It was the same when I was in school mate.
It depends really, in our school we offer a BTEC course at GCSE worth either 2 or 4 GCSEs - Databases, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Web Design (Dreamweaver) and Computer Hardware.
Top sets do OCR Nationals which is also equivalent to 1, 2 or 4 GCSEs which is similar but reuires more work.
At A Level we offer GCE Applied ICT, the pupils have to produce their work in the form of an e-book - to reach top grades this does require good knowledge of HTML and inserting videos etc.
We have also just started to offer A Level Computing which is the more advanced version which I think we should be teaching anyway but it is probably too hard for most of the kids in our school.
At the moment our school is running the pilot for the IT Diploma at GCSE and A Levels. I hate it, to me it's a dumbed down education for kids, ok, it might be good for some pupils who may struggle to gain 5+ GCSEs including Maths and English but not for everyone its terrible.
I think you'll find the top schools will offer GCSE ICT and Computing A Level as they are probably the most difficult. But then again schools such as these don't worry too much about ICT as they concentrate more on the academic subjects such as Maths, English and Science.