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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 80 52
Rank change year-on-year -100 -28 -21
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,073 1,570 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 3.69% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.67% 19.02% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 895 1,013 3,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £39,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -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 9,194 8,255 20,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 19.40% 20.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,788 5,567 15,835
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 26 May 2026.

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 26 May 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 -81 997 £50,000 -20.00% 465
UK excluding London -77 785 £47,500 -17.39% 388
Work from Home -74 395 £55,000 -15.38% 192
North of England -45 232 £40,000 -11.11% 90
London -84 231 £59,773 -14.61% 139
South East -25 222 £50,000 -20.00% 101
North West -44 121 £41,500 -18.63% 50
Midlands -79 119 £45,000 - 63
East of England -51 98 £50,000 -24.49% 61
South West -58 83 £45,000 -21.74% 37
Yorkshire -26 76 £37,500 - 28
West Midlands -64 67 £45,000 -5.26% 23
East Midlands -61 52 £55,000 +37.50% 40
North East -18 35 £47,500 -11.63% 12
Scotland -78 17 £30,500 -44.55% 20
Wales -39 11 £45,000 -20.00% 12
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 8

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
1 105 (9.79%) WordPress
2 55 (5.13%) CMS
3 45 (4.19%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.49%) IIS
5 15 (1.40%) Confluence
6 11 (1.03%) Drupal
6 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.84%) Apache
8 7 (0.65%) nginx
9 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) govService
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (2.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (1.58%) Photoshop
3 16 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.93%) Sketch
7 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.84%) InDesign
7 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
8 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
9 6 (0.56%) InVision
10 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 2 (0.19%) Trello
13 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.093%) Elementor
13 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.14%) Shopify
2 14 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) Line 50
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.093%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.093%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 406 (37.84%) Azure
2 345 (32.15%) AWS
3 265 (24.70%) GitHub
4 102 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (6.43%) Figma
6 63 (5.87%) Power Platform
7 49 (4.57%) Serverless
8 48 (4.47%) GCP
8 48 (4.47%) SaaS
9 41 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 37 (3.45%) PowerApps
11 34 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 30 (2.80%) Google Analytics
13 29 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
15 24 (2.24%) Azure AI
16 22 (2.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 22 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 193 (17.99%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) HTTP
3 7 (0.65%) Network Security
4 5 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.37%) VoIP
6 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) SMS
7 2 (0.19%) SSL
8 1 (0.093%) Broadband
8 1 (0.093%) DNS
8 1 (0.093%) FTP
8 1 (0.093%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.093%) NAS
8 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 95 (8.85%) MySQL
3 74 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 55 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 54 (5.03%) Power BI
6 46 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.86%) OLTP
10 14 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.84%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.84%) Tableau
15 8 (0.75%) DB2
15 8 (0.75%) GIS
16 7 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.65%) Metadata
17 6 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 310 (28.89%) Git
2 70 (6.52%) JIRA
3 44 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.63%) Selenium
5 28 (2.61%) Postman
6 25 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.24%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.77%) WebDriver
9 15 (1.40%) webpack
10 14 (1.30%) Axure RP
10 14 (1.30%) JUnit
11 13 (1.21%) GitLab
12 12 (1.12%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.93%) Vite
15 9 (0.84%) Balsamiq
15 9 (0.84%) Mockito
16 7 (0.65%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.65%) Subversion
16 7 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 282 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.40%) Multimedia
3 128 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.79%) Marketing
5 85 (7.92%) Finance
6 49 (4.57%) Law
7 44 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (4.01%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.89%) Legal
11 30 (2.80%) Retail
12 27 (2.52%) Advertising
13 13 (1.21%) Banking
14 12 (1.12%) Games
15 8 (0.75%) Local Government
16 7 (0.65%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.65%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.56%) Electronics
17 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 605 (56.38%) Developer
2 176 (16.40%) Trainee
3 165 (15.38%) Senior
4 131 (12.21%) Senior Developer
5 125 (11.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 114 (10.62%) Software Developer
7 107 (9.97%) .NET Developer
8 69 (6.43%) Designer
9 68 (6.34%) Trainee Developer
10 64 (5.96%) Administrator
11 58 (5.41%) Web Administrator
12 56 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 56 (5.22%) Web Developer
13 55 (5.13%) Trainee Software Developer
14 53 (4.94%) Trainee Administrator
15 49 (4.57%) Lead
16 43 (4.01%) Analyst
17 41 (3.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 40 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 35 (3.26%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (86.49%) CSS
2 268 (24.98%) .NET
3 256 (23.86%) React
4 118 (11.00%) HTML5
5 109 (10.16%) .NET Core
6 106 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 106 (9.88%) Node.js
7 105 (9.79%) jQuery
7 105 (9.79%) Vue
8 98 (9.13%) RESTful
9 93 (8.67%) ASP.NET
10 92 (8.57%) CSS3
11 82 (7.64%) JSON
12 64 (5.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 62 (5.78%) REST
14 58 (5.41%) SOAP
15 49 (4.57%) XML
16 48 (4.47%) Entity Framework
17 46 (4.29%) Laravel
18 39 (3.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 29 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.24%) Social Media
9 22 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.03%) Graphic Design
12 11 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.84%) Digital TV
14 9 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.73%) Windows
2 38 (3.54%) Linux
3 21 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.75%) Unix
5 6 (0.56%) Android
5 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (29.73%) Agile
2 294 (27.40%) Full-Stack Development
3 240 (22.37%) Mentoring
4 220 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (20.22%) CI/CD
6 203 (18.92%) User Experience
7 166 (15.47%) Web Development
8 161 (15.00%) DevOps
9 147 (13.70%) AI
10 135 (12.58%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (10.44%) Front End Development
13 109 (10.16%) Software Engineering
14 108 (10.07%) Computer Science
15 105 (9.79%) Scrum
16 86 (8.01%) Analytics
16 86 (8.01%) Microservices
17 85 (7.92%) UX Design
18 80 (7.46%) Clean Code
19 75 (6.99%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 734 (68.41%) JavaScript
2 372 (34.67%) SQL
3 308 (28.70%) Python
4 244 (22.74%) C#
5 159 (14.82%) TypeScript
6 137 (12.77%) PHP
7 104 (9.69%) R
8 102 (9.51%) Java
9 34 (3.17%) PowerShell
10 27 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.86%) C++
12 13 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.21%) VBA
13 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.75%) C
15 7 (0.65%) VBScript
16 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.47%) Bash
16 5 (0.47%) Bicep
17 4 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 201 (18.73%) Degree
2 173 (16.12%) AWS Certification
2 173 (16.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 171 (15.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 171 (15.94%) Azure Certification
4 74 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.38%) Security Cleared
6 36 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 20 (1.86%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
14 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.93%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.47%) WCAG
3 46 (4.29%) QA
4 36 (3.36%) GDPR
5 16 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.03%) SLA
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
7 7 (0.65%) PERC
8 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) NIST
12 1 (0.093%) NCSC
System Software
1 97 (9.04%) Docker
2 17 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.49%) Terraform
3 8 (0.75%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) Plesk
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Nagios
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.093%) Grafana
6 1 (0.093%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 339 (31.59%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.55%) Adobe
3 46 (4.29%) Google
4 40 (3.73%) Oracle
5 28 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.30%) Splunk
7 10 (0.93%) Facebook
8 9 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 9 (0.84%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.84%) iManage
8 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.75%) YouTube
10 7 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 7 (0.65%) SAP
11 6 (0.56%) TikTok
12 5 (0.47%) Apple
12 5 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.47%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.47%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.47%) Sage