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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 67 51
Rank change year-on-year -95 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,150 1,641 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 3.91% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.19% 19.08% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1,279 3,317
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £62,813 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 8,719 8,599 20,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 20.50% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,379 6,520 15,649
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -79 1,061 £47,500 -20.83% 464
UK excluding London -68 829 £45,000 -18.18% 375
Work from Home -90 355 £52,500 -19.23% 213
North of England -21 267 £31,000 -31.11% 84
London -97 254 £60,000 -14.29% 144
South East -57 201 £50,000 -20.00% 111
Midlands -50 134 £45,000 - 56
North West -21 133 £32,500 -29.35% 40
Yorkshire -25 101 £30,500 -18.67% 30
East of England -61 101 £47,500 -28.26% 58
South West -60 87 £44,000 -26.67% 46
West Midlands -32 79 £36,250 -27.50% 35
East Midlands -51 55 £55,000 +37.50% 20
North East -23 33 £30,500 -40.49% 14
Scotland -71 26 £30,500 -44.55% 14
Wales -39 11 £38,500 -6.67% 11
Northern Ireland -41 3 £60,000 - 8
Channel Islands - 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
1 116 (10.09%) WordPress
2 49 (4.26%) CMS
3 40 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.13%) Confluence
5 10 (0.87%) nginx
6 9 (0.78%) IIS
6 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
8 5 (0.43%) Drupal
8 5 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) govService
9 3 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.26%) Liferay
9 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.087%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.087%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.087%) Site Server
Applications
1 25 (2.17%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.30%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (0.96%) Sketch
5 10 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.70%) InVision
6 8 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) InDesign
9 3 (0.26%) Elementor
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.17%) Windchill
11 1 (0.087%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.39%) Shopify
2 13 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Magento
4 3 (0.26%) Line 50
5 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.087%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.087%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.087%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 467 (40.61%) Azure
2 434 (37.74%) AWS
3 350 (30.43%) GitHub
4 77 (6.70%) Figma
5 73 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (5.39%) GCP
7 61 (5.30%) Serverless
8 57 (4.96%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.74%) SaaS
10 37 (3.22%) Google Analytics
11 33 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 32 (2.78%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 26 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.17%) Amazon S3
16 22 (1.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 18 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (1.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 283 (24.61%) Internet
2 11 (0.96%) HTTP
3 7 (0.61%) Intranet
4 6 (0.52%) FTP
4 6 (0.52%) Network Security
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
5 3 (0.26%) VoIP
6 2 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.17%) SMS
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.087%) Broadband
7 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.087%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.087%) NAS
7 1 (0.087%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 91 (7.91%) MySQL
3 48 (4.17%) Power BI
4 39 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 33 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.74%) OLTP
10 13 (1.13%) DB2
11 12 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.87%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.70%) Metadata
13 8 (0.70%) Tableau
14 7 (0.61%) Looker
15 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.52%) FileMaker
16 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 407 (35.39%) Git
2 71 (6.17%) JIRA
3 49 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.91%) Selenium
5 27 (2.35%) Postman
6 25 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.09%) SoapUI
8 21 (1.83%) webpack
9 19 (1.65%) Axure RP
10 18 (1.57%) WebDriver
11 14 (1.22%) Balsamiq
11 14 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.04%) Vite
13 11 (0.96%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.96%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.78%) Babel
14 9 (0.78%) GitLab
14 9 (0.78%) JUnit
15 8 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 271 (23.57%) Multimedia
2 270 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 143 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.78%) Marketing
5 95 (8.26%) Finance
6 57 (4.96%) Law
7 45 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.52%) Legal
10 28 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.17%) Retail
12 20 (1.74%) Banking
13 16 (1.39%) Advertising
13 16 (1.39%) German Language
14 8 (0.70%) Electronics
14 8 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.61%) Games
16 6 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.52%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 597 (51.91%) Developer
2 273 (23.74%) Trainee
3 165 (14.35%) Senior
4 149 (12.96%) Software Developer
5 128 (11.13%) Senior Developer
6 116 (10.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 110 (9.57%) Trainee Developer
8 96 (8.35%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (6.78%) Administrator
10 72 (6.26%) Web Administrator
11 70 (6.09%) Trainee Administrator
12 65 (5.65%) Designer
13 64 (5.57%) .NET Developer
14 59 (5.13%) Lead
15 52 (4.52%) Software Engineer
16 50 (4.35%) Web Developer
17 48 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 47 (4.09%) Analyst
19 39 (3.39%) React Developer
20 35 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (84.52%) CSS
2 293 (25.48%) React
3 218 (18.96%) .NET
4 113 (9.83%) Node.js
5 102 (8.87%) AngularJS
6 97 (8.43%) RESTful
6 97 (8.43%) Vue
7 95 (8.26%) HTML5
7 95 (8.26%) JSON
8 78 (6.78%) jQuery
9 71 (6.17%) CSS3
10 69 (6.00%) XML
11 63 (5.48%) .NET Core
12 60 (5.22%) SOAP
13 56 (4.87%) ASP.NET
14 55 (4.78%) REST
15 42 (3.65%) Laravel
16 39 (3.39%) .NET Framework
17 37 (3.22%) Web Services
18 34 (2.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.26%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 27 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.91%) Social Media
10 20 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.70%) Data Centre
16 8 (0.70%) Graphic Design
17 7 (0.61%) Cybercrime
17 7 (0.61%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.87%) Unix
2 30 (2.61%) Windows
3 29 (2.52%) Linux
4 13 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.61%) Android
6 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (29.22%) Mentoring
2 315 (27.39%) Agile
3 238 (20.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 228 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 211 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
6 197 (17.13%) User Experience
7 180 (15.65%) CI/CD
8 166 (14.43%) Web Development
9 142 (12.35%) AI
10 140 (12.17%) DevOps
11 126 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (10.96%) Front End Development
12 112 (9.74%) Scrum
12 112 (9.74%) Software Engineering
13 106 (9.22%) Computer Science
14 102 (8.87%) Analytics
15 84 (7.30%) Clean Code
16 83 (7.22%) UX Design
17 77 (6.70%) Microservices
18 70 (6.09%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 844 (73.39%) JavaScript
2 429 (37.30%) Python
3 338 (29.39%) SQL
4 192 (16.70%) C#
5 174 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 160 (13.91%) R
7 123 (10.70%) PHP
8 111 (9.65%) Java
9 27 (2.35%) PL/SQL
10 25 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.22%) C++
12 11 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) VBA
14 8 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.70%) C
15 6 (0.52%) Bash
16 5 (0.43%) Bicep
16 5 (0.43%) Ruby
16 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 271 (23.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 269 (23.39%) AWS Certification
2 269 (23.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 269 (23.39%) Azure Certification
3 225 (19.57%) Degree
4 76 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (5.04%) Security Cleared
6 45 (3.91%) SC Cleared
7 24 (2.09%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.35%) ISEB
12 4 (0.35%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.04%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.17%) QA
3 44 (3.83%) WCAG
4 32 (2.78%) GDPR
5 11 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.96%) SLA
6 10 (0.87%) PERC
7 7 (0.61%) GRC
7 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.26%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.087%) HL7
11 1 (0.087%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (7.30%) Docker
2 15 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.26%) Terraform
3 4 (0.35%) Kibana
3 4 (0.35%) Plesk
4 3 (0.26%) Argo
4 3 (0.26%) cPanel
5 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.17%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.17%) Nagios
5 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 402 (34.96%) Microsoft
2 76 (6.61%) Adobe
3 57 (4.96%) Google
4 35 (3.04%) Oracle
5 25 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.70%) Hotjar
9 7 (0.61%) Splunk
10 6 (0.52%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.52%) iManage
10 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (0.52%) SAP
11 5 (0.43%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.35%) Apple
12 4 (0.35%) New Relic
12 4 (0.35%) Pinterest
12 4 (0.35%) Sage
12 4 (0.35%) TikTok