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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -83 -6 -14
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,090 2,192 3,712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.55% 4.73% 4.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.13% 21.49% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1,318 3,093
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 7,713 10,202 18,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.98% 22.02% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,655 6,504 14,591
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -78 988 £50,000 -16.67% 738
UK excluding London -78 766 £42,500 -22.73% 690
Work from Home -98 330 £52,500 -19.23% 278
North of England -36 252 £30,500 -30.29% 178
London -100 250 £62,500 -7.41% 166
South East -60 202 £50,000 -16.67% 158
North West -39 117 £30,500 -32.88% 86
Midlands -63 114 £45,000 -7.69% 103
Yorkshire -24 100 £30,500 -23.75% 67
East of England -64 80 £50,000 -24.49% 98
South West -78 72 £40,000 -33.33% 93
West Midlands -48 60 £30,500 -41.90% 36
East Midlands -54 54 £55,000 +43.79% 66
Scotland -73 36 £30,500 -44.55% 33
North East -7 35 £30,500 -44.55% 29
Wales -46 8 £36,120 +11.14% 36
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 +20.00% 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 73 (6.70%) WordPress
2 62 (5.69%) CMS
3 18 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.38%) Confluence
5 11 (1.01%) nginx
6 9 (0.83%) Drupal
7 7 (0.64%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.37%) IIS
9 4 (0.37%) Joomla!
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.39%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
3 13 (1.19%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.10%) Sketch
5 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.73%) InVision
7 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.37%) InDesign
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.28%) Elementor
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Shopify
2 16 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.092%) Magento
6 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 453 (41.56%) Azure
2 414 (37.98%) AWS
3 351 (32.20%) GitHub
4 75 (6.88%) Serverless
5 72 (6.61%) Figma
6 52 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (4.50%) GCP
8 43 (3.94%) Power Platform
9 39 (3.58%) SaaS
10 34 (3.12%) Google Analytics
11 29 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.48%) Amazon S3
13 23 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (2.11%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.65%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.65%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (1.28%) Azure Functions
18 13 (1.19%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 264 (24.22%) Internet
2 12 (1.10%) HTTP
3 6 (0.55%) FTP
4 4 (0.37%) Intranet
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.092%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.092%) NAS
7 1 (0.092%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.96%) MySQL
3 49 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.84%) Power BI
6 30 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.83%) OLTP
9 14 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.28%) DB2
9 14 (1.28%) Looker
10 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.73%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.28%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 401 (36.79%) Git
2 73 (6.70%) JIRA
3 52 (4.77%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.31%) Selenium
5 29 (2.66%) Postman
6 27 (2.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (2.48%) webpack
7 26 (2.39%) SoapUI
8 23 (2.11%) Axure RP
8 23 (2.11%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.65%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.38%) JUnit
10 15 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.38%) Vite
11 14 (1.28%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.10%) Balsamiq
14 11 (1.01%) Babel
14 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 262 (24.04%) Multimedia
2 258 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 122 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.99%) Finance
5 82 (7.52%) Marketing
6 68 (6.24%) Law
7 55 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (2.57%) Banking
10 27 (2.48%) Retail
11 26 (2.39%) Legal
12 18 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.38%) German Language
14 14 (1.28%) Advertising
15 9 (0.83%) Publishing
16 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.64%) Electronics
17 7 (0.64%) Games
18 5 (0.46%) Back Office
18 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 595 (54.59%) Developer
2 257 (23.58%) Trainee
3 178 (16.33%) Senior
4 166 (15.23%) Software Developer
5 131 (12.02%) Senior Developer
6 123 (11.28%) Trainee Developer
7 115 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 114 (10.46%) Trainee Software Developer
9 63 (5.78%) .NET Developer
10 62 (5.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (5.41%) Designer
12 54 (4.95%) Lead
13 52 (4.77%) Analyst
14 43 (3.94%) Software Engineer
15 41 (3.76%) React Developer
16 36 (3.30%) Web Developer
17 35 (3.21%) Administrator
18 31 (2.84%) Web Administrator
19 30 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 30 (2.75%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 896 (82.20%) CSS
2 303 (27.80%) React
3 207 (18.99%) .NET
4 118 (10.83%) Node.js
5 117 (10.73%) AngularJS
6 102 (9.36%) HTML5
7 96 (8.81%) RESTful
8 85 (7.80%) Vue
9 83 (7.61%) XML
10 76 (6.97%) JSON
11 75 (6.88%) CSS3
12 65 (5.96%) jQuery
13 62 (5.69%) REST
14 60 (5.50%) SOAP
15 58 (5.32%) ASP.NET
16 55 (5.05%) .NET Core
17 42 (3.85%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.76%) Web Services
19 35 (3.21%) Laravel
20 34 (3.12%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.10%) Social Media
12 11 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.83%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.73%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 6 (0.55%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.84%) Unix
2 21 (1.93%) Linux
2 21 (1.93%) Windows
3 13 (1.19%) Android
3 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (33.58%) Agile
2 363 (33.30%) Mentoring
3 244 (22.39%) Cybersecurity
4 241 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (21.93%) User Experience
6 222 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 180 (16.51%) CI/CD
8 150 (13.76%) Front End Development
9 132 (12.11%) DevOps
10 108 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (9.72%) AI
11 106 (9.72%) Web Development
12 99 (9.08%) Software Engineering
13 95 (8.72%) Analytics
13 95 (8.72%) Scrum
13 95 (8.72%) UX Design
14 88 (8.07%) Computer Science
15 80 (7.34%) Microservices
16 78 (7.16%) Clean Code
17 68 (6.24%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 826 (75.78%) JavaScript
2 407 (37.34%) Python
3 271 (24.86%) SQL
4 187 (17.16%) C#
5 175 (16.06%) TypeScript
6 134 (12.29%) R
7 115 (10.55%) Java
8 81 (7.43%) PHP
9 31 (2.84%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.92%) Ruby
10 10 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.55%) Bash
13 5 (0.46%) C++
14 4 (0.37%) C
14 4 (0.37%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.37%) SOQL
14 4 (0.37%) SOSL
14 4 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 262 (24.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 258 (23.67%) Azure Certification
3 257 (23.58%) AWS Certification
3 257 (23.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 214 (19.63%) Degree
5 81 (7.43%) Security Cleared
6 71 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (4.68%) SC Cleared
8 28 (2.57%) ISTQB
9 23 (2.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 11 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
15 3 (0.28%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PhD
15 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (13.21%) Accessibility
2 54 (4.95%) WCAG
3 49 (4.50%) QA
4 21 (1.93%) GDPR
5 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.55%) PERC
7 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.37%) SLA
9 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.18%) Section 508
11 1 (0.092%) HL7
11 1 (0.092%) NCSC
11 1 (0.092%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (8.17%) Docker
2 16 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.48%) Terraform
3 9 (0.83%) Kibana
4 4 (0.37%) Argo
5 3 (0.28%) cPanel
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.28%) Plesk
6 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Nagios
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 362 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.95%) Adobe
2 54 (4.95%) Google
3 39 (3.58%) Oracle
4 25 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.19%) Hotjar
6 11 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.01%) Splunk
7 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.73%) SAP
10 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.55%) Screaming Frog
12 5 (0.46%) iManage
12 5 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.37%) New Relic
13 4 (0.37%) Pardot
13 4 (0.37%) YouTube
14 3 (0.28%) Ahrefs
14 3 (0.28%) Granicus