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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 83 53
Rank change year-on-year -95 -30 -14
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,047 1,631 4,517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 3.66% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.02% 18.67% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 874 1,052 3,340
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -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 9,501 8,735 21,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 19.61% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,085 5,716 16,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -83 974 £50,000 -20.00% 337
UK excluding London -76 777 £47,500 -17.39% 285
Work from Home -71 430 £55,000 -15.38% 182
London -102 220 £59,773 -14.61% 104
South East -24 217 £50,000 -20.00% 91
North of England -53 211 £45,000 -10.00% 83
Midlands -65 120 £48,750 +8.33% 37
North West -44 119 £45,000 -14.29% 48
East of England -36 109 £48,760 -26.36% 33
South West -60 88 £47,500 -15.56% 26
West Midlands -52 63 £45,000 -15.89% 17
Yorkshire -20 60 £44,000 +17.33% 23
East Midlands -47 57 £55,000 +33.33% 20
North East -28 32 £52,000 +4.00% 12
Wales -50 16 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Scotland -67 13 £30,500 -44.55% 8
Northern Ireland -30 3 £60,000 - 6

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 96 (9.17%) WordPress
2 52 (4.97%) CMS
2 52 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.53%) IIS
4 15 (1.43%) Confluence
5 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.05%) Apache
6 11 (1.05%) Drupal
7 6 (0.57%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.38%) JBoss
10 3 (0.29%) govService
10 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.096%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.096%) Site Server
Applications
1 27 (2.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.81%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.34%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.34%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.05%) InDesign
5 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.86%) Sketch
6 8 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.38%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
10 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.096%) Elementor
11 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (2.58%) Shopify
2 12 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Magento
4 4 (0.38%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.096%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.096%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.096%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 383 (36.58%) Azure
2 288 (27.51%) AWS
3 229 (21.87%) GitHub
4 121 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (6.69%) Figma
5 70 (6.69%) Power Platform
6 52 (4.97%) Serverless
7 49 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
8 48 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 47 (4.49%) SaaS
10 45 (4.30%) PowerApps
11 44 (4.20%) Azure AI
12 43 (4.11%) Power Automate
13 42 (4.01%) GCP
14 36 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 31 (2.96%) Google Analytics
16 29 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
18 22 (2.10%) Amazon S3
18 22 (2.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 143 (13.66%) Internet
2 8 (0.76%) HTTP
3 7 (0.67%) Intranet
4 6 (0.57%) Network Security
5 5 (0.48%) VoIP
6 4 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.38%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.29%) SSL
8 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.19%) DNS
8 2 (0.19%) Firewall
8 2 (0.19%) SMS
9 1 (0.096%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.096%) FTP
9 1 (0.096%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.096%) NAS
9 1 (0.096%) SCTP
9 1 (0.096%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.096%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 115 (10.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 95 (9.07%) MySQL
4 91 (8.69%) MongoDB
5 59 (5.64%) Power BI
6 54 (5.16%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.72%) OLTP
11 13 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.86%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.86%) Tableau
14 8 (0.76%) Metadata
15 7 (0.67%) GIS
16 6 (0.57%) FileMaker
16 6 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 260 (24.83%) Git
2 66 (6.30%) JIRA
3 41 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.87%) Selenium
5 20 (1.91%) Postman
6 16 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 15 (1.43%) SoapUI
8 14 (1.34%) GitLab
9 13 (1.24%) JUnit
9 13 (1.24%) webpack
10 12 (1.15%) Axure RP
10 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 10 (0.96%) Vite
13 8 (0.76%) Balsamiq
13 8 (0.76%) Mockito
14 7 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.67%) JMeter
14 7 (0.67%) Subversion
15 5 (0.48%) Eclipse
General
1 275 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 122 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (11.37%) Multimedia
4 111 (10.60%) Marketing
5 74 (7.07%) Finance
6 53 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (4.68%) Law
8 46 (4.39%) Advertising
9 44 (4.20%) Public Sector
10 39 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (3.15%) Legal
12 32 (3.06%) Retail
13 14 (1.34%) Games
14 10 (0.96%) Banking
15 8 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.76%) Local Government
16 7 (0.67%) Electronics
17 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 610 (58.26%) Developer
2 158 (15.09%) Senior
3 147 (14.04%) .NET Developer
4 127 (12.13%) Senior Developer
5 117 (11.17%) Trainee
6 116 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 100 (9.55%) Software Developer
8 68 (6.49%) Designer
9 57 (5.44%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.25%) Web Developer
11 52 (4.97%) Administrator
12 46 (4.39%) Web Administrator
13 44 (4.20%) Lead
14 43 (4.11%) Trainee Administrator
15 41 (3.92%) Trainee Developer
16 39 (3.72%) Analyst
16 39 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 38 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 36 (3.44%) C# Developer
18 36 (3.44%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (86.53%) CSS
2 300 (28.65%) .NET
3 230 (21.97%) React
4 148 (14.14%) .NET Core
5 127 (12.13%) ASP.NET
6 118 (11.27%) HTML5
7 108 (10.32%) Node.js
8 106 (10.12%) Vue
9 104 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
9 104 (9.93%) jQuery
10 95 (9.07%) AngularJS
11 92 (8.79%) RESTful
12 91 (8.69%) CSS3
13 85 (8.12%) JSON
14 70 (6.69%) REST
15 67 (6.40%) Entity Framework
16 51 (4.87%) XML
17 47 (4.49%) Laravel
18 46 (4.39%) SOAP
19 43 (4.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.34%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.39%) Social Media
8 24 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.34%) Graphic Design
11 13 (1.24%) Digital TV
11 13 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
12 12 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.76%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.76%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.30%) Windows
2 44 (4.20%) Linux
3 26 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.76%) Unix
5 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.48%) Android
7 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.096%) AIX
10 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (31.52%) Agile
2 329 (31.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 254 (24.26%) CI/CD
4 223 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (18.82%) User Experience
6 182 (17.38%) Mentoring
7 177 (16.91%) DevOps
8 174 (16.62%) AI
9 159 (15.19%) Web Development
10 128 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (10.51%) Computer Science
12 105 (10.03%) Software Engineering
13 104 (9.93%) Front End Development
14 93 (8.88%) Scrum
15 92 (8.79%) Machine Learning
16 89 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
17 87 (8.31%) Analytics
18 83 (7.93%) Microservices
19 79 (7.55%) UX Design
20 72 (6.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 665 (63.51%) JavaScript
2 413 (39.45%) SQL
3 283 (27.03%) C#
4 250 (23.88%) Python
5 147 (14.04%) TypeScript
6 145 (13.85%) PHP
7 91 (8.69%) Java
8 72 (6.88%) R
9 37 (3.53%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.10%) C++
12 14 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.24%) VBA
14 9 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.67%) C
15 7 (0.67%) VBScript
16 6 (0.57%) Bicep
17 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.48%) Bash
17 5 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 194 (18.53%) Degree
2 114 (10.89%) AWS Certification
3 113 (10.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 112 (10.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 112 (10.70%) Azure Certification
5 74 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.30%) Security Cleared
7 37 (3.53%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 10 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 9 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.096%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (12.32%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.87%) QA
3 45 (4.30%) WCAG
4 38 (3.63%) GDPR
5 16 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.05%) SLA
8 7 (0.67%) GRC
8 7 (0.67%) PERC
9 6 (0.57%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.19%) NIST
13 1 (0.096%) NCSC
13 1 (0.096%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 115 (10.98%) Docker
2 19 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.62%) Terraform
3 8 (0.76%) Kibana
4 3 (0.29%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.096%) Grafana
6 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 330 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.26%) Adobe
3 42 (4.01%) Google
4 39 (3.72%) Oracle
5 31 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.10%) Facebook
7 14 (1.34%) Splunk
8 13 (1.24%) YouTube
9 10 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 9 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.86%) iManage
11 7 (0.67%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.67%) SAP
11 7 (0.67%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.67%) TikTok
12 6 (0.57%) Sage
13 5 (0.48%) Apple
13 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
13 5 (0.48%) WooCommerce