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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -97 -23 -19
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,056 1,613 4,301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 3.75% 4.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.09% 19.16% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,245 3,307
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% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 8,731 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 6,348 15,703
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -81 976 £48,676 -18.87% 403
UK excluding London -78 756 £45,000 -18.18% 315
Work from Home -99 342 £55,000 -15.38% 215
London -91 237 £60,000 -14.29% 127
North of England -39 228 £32,000 -28.89% 73
South East -57 194 £50,000 -20.00% 108
Midlands -60 125 £45,000 - 39
North West -40 120 £36,250 -22.87% 37
East of England -49 95 £50,000 -24.48% 53
South West -61 81 £45,000 -25.00% 30
Yorkshire -35 80 £30,500 -18.67% 25
West Midlands -32 73 £42,039 -15.92% 19
East Midlands -66 52 £55,000 +37.50% 20
North East -22 28 £30,500 -40.49% 11
Scotland -86 22 £30,500 -44.55% 13
Wales -49 9 £41,740 -9.75% 5
Northern Ireland -39 3 £60,000 - 4
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
1 100 (9.47%) WordPress
2 47 (4.45%) CMS
3 44 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.23%) Confluence
5 10 (0.95%) IIS
5 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.85%) nginx
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
8 6 (0.57%) Drupal
9 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.095%) Site Server
Applications
1 21 (1.99%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.23%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.04%) Sketch
5 9 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.76%) InVision
7 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.28%) InDesign
10 2 (0.19%) Elementor
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.095%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.095%) Trello
11 1 (0.095%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.42%) Shopify
2 12 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.095%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 413 (39.11%) Azure
2 371 (35.13%) AWS
3 290 (27.46%) GitHub
4 73 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (6.44%) Figma
6 60 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.59%) GCP
8 51 (4.83%) Serverless
9 39 (3.69%) SaaS
10 36 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 36 (3.41%) PowerApps
11 33 (3.13%) Google Analytics
12 31 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 25 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (1.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 232 (21.97%) Internet
2 11 (1.04%) HTTP
3 7 (0.66%) Intranet
3 7 (0.66%) Network Security
4 4 (0.38%) VoIP
5 2 (0.19%) AMQP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) FTP
5 2 (0.19%) SMS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.095%) Broadband
6 1 (0.095%) DNS
6 1 (0.095%) Firewall
6 1 (0.095%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.095%) NAS
6 1 (0.095%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.14%) MySQL
3 52 (4.92%) Power BI
4 41 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 28 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 28 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.99%) OLTP
9 12 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.14%) DB2
10 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.76%) Tableau
12 7 (0.66%) FileMaker
12 7 (0.66%) Metadata
13 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.57%) MariaDB
13 6 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.47%) Looker
15 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 346 (32.77%) Git
2 68 (6.44%) JIRA
3 48 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.07%) Selenium
5 27 (2.56%) Postman
6 25 (2.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.27%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.80%) WebDriver
9 17 (1.61%) Axure RP
9 17 (1.61%) webpack
10 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.14%) Balsamiq
12 11 (1.04%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.04%) Vite
13 10 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.95%) JUnit
13 10 (0.95%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.85%) Babel
14 9 (0.85%) GitLab
15 8 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 261 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 218 (20.64%) Multimedia
3 133 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.43%) Finance
5 88 (8.33%) Marketing
6 55 (5.21%) Law
7 42 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 31 (2.94%) Legal
10 24 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.18%) Retail
12 16 (1.52%) Advertising
13 15 (1.42%) Banking
14 13 (1.23%) German Language
15 8 (0.76%) Games
15 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.66%) Electronics
17 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 560 (53.03%) Developer
2 222 (21.02%) Trainee
3 164 (15.53%) Senior
4 128 (12.12%) Software Developer
5 127 (12.03%) Senior Developer
6 119 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 90 (8.52%) Trainee Developer
8 77 (7.29%) Trainee Software Developer
9 64 (6.06%) Administrator
9 64 (6.06%) Designer
10 62 (5.87%) .NET Developer
11 58 (5.49%) Web Administrator
12 56 (5.30%) Trainee Administrator
13 49 (4.64%) Web Developer
14 48 (4.55%) Lead
14 48 (4.55%) Software Engineer
15 42 (3.98%) Analyst
16 39 (3.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 38 (3.60%) React Developer
18 35 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 892 (84.47%) CSS
2 272 (25.76%) React
3 214 (20.27%) .NET
4 108 (10.23%) Node.js
5 103 (9.75%) HTML5
6 100 (9.47%) AngularJS
7 96 (9.09%) RESTful
8 90 (8.52%) JSON
8 90 (8.52%) Vue
9 85 (8.05%) jQuery
10 81 (7.67%) CSS3
11 67 (6.34%) .NET Core
12 59 (5.59%) XML
13 57 (5.40%) SOAP
14 53 (5.02%) ASP.NET
14 53 (5.02%) REST
15 42 (3.98%) Laravel
16 36 (3.41%) .NET Framework
17 35 (3.31%) Spring
18 32 (3.03%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 20 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.80%) Social Media
10 16 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.66%) Graphic Design
16 7 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.94%) Windows
2 28 (2.65%) Linux
3 26 (2.46%) Unix
4 15 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.57%) Android
6 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (27.65%) Agile
2 279 (26.42%) Mentoring
3 239 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 213 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (18.37%) User Experience
6 172 (16.29%) Cybersecurity
7 166 (15.72%) CI/CD
8 147 (13.92%) Web Development
9 136 (12.88%) AI
10 132 (12.50%) DevOps
11 113 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (10.61%) Front End Development
13 109 (10.32%) Scrum
14 106 (10.04%) Software Engineering
15 104 (9.85%) Computer Science
16 91 (8.62%) Analytics
17 79 (7.48%) Clean Code
17 79 (7.48%) UX Design
18 77 (7.29%) Microservices
19 70 (6.63%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 763 (72.25%) JavaScript
2 358 (33.90%) Python
3 327 (30.97%) SQL
4 191 (18.09%) C#
5 168 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 128 (12.12%) R
7 121 (11.46%) PHP
8 106 (10.04%) Java
9 30 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.65%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.33%) C++
12 12 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.04%) VBA
14 8 (0.76%) C
15 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.57%) Bash
16 5 (0.47%) Bicep
16 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.47%) VBScript
17 4 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 219 (20.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 218 (20.64%) AWS Certification
3 217 (20.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 217 (20.55%) Azure Certification
4 213 (20.17%) Degree
5 76 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (5.30%) Security Cleared
7 45 (4.26%) SC Cleared
8 22 (2.08%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 11 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.19%) PhD
15 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.08%) Accessibility
2 43 (4.07%) WCAG
3 42 (3.98%) QA
4 30 (2.84%) GDPR
5 11 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.04%) SLA
6 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.76%) PERC
7 7 (0.66%) GRC
8 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.095%) HL7
11 1 (0.095%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (7.01%) Docker
2 16 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.70%) Terraform
3 4 (0.38%) Kibana
3 4 (0.38%) Plesk
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 347 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.20%) Adobe
3 51 (4.83%) Google
4 36 (3.41%) Oracle
5 23 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.66%) iManage
8 7 (0.66%) Splunk
9 6 (0.57%) Hotjar
9 6 (0.57%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.57%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (0.57%) SAP
10 5 (0.47%) Apple
10 5 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.47%) Sage
10 5 (0.47%) TikTok
11 4 (0.38%) New Relic