splunk
9 11 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.75%) OneLogin
10 8 (0.75%) Sage
11 6 (0.56%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.56%) TikTok
11 6 (0.56%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.47%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.47%) iManage
12 5 (0.47%) New Relic
12 5 (0.47%) Red Hat