a largely unskilled web worker - one with a passable understanding of html but little else.

It is often supposed that, in the New Media food chain, there is nothing lower than a webmonkey. Alas, there is: people who barely have the skills to use FrontPage; these people are called "typists".

The b1ff of webmonkeys is personified as bobo the webmonkey.

Compare actor/singer/waiter/webmaster.

And compare sysape, one-banana problem, scratch monkey, monkey up, and infinite-monkey theorem for other simian allusions.