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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 69 52
Rank change year-on-year -105 -17 -18
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,072 1,735 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 3.94% 4.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.81% 19.73% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 890 1,164 3,292
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 9,074 8,793 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.97% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,676 6,147 15,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,472 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 17 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 17 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 -91 994 £50,000 -16.67% 508
UK excluding London -86 779 £47,500 -13.64% 433
Work from Home -81 387 £55,000 -15.38% 397
North of England -47 229 £40,000 -11.11% 105
London -107 229 £60,000 -14.29% 143
South East -26 215 £50,000 -20.00% 118
Midlands -81 123 £45,000 - 64
North West -40 122 £41,500 -17.00% 55
East of England -47 101 £51,250 -22.60% 67
South West -50 83 £45,000 -25.00% 44
Yorkshire -35 76 £37,500 - 34
West Midlands -60 68 £42,500 -10.53% 22
East Midlands -63 55 £55,000 +37.50% 42
North East -23 31 £47,500 -11.63% 16
Scotland -84 17 £30,500 -44.55% 21
Wales -44 9 £42,000 -16.00% 13
Northern Ireland -35 3 £60,000 - 8
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
1 104 (9.70%) WordPress
2 54 (5.04%) CMS
3 45 (4.20%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.21%) Confluence
5 12 (1.12%) IIS
6 11 (1.03%) Drupal
7 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.75%) Apache
8 8 (0.75%) nginx
9 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 18 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.59%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.93%) Sketch
6 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
7 7 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.56%) InVision
9 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.37%) InDesign
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.093%) Elementor
11 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.093%) Trello
11 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.96%) Shopify
2 12 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 408 (38.06%) Azure
2 347 (32.37%) AWS
3 264 (24.63%) GitHub
4 99 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (5.97%) Figma
6 62 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 53 (4.94%) GCP
8 51 (4.76%) Serverless
9 43 (4.01%) SaaS
10 38 (3.54%) PowerApps
11 37 (3.45%) Power Automate
12 36 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
13 33 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 31 (2.89%) Google Analytics
15 27 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (2.24%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 24 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (2.24%) Azure AI
18 23 (2.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 197 (18.38%) Internet
2 11 (1.03%) HTTP
3 7 (0.65%) Intranet
3 7 (0.65%) Network Security
4 4 (0.37%) VoIP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.19%) SMS
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.093%) AMQP
6 1 (0.093%) Broadband
6 1 (0.093%) DNS
6 1 (0.093%) Firewall
6 1 (0.093%) FTP
6 1 (0.093%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.093%) NAS
6 1 (0.093%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.093%) Wireless
6 1 (0.093%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 94 (8.77%) MySQL
3 75 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (5.32%) MongoDB
5 54 (5.04%) Power BI
6 46 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 43 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (2.33%) NoSQL
9 22 (2.05%) OLTP
10 14 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.93%) DB2
13 9 (0.84%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.75%) Tableau
15 7 (0.65%) FileMaker
16 6 (0.56%) Metadata
16 6 (0.56%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 311 (29.01%) Git
2 65 (6.06%) JIRA
3 45 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.73%) Selenium
5 27 (2.52%) Postman
6 25 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.24%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.77%) WebDriver
9 17 (1.59%) webpack
10 14 (1.31%) Axure RP
10 14 (1.31%) JUnit
11 12 (1.12%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.93%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.93%) GitLab
13 10 (0.93%) Vite
14 9 (0.84%) Mockito
15 8 (0.75%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.75%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.65%) JMeter
General
1 276 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.42%) Multimedia
3 130 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.96%) Marketing
5 88 (8.21%) Finance
6 51 (4.76%) Law
7 44 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.99%) Legal
10 29 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.52%) Retail
12 26 (2.43%) Advertising
13 13 (1.21%) Banking
13 13 (1.21%) Games
14 9 (0.84%) German Language
15 8 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.65%) Electronics
16 7 (0.65%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 602 (56.16%) Developer
2 181 (16.88%) Trainee
3 169 (15.76%) Senior
4 134 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 128 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (10.73%) Software Developer
7 103 (9.61%) .NET Developer
8 70 (6.53%) Trainee Developer
9 64 (5.97%) Designer
10 63 (5.88%) Administrator
11 57 (5.32%) Trainee Software Developer
11 57 (5.32%) Web Administrator
12 55 (5.13%) Web Developer
13 53 (4.94%) Trainee Administrator
14 52 (4.85%) Software Engineer
15 49 (4.57%) Lead
16 42 (3.92%) Analyst
17 41 (3.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 37 (3.45%) React Developer
19 36 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 912 (85.07%) CSS
2 263 (24.53%) React
3 262 (24.44%) .NET
4 115 (10.73%) HTML5
5 110 (10.26%) Node.js
6 106 (9.89%) .NET Core
7 101 (9.42%) jQuery
7 101 (9.42%) RESTful
8 100 (9.33%) AngularJS
9 98 (9.14%) Vue
10 92 (8.58%) ASP.NET
11 91 (8.49%) CSS3
12 88 (8.21%) JSON
13 62 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
14 58 (5.41%) SOAP
15 56 (5.22%) REST
16 55 (5.13%) XML
17 47 (4.38%) Entity Framework
18 46 (4.29%) Laravel
19 38 (3.54%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
2 36 (3.36%) Onboarding
3 35 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.43%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.77%) Social Media
9 16 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.84%) Digital TV
14 8 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.65%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.17%) Windows
2 32 (2.99%) Linux
3 18 (1.68%) Unix
4 17 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.56%) Android
6 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
8 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (29.57%) Agile
2 291 (27.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 246 (22.95%) Mentoring
4 221 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
5 210 (19.59%) CI/CD
6 197 (18.38%) User Experience
7 162 (15.11%) Web Development
8 158 (14.74%) DevOps
9 152 (14.18%) AI
10 135 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
11 120 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (10.63%) Front End Development
13 111 (10.35%) Software Engineering
14 109 (10.17%) Scrum
15 105 (9.79%) Computer Science
16 89 (8.30%) Analytics
17 86 (8.02%) Microservices
18 84 (7.84%) Clean Code
19 81 (7.56%) UX Design
20 74 (6.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 739 (68.94%) JavaScript
2 370 (34.51%) SQL
3 322 (30.04%) Python
4 239 (22.29%) C#
5 163 (15.21%) TypeScript
6 136 (12.69%) PHP
7 107 (9.98%) R
8 104 (9.70%) Java
9 30 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.71%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.49%) C++
12 12 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.03%) VBA
14 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.75%) C
16 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.47%) Bash
16 5 (0.47%) Bicep
16 5 (0.47%) VBScript
17 4 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 205 (19.12%) Degree
2 178 (16.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 177 (16.51%) AWS Certification
4 176 (16.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 176 (16.42%) Azure Certification
5 74 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (4.66%) Security Cleared
7 38 (3.54%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.96%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 11 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.28%) 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
1 124 (11.57%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.38%) WCAG
3 43 (4.01%) QA
4 34 (3.17%) GDPR
5 15 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.03%) SLA
7 9 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.65%) GRC
8 7 (0.65%) PERC
9 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.19%) NIST
13 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.093%) HL7
13 1 (0.093%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (8.58%) Docker
2 15 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.40%) Terraform
3 8 (0.75%) Kibana
4 5 (0.47%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) cPanel
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Ansible
6 1 (0.093%) Argo
6 1 (0.093%) Grafana
6 1 (0.093%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 339 (31.62%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.09%) Adobe
3 47 (4.38%) Google
4 39 (3.64%) Oracle
5 23 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.21%) Splunk
7 10 (0.93%) Facebook
7 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.75%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.75%) SAP
9 8 (0.75%) YouTube
10 7 (0.65%) iManage
11 6 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.56%) TikTok
12 5 (0.47%) Apple
12 5 (0.47%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.47%) Sage