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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -75 0 -20
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,128 2,562 2,903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 4.84% 4.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.77% 22.45% 19.78%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,287 2,431
10th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,875 £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 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
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 7,152 11,411 14,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 21.57% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,282 6,681 11,974
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,670 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.29% +0.30% -

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 20 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 20 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 -63 1,028 £47,500 -13.64% 782
UK excluding London -69 787 £40,000 -23.81% 754
Work from Home -84 337 £52,500 -8.70% 316
London -78 275 £62,500 -7.41% 149
North of England -33 256 £30,500 -32.79% 168
South East -63 199 £50,000 -16.67% 224
North West -32 118 £30,500 -37.44% 81
Midlands -61 113 £40,000 -11.11% 101
Yorkshire -28 100 £30,500 -28.24% 65
East of England -33 96 £55,000 +15.79% 109
South West -74 71 £39,250 -31.74% 88
West Midlands -48 62 £30,500 -39.00% 39
East Midlands -50 52 £51,000 +36.00% 62
Scotland -67 41 £30,500 -42.18% 33
North East -6 38 £30,500 -40.49% 24
Wales -46 10 £38,500 +18.46% 37
Northern Ireland -24 2 £31,500 -37.00% 10
Channel Islands +1 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 72 (6.38%) WordPress
2 60 (5.32%) CMS
3 26 (2.30%) Confluence
4 23 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.15%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.89%) nginx
7 9 (0.80%) Drupal
8 7 (0.62%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) govService
10 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.27%) Liferay
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (2.66%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.33%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.15%) Sketch
5 10 (0.89%) InVision
5 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.35%) InDesign
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.18%) Elementor
10 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.18%) Windchill
11 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.51%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.089%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.089%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.089%) Magento
6 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 475 (42.11%) Azure
2 423 (37.50%) AWS
3 374 (33.16%) GitHub
4 83 (7.36%) Serverless
5 67 (5.94%) Figma
6 50 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 47 (4.17%) GCP
9 34 (3.01%) Power Automate
10 31 (2.75%) SaaS
11 30 (2.66%) Google Analytics
12 25 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.13%) Entra ID
14 23 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (1.95%) PowerApps
16 20 (1.77%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.60%) Azure Functions
17 18 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 18 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 281 (24.91%) Internet
2 9 (0.80%) FTP
3 8 (0.71%) HTTP
4 6 (0.53%) Intranet
5 3 (0.27%) AMQP
6 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.089%) DNS
7 1 (0.089%) Firewall
7 1 (0.089%) SSH
7 1 (0.089%) SSL
7 1 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.089%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 74 (6.56%) MySQL
3 54 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (4.79%) Relational Database
4 37 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 28 (2.48%) Power BI
7 23 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.86%) OLTP
9 14 (1.24%) DB2
10 12 (1.06%) Looker
10 12 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.53%) GIS
13 5 (0.44%) Metadata
13 5 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.35%) Redis
14 4 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 419 (37.15%) Git
2 86 (7.62%) JIRA
3 57 (5.05%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.70%) Selenium
5 38 (3.37%) Postman
6 35 (3.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 33 (2.93%) SoapUI
8 30 (2.66%) WebDriver
9 29 (2.57%) webpack
10 23 (2.04%) Axure RP
11 21 (1.86%) JUnit
12 18 (1.60%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.42%) JMeter
13 16 (1.42%) Mockito
13 16 (1.42%) Visual Studio
14 15 (1.33%) TeamCity
15 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
16 13 (1.15%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.06%) Balsamiq
18 11 (0.98%) Babel
General
1 286 (25.35%) Multimedia
2 285 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 114 (10.11%) Finance
4 113 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (7.89%) Law
6 83 (7.36%) Marketing
7 58 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 37 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.75%) Legal
9 31 (2.75%) Retail
10 30 (2.66%) Banking
11 18 (1.60%) Advertising
11 18 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.33%) German Language
13 10 (0.89%) Games
13 10 (0.89%) Publishing
14 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.62%) Electronics
16 5 (0.44%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 603 (53.46%) Developer
2 278 (24.65%) Trainee
3 177 (15.69%) Software Developer
4 170 (15.07%) Senior
5 134 (11.88%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (11.08%) Trainee Software Developer
7 119 (10.55%) Senior Developer
8 102 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 72 (6.38%) Analyst
10 64 (5.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 62 (5.50%) .NET Developer
12 56 (4.96%) Lead
13 51 (4.52%) Designer
14 40 (3.55%) Software Engineer
15 39 (3.46%) React Developer
16 36 (3.19%) Java Developer
17 32 (2.84%) Administrator
18 31 (2.75%) Web Administrator
19 30 (2.66%) Web Developer
20 29 (2.57%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 908 (80.50%) CSS
2 292 (25.89%) React
3 208 (18.44%) .NET
4 121 (10.73%) Node.js
5 116 (10.28%) HTML5
6 114 (10.11%) AngularJS
7 103 (9.13%) RESTful
8 99 (8.78%) XML
9 94 (8.33%) JSON
10 87 (7.71%) CSS3
11 79 (7.00%) Vue
12 75 (6.65%) REST
13 68 (6.03%) SOAP
14 65 (5.76%) ASP.NET
15 63 (5.59%) .NET Core
16 61 (5.41%) jQuery
17 44 (3.90%) Web Services
18 42 (3.72%) .NET Framework
19 40 (3.55%) Spring
20 36 (3.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.79%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 37 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.60%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.06%) Social Media
10 10 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.80%) Motion Graphics
12 8 (0.71%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.71%) Cybercrime
12 8 (0.71%) Digital Media
12 8 (0.71%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.93%) Unix
2 29 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (1.77%) Linux
4 12 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.98%) Android
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (35.37%) Agile
2 390 (34.57%) Mentoring
3 270 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
4 241 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
4 241 (21.37%) User Experience
5 214 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 175 (15.51%) CI/CD
7 161 (14.27%) Front End Development
8 130 (11.52%) DevOps
9 107 (9.49%) Web Development
10 103 (9.13%) Scrum
11 102 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (8.42%) Software Engineering
13 94 (8.33%) AI
14 88 (7.80%) UX Design
15 86 (7.62%) Microservices
16 82 (7.27%) Analytics
17 81 (7.18%) Clean Code
17 81 (7.18%) MVC
18 71 (6.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 873 (77.39%) JavaScript
2 429 (38.03%) Python
3 275 (24.38%) SQL
4 200 (17.73%) C#
5 164 (14.54%) TypeScript
6 144 (12.77%) R
7 136 (12.06%) Java
8 67 (5.94%) PHP
9 33 (2.93%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.98%) 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%) VB
14 4 (0.35%) XAML
15 3 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 283 (25.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 279 (24.73%) Azure Certification
3 278 (24.65%) AWS Certification
3 278 (24.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 206 (18.26%) Degree
5 86 (7.62%) Security Cleared
6 59 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.90%) SC Cleared
8 34 (3.01%) ISTQB
9 30 (2.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 16 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.35%) ISEB
14 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
16 2 (0.18%) CCA
16 2 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (13.65%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.70%) WCAG
3 47 (4.17%) QA
4 30 (2.66%) 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
7 4 (0.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) Section 508
9 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.089%) HL7
9 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.089%) NCSC
9 1 (0.089%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (8.69%) Docker
2 15 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.57%) Terraform
3 13 (1.15%) Kibana
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) Argo
5 4 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) cPanel
6 3 (0.27%) Plesk
6 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.089%) Nagios
Vendors
1 409 (36.26%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.67%) Adobe
3 53 (4.70%) Google
4 44 (3.90%) Oracle
5 23 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.24%) Splunk
9 10 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.89%) Hotjar
10 9 (0.80%) SAP
11 8 (0.71%) Screaming Frog
12 7 (0.62%) Cisco
13 6 (0.53%) Ahrefs
13 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.53%) YouTube
14 5 (0.44%) Facebook
14 5 (0.44%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.35%) Meraki
15 4 (0.35%) OpenAI