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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 104 52
Rank change year-on-year -81 -52 +7
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,172 1,446 3,416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.89% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.82% 16.04% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 951 867 2,101
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11,935 9,014 17,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 18.04% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,691 5,876 12,121
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,557 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 1,095 £50,000 -9.09% 551
UK excluding London -48 897 £50,000 -4.76% 274
Work from Home -43 510 £55,000 - 236
South East -3 267 £50,000 -9.09% 55
North of England -34 238 £50,000 -1.96% 67
London -124 230 £59,773 -11.45% 332
East of England +1 134 £48,760 -11.35% 16
North West -43 126 £47,500 -13.64% 42
South West -28 118 £50,000 +15.61% 43
Midlands -85 102 £50,000 -9.09% 55
North East -16 56 £52,000 +9.47% 12
Yorkshire -25 56 £50,000 +19.05% 16
West Midlands -64 54 £46,250 -11.90% 28
East Midlands -67 48 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Wales -60 26 £38,500 -42.96% 7
Scotland -57 11 £31,500 -37.56% 25
Northern Ireland -82 1 £31,000 -1.59% 14

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 92 (7.85%) WordPress
2 67 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 49 (4.18%) CMS
4 33 (2.82%) IIS
5 32 (2.73%) Confluence
6 17 (1.45%) Apache
7 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.68%) 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%) CICS
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.085%) ExpressionEngine
14 1 (0.085%) Oracle 10gAS
14 1 (0.085%) PegaRULES
14 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (2.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.45%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.37%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
5 11 (0.94%) InDesign
6 9 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.77%) Sketch
7 8 (0.68%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.26%) Elementor
8 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.26%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.17%) InVision
9 2 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (2.56%) Shopify
2 19 (1.62%) 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%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 418 (35.67%) Azure
2 266 (22.70%) AWS
3 213 (18.17%) GitHub
4 162 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (7.68%) Power Platform
6 85 (7.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 78 (6.66%) Azure AI
8 71 (6.06%) Figma
9 68 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (5.55%) Power Automate
11 62 (5.29%) PowerApps
12 45 (3.84%) GCP
13 39 (3.33%) SaaS
13 39 (3.33%) Serverless
14 35 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (2.90%) Google Analytics
16 31 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (2.22%) OneDrive
18 22 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 21 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 108 (9.22%) Internet
2 9 (0.77%) Intranet
3 8 (0.68%) 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%) Network Security
6 5 (0.43%) SMS
6 5 (0.43%) VoIP
7 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.17%) Firewall
9 1 (0.085%) AMQP
9 1 (0.085%) RTP
9 1 (0.085%) RTSP
9 1 (0.085%) SS7
9 1 (0.085%) SSH
9 1 (0.085%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (15.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 158 (13.48%) SQL Server
3 147 (12.54%) MongoDB
4 134 (11.43%) MySQL
5 87 (7.42%) Relational Database
6 64 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (5.46%) Power BI
7 32 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.45%) Metadata
10 16 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.94%) MariaDB
11 11 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
12 9 (0.77%) GIS
12 9 (0.77%) OLTP
13 8 (0.68%) Tableau
14 7 (0.60%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 253 (21.59%) Git
2 60 (5.12%) JIRA
3 49 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.79%) Selenium
5 14 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 14 (1.19%) JUnit
6 12 (1.02%) GitLab
6 12 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.85%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.85%) Postman
9 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.77%) Maven
9 9 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (0.68%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.68%) Mockito
10 8 (0.68%) PHPUnit
10 8 (0.68%) Storybook
11 7 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 343 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 144 (12.29%) Marketing
3 128 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 85 (7.25%) Finance
7 80 (6.83%) Law
8 72 (6.14%) Multimedia
9 67 (5.72%) Advertising
10 43 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.07%) Legal
11 36 (3.07%) Retail
12 27 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.79%) Games
14 15 (1.28%) Banking
15 13 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.94%) Health Technology
17 10 (0.85%) Aviation
18 9 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 722 (61.60%) Developer
2 215 (18.34%) .NET Developer
3 200 (17.06%) Senior
4 154 (13.14%) Senior Developer
5 125 (10.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 78 (6.66%) Web Developer
7 76 (6.48%) Software Developer
8 65 (5.55%) Designer
8 65 (5.55%) Trainee
9 64 (5.46%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.20%) PHP Developer
11 50 (4.27%) Administrator
11 50 (4.27%) Analyst
11 50 (4.27%) Lead
12 48 (4.10%) C# Developer
13 47 (4.01%) Web Administrator
14 43 (3.67%) Trainee Administrator
15 41 (3.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 37 (3.16%) .NET Software Developer
17 33 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,026 (87.54%) CSS
2 392 (33.45%) .NET
3 233 (19.88%) .NET Core
4 226 (19.28%) React
5 222 (18.94%) ASP.NET
6 179 (15.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 142 (12.12%) HTML5
8 135 (11.52%) Node.js
9 119 (10.15%) jQuery
10 115 (9.81%) Entity Framework
11 113 (9.64%) CSS3
12 109 (9.30%) Vue
13 96 (8.19%) RESTful
14 94 (8.02%) REST
15 90 (7.68%) AngularJS
15 90 (7.68%) JSON
16 74 (6.31%) ML.NET
17 68 (5.80%) .NET Framework
18 60 (5.12%) Laravel
19 59 (5.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.01%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 32 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.56%) Social Media
8 25 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.96%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 20 (1.71%) Digital TV
11 20 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 12 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
16 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.48%) Windows
2 71 (6.06%) Linux
3 31 (2.65%) 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 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (36.69%) Agile
2 403 (34.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 356 (30.38%) CI/CD
4 276 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
5 246 (20.99%) DevOps
6 236 (20.14%) AI
7 213 (18.17%) Web Development
8 208 (17.75%) User Experience
9 199 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (11.60%) Mentoring
11 128 (10.92%) Software Engineering
12 119 (10.15%) Machine Learning
13 106 (9.04%) Scrum
14 105 (8.96%) Front End Development
15 102 (8.70%) Analytics
16 97 (8.28%) Computer Science
16 97 (8.28%) Test Automation
17 95 (8.11%) Microservices
18 93 (7.94%) Clean Code
19 84 (7.17%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 725 (61.86%) JavaScript
2 470 (40.10%) SQL
3 386 (32.94%) C#
4 212 (18.09%) Python
5 179 (15.27%) TypeScript
6 172 (14.68%) PHP
7 83 (7.08%) Java
8 49 (4.18%) R
9 42 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 34 (2.90%) C++
11 15 (1.28%) Go
11 15 (1.28%) VBA
12 14 (1.19%) C
12 14 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.11%) VB.NET
14 12 (1.02%) Ruby
15 10 (0.85%) Bicep
16 9 (0.77%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 191 (16.30%) Degree
2 95 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 80 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 62 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (5.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 60 (5.12%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.88%) 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%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.085%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.085%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.085%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.085%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (15.27%) Accessibility
2 77 (6.57%) WCAG
3 72 (6.14%) QA
4 43 (3.67%) GDPR
5 13 (1.11%) SLA
6 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.94%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.68%) PERC
9 7 (0.60%) GRC
9 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.60%) NCSC
10 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.34%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) WAI
11 3 (0.26%) WAI-ARIA
12 2 (0.17%) NIST
13 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 177 (15.10%) Docker
2 26 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (11.01%) 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 (0.085%) Ansible
8 1 (0.085%) Grafana
8 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.085%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 383 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.00%) Adobe
3 48 (4.10%) Google
4 42 (3.58%) Facebook
5 38 (3.24%) Oracle
6 28 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.96%) YouTube
8 17 (1.45%) Splunk
9 16 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.85%) Sage
10 10 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.68%) 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