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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -57 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,365 3,332 3,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.76% 4.27% 5.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.23% 21.69% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 809 1,751 2,630
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTML 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -67 1,195 £55,000 - 1,131
UK excluding London -73 938 £50,000 - 971
Work from Home -27 728 £55,000 - 452
London -27 356 £65,000 -7.14% 387
North of England -71 263 £46,250 -7.50% 223
South East -79 212 £52,500 -2.33% 301
North West -54 202 £52,500 +5.00% 120
Midlands -37 185 £52,500 +10.53% 170
East of England -58 114 £55,000 - 102
East Midlands -19 100 £55,000 +22.22% 69
West Midlands -34 86 £49,000 -2.00% 100
Scotland -27 79 £52,500 -4.55% 53
South West -61 61 £38,750 -26.19% 81
Yorkshire -62 47 £40,000 -27.27% 68
Wales -18 24 £67,500 +107.69% 41
North East -12 14 £38,100 -14.83% 38
Northern Ireland -12 3 £31,500 -21.25% 12

HTML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 185 (13.55%) Confluence
2 90 (6.59%) CMS
3 58 (4.25%) WordPress
4 28 (2.05%) IIS
4 28 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.47%) Headless CMS
6 17 (1.25%) Umbraco
7 15 (1.10%) Drupal
8 9 (0.66%) Apache
9 6 (0.44%) nginx
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.22%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 2 (0.15%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.15%) Appian
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.15%) Strapi
13 1 (0.073%) Camunda
Applications
1 35 (2.56%) Adobe XD
2 29 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 29 (2.12%) Photoshop
3 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.61%) Sketch
5 19 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.66%) InVision
7 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.44%) InDesign
7 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.22%) Elementor
11 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.15%) Trello
12 1 (0.073%) CapCut
12 1 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 37 (2.71%) Shopify
2 19 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.88%) Magento
3 12 (0.88%) Sprinklr
4 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.29%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (0.29%) Sage 1000
6 3 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.15%) MFGPRO
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 520 (38.10%) Azure
2 475 (34.80%) AWS
3 206 (15.09%) GCP
4 91 (6.67%) Serverless
5 88 (6.45%) GitHub
6 75 (5.49%) Figma
7 61 (4.47%) Google Analytics
8 58 (4.25%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.22%) Power Automate
10 43 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (3.08%) SaaS
12 41 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 40 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (2.64%) PowerApps
15 32 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 29 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.98%) npm
19 25 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.15%) Internet
2 15 (1.10%) FTP
3 13 (0.95%) HTTP
4 5 (0.37%) Intranet
5 4 (0.29%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) Broadband
6 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.073%) 2G
7 1 (0.073%) DHCP
7 1 (0.073%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.073%) Firewall
7 1 (0.073%) Network Security
7 1 (0.073%) SSH
7 1 (0.073%) SSL
7 1 (0.073%) VPN
7 1 (0.073%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.073%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.073%) WPA
7 1 (0.073%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (28.21%) SQL Server
2 121 (8.86%) MySQL
3 66 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 55 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 53 (3.88%) NoSQL
6 35 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (2.34%) Power BI
8 27 (1.98%) RDBMS
9 26 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (1.68%) OLTP
11 22 (1.61%) Redis
12 18 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.10%) GIS
14 11 (0.81%) Metadata
15 9 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.66%) Looker
15 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 334 (24.47%) JIRA
2 287 (21.03%) Git
3 281 (20.59%) Selenium
4 263 (19.27%) Bitbucket
5 259 (18.97%) Maven
6 258 (18.90%) GitLab
6 258 (18.90%) SonarQube
7 249 (18.24%) Cucumber
7 249 (18.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 55 (4.03%) Jenkins
9 46 (3.37%) webpack
10 40 (2.93%) JUnit
11 37 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 34 (2.49%) Cypress.io
12 34 (2.49%) JMeter
13 32 (2.34%) Mockito
14 30 (2.20%) Visual Studio
15 24 (1.76%) Vite
16 23 (1.68%) Postman
17 19 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 454 (33.26%) Finance
2 358 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 307 (22.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 283 (20.73%) Banking
5 151 (11.06%) Retail
6 138 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
7 132 (9.67%) Marketing
8 131 (9.60%) Law
9 101 (7.40%) Investment Banking
10 90 (6.59%) Corporate Banking
11 67 (4.91%) Public Sector
12 46 (3.37%) Multimedia
13 35 (2.56%) Legal
14 32 (2.34%) Games
15 29 (2.12%) Advertising
16 19 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.10%) Publishing
18 11 (0.81%) Back Office
18 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 594 (43.52%) Developer
2 323 (23.66%) Software Engineer
3 212 (15.53%) Senior
4 153 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 149 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 82 (6.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 77 (5.64%) .NET Developer
8 70 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 66 (4.84%) Analyst
10 65 (4.76%) Lead
11 55 (4.03%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (3.74%) Java Developer
13 47 (3.44%) Designer
14 46 (3.37%) C# Developer
15 45 (3.30%) Consultant
16 42 (3.08%) PHP Developer
17 41 (3.00%) Web Developer
18 39 (2.86%) Trainee
19 38 (2.78%) JavaScript Developer
20 37 (2.71%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,060 (77.66%) CSS
2 566 (41.47%) React
3 305 (22.34%) Spring
4 299 (21.90%) Spring Boot
5 295 (21.61%) HTML5
6 263 (19.27%) Kafka
6 263 (19.27%) Redux
7 252 (18.46%) JPA
8 242 (17.73%) REST
9 237 (17.36%) RESTful
10 227 (16.63%) .NET
11 226 (16.56%) CSS3
12 199 (14.58%) Hibernate
13 155 (11.36%) JSON
14 152 (11.14%) AngularJS
15 151 (11.06%) Jest
16 149 (10.92%) Sass
17 127 (9.30%) XML
18 121 (8.86%) ASP.NET
19 116 (8.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 281 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 260 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.03%) Motion Graphics
10 14 (1.03%) Social Media
11 12 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.81%) Driving Licence
12 11 (0.81%) Legacy Code
12 11 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.73%) Animation
14 9 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (0.66%) Video Editing
14 9 (0.66%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.86%) Linux
2 38 (2.78%) Windows
3 11 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.73%) Unix
5 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.29%) Android
6 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.15%) Solaris
9 1 (0.073%) CentOS
9 1 (0.073%) Debian
9 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (51.58%) Agile
2 507 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 426 (31.21%) Front End Development
4 420 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 416 (30.48%) DevOps
6 399 (29.23%) Microservices
7 388 (28.42%) Software Engineering
8 353 (25.86%) Test Automation
9 349 (25.57%) User Experience
10 329 (24.10%) SDLC
11 300 (21.98%) Containerisation
12 297 (21.76%) Performance Optimisation
13 292 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
14 266 (19.49%) Mentoring
15 256 (18.75%) Clean Code
16 247 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 244 (17.88%) TDD
18 154 (11.28%) Responsive Web Design
19 133 (9.74%) Computer Science
20 130 (9.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (83.08%) JavaScript
2 629 (46.08%) SQL
3 442 (32.38%) Java
4 361 (26.45%) TypeScript
5 305 (22.34%) C#
6 208 (15.24%) Python
7 159 (11.65%) PHP
8 72 (5.27%) R
9 59 (4.32%) C
10 56 (4.10%) C++
11 55 (4.03%) Ruby
12 50 (3.66%) Dart
12 50 (3.66%) MATLAB
13 49 (3.59%) Rust
14 32 (2.34%) Shell Script
14 32 (2.34%) T-SQL
15 28 (2.05%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.95%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.73%) Bicep
18 9 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 224 (16.41%) Degree
2 121 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 53 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 48 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 48 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 17 (1.25%) ISTQB
9 13 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 11 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.37%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (23.81%) QA
2 238 (17.44%) Accessibility
3 56 (4.10%) GDPR
4 48 (3.52%) WCAG
5 9 (0.66%) SLA
6 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.22%) Section 508
8 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.15%) HL7
9 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.073%) CDISC
10 1 (0.073%) DICOM
10 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.073%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.073%) MiFID
10 1 (0.073%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 369 (27.03%) Docker
2 9 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.073%) Firmware
3 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 331 (24.25%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.98%) Kibana
3 23 (1.68%) Terraform
4 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.22%) Grafana
6 3 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.073%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.073%) Istio
7 1 (0.073%) Matomo
7 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 247 (18.10%) Solace
2 209 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 96 (7.03%) Adobe
4 86 (6.30%) Google
5 57 (4.18%) Oracle
6 43 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.42%) Splunk
8 32 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.39%) Cisco
11 12 (0.88%) Rollbar
12 11 (0.81%) Ahrefs
12 11 (0.81%) Meraki
13 9 (0.66%) Apple
14 8 (0.59%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.51%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.51%) Facebook
15 7 (0.51%) WooCommerce
15 7 (0.51%) YouTube
16 6 (0.44%) Guidewire