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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 104 52
Rank change year-on-year -77 -52 +1
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,174 1,493 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.11% 2.99% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.99% 17.39% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 957 913 2,194
10th Percentile £29,450 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 10,686 8,587 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 17.20% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 5,603 11,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 17 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 10 August 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 -67 1,091 £50,000 -13.04% 566
UK excluding London -55 897 £50,000 -5.66% 426
Work from Home -60 517 £55,000 -4.35% 226
South East -5 257 £50,000 -13.04% 118
North of England -29 233 £50,000 -1.96% 104
London -128 227 £60,000 -14.29% 219
East of England -8 133 £48,130 -12.49% 41
North West -42 125 £47,500 -9.52% 56
South West -26 123 £50,000 +2.04% 51
Midlands -78 112 £48,750 -7.58% 70
West Midlands -58 59 £45,000 -12.62% 33
Yorkshire -24 57 £50,000 +25.00% 35
East Midlands -66 53 £50,000 -9.09% 37
North East -17 51 £52,000 +9.47% 16
Wales -54 25 £41,740 -38.16% 9
Scotland -54 11 £31,500 -40.25% 31
Northern Ireland -69 3 £60,000 +90.48% 7

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 (8.43%) WordPress
2 65 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.34%) CMS
4 31 (2.64%) IIS
5 26 (2.21%) Confluence
6 17 (1.45%) Apache
7 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.77%) Drupal
9 7 (0.60%) JBoss
10 6 (0.51%) nginx
11 5 (0.43%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.34%) Moodle
13 2 (0.17%) CICS
13 2 (0.17%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.085%) Oracle 10gAS
14 1 (0.085%) PegaRULES
14 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.45%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.45%) Photoshop
3 12 (1.02%) Sketch
4 11 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (0.94%) InDesign
5 9 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
5 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.26%) Elementor
7 3 (0.26%) InVision
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.085%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (2.73%) Shopify
2 14 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.60%) Magento
4 4 (0.34%) Line 50
4 4 (0.34%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.085%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.085%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 414 (35.26%) Azure
2 269 (22.91%) AWS
3 210 (17.89%) GitHub
4 159 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 84 (7.16%) GitHub Copilot
7 83 (7.07%) Figma
8 77 (6.56%) Azure AI
9 65 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
10 61 (5.20%) Power Automate
10 61 (5.20%) PowerApps
11 43 (3.66%) GCP
12 41 (3.49%) SaaS
13 40 (3.41%) Serverless
14 32 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (2.73%) Google Analytics
15 31 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (2.21%) OneDrive
17 22 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 22 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 105 (8.94%) Internet
2 9 (0.77%) Intranet
3 7 (0.60%) HTTP
3 7 (0.60%) SSL
4 6 (0.51%) Network Security
4 6 (0.51%) SNMP
4 6 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.43%) SMS
5 5 (0.43%) VoIP
6 3 (0.26%) DNS
6 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.17%) Firewall
8 1 (0.085%) AMQP
8 1 (0.085%) RTP
8 1 (0.085%) RTSP
8 1 (0.085%) SCTP
8 1 (0.085%) SS7
8 1 (0.085%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (14.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 156 (13.29%) SQL Server
3 147 (12.52%) MongoDB
4 131 (11.16%) MySQL
5 81 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 64 (5.45%) Power BI
7 61 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.28%) Metadata
12 11 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.94%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.85%) OLTP
14 9 (0.77%) GIS
15 8 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.68%) Tableau
16 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 256 (21.81%) Git
2 59 (5.03%) JIRA
3 46 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.79%) Selenium
5 15 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 15 (1.28%) JUnit
6 14 (1.19%) webpack
7 13 (1.11%) GitLab
8 11 (0.94%) Axure RP
8 11 (0.94%) Postman
8 11 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.85%) Vite
10 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.77%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.77%) Maven
10 9 (0.77%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.68%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.68%) Mockito
12 7 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 339 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 133 (11.33%) Marketing
3 125 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (7.16%) Finance
6 80 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 73 (6.22%) Law
8 71 (6.05%) Multimedia
9 67 (5.71%) Advertising
10 41 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (3.24%) Legal
12 33 (2.81%) Retail
13 20 (1.70%) Games
13 20 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.11%) Banking
15 11 (0.94%) Publishing
16 10 (0.85%) Aviation
16 10 (0.85%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.68%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 717 (61.07%) Developer
2 217 (18.48%) .NET Developer
3 191 (16.27%) Senior
4 149 (12.69%) Senior Developer
5 124 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (6.73%) Web Developer
7 78 (6.64%) Software Developer
8 77 (6.56%) Designer
9 64 (5.45%) Software Engineer
9 64 (5.45%) Trainee
10 59 (5.03%) PHP Developer
11 50 (4.26%) Administrator
12 49 (4.17%) Lead
13 48 (4.09%) Analyst
14 47 (4.00%) Web Administrator
15 43 (3.66%) Trainee Administrator
16 42 (3.58%) C# Developer
17 41 (3.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 39 (3.32%) .NET Software Developer
19 34 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,030 (87.73%) CSS
2 393 (33.48%) .NET
3 235 (20.02%) .NET Core
3 235 (20.02%) React
4 219 (18.65%) ASP.NET
5 176 (14.99%) ASP.NET Core
6 144 (12.27%) HTML5
7 128 (10.90%) Node.js
8 120 (10.22%) jQuery
9 114 (9.71%) Vue
10 113 (9.63%) CSS3
10 113 (9.63%) Entity Framework
11 98 (8.35%) RESTful
12 97 (8.26%) AngularJS
13 92 (7.84%) JSON
14 89 (7.58%) REST
15 74 (6.30%) ML.NET
16 65 (5.54%) .NET Framework
17 62 (5.28%) Laravel
17 62 (5.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
2 43 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.32%) Cloud Native
5 36 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.56%) Social Media
8 24 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 23 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 20 (1.70%) Digital TV
12 19 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
14 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.19%) Graphic Design
15 12 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (0.94%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.56%) Windows
2 68 (5.79%) Linux
3 31 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Debian
9 2 (0.17%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (35.95%) Agile
2 408 (34.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 354 (30.15%) CI/CD
4 272 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (20.78%) DevOps
6 232 (19.76%) AI
7 213 (18.14%) Web Development
8 209 (17.80%) User Experience
9 183 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 127 (10.82%) Mentoring
11 126 (10.73%) Software Engineering
12 119 (10.14%) Machine Learning
13 108 (9.20%) Front End Development
14 104 (8.86%) Computer Science
14 104 (8.86%) Scrum
15 95 (8.09%) Analytics
15 95 (8.09%) Microservices
16 90 (7.67%) Clean Code
17 85 (7.24%) UX Design
18 84 (7.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 718 (61.16%) JavaScript
2 478 (40.72%) SQL
3 385 (32.79%) C#
4 214 (18.23%) Python
5 185 (15.76%) PHP
6 180 (15.33%) TypeScript
7 83 (7.07%) Java
8 48 (4.09%) R
9 42 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.98%) C++
11 14 (1.19%) C
11 14 (1.19%) Go
11 14 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.19%) VBA
12 11 (0.94%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.85%) Bicep
13 10 (0.85%) Ruby
14 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 189 (16.10%) Degree
2 85 (7.24%) Security Cleared
3 72 (6.13%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (5.37%) AWS Certification
6 61 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (5.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 59 (5.03%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.34%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.34%) MBA
12 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.085%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.085%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (14.91%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.22%) WCAG
3 66 (5.62%) QA
4 45 (3.83%) GDPR
5 14 (1.19%) SLA
6 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.68%) PERC
9 7 (0.60%) GRC
9 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.60%) NCSC
10 6 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.26%) WAI
12 3 (0.26%) WAI-ARIA
13 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
14 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 176 (14.99%) Docker
2 24 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.64%) Terraform
3 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.68%) Kibana
5 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.43%) Nagios
6 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.085%) Ansible
9 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 377 (32.11%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.90%) Adobe
3 47 (4.00%) Google
4 42 (3.58%) Facebook
5 37 (3.15%) Oracle
6 28 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.96%) YouTube
8 17 (1.45%) Splunk
9 13 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) HubSpot
11 9 (0.77%) Sage
12 8 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.60%) iManage
13 7 (0.60%) TikTok
14 6 (0.51%) Hotjar
14 6 (0.51%) New Relic
14 6 (0.51%) OneLogin
15 5 (0.43%) Pinterest
15 5 (0.43%) WooCommerce