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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -70 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,184 3,080 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 4.65% 5.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.31% 22.33% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,591 2,200
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,875
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.30% -1.09%
75th Percentile £68,438 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.89% -3.81% +5.00%

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 7,260 13,795 13,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 20.82% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,363 11,212
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -68 1,059 £50,000 -9.09% 982
UK excluding London -71 796 £45,000 -10.89% 919
Work from Home -64 396 £55,000 - 280
London -58 321 £65,000 -3.70% 274
North of England -50 223 £40,000 -20.00% 199
South East -68 198 £47,500 -17.39% 306
East of England -31 117 £55,000 - 105
Midlands -51 115 £45,000 -10.00% 150
North West -39 111 £47,436 +4.52% 114
Yorkshire -27 85 £34,000 -38.18% 61
South West -70 79 £40,000 -27.27% 84
West Midlands -39 61 £37,500 -28.57% 89
East Midlands -29 55 £47,500 +18.75% 60
Scotland -66 39 £30,500 -41.06% 35
North East -9 27 £30,500 -41.90% 26
Wales -30 25 £60,000 +84.62% 41
Northern Ireland -25 3 £31,500 -21.25% 13
Channel Islands +5 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 79 (6.67%) CMS
1 79 (6.67%) WordPress
2 27 (2.28%) Confluence
3 25 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 14 (1.18%) IIS
6 13 (1.10%) Drupal
7 11 (0.93%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.68%) Apache
9 6 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.51%) nginx
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.25%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.17%) Mendix
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.084%) FileNet
12 1 (0.084%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 31 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 29 (2.45%) Photoshop
3 28 (2.36%) Adobe XD
4 20 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.27%) Sketch
7 12 (1.01%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
10 8 (0.68%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.68%) InDesign
11 7 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.59%) InVision
12 5 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
12 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.34%) Elementor
14 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
15 1 (0.084%) CapCut
15 1 (0.084%) Trello
15 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (2.79%) Shopify
2 18 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.01%) Sprinklr
4 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) Magento
5 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 1000
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.084%) MFGPRO
7 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 412 (34.80%) Azure
2 354 (29.90%) AWS
3 265 (22.38%) GitHub
4 94 (7.94%) Serverless
5 80 (6.76%) Figma
6 58 (4.90%) Google Analytics
7 53 (4.48%) GCP
8 48 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (3.13%) SaaS
11 35 (2.96%) Power Automate
12 33 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (2.03%) PowerApps
17 23 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (1.94%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 183 (15.46%) Internet
2 11 (0.93%) FTP
3 8 (0.68%) HTTP
4 6 (0.51%) Intranet
5 3 (0.25%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) DNS
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.084%) Firewall
7 1 (0.084%) Network Security
7 1 (0.084%) SSH
7 1 (0.084%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.084%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.90%) SQL Server
2 110 (9.29%) MySQL
3 72 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 67 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (3.89%) NoSQL
6 41 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.45%) Power BI
8 27 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 20 (1.69%) OLTP
11 13 (1.10%) Looker
11 13 (1.10%) Redis
12 12 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.93%) GIS
14 10 (0.84%) DB2
15 9 (0.76%) Metadata
16 8 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
16 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 390 (32.94%) Git
2 81 (6.84%) JIRA
3 58 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.80%) webpack
5 42 (3.55%) Selenium
6 34 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 30 (2.53%) JUnit
8 28 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 26 (2.20%) Mockito
10 24 (2.03%) JMeter
10 24 (2.03%) Postman
11 23 (1.94%) Visual Studio
12 20 (1.69%) Axure RP
12 20 (1.69%) WebDriver
13 19 (1.60%) SoapUI
14 18 (1.52%) Vite
15 17 (1.44%) TeamCity
16 15 (1.27%) Babel
17 14 (1.18%) Bitbucket
18 11 (0.93%) Balsamiq
General
1 336 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 189 (15.96%) Multimedia
3 163 (13.77%) Finance
4 139 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (11.74%) Marketing
5 133 (11.23%) Law
6 64 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 52 (4.39%) Retail
9 39 (3.29%) Banking
10 34 (2.87%) Legal
11 24 (2.03%) Advertising
12 17 (1.44%) Games
12 17 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.44%) Publishing
13 11 (0.93%) German Language
14 9 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.59%) Back Office
16 6 (0.51%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 630 (53.21%) Developer
2 215 (18.16%) Senior
3 180 (15.20%) Trainee
4 154 (13.01%) Senior Developer
5 142 (11.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 134 (11.32%) Software Developer
7 87 (7.35%) Trainee Developer
8 83 (7.01%) .NET Developer
8 83 (7.01%) Trainee Software Developer
9 79 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 71 (6.00%) Analyst
11 64 (5.41%) Software Engineer
12 62 (5.24%) Lead
13 56 (4.73%) Designer
14 51 (4.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.89%) Java Developer
16 44 (3.72%) Web Developer
17 38 (3.21%) C# Developer
18 37 (3.13%) React Developer
19 36 (3.04%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 936 (79.05%) CSS
2 336 (28.38%) React
3 235 (19.85%) .NET
4 169 (14.27%) HTML5
5 143 (12.08%) RESTful
6 142 (11.99%) AngularJS
7 136 (11.49%) JSON
8 132 (11.15%) Node.js
9 119 (10.05%) XML
10 113 (9.54%) CSS3
11 105 (8.87%) REST
12 90 (7.60%) ASP.NET
12 90 (7.60%) Vue
13 84 (7.09%) .NET Core
14 68 (5.74%) Web Services
15 66 (5.57%) .NET Framework
15 66 (5.57%) jQuery
16 51 (4.31%) GraphQL
17 49 (4.14%) Jest
17 49 (4.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
7 25 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.52%) Social Media
10 15 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.18%) Motion Graphics
12 12 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.84%) Legacy Code
15 9 (0.76%) Graphic Design
15 9 (0.76%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.79%) Unix
2 29 (2.45%) Linux
3 28 (2.36%) Windows
4 11 (0.93%) Android
4 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (39.78%) Agile
2 308 (26.01%) Mentoring
3 299 (25.25%) User Experience
4 297 (25.08%) Problem-Solving
5 274 (23.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 194 (16.39%) CI/CD
7 183 (15.46%) Front End Development
8 182 (15.37%) Cybersecurity
9 165 (13.94%) DevOps
10 140 (11.82%) Web Development
11 121 (10.22%) Analytics
11 121 (10.22%) UX Design
12 115 (9.71%) Microservices
12 115 (9.71%) Software Engineering
13 113 (9.54%) MVC
14 110 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (9.12%) Scrum
16 103 (8.70%) AI
17 94 (7.94%) Clean Code
18 88 (7.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 924 (78.04%) JavaScript
2 336 (28.38%) Python
3 294 (24.83%) SQL
4 235 (19.85%) C#
5 203 (17.15%) TypeScript
6 138 (11.66%) Java
7 94 (7.94%) R
8 88 (7.43%) PHP
9 30 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.69%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.01%) Ruby
13 8 (0.68%) Go
14 7 (0.59%) Bicep
15 5 (0.42%) Objective-C
15 5 (0.42%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.34%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 195 (16.47%) Degree
2 184 (15.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 183 (15.46%) AWS Certification
4 182 (15.37%) Azure Certification
5 180 (15.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 84 (7.09%) Security Cleared
7 60 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.46%) SC Cleared
9 22 (1.86%) ISTQB
10 18 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 17 (1.44%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.42%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.34%) ISEB
16 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.17%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (14.95%) Accessibility
2 79 (6.67%) QA
3 50 (4.22%) WCAG
4 40 (3.38%) GDPR
5 6 (0.51%) PERC
5 6 (0.51%) SLA
6 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.42%) Section 508
7 2 (0.17%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) CDISC
8 1 (0.084%) DICOM
8 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.084%) MiFID
8 1 (0.084%) NCSC
8 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.084%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 122 (10.30%) Docker
2 15 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.62%) Terraform
3 21 (1.77%) Kibana
4 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.34%) Argo
5 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.25%) cPanel
6 3 (0.25%) Grafana
6 3 (0.25%) Plesk
7 2 (0.17%) Ansible
7 2 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.084%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 325 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.60%) Adobe
3 73 (6.17%) Google
4 49 (4.14%) Oracle
5 36 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 31 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 24 (2.03%) Splunk
9 12 (1.01%) Cisco
10 10 (0.84%) Ahrefs
11 9 (0.76%) Apple
11 9 (0.76%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
12 8 (0.68%) Hotjar
12 8 (0.68%) YouTube
13 7 (0.59%) Facebook
13 7 (0.59%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.59%) Pardot
13 7 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 6 (0.51%) Atlassian