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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -99 -23 -20
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,087 1,556 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 3.67% 4.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.44% 18.59% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 898 1,259 3,289
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 8,739 8,368 20,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.76% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,393 6,405 15,671
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £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 £79,600
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 29 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 29 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 -77 1,005 £47,500 -20.83% 408
UK excluding London -73 777 £45,000 -18.18% 347
Work from Home -88 347 £55,000 -15.38% 182
London -93 245 £60,000 -14.29% 118
North of England -31 239 £31,500 -30.00% 75
South East -54 199 £50,000 -20.00% 116
Midlands -43 131 £45,000 - 44
North West -31 124 £36,250 -22.04% 38
East of England -54 93 £50,000 -24.48% 58
Yorkshire -35 86 £30,500 -18.67% 24
South West -62 82 £45,000 -25.00% 38
West Midlands -36 76 £42,039 -15.92% 20
East Midlands -53 55 £55,000 +37.50% 23
North East -23 29 £30,500 -40.49% 13
Scotland -79 22 £30,500 -44.55% 13
Wales -49 9 £41,740 -7.25% 7
Northern Ireland -39 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 98 (9.02%) WordPress
2 47 (4.32%) CMS
3 44 (4.05%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.29%) Confluence
5 10 (0.92%) IIS
5 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.55%) Drupal
8 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.28%) govService
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.092%) Camunda
Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.01%) Sketch
5 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
6 9 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.74%) InVision
7 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.28%) InDesign
10 2 (0.18%) Elementor
11 1 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.092%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.092%) Trello
11 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.38%) Shopify
2 13 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.092%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 428 (39.37%) Azure
2 385 (35.42%) AWS
3 306 (28.15%) GitHub
4 73 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (6.72%) Figma
5 62 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.52%) GCP
7 52 (4.78%) Serverless
8 40 (3.68%) SaaS
9 37 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.31%) Google Analytics
10 36 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 36 (3.31%) PowerApps
11 31 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 25 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (2.21%) Amazon S3
15 22 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (1.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 244 (22.45%) Internet
2 11 (1.01%) HTTP
3 7 (0.64%) Intranet
3 7 (0.64%) Network Security
4 4 (0.37%) VoIP
5 3 (0.28%) FTP
6 2 (0.18%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.18%) SMS
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.092%) Broadband
7 1 (0.092%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.092%) NAS
7 1 (0.092%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.00%) MySQL
3 54 (4.97%) Power BI
4 39 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.48%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.93%) OLTP
10 13 (1.20%) DB2
11 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.74%) Tableau
14 7 (0.64%) FileMaker
14 7 (0.64%) Looker
14 7 (0.64%) Metadata
15 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 359 (33.03%) Git
2 71 (6.53%) JIRA
3 49 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.05%) Selenium
5 27 (2.48%) Postman
6 25 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.21%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.75%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.66%) Axure RP
9 18 (1.66%) webpack
10 14 (1.29%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.20%) Balsamiq
12 12 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.01%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.01%) Vite
14 10 (0.92%) JUnit
15 9 (0.83%) Babel
15 9 (0.83%) GitLab
16 8 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 269 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.16%) Multimedia
3 137 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.83%) Marketing
5 93 (8.56%) Finance
6 57 (5.24%) Law
7 45 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (3.68%) Public Sector
9 31 (2.85%) Legal
10 24 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.21%) Retail
11 17 (1.56%) Banking
12 15 (1.38%) Advertising
13 13 (1.20%) German Language
14 8 (0.74%) Electronics
14 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.64%) Games
16 6 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.55%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 574 (52.81%) Developer
2 234 (21.53%) Trainee
3 163 (15.00%) Senior
4 135 (12.42%) Software Developer
5 127 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 117 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 97 (8.92%) Trainee Developer
8 84 (7.73%) Trainee Software Developer
9 64 (5.89%) Administrator
9 64 (5.89%) Designer
10 63 (5.80%) .NET Developer
11 58 (5.34%) Web Administrator
12 56 (5.15%) Lead
12 56 (5.15%) Trainee Administrator
13 51 (4.69%) Software Engineer
14 49 (4.51%) Web Developer
15 43 (3.96%) Analyst
15 43 (3.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 39 (3.59%) React Developer
17 34 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (84.45%) CSS
2 284 (26.13%) React
3 219 (20.15%) .NET
4 112 (10.30%) Node.js
5 103 (9.48%) AngularJS
6 102 (9.38%) HTML5
7 96 (8.83%) RESTful
8 94 (8.65%) Vue
9 89 (8.19%) JSON
10 81 (7.45%) jQuery
11 79 (7.27%) CSS3
12 67 (6.16%) .NET Core
13 60 (5.52%) XML
14 58 (5.34%) SOAP
15 55 (5.06%) ASP.NET
16 52 (4.78%) REST
17 41 (3.77%) Laravel
18 38 (3.50%) .NET Framework
19 35 (3.22%) Sass
19 35 (3.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
3 40 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.84%) Social Media
10 17 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.64%) Cybercrime
16 7 (0.64%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.76%) Windows
2 27 (2.48%) Linux
3 26 (2.39%) Unix
4 14 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.64%) Android
6 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (27.78%) Agile
2 301 (27.69%) Mentoring
3 237 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 219 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (18.22%) User Experience
6 184 (16.93%) Cybersecurity
7 173 (15.92%) CI/CD
8 148 (13.62%) Web Development
9 137 (12.60%) DevOps
10 136 (12.51%) AI
11 121 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (10.76%) Front End Development
13 113 (10.40%) Scrum
14 110 (10.12%) Software Engineering
15 104 (9.57%) Computer Science
16 96 (8.83%) Analytics
17 81 (7.45%) Clean Code
17 81 (7.45%) UX Design
18 78 (7.18%) Microservices
19 70 (6.44%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 791 (72.77%) JavaScript
2 372 (34.22%) Python
3 335 (30.82%) SQL
4 195 (17.94%) C#
5 171 (15.73%) TypeScript
6 133 (12.24%) R
7 122 (11.22%) PHP
8 108 (9.94%) Java
9 30 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.58%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.29%) C++
12 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.01%) VBA
14 8 (0.74%) C
15 7 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.55%) Bash
17 5 (0.46%) Bicep
17 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.46%) VBScript
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 231 (21.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 229 (21.07%) AWS Certification
2 229 (21.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 229 (21.07%) Azure Certification
3 215 (19.78%) Degree
4 75 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (5.24%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.02%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.18%) ISEB
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (11.13%) Accessibility
2 44 (4.05%) QA
2 44 (4.05%) WCAG
3 32 (2.94%) GDPR
4 11 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.01%) SLA
5 9 (0.83%) PERC
6 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.64%) GRC
8 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
11 1 (0.092%) HL7
11 1 (0.092%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (7.08%) Docker
2 16 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.75%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) cPanel
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.18%) Nagios
5 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 362 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.18%) Adobe
3 54 (4.97%) Google
4 36 (3.31%) Oracle
5 25 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.64%) Hotjar
8 7 (0.64%) iManage
8 7 (0.64%) Splunk
9 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (0.55%) SAP
10 5 (0.46%) Apple
10 5 (0.46%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.46%) Pinterest
10 5 (0.46%) Sage
10 5 (0.46%) TikTok
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic