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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -83 +1 -15
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,121 2,556 3,521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 4.97% 4.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.21% 22.73% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,299 2,994
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 7,369 11,244 17,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 21.87% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,418 6,555 14,355
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -71 1,021 £47,500 -17.39% 665
UK excluding London -79 781 £40,000 -27.27% 595
Work from Home -95 330 £52,500 -12.50% 266
London -84 267 £61,250 -9.26% 187
North of England -43 256 £30,500 -32.22% 150
South East -57 201 £50,000 -16.67% 163
North West -37 120 £30,500 -32.88% 74
Midlands -74 111 £42,039 -11.50% 87
Yorkshire -32 98 £30,500 -28.24% 57
East of England -48 92 £55,000 -16.93% 74
South West -76 72 £40,000 -30.43% 69
West Midlands -55 59 £30,500 -41.90% 37
East Midlands -41 53 £52,500 +40.00% 50
Scotland -70 40 £30,500 -44.04% 30
North East -10 38 £30,500 -40.49% 21
Wales -46 8 £36,250 +11.54% 22
Northern Ireland -31 2 £31,500 -37.00% 4
Channel Islands 0 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 71 (6.33%) WordPress
2 58 (5.17%) CMS
3 25 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 23 (2.05%) Confluence
5 11 (0.98%) nginx
6 9 (0.80%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.71%) Apache
7 8 (0.71%) Drupal
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) govService
10 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) Liferay
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 27 (2.41%) Adobe XD
2 19 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.07%) Photoshop
5 12 (1.07%) Sketch
6 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.80%) InVision
9 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.36%) InDesign
11 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.27%) Elementor
13 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.18%) Windchill
14 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.69%) Shopify
2 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.089%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.089%) Magento
5 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 473 (42.19%) Azure
2 426 (38.00%) AWS
3 373 (33.27%) GitHub
4 78 (6.96%) Serverless
5 61 (5.44%) Figma
6 52 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (4.28%) GCP
8 47 (4.19%) Power Platform
9 32 (2.85%) Power Automate
10 31 (2.77%) SaaS
11 30 (2.68%) Google Analytics
12 27 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.14%) Entra ID
14 21 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.78%) PowerApps
16 19 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 17 (1.52%) Azure Functions
18 16 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 283 (25.25%) Internet
2 10 (0.89%) HTTP
3 6 (0.54%) FTP
3 6 (0.54%) Intranet
4 3 (0.27%) AMQP
5 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.089%) DNS
6 1 (0.089%) Firewall
6 1 (0.089%) SSH
6 1 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.089%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.98%) MySQL
3 50 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 31 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.68%) Power BI
8 21 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.61%) OLTP
10 14 (1.25%) DB2
11 13 (1.16%) Looker
12 10 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.27%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 417 (37.20%) Git
2 80 (7.14%) JIRA
3 53 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 50 (4.46%) Selenium
5 34 (3.03%) Postman
6 32 (2.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 30 (2.68%) SoapUI
8 27 (2.41%) WebDriver
9 25 (2.23%) webpack
10 21 (1.87%) Axure RP
11 17 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.52%) JUnit
12 15 (1.34%) TeamCity
13 14 (1.25%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.25%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.16%) Visual Studio
15 12 (1.07%) Mockito
16 11 (0.98%) Balsamiq
16 11 (0.98%) JMeter
16 11 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 286 (25.51%) Multimedia
2 283 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 119 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.37%) Finance
5 86 (7.67%) Marketing
6 81 (7.23%) Law
7 54 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.59%) Banking
9 29 (2.59%) Retail
10 28 (2.50%) Legal
11 21 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.78%) Advertising
13 15 (1.34%) German Language
14 10 (0.89%) Publishing
15 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.62%) Electronics
16 7 (0.62%) Games
17 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 601 (53.61%) Developer
2 278 (24.80%) Trainee
3 173 (15.43%) Software Developer
4 170 (15.17%) Senior
5 134 (11.95%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (11.15%) Trainee Software Developer
7 122 (10.88%) Senior Developer
8 107 (9.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (5.98%) Analyst
10 60 (5.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.73%) Lead
13 48 (4.28%) Designer
14 42 (3.75%) Software Engineer
15 39 (3.48%) React Developer
16 35 (3.12%) Web Developer
17 34 (3.03%) Administrator
18 31 (2.77%) Web Administrator
19 30 (2.68%) Java Developer
20 29 (2.59%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 911 (81.27%) CSS
2 298 (26.58%) React
3 205 (18.29%) .NET
4 123 (10.97%) Node.js
5 109 (9.72%) AngularJS
6 107 (9.55%) HTML5
7 98 (8.74%) RESTful
8 88 (7.85%) XML
9 82 (7.31%) JSON
10 81 (7.23%) CSS3
11 78 (6.96%) Vue
12 67 (5.98%) REST
13 64 (5.71%) jQuery
13 64 (5.71%) SOAP
14 63 (5.62%) ASP.NET
15 59 (5.26%) .NET Core
16 38 (3.39%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.39%) Web Services
17 35 (3.12%) Laravel
17 35 (3.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.98%) Social Media
13 10 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.80%) Cybercrime
14 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.71%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.71%) Digital Media
16 7 (0.62%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.94%) Unix
2 26 (2.32%) Windows
3 19 (1.69%) Linux
4 14 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.16%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (34.79%) Mentoring
2 386 (34.43%) Agile
3 272 (24.26%) Cybersecurity
4 254 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
5 240 (21.41%) User Experience
6 217 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 172 (15.34%) CI/CD
8 156 (13.92%) Front End Development
9 128 (11.42%) DevOps
10 111 (9.90%) Web Development
11 103 (9.19%) AI
12 102 (9.10%) Software Engineering
13 100 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 94 (8.39%) Scrum
15 89 (7.94%) UX Design
16 86 (7.67%) Analytics
17 82 (7.31%) Microservices
18 81 (7.23%) Computer Science
19 79 (7.05%) MVC
20 75 (6.69%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 870 (77.61%) JavaScript
2 436 (38.89%) Python
3 276 (24.62%) SQL
4 192 (17.13%) C#
5 160 (14.27%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.85%) R
7 127 (11.33%) Java
8 70 (6.24%) PHP
9 32 (2.85%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.98%) Ruby
13 8 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.36%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.36%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.36%) Bash
14 4 (0.36%) C++
14 4 (0.36%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.36%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 283 (25.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.89%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.80%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (19.18%) Degree
5 86 (7.67%) Security Cleared
6 68 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (4.10%) SC Cleared
8 31 (2.77%) ISTQB
9 27 (2.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.43%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.45%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.36%) ISEB
14 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (13.20%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.37%) WCAG
3 46 (4.10%) QA
4 27 (2.41%) GDPR
5 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.54%) PERC
7 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.27%) SLA
9 2 (0.18%) Section 508
10 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.089%) HL7
10 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.089%) NCSC
10 1 (0.089%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (8.30%) Docker
2 15 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.50%) Terraform
3 10 (0.89%) Kibana
4 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.36%) Argo
5 4 (0.36%) Grafana
5 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.27%) cPanel
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.18%) Nagios
7 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 402 (35.86%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.17%) Adobe
3 55 (4.91%) Google
4 43 (3.84%) Oracle
5 26 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.07%) Splunk
8 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.98%) Hotjar
9 9 (0.80%) SAP
10 7 (0.62%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
11 6 (0.54%) YouTube
12 5 (0.45%) Ahrefs
12 5 (0.45%) Facebook
13 4 (0.36%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.36%) iManage
13 4 (0.36%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud