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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -81 -8 -12
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,160 1,813 4,146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.51% 4.38% 4.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.25% 20.20% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 975 1,328 3,300
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
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 8,143 8,975 19,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.61% 21.69% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 6,589 15,344
10th Percentile £36,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -71 1,054 £47,500 -20.83% 480
UK excluding London -63 834 £42,500 -22.73% 388
Work from Home -100 337 £52,500 -19.23% 219
North of England -14 277 £30,500 -32.22% 95
London -105 247 £60,000 -14.29% 141
South East -55 209 £50,000 -16.67% 105
North West -28 131 £31,500 -30.59% 50
Midlands -48 126 £45,000 - 62
Yorkshire -7 108 £30,500 -21.29% 27
East of England -59 89 £46,250 -30.15% 62
South West -50 86 £44,000 -26.67% 47
West Midlands -24 73 £32,500 -35.00% 33
East Midlands -57 53 £55,000 +46.67% 29
North East -3 38 £30,500 -43.26% 18
Scotland -70 35 £30,500 -43.52% 10
Wales -41 10 £36,370 +11.91% 12
Northern Ireland -38 3 £60,000 - 2
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
1 121 (10.43%) WordPress
2 59 (5.09%) CMS
3 24 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.03%) Confluence
5 10 (0.86%) nginx
6 8 (0.69%) Drupal
7 7 (0.60%) Apache
7 7 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.34%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) govService
10 3 (0.26%) JBoss
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
10 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.17%) IIS
11 2 (0.17%) Mendix
11 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (2.41%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (1.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.21%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.03%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.03%) Sketch
5 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.69%) InVision
7 7 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.52%) InDesign
9 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
10 3 (0.26%) Elementor
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.17%) Windchill
12 1 (0.086%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.47%) Shopify
2 13 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.086%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.086%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.086%) Magento
5 1 (0.086%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 512 (44.14%) Azure
2 466 (40.17%) AWS
3 390 (33.62%) GitHub
4 77 (6.64%) Figma
5 72 (6.21%) Serverless
6 70 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (5.34%) GCP
8 42 (3.62%) SaaS
9 38 (3.28%) Power Platform
10 36 (3.10%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 25 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.64%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.64%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.47%) Entra ID
17 16 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (1.29%) PaaS
19 14 (1.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (26.64%) Internet
2 11 (0.95%) HTTP
3 6 (0.52%) FTP
4 4 (0.34%) Intranet
4 4 (0.34%) Network Security
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.086%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.64%) MySQL
3 48 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 30 (2.59%) Power BI
6 29 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.81%) OLTP
9 14 (1.21%) DB2
10 12 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.03%) Looker
11 7 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.60%) Tableau
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.34%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 447 (38.53%) Git
2 71 (6.12%) JIRA
3 52 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.05%) Selenium
5 27 (2.33%) Postman
6 26 (2.24%) webpack
7 25 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 24 (2.07%) SoapUI
9 23 (1.98%) Axure RP
10 21 (1.81%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.55%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.21%) Balsamiq
12 14 (1.21%) Vite
13 13 (1.12%) TeamCity
14 12 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.95%) Babel
15 11 (0.95%) JUnit
15 11 (0.95%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 302 (26.03%) Multimedia
2 255 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 130 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.28%) Finance
5 90 (7.76%) Marketing
6 65 (5.60%) Law
7 54 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 52 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.59%) Retail
10 29 (2.50%) Legal
11 24 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.98%) Banking
13 15 (1.29%) German Language
14 14 (1.21%) Advertising
15 9 (0.78%) Electronics
16 8 (0.69%) Games
16 8 (0.69%) Publishing
17 7 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 616 (53.10%) Developer
2 298 (25.69%) Trainee
3 176 (15.17%) Senior
4 164 (14.14%) Software Developer
5 132 (11.38%) Senior Developer
6 125 (10.78%) Trainee Developer
7 120 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (9.57%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (6.72%) Administrator
10 74 (6.38%) Web Administrator
11 72 (6.21%) Trainee Administrator
12 69 (5.95%) .NET Developer
13 68 (5.86%) Designer
14 61 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 57 (4.91%) Lead
16 45 (3.88%) Analyst
17 44 (3.79%) Software Engineer
17 44 (3.79%) Web Developer
18 42 (3.62%) React Developer
19 31 (2.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 976 (84.14%) CSS
2 314 (27.07%) React
3 218 (18.79%) .NET
4 120 (10.34%) Node.js
5 117 (10.09%) AngularJS
6 98 (8.45%) RESTful
7 90 (7.76%) HTML5
8 89 (7.67%) Vue
9 79 (6.81%) JSON
10 76 (6.55%) XML
11 68 (5.86%) CSS3
12 64 (5.52%) jQuery
13 63 (5.43%) SOAP
14 61 (5.26%) ASP.NET
14 61 (5.26%) REST
15 59 (5.09%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.71%) .NET Framework
17 37 (3.19%) Web Services
18 35 (3.02%) Tailwind CSS
19 34 (2.93%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.66%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 30 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 15 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.21%) Social Media
12 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.78%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.69%) Cybercrime
16 6 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
16 6 (0.52%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.67%) Unix
2 23 (1.98%) Linux
3 20 (1.72%) Windows
4 13 (1.12%) Android
4 13 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (31.64%) Mentoring
2 365 (31.47%) Agile
3 244 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 238 (20.52%) Cybersecurity
5 236 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 231 (19.91%) User Experience
7 201 (17.33%) CI/CD
8 162 (13.97%) Web Development
9 152 (13.10%) DevOps
10 147 (12.67%) Front End Development
11 134 (11.55%) AI
12 127 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (9.31%) Scrum
14 106 (9.14%) Software Engineering
15 103 (8.88%) Analytics
16 100 (8.62%) Computer Science
17 94 (8.10%) UX Design
18 85 (7.33%) Clean Code
19 75 (6.47%) Responsive Web Design
20 74 (6.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 876 (75.52%) JavaScript
2 450 (38.79%) Python
3 292 (25.17%) SQL
4 188 (16.21%) C#
5 174 (15.00%) R
6 173 (14.91%) TypeScript
7 113 (9.74%) Java
8 94 (8.10%) PHP
9 33 (2.84%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.86%) C++
12 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.69%) Ruby
13 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.52%) Bash
14 6 (0.52%) C
15 4 (0.34%) SOQL
15 4 (0.34%) SOSL
15 4 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 299 (25.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 298 (25.69%) AWS Certification
2 298 (25.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 298 (25.69%) Azure Certification
3 228 (19.66%) Degree
4 76 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (6.47%) Security Cleared
6 49 (4.22%) SC Cleared
7 27 (2.33%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.34%) ISEB
16 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
16 3 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.17%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.16%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.57%) QA
3 51 (4.40%) WCAG
4 23 (1.98%) GDPR
5 10 (0.86%) PERC
6 9 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.52%) GRC
7 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.52%) SLA
8 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.17%) NIST
9 2 (0.17%) Section 508
10 1 (0.086%) HL7
10 1 (0.086%) NCSC
System Software
1 87 (7.50%) Docker
2 15 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.50%) Terraform
3 6 (0.52%) Kibana
4 4 (0.34%) Argo
5 3 (0.26%) cPanel
5 3 (0.26%) Plesk
6 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.17%) Nagios
6 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 416 (35.86%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.17%) Adobe
3 56 (4.83%) Google
4 40 (3.45%) Oracle
5 28 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 11 (0.95%) Hotjar
6 11 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.78%) Splunk
8 7 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.60%) SAP
9 6 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.52%) Screaming Frog
10 4 (0.34%) Ahrefs
10 4 (0.34%) Facebook
10 4 (0.34%) iManage
10 4 (0.34%) New Relic
10 4 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.26%) Zoho