HTML Contract Job Trends in the South East

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 98 89
Rank change year-on-year -93 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing HTML 46 70 101
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.69% 1.98% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 10.97% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 58
10th Percentile £292 £163 £203
25th Percentile £413 £325 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £412 £488
Median % change year-on-year +39.56% -15.49% +21.12%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £538
90th Percentile - £540 £588
England median daily rate £477 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +12.12% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 13
10th Percentile - £13.25 £63.00
25th Percentile £13.88 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.89% -42.01% +21.74%
75th Percentile £14.63 £58.69 -
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +51.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,023 638 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.37% 18.09% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 435 565
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £429 £392 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £572 £619
90th Percentile £724 £625 £672
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 21 34
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.85 £27.23
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.80 £54.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +3.75%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £58.75 £73.41
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

HTML job vacancy trend in the South East

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the South East

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTML

HTML
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Hampshire -33 13 £625 +31.58% 4
Surrey -18 11 £450 +157.14% 2
West Sussex - 9 £463 - 1
Thames Valley -78 8 £375 -14.29% 8
Buckinghamshire -42 5 £375 -16.67% 4
Berkshire -54 3 £250 -41.18% 2
Kent -1 2 - - 4
Middlesex - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £650 - 3
HTML
England

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.70%) CMS
2 2 (4.35%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.17%) Kentico
3 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) GCP
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.17%) Figma
7 1 (2.17%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Broadband
1 2 (4.35%) Multicast
1 2 (4.35%) RTMP
1 2 (4.35%) TETRA
1 2 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (26.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (15.22%) MySQL
4 6 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (13.04%) Couchbase
5 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.70%) Power BI
5 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Db2
6 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.35%) Redis
6 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) JUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (4.35%) Firebug
3 2 (4.35%) JMeter
3 2 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.17%) Gradle
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (2.17%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Back Office
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Lead
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
2 9 (19.57%) Technical Leader
3 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Java Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Web Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Broadcast Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) IP Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) OSS Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) OSS Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (82.61%) CSS
2 20 (43.48%) REST
3 17 (36.96%) React
4 12 (26.09%) Ajax
4 12 (26.09%) RESTful
5 11 (23.91%) .NET
6 8 (17.39%) .NET Core
6 8 (17.39%) Spring
7 7 (15.22%) Django
7 7 (15.22%) OAuth
7 7 (15.22%) OAuth2
7 7 (15.22%) OpenID
7 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
8 6 (13.04%) JSON
8 6 (13.04%) Spring MVC
9 5 (10.87%) .NET Framework
9 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
10 4 (8.70%) Hibernate
10 4 (8.70%) jQuery
10 4 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.35%) Social Media
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Agile
2 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) Microservices
4 14 (30.43%) DevOps
5 13 (28.26%) Change Management
5 13 (28.26%) ITIL
5 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.09%) Analytics
6 12 (26.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (26.09%) Roadmaps
7 11 (23.91%) MVC
8 10 (21.74%) Code Quality
8 10 (21.74%) CRM
8 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 10 (21.74%) Web Development
9 9 (19.57%) ERP
9 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (17.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) JavaScript
2 12 (26.09%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) Java
4 9 (19.57%) C#
4 9 (19.57%) Python
5 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 6 (13.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) QA
2 9 (19.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) WCAG
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 5 (10.87%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Peplink
4 2 (4.35%) Solace
4 2 (4.35%) Starlink
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco
5 1 (2.17%) Cramer
5 1 (2.17%) NetCracker
5 1 (2.17%) Nokia
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud