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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -77 +3 -22
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,136 2,602 2,744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 4.87% 4.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.90% 22.55% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,320 2,297
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 7,145 11,538 13,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.60% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,294 6,787 11,307
10th Percentile £35,898 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,625 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -60 1,034 £47,500 -14.41% 757
UK excluding London -67 787 £40,000 -23.81% 711
Work from Home -79 339 £52,500 -8.70% 316
London -74 281 £62,500 -7.41% 140
North of England -33 256 £30,500 -35.79% 156
South East -60 196 £50,000 -16.67% 206
North West -34 118 £31,000 -38.00% 75
Midlands -63 114 £40,000 -13.51% 100
Yorkshire -25 100 £30,500 -28.24% 58
East of England -33 98 £55,000 +12.82% 104
South West -70 70 £38,500 -33.04% 92
West Midlands -48 63 £30,500 -40.49% 39
East Midlands -50 52 £51,000 +36.00% 61
Scotland -62 40 £30,500 -42.18% 25
North East -10 38 £30,500 -39.00% 24
Wales -45 11 £42,000 +29.23% 33
Northern Ireland -29 3 £31,500 -30.00% 10
Channel Islands +3 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 (6.25%) WordPress
2 59 (5.19%) CMS
3 27 (2.38%) Confluence
4 22 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.88%) nginx
7 9 (0.79%) Drupal
8 7 (0.62%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) govService
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (2.64%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.32%) Photoshop
4 14 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
4 14 (1.23%) Sketch
5 10 (0.88%) InVision
5 10 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.70%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) InDesign
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.18%) Elementor
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.58%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.088%) Magento
6 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 473 (41.64%) Azure
2 422 (37.15%) AWS
3 372 (32.75%) GitHub
4 82 (7.22%) Serverless
5 68 (5.99%) Figma
6 47 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (4.14%) Power Platform
7 45 (3.96%) GCP
8 34 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 32 (2.82%) Google Analytics
10 31 (2.73%) SaaS
11 25 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (1.94%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.94%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.76%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.41%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 280 (24.65%) Internet
2 9 (0.79%) FTP
3 8 (0.70%) HTTP
4 6 (0.53%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.088%) DNS
7 1 (0.088%) Firewall
7 1 (0.088%) SSH
7 1 (0.088%) SSL
7 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.088%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.69%) MySQL
3 57 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 55 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.38%) Power BI
8 22 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.76%) OLTP
10 14 (1.23%) DB2
11 12 (1.06%) Looker
11 12 (1.06%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.53%) GIS
13 6 (0.53%) Metadata
14 5 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 421 (37.06%) Git
2 91 (8.01%) JIRA
3 58 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 55 (4.84%) Selenium
5 40 (3.52%) Postman
6 37 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 35 (3.08%) SoapUI
8 32 (2.82%) WebDriver
9 30 (2.64%) webpack
10 23 (2.02%) Axure RP
11 21 (1.85%) JUnit
12 18 (1.58%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.41%) JMeter
13 16 (1.41%) Mockito
13 16 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 16 (1.41%) Visual Studio
14 14 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 14 (1.23%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.06%) Balsamiq
16 11 (0.97%) Babel
General
1 290 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 286 (25.18%) Multimedia
3 123 (10.83%) Finance
4 115 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (7.92%) Law
6 85 (7.48%) Marketing
7 58 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.90%) Banking
9 33 (2.90%) Legal
10 32 (2.82%) Retail
11 18 (1.58%) Advertising
11 18 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.32%) German Language
13 12 (1.06%) Publishing
14 10 (0.88%) Games
15 9 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.62%) Electronics
17 5 (0.44%) Local Government
17 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 604 (53.17%) Developer
2 278 (24.47%) Trainee
3 177 (15.58%) Software Developer
4 174 (15.32%) Senior
5 134 (11.80%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (11.00%) Trainee Software Developer
7 118 (10.39%) Senior Developer
8 102 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 74 (6.51%) Analyst
10 64 (5.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 61 (5.37%) .NET Developer
12 57 (5.02%) Lead
13 52 (4.58%) Designer
14 40 (3.52%) Software Engineer
15 39 (3.43%) React Developer
16 37 (3.26%) Java Developer
17 32 (2.82%) Administrator
18 31 (2.73%) Web Administrator
19 29 (2.55%) C# Developer
19 29 (2.55%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (80.55%) CSS
2 297 (26.14%) React
3 208 (18.31%) .NET
4 122 (10.74%) Node.js
5 118 (10.39%) AngularJS
6 114 (10.04%) HTML5
7 101 (8.89%) RESTful
8 100 (8.80%) XML
9 95 (8.36%) JSON
10 84 (7.39%) CSS3
11 79 (6.95%) Vue
12 76 (6.69%) REST
13 70 (6.16%) SOAP
14 65 (5.72%) ASP.NET
15 64 (5.63%) .NET Core
16 58 (5.11%) jQuery
17 45 (3.96%) Web Services
18 42 (3.70%) .NET Framework
19 41 (3.61%) Spring
20 36 (3.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.67%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (3.26%) Mobile App
3 37 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.58%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.06%) Social Media
10 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.79%) Motion Graphics
12 8 (0.70%) Cybercrime
12 8 (0.70%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.70%) W3C
13 7 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.90%) Unix
2 29 (2.55%) Windows
3 23 (2.02%) Linux
4 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.88%) Android
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (36.00%) Agile
2 392 (34.51%) Mentoring
3 269 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
4 247 (21.74%) User Experience
5 241 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 173 (15.23%) CI/CD
8 161 (14.17%) Front End Development
9 132 (11.62%) DevOps
10 108 (9.51%) Scrum
11 105 (9.24%) Web Development
12 104 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (8.27%) Software Engineering
14 93 (8.19%) AI
15 89 (7.83%) UX Design
16 87 (7.66%) Microservices
17 82 (7.22%) Analytics
18 80 (7.04%) Clean Code
18 80 (7.04%) MVC
19 68 (5.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 878 (77.29%) JavaScript
2 427 (37.59%) Python
3 274 (24.12%) SQL
4 202 (17.78%) C#
5 169 (14.88%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.68%) R
7 140 (12.32%) Java
8 66 (5.81%) PHP
9 32 (2.82%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.97%) Ruby
13 6 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.35%) ActionScript 3.0
14 4 (0.35%) Bash
14 4 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.35%) XAML
15 3 (0.26%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 283 (24.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.56%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.47%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 205 (18.05%) Degree
5 86 (7.57%) Security Cleared
6 58 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.87%) SC Cleared
8 36 (3.17%) ISTQB
9 32 (2.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.35%) ISEB
15 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.26%) PhD
17 2 (0.18%) CCA
17 2 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 54 (4.75%) WCAG
3 48 (4.23%) QA
4 29 (2.55%) GDPR
5 6 (0.53%) PERC
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.44%) SLA
7 3 (0.26%) Section 508
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.088%) HL7
9 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.088%) NCSC
9 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (8.63%) Docker
2 14 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.55%) Terraform
3 13 (1.14%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) Argo
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) cPanel
6 3 (0.26%) Grafana
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.088%) Nagios
8 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 406 (35.74%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.72%) Adobe
3 54 (4.75%) Google
4 43 (3.79%) Oracle
5 25 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.23%) Splunk
9 10 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.88%) Hotjar
10 9 (0.79%) SAP
11 8 (0.70%) Cisco
11 8 (0.70%) Screaming Frog
12 6 (0.53%) Ahrefs
12 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.53%) YouTube
13 5 (0.44%) Facebook
13 5 (0.44%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.44%) Meraki
14 4 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud