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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 60 51
Rank change year-on-year -92 -9 -12
Permanent jobs citing HTML 1,159 1,695 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 4.12% 4.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.50% 19.57% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,291 3,310
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
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 8,583 8,662 20,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 21.07% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 6,567 15,613
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 12 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 12 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 -86 1,065 £47,500 -20.83% 524
UK excluding London -67 837 £45,000 -18.18% 443
Work from Home -85 351 £52,500 -19.23% 210
North of England -31 270 £31,500 -30.00% 114
London -102 253 £60,000 -14.29% 146
South East -58 207 £50,000 -20.00% 112
Midlands -35 133 £45,000 - 63
North West -40 133 £33,750 -25.41% 57
Yorkshire -19 102 £30,500 -21.29% 34
East of England -56 97 £46,250 -30.15% 73
South West -55 90 £44,000 -26.67% 55
West Midlands -20 76 £35,000 -30.00% 30
East Midlands -47 57 £55,000 +41.94% 33
North East -12 35 £30,500 -41.90% 23
Scotland -67 29 £30,500 -44.55% 15
Wales -48 9 £31,000 -17.33% 16
Northern Ireland -42 3 £60,000 - 3
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
1 118 (10.18%) WordPress
2 54 (4.66%) CMS
3 33 (2.85%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.12%) Confluence
5 10 (0.86%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) Drupal
6 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) govService
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
8 3 (0.26%) Liferay
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.086%) Site Server
Applications
1 27 (2.33%) Adobe XD
2 18 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (1.21%) Photoshop
4 12 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (1.04%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.04%) Sketch
5 9 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.69%) InVision
6 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
7 7 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (0.43%) InDesign
10 3 (0.26%) Elementor
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.17%) Windchill
12 1 (0.086%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.38%) Shopify
2 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.35%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.17%) Line 50
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.086%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.086%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.086%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 472 (40.72%) Azure
2 442 (38.14%) AWS
3 357 (30.80%) GitHub
4 80 (6.90%) Figma
5 73 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (5.61%) Serverless
7 64 (5.52%) GCP
8 48 (4.14%) Power Platform
9 45 (3.88%) SaaS
10 36 (3.11%) Google Analytics
11 28 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 25 (2.16%) Power Automate
13 25 (2.16%) PowerApps
14 24 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 15 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 284 (24.50%) Internet
2 11 (0.95%) HTTP
3 6 (0.52%) FTP
3 6 (0.52%) Network Security
4 5 (0.43%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) AMQP
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) SMS
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 2 (0.17%) VoIP
7 1 (0.086%) Broadband
7 1 (0.086%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.086%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.086%) NAS
7 1 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (9.58%) SQL Server
2 93 (8.02%) MySQL
3 45 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.45%) Power BI
4 40 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.64%) OLTP
8 14 (1.21%) DB2
9 12 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.78%) Looker
11 9 (0.78%) Tableau
12 6 (0.52%) Metadata
13 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.43%) FileMaker
13 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 414 (35.72%) Git
2 71 (6.13%) JIRA
3 51 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.88%) Selenium
5 26 (2.24%) Postman
6 24 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
7 23 (1.98%) SoapUI
8 22 (1.90%) webpack
9 20 (1.73%) Axure RP
10 18 (1.55%) WebDriver
11 15 (1.29%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.21%) Balsamiq
12 14 (1.21%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.04%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.04%) Vite
14 10 (0.86%) Babel
14 10 (0.86%) JUnit
15 9 (0.78%) GitLab
15 9 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 273 (23.55%) Multimedia
2 263 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 141 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.54%) Marketing
5 94 (8.11%) Finance
6 56 (4.83%) Law
7 48 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (4.06%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.24%) Legal
10 26 (2.24%) Retail
11 22 (1.90%) Banking
12 15 (1.29%) Advertising
12 15 (1.29%) German Language
13 9 (0.78%) Electronics
14 8 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.60%) Games
15 7 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 607 (52.37%) Developer
2 274 (23.64%) Trainee
3 169 (14.58%) Senior
4 150 (12.94%) Software Developer
5 130 (11.22%) Senior Developer
6 121 (10.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 111 (9.58%) Trainee Developer
8 97 (8.37%) Trainee Software Developer
9 78 (6.73%) Administrator
10 73 (6.30%) Web Administrator
11 71 (6.13%) Trainee Administrator
12 70 (6.04%) .NET Developer
13 69 (5.95%) Designer
14 62 (5.35%) Lead
15 54 (4.66%) Software Engineer
16 53 (4.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 48 (4.14%) Web Developer
18 46 (3.97%) Analyst
19 41 (3.54%) React Developer
20 35 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 980 (84.56%) CSS
2 305 (26.32%) React
3 219 (18.90%) .NET
4 116 (10.01%) Node.js
5 108 (9.32%) AngularJS
6 99 (8.54%) Vue
7 97 (8.37%) RESTful
8 95 (8.20%) HTML5
9 89 (7.68%) JSON
10 77 (6.64%) jQuery
11 71 (6.13%) CSS3
12 70 (6.04%) XML
13 60 (5.18%) .NET Core
14 59 (5.09%) ASP.NET
14 59 (5.09%) SOAP
15 56 (4.83%) REST
16 44 (3.80%) Laravel
17 41 (3.54%) .NET Framework
18 37 (3.19%) Web Services
19 35 (3.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 45 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.73%) Social Media
10 18 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.12%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.69%) Cybercrime
14 8 (0.69%) Graphic Design
15 7 (0.60%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.85%) Unix
2 28 (2.42%) Linux
3 23 (1.98%) Windows
4 9 (0.78%) Android
5 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.086%) VMS
8 1 (0.086%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (29.25%) Mentoring
2 332 (28.65%) Agile
3 247 (21.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 231 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (18.38%) Cybersecurity
6 210 (18.12%) User Experience
7 190 (16.39%) CI/CD
8 166 (14.32%) Web Development
9 145 (12.51%) DevOps
10 140 (12.08%) AI
11 135 (11.65%) Front End Development
12 128 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (9.92%) Software Engineering
14 110 (9.49%) Scrum
15 106 (9.15%) Computer Science
16 104 (8.97%) Analytics
17 89 (7.68%) UX Design
18 86 (7.42%) Clean Code
19 81 (6.99%) Microservices
20 74 (6.38%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 858 (74.03%) JavaScript
2 431 (37.19%) Python
3 321 (27.70%) SQL
4 191 (16.48%) C#
5 173 (14.93%) TypeScript
6 161 (13.89%) R
7 119 (10.27%) PHP
8 113 (9.75%) Java
9 27 (2.33%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.38%) C++
12 9 (0.78%) C
13 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.52%) Bash
14 6 (0.52%) Ruby
14 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.43%) Bicep
15 5 (0.43%) VBA
16 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 272 (23.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 271 (23.38%) AWS Certification
2 271 (23.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 271 (23.38%) Azure Certification
3 227 (19.59%) Degree
4 76 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.52%) Security Cleared
6 47 (4.06%) SC Cleared
7 24 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 11 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.35%) ISEB
13 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.26%) PhD
13 3 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (11.39%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.31%) QA
3 46 (3.97%) WCAG
4 29 (2.50%) GDPR
5 10 (0.86%) PERC
5 10 (0.86%) SLA
6 9 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.60%) GRC
8 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.086%) HL7
11 1 (0.086%) NCSC
11 1 (0.086%) Section 508
System Software
1 87 (7.51%) Docker
2 12 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.33%) Terraform
3 5 (0.43%) Kibana
4 4 (0.35%) Plesk
5 3 (0.26%) Argo
5 3 (0.26%) cPanel
6 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.17%) Nagios
6 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 394 (33.99%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.13%) Adobe
3 55 (4.75%) Google
4 35 (3.02%) Oracle
5 26 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 10 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.78%) Hotjar
8 8 (0.69%) Splunk
9 6 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (0.52%) SAP
10 4 (0.35%) Ahrefs
10 4 (0.35%) iManage
10 4 (0.35%) New Relic
10 4 (0.35%) Screaming Frog
11 3 (0.26%) Granicus
11 3 (0.26%) TikTok