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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -82 0 -15
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,124 2,512 3,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.91% 4.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.12% 22.48% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 938 1,323 2,974
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,575
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -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 7,435 11,176 17,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 21.86% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,483 6,649 14,201
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 5 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 5 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 -70 1,025 £47,500 -17.39% 689
UK excluding London -78 783 £40,000 -27.27% 605
Work from Home -94 332 £52,500 -16.00% 284
London -87 268 £61,250 -9.26% 197
North of England -36 257 £30,500 -32.22% 164
South East -58 205 £50,000 -16.67% 160
North West -39 121 £30,500 -32.88% 83
Midlands -68 110 £42,039 -11.50% 86
Yorkshire -29 98 £30,500 -26.06% 61
East of England -47 92 £55,000 -16.93% 76
South West -75 70 £39,250 -31.74% 72
West Midlands -58 58 £30,500 -41.90% 33
East Midlands -48 53 £52,500 +40.00% 53
Scotland -64 40 £30,500 -44.55% 27
North East -17 38 £30,500 -44.55% 22
Wales -46 8 £36,250 +11.54% 22
Northern Ireland -34 2 £31,500 -37.00% 5
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 (6.32%) WordPress
2 62 (5.52%) CMS
3 25 (2.22%) 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 (0.44%) 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 (2.40%) Adobe XD
2 19 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.07%) Photoshop
5 12 (1.07%) Sketch
6 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.80%) InVision
8 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.36%) InDesign
11 3 (0.27%) Elementor
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.18%) Windchill
13 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
13 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%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.089%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.089%) Magento
5 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 474 (42.17%) Azure
2 425 (37.81%) AWS
3 372 (33.10%) GitHub
4 78 (6.94%) Serverless
5 61 (5.43%) Figma
6 52 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (4.27%) GCP
8 47 (4.18%) Power Platform
9 32 (2.85%) Power Automate
10 31 (2.76%) Google Analytics
10 31 (2.76%) SaaS
11 27 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 24 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.14%) Entra ID
13 21 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (1.51%) Azure Functions
17 16 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 283 (25.18%) Internet
2 11 (0.98%) HTTP
3 6 (0.53%) FTP
3 6 (0.53%) 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 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.96%) MySQL
3 50 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 33 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 31 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.67%) Power BI
8 21 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.69%) OLTP
10 14 (1.25%) DB2
11 13 (1.16%) Looker
12 10 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (0.44%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.27%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 418 (37.19%) Git
2 81 (7.21%) JIRA
3 52 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 51 (4.54%) Selenium
5 34 (3.02%) Postman
6 32 (2.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 30 (2.67%) SoapUI
8 27 (2.40%) WebDriver
9 25 (2.22%) webpack
10 21 (1.87%) Axure RP
11 17 (1.51%) JUnit
12 16 (1.42%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.33%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.25%) Bitbucket
14 14 (1.25%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.16%) Visual Studio
16 12 (1.07%) Mockito
17 11 (0.98%) Balsamiq
17 11 (0.98%) JMeter
17 11 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 286 (25.44%) Multimedia
2 282 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 119 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.25%) Finance
5 89 (7.92%) Marketing
6 81 (7.21%) Law
7 54 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 35 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.58%) Banking
9 29 (2.58%) Retail
10 28 (2.49%) Legal
11 21 (1.87%) Advertising
11 21 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.33%) German Language
13 9 (0.80%) Publishing
14 8 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.62%) Electronics
15 7 (0.62%) Games
16 5 (0.44%) Back Office
16 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 602 (53.56%) Developer
2 278 (24.73%) Trainee
3 173 (15.39%) Senior
3 173 (15.39%) Software Developer
4 134 (11.92%) Trainee Developer
5 125 (11.12%) Senior Developer
5 125 (11.12%) Trainee Software Developer
6 108 (9.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (5.96%) Analyst
8 60 (5.34%) .NET Developer
8 60 (5.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 52 (4.63%) Lead
10 48 (4.27%) Designer
11 41 (3.65%) Software Engineer
12 39 (3.47%) React Developer
13 35 (3.11%) Web Developer
14 34 (3.02%) Administrator
15 31 (2.76%) Web Administrator
16 30 (2.67%) Java Developer
17 29 (2.58%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 912 (81.14%) CSS
2 298 (26.51%) React
3 206 (18.33%) .NET
4 123 (10.94%) Node.js
5 110 (9.79%) AngularJS
6 107 (9.52%) HTML5
7 100 (8.90%) RESTful
8 89 (7.92%) XML
9 82 (7.30%) JSON
10 81 (7.21%) CSS3
11 79 (7.03%) Vue
12 68 (6.05%) REST
13 65 (5.78%) SOAP
14 64 (5.69%) jQuery
15 63 (5.60%) ASP.NET
16 59 (5.25%) .NET Core
17 39 (3.47%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.47%) Web Services
18 35 (3.11%) Laravel
18 35 (3.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.80%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.29%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.07%) Social Media
12 10 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.80%) Cybercrime
13 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.71%) Digital Media
15 7 (0.62%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.94%) Unix
2 26 (2.31%) Windows
3 19 (1.69%) Linux
4 14 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.16%) Android
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (34.70%) Mentoring
2 388 (34.52%) Agile
3 272 (24.20%) Cybersecurity
4 254 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
5 241 (21.44%) User Experience
6 218 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 172 (15.30%) CI/CD
8 156 (13.88%) Front End Development
9 129 (11.48%) DevOps
10 110 (9.79%) Web Development
11 107 (9.52%) AI
12 100 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (8.81%) Software Engineering
14 93 (8.27%) Scrum
15 90 (8.01%) UX Design
16 88 (7.83%) Analytics
17 83 (7.38%) Microservices
18 81 (7.21%) Computer Science
19 78 (6.94%) MVC
20 74 (6.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 870 (77.40%) JavaScript
2 437 (38.88%) Python
3 278 (24.73%) SQL
4 193 (17.17%) C#
5 160 (14.23%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.81%) R
7 128 (11.39%) Java
8 71 (6.32%) PHP
9 31 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.98%) Ruby
11 11 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.36%) ActionScript
13 4 (0.36%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (0.36%) Bash
13 4 (0.36%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.36%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 283 (25.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.82%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.73%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (19.13%) Degree
5 84 (7.47%) Security Cleared
6 68 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (4.09%) SC Cleared
8 31 (2.76%) ISTQB
9 27 (2.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.44%) 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
1 149 (13.26%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.36%) WCAG
3 47 (4.18%) QA
4 27 (2.40%) GDPR
5 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.53%) PERC
7 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.44%) 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 92 (8.19%) Docker
2 15 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.49%) Terraform
3 10 (0.89%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.36%) Argo
5 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.27%) cPanel
6 3 (0.27%) Grafana
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 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.25%) Adobe
3 57 (5.07%) Google
4 42 (3.74%) Oracle
5 26 (2.31%) 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 (0.53%) YouTube
12 5 (0.44%) Ahrefs
12 5 (0.44%) Facebook
13 4 (0.36%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.36%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.36%) Pardot
13 4 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud