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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 78 53
Rank change year-on-year -99 -25 -14
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,033 1,641 4,409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 3.71% 4.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.05% 18.71% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 859 1,070 3,319
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £39,610
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% -3.85%

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 9,349 8,772 21,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 19.83% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,930 5,752 16,131
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 9 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 9 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 -85 960 £50,000 -20.00% 415
UK excluding London -79 762 £47,500 -17.39% 342
Work from Home -83 406 £55,000 -15.38% 281
London -104 221 £59,773 -14.61% 124
South East -22 215 £50,000 -20.00% 100
North of England -56 209 £45,000 -10.00% 84
Midlands -60 117 £45,000 - 51
North West -43 115 £45,000 -14.29% 50
East of England -36 104 £47,500 -28.26% 46
South West -50 86 £45,000 -21.74% 35
West Midlands -52 64 £45,000 -14.29% 27
Yorkshire -32 62 £44,000 +17.33% 26
East Midlands -54 53 £55,000 +37.50% 24
North East -24 32 £49,750 -0.50% 8
Wales -45 15 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Scotland -75 13 £30,500 -44.55% 9
Northern Ireland -35 3 £60,000 - 12

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 (9.29%) WordPress
2 53 (5.13%) CMS
3 48 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.55%) IIS
5 15 (1.45%) Confluence
6 11 (1.06%) Apache
6 11 (1.06%) Drupal
6 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.68%) nginx
8 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.39%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.39%) JBoss
11 3 (0.29%) govService
11 3 (0.29%) Liferay
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.097%) Moodle
13 1 (0.097%) Site Server
Applications
1 28 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.84%) Photoshop
3 14 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (1.36%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.06%) InDesign
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.87%) Sketch
6 8 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.39%) InVision
9 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.097%) Elementor
11 1 (0.097%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (2.61%) Shopify
2 13 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.58%) Magento
4 4 (0.39%) Line 50
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.097%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.097%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.097%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.097%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 368 (35.62%) Azure
2 298 (28.85%) AWS
3 229 (22.17%) GitHub
4 110 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (6.68%) Figma
6 68 (6.58%) Power Platform
7 54 (5.23%) Serverless
8 47 (4.55%) SaaS
9 46 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
10 44 (4.26%) GCP
11 43 (4.16%) PowerApps
12 41 (3.97%) Power Automate
13 35 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 34 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
15 31 (3.00%) Google Analytics
16 30 (2.90%) Azure AI
17 29 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
19 22 (2.13%) Amazon S3
19 22 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 149 (14.42%) Internet
2 8 (0.77%) HTTP
3 6 (0.58%) Intranet
3 6 (0.58%) Network Security
4 5 (0.48%) VoIP
5 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.19%) DNS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) SMS
8 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.097%) NAS
8 1 (0.097%) RTSP
8 1 (0.097%) SCTP
8 1 (0.097%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.49%) MySQL
3 90 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (6.68%) MongoDB
5 59 (5.71%) Power BI
6 52 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 46 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.84%) OLTP
10 12 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.87%) Tableau
13 8 (0.77%) Metadata
14 7 (0.68%) GIS
15 6 (0.58%) FileMaker
15 6 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 273 (26.43%) Git
2 67 (6.49%) JIRA
3 40 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 34 (3.29%) Selenium
5 23 (2.23%) Postman
6 19 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
7 18 (1.74%) SoapUI
8 14 (1.36%) GitLab
8 14 (1.36%) WebDriver
9 13 (1.26%) JUnit
9 13 (1.26%) webpack
10 12 (1.16%) Axure RP
10 12 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.97%) Vite
12 8 (0.77%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.77%) Mockito
13 7 (0.68%) JMeter
14 6 (0.58%) Subversion
15 5 (0.48%) PHPUnit
General
1 279 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 130 (12.58%) Multimedia
3 126 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.36%) Marketing
5 74 (7.16%) Finance
6 50 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (4.55%) Law
8 44 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.58%) Advertising
11 32 (3.10%) Retail
12 31 (3.00%) Legal
13 13 (1.26%) Games
14 10 (0.97%) Banking
15 8 (0.77%) Local Government
16 7 (0.68%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.58%) Electronics
17 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 591 (57.21%) Developer
2 156 (15.10%) Senior
3 128 (12.39%) Senior Developer
3 128 (12.39%) Trainee
4 122 (11.81%) .NET Developer
5 119 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 107 (10.36%) Software Developer
7 68 (6.58%) Designer
8 56 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 53 (5.13%) Administrator
9 53 (5.13%) Web Developer
10 47 (4.55%) Web Administrator
11 45 (4.36%) Lead
12 44 (4.26%) Trainee Developer
13 43 (4.16%) Trainee Administrator
14 42 (4.07%) Analyst
15 39 (3.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 39 (3.78%) Trainee Software Developer
16 37 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 36 (3.48%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 894 (86.54%) CSS
2 278 (26.91%) .NET
3 234 (22.65%) React
4 121 (11.71%) .NET Core
5 119 (11.52%) HTML5
6 107 (10.36%) Vue
7 105 (10.16%) jQuery
7 105 (10.16%) Node.js
8 103 (9.97%) ASP.NET
9 98 (9.49%) AngularJS
10 92 (8.91%) RESTful
11 91 (8.81%) CSS3
12 84 (8.13%) JSON
13 79 (7.65%) ASP.NET Core
14 65 (6.29%) REST
15 56 (5.42%) Entity Framework
16 50 (4.84%) SOAP
17 49 (4.74%) Laravel
17 49 (4.74%) XML
18 42 (4.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 29 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.42%) Social Media
8 24 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.32%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.36%) Graphic Design
12 12 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.87%) Digital TV
15 9 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (0.77%) Driving Licence
16 8 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.26%) Linux
2 43 (4.16%) Windows
3 26 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.77%) Unix
5 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.48%) Android
7 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.097%) AIX
10 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (30.98%) Agile
2 303 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 228 (22.07%) CI/CD
4 223 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (19.07%) User Experience
6 196 (18.97%) Mentoring
7 168 (16.26%) DevOps
8 158 (15.30%) AI
9 157 (15.20%) Web Development
10 127 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (10.55%) Computer Science
12 108 (10.45%) Front End Development
13 106 (10.26%) Software Engineering
14 100 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
15 97 (9.39%) Scrum
16 86 (8.33%) Analytics
17 83 (8.03%) Microservices
18 80 (7.74%) UX Design
19 79 (7.65%) Machine Learning
20 74 (7.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 676 (65.44%) JavaScript
2 391 (37.85%) SQL
3 260 (25.17%) Python
4 258 (24.98%) C#
5 146 (14.13%) PHP
6 145 (14.04%) TypeScript
7 97 (9.39%) Java
8 80 (7.74%) R
9 36 (3.48%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.03%) C++
12 14 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.26%) VBA
14 10 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.68%) C
15 7 (0.68%) VBScript
16 6 (0.58%) Perl
17 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.48%) Bash
17 5 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 195 (18.88%) Degree
2 125 (12.10%) AWS Certification
2 125 (12.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 123 (11.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 123 (11.91%) Azure Certification
4 74 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (4.16%) Security Cleared
6 34 (3.29%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 9 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.94%) QA
3 46 (4.45%) WCAG
4 38 (3.68%) GDPR
5 16 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.06%) SLA
7 7 (0.68%) GRC
7 7 (0.68%) PERC
8 5 (0.48%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 101 (9.78%) Docker
2 17 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.65%) Terraform
3 8 (0.77%) 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 (0.097%) Grafana
6 1 (0.097%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 314 (30.40%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.55%) Adobe
3 44 (4.26%) Google
4 41 (3.97%) Oracle
5 29 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.45%) Facebook
7 14 (1.36%) Splunk
8 10 (0.97%) YouTube
9 9 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.87%) iManage
10 8 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.68%) SAP
11 7 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.68%) TikTok
12 5 (0.48%) Apple
12 5 (0.48%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.48%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.48%) Sage
12 5 (0.48%) WooCommerce