HTML5 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

HTML5
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring HTML5 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 102 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing HTML5 4 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.92% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 3.31% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £455 £450
25th Percentile £513 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -23.33%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £613
90th Percentile - £880 £790
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

HTML5 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 450 483 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.38% 27.74% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 311 342
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -9.80%
75th Percentile £670 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £551
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.77% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.72 - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.17%

HTML5
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

HTML5 job vacancy trend in the City of London

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML5

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HTML5

HTML5
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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) gulp
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Shopify Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Playwright
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (25.00%) Jest
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Sass
4 1 (25.00%) SPFx
4 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Webhook
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft