HTML Contract Job Trends in the North West

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 82 54
Rank change year-on-year -19 -28 +7
Contract jobs citing HTML 46 36 90
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.84% 1.68% 3.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.09% 10.20% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 72
10th Percentile £324 £266 £326
25th Percentile £369 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £460 £570
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -19.30% +8.57%
75th Percentile £453 £488 £660
90th Percentile £550 £575 £720
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 506 353 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.23% 16.43% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 231 452
10th Percentile £325 £350 £368
25th Percentile £381 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £620
90th Percentile £663 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 31
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +41.84% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile - £78.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

HTML job vacancy trend in the North West

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in the North West over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the North West

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTML

HTML
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Manchester -10 23 £425 -8.60% 44
Cheshire -6 19 £384 +14.13% 8
Merseyside -6 2 £560 - 7
Lancashire -10 1 £595 - 41
HTML
England

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (6.52%) CMS
3 2 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) Serverless
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (10.87%) Power Automate
4 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) npm
7 2 (4.35%) Figma
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Big Data
1 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
1 5 (10.87%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) MySQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Redis
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Git
2 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.39%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) MLflow
4 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.70%) JIRA
6 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.52%) Gradle
6 3 (6.52%) Grunt
6 3 (6.52%) gulp
6 3 (6.52%) Jasmine
6 3 (6.52%) JUnit
6 3 (6.52%) Xcode
7 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.35%) Fiddler
7 2 (4.35%) Maven
7 2 (4.35%) Mockito
7 2 (4.35%) Selenium
7 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (58.70%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Power Apps Developer
4 3 (6.52%) UI Developer
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Campaign Manager
5 2 (4.35%) CRM Campaign Manager
5 2 (4.35%) CRM Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Designer
5 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) iOS Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Malware Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (54.35%) CSS
2 13 (28.26%) RESTful
3 11 (23.91%) HTML5
4 10 (21.74%) Node.js
5 9 (19.57%) CSS3
5 9 (19.57%) Jest
5 9 (19.57%) JSON
5 9 (19.57%) Sass
6 8 (17.39%) React
6 8 (17.39%) REST
6 8 (17.39%) Spring Boot
7 7 (15.22%) AngularJS
7 7 (15.22%) Spring
8 6 (13.04%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (10.87%) .NET
9 5 (10.87%) Flask
9 5 (10.87%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (10.87%) PySpark
9 5 (10.87%) Redux
9 5 (10.87%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.70%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Video Editing
5 1 (2.17%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Android
1 3 (6.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.96%) DevOps
4 13 (28.26%) Front End Development
5 12 (26.09%) TDD
6 10 (21.74%) User Experience
7 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.22%) Microservices
8 7 (15.22%) Open Source
8 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
9 6 (13.04%) AI
9 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (13.04%) MVC
9 6 (13.04%) Scrum
9 6 (13.04%) UX Design
10 5 (10.87%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (10.87%) MLOps
10 5 (10.87%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 15 (32.61%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) Python
4 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.04%) SQL
6 4 (8.70%) C#
6 4 (8.70%) C++
7 3 (6.52%) C
7 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.52%) Objective-C
7 3 (6.52%) PHP
7 3 (6.52%) Ruby
7 3 (6.52%) Scala
7 3 (6.52%) Swift
8 1 (2.17%) ABAP
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) WCAG
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Adobe
2 3 (6.52%) Perforce
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Veracode
4 1 (2.17%) NEC
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow