HTML Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 56 78
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing HTML 46 62 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.36% 3.40% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.34% 13.19% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 32
10th Percentile £373 £387 £375
25th Percentile £475 £433 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -1.75% +4.09%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £638
90th Percentile £755 £875 £769
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.93% +4.09%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 445 470 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.80% 25.78% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 293 354
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £756 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -20.17%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

HTML job vacancy trend in the City of London

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.17%) Kentico
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Sitefinity
2 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Trello
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.70%) GCP
3 4 (8.70%) GitHub
3 4 (8.70%) Serverless
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) Figma
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.35%) Firebase
5 2 (4.35%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.35%) Google Gemini
5 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DKIM
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.35%) Mixpanel
2 2 (4.35%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Text Mining
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.17%) GIS
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Selenium
3 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) JMeter
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) Mockito
3 2 (4.35%) Snyk
3 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (4.35%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) gulp
4 1 (2.17%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.17%) Vite
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Front Office
6 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Advertising
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Backend Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (6.52%) React Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Conversion Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (91.30%) CSS
2 23 (50.00%) React
3 15 (32.61%) AngularJS
4 11 (23.91%) REST
5 10 (21.74%) HTML5
6 7 (15.22%) Playwright
7 6 (13.04%) .NET
7 6 (13.04%) OSGi
8 5 (10.87%) Node.js
8 5 (10.87%) SOAP
9 4 (8.70%) CSS3
9 4 (8.70%) jQuery
9 4 (8.70%) OAuth
9 4 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (8.70%) Web Services
9 4 (8.70%) XML
9 4 (8.70%) Zustand
10 3 (6.52%) JWT
10 3 (6.52%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (6.52%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Derivative
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 19 (41.30%) User Experience
3 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 9 (19.57%) DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.57%) UX Design
5 7 (15.22%) Analytics
5 7 (15.22%) E-Commerce
6 6 (13.04%) A/B Testing
6 6 (13.04%) AI
6 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
6 6 (13.04%) Web Development
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.87%) Microservices
7 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.70%) API Integration
8 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
8 4 (8.70%) Scrum
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) JavaScript
2 12 (26.09%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 11 (23.91%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 5 (10.87%) Python
6 3 (6.52%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) SOQL
7 1 (2.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) WCAG
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Google
2 3 (6.52%) Adobe
2 3 (6.52%) Amplitude
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) Hotjar
3 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.35%) Optimizely
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) OutSystems
3 2 (4.35%) Qualtrics
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Planview
4 1 (2.17%) Workday