HTML Contract Job Trends in Central London

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing HTML 58 72 64
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.87% 3.21% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.92% 13.09% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 42
10th Percentile £359 £348 £330
25th Percentile £463 £434 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £631
90th Percentile £692 £855 £769
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £53.75 £39.50 £70.55
% change year-on-year +36.08% -44.01% -0.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

HTML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 550 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.25% 24.49% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 335 433
10th Percentile £361 £409 £413
25th Percentile £434 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

HTML job vacancy trend in Central London

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in Central London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in Central London

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTML

HTML
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -9 53 £556 -3.26% 26
HTML
London

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (5.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Trello
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.90%) Figma
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) GitHub
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.90%) Serverless
4 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Run
5 2 (3.45%) Firebase
5 2 (3.45%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
1 2 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.72%) DKIM
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.17%) Redis
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.45%) Mixpanel
3 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 2 (3.45%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.72%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Metadata
4 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 8 (13.79%) JIRA
3 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) JUnit
3 5 (8.62%) Mockito
4 4 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.90%) Maven
5 3 (5.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (5.17%) Postman
5 3 (5.17%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.17%) SoapUI
5 3 (5.17%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.17%) Subversion
5 3 (5.17%) Xcode
5 3 (5.17%) XCTest
6 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.45%) Snyk
6 2 (3.45%) Storybook
6 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.45%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Finance
3 12 (20.69%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Marketing
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Automotive
7 2 (3.45%) Front Office
7 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (60.34%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Backend Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) React Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Conversion Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.72%) .NET Developer
9 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Specialist
9 1 (1.72%) C# Developer
9 1 (1.72%) PHP Developer
9 1 (1.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (87.93%) CSS
2 23 (39.66%) React
3 20 (34.48%) AngularJS
3 20 (34.48%) HTML5
4 14 (24.14%) REST
5 9 (15.52%) .NET
5 9 (15.52%) Web Services
6 8 (13.79%) CSS3
6 8 (13.79%) SOAP
7 6 (10.34%) jQuery
7 6 (10.34%) JSON
7 6 (10.34%) OSGi
7 6 (10.34%) Spring
8 5 (8.62%) Playwright
8 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
9 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.90%) OAuth
9 4 (6.90%) RESTful
9 4 (6.90%) Spring MVC
9 4 (6.90%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Low-Code
2 4 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Derivative
4 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 25 (43.10%) User Experience
3 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (25.86%) DevOps
4 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (20.69%) UX Design
6 10 (17.24%) Front End Development
6 10 (17.24%) Microservices
7 8 (13.79%) Analytics
7 8 (13.79%) Scrum
8 7 (12.07%) A/B Testing
8 7 (12.07%) AI
8 7 (12.07%) Web Development
9 6 (10.34%) SDLC
10 5 (8.62%) E-Commerce
10 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (8.62%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (8.62%) MVC
10 5 (8.62%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (86.21%) JavaScript
2 17 (29.31%) SQL
3 15 (25.86%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.79%) C#
5 8 (13.79%) Python
6 5 (8.62%) Apex Code
7 3 (5.17%) Groovy
7 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) Ruby
8 1 (1.72%) SOQL
8 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) MCP
5 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) GDPR
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) WCAG
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Google
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Adobe
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.17%) Amplitude
5 3 (5.17%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (5.17%) OutSystems
5 3 (5.17%) Splunk
6 2 (3.45%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.45%) BMC
6 2 (3.45%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.45%) HP
6 2 (3.45%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.45%) Optimizely
6 2 (3.45%) Qualtrics
6 2 (3.45%) Remedy
6 2 (3.45%) SAP
6 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow