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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 110 50
Rank change year-on-year -78 -60 +3
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,167 1,356 3,265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.76% 4.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.86% 15.85% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 945 796 1,880
10th Percentile £29,300 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -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 11,839 8,555 16,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 17.44% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,600 5,488 11,304
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year - +6.16% -5.81%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -62 1,090 £50,000 -9.09% 888
UK excluding London -48 886 £50,000 -2.91% 526
Work from Home -45 504 £55,000 - 351
South East +1 265 £50,000 -9.09% 128
North of England -33 234 £50,000 +5.26% 122
London -108 234 £59,773 -8.04% 482
East of England +4 131 £48,760 -11.35% 48
North West -50 120 £47,500 -9.52% 65
South West -22 117 £50,000 +25.00% 71
Midlands -85 101 £50,000 -9.09% 91
North East -14 60 £52,000 +66.67% 20
Yorkshire -30 54 £50,000 +21.95% 41
West Midlands -57 53 £47,500 -8.65% 46
East Midlands -75 48 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Wales -70 26 £38,500 -42.96% 13
Scotland -51 11 £31,500 -37.56% 38
Northern Ireland -85 1 £31,000 -1.59% 22

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 89 (7.63%) WordPress
2 72 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.28%) CMS
4 37 (3.17%) IIS
5 33 (2.83%) Confluence
6 17 (1.46%) Apache
7 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.69%) Drupal
10 7 (0.60%) JBoss
11 5 (0.43%) nginx
11 5 (0.43%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.34%) Moodle
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.086%) ExpressionEngine
14 1 (0.086%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.37%) Adobe XD
3 16 (1.37%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 10 (0.86%) InDesign
4 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.86%) Sketch
5 9 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
6 7 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.26%) Elementor
7 3 (0.26%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.17%) InVision
8 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Trello
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (2.49%) Shopify
2 19 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.60%) Magento
4 4 (0.34%) Line 50
4 4 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.086%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.086%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.086%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 415 (35.56%) Azure
2 261 (22.37%) AWS
3 212 (18.17%) GitHub
4 156 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (8.31%) Power Platform
6 85 (7.28%) GitHub Copilot
7 80 (6.86%) Azure AI
8 71 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (6.08%) Power Automate
9 68 (5.83%) Figma
9 68 (5.83%) PowerApps
10 40 (3.43%) GCP
10 40 (3.43%) Serverless
11 37 (3.17%) SaaS
12 35 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (2.83%) Google Analytics
14 28 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (2.23%) OneDrive
16 24 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (9.34%) Internet
2 9 (0.77%) Intranet
3 8 (0.69%) SSL
4 7 (0.60%) HTTP
4 7 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.51%) SNMP
5 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.43%) DNS
6 5 (0.43%) SMS
6 5 (0.43%) VoIP
7 4 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.17%) Firewall
10 1 (0.086%) AMQP
10 1 (0.086%) RTP
10 1 (0.086%) RTSP
10 1 (0.086%) SS7
10 1 (0.086%) SSH
10 1 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (15.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 164 (14.05%) SQL Server
3 148 (12.68%) MongoDB
4 128 (10.97%) MySQL
5 91 (7.80%) Relational Database
6 70 (6.00%) Power BI
7 63 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.46%) Metadata
11 16 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.94%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
13 10 (0.86%) GIS
14 8 (0.69%) OLTP
14 8 (0.69%) Redis
14 8 (0.69%) Tableau
15 7 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 247 (21.17%) Git
2 58 (4.97%) JIRA
3 47 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.80%) Selenium
5 15 (1.29%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.20%) GitLab
6 14 (1.20%) JUnit
6 14 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (1.11%) Claude Code
7 13 (1.11%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.86%) Postman
10 9 (0.77%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.77%) Maven
11 8 (0.69%) Mockito
11 8 (0.69%) Storybook
12 7 (0.60%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.60%) PHPUnit
12 7 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 345 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 145 (12.43%) Marketing
3 125 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 85 (7.28%) Finance
7 79 (6.77%) Law
8 73 (6.26%) Multimedia
9 66 (5.66%) Advertising
10 41 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (3.26%) Legal
12 35 (3.00%) Retail
13 29 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.80%) Games
15 15 (1.29%) Banking
16 13 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.94%) Health Technology
18 10 (0.86%) Aviation
18 10 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 724 (62.04%) Developer
2 221 (18.94%) .NET Developer
3 201 (17.22%) Senior
4 153 (13.11%) Senior Developer
5 123 (10.54%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (6.77%) Web Developer
7 73 (6.26%) Software Developer
8 65 (5.57%) Trainee
9 61 (5.23%) Designer
9 61 (5.23%) PHP Developer
10 60 (5.14%) Software Engineer
11 53 (4.54%) Analyst
12 51 (4.37%) Administrator
12 51 (4.37%) C# Developer
13 48 (4.11%) Lead
14 47 (4.03%) Web Administrator
15 43 (3.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 43 (3.68%) Trainee Administrator
16 36 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
17 35 (3.00%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,020 (87.40%) CSS
2 395 (33.85%) .NET
3 239 (20.48%) .NET Core
4 228 (19.54%) ASP.NET
5 219 (18.77%) React
6 181 (15.51%) ASP.NET Core
7 144 (12.34%) HTML5
8 135 (11.57%) Node.js
9 126 (10.80%) jQuery
10 120 (10.28%) Entity Framework
11 112 (9.60%) CSS3
12 107 (9.17%) Vue
13 101 (8.65%) RESTful
14 94 (8.05%) JSON
15 93 (7.97%) REST
16 85 (7.28%) AngularJS
17 74 (6.34%) .NET Framework
17 74 (6.34%) ML.NET
18 62 (5.31%) XML
19 59 (5.06%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 32 (2.74%) Social Media
7 29 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.97%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.71%) Digital TV
14 19 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
15 14 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.11%) Graphic Design
17 12 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
18 11 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
19 10 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.51%) Windows
2 67 (5.74%) Linux
3 31 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Debian
9 2 (0.17%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (36.50%) Agile
2 398 (34.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 357 (30.59%) CI/CD
4 278 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (20.48%) DevOps
6 236 (20.22%) AI
7 209 (17.91%) User Experience
7 209 (17.91%) Web Development
8 199 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (11.48%) Mentoring
10 123 (10.54%) Software Engineering
11 115 (9.85%) Machine Learning
12 105 (9.00%) Front End Development
13 102 (8.74%) Analytics
14 100 (8.57%) Test Automation
15 99 (8.48%) Scrum
16 94 (8.05%) Computer Science
17 93 (7.97%) Microservices
18 88 (7.54%) Clean Code
19 86 (7.37%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 725 (62.13%) JavaScript
2 467 (40.02%) SQL
3 392 (33.59%) C#
4 210 (17.99%) Python
5 183 (15.68%) TypeScript
6 168 (14.40%) PHP
7 78 (6.68%) Java
8 48 (4.11%) R
9 39 (3.34%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.74%) C++
11 19 (1.63%) VBA
12 15 (1.29%) Go
12 15 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.03%) C
14 12 (1.03%) Ruby
15 9 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.69%) Bicep
17 7 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (16.02%) Degree
2 99 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 65 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 62 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (5.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 60 (5.14%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.94%) MBA
10 7 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.34%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.086%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.086%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.086%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.086%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (15.77%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.68%) WCAG
3 71 (6.08%) QA
4 44 (3.77%) GDPR
5 14 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.94%) SLA
7 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.69%) PERC
9 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.60%) NCSC
10 6 (0.51%) GRC
11 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.34%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.26%) WAI
13 3 (0.26%) WAI-ARIA
14 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 178 (15.25%) Docker
2 23 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.60%) Kibana
4 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.43%) Nagios
5 4 (0.34%) Puppet
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.086%) Ansible
8 1 (0.086%) Grafana
8 1 (0.086%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.086%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 387 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.94%) Adobe
3 47 (4.03%) Google
4 43 (3.68%) Facebook
5 35 (3.00%) Oracle
6 28 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.97%) YouTube
8 15 (1.29%) Splunk
9 14 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.86%) Sage
10 10 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.69%) OneLogin
13 7 (0.60%) TikTok
14 6 (0.51%) iManage
15 5 (0.43%) Braze
15 5 (0.43%) Hotjar
15 5 (0.43%) New Relic
15 5 (0.43%) Pinterest