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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 93 95
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing HTML 39 77 110
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.88% 2.14% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.73% 13.49% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 43 72
10th Percentile £163 £203 £301
25th Percentile £204 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £419
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +13.43% -16.25%
75th Percentile £450 £588 £518
90th Percentile £571 £642 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 12
10th Percentile - £57.55 £51.63
25th Percentile £27.50 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £58.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% -1.88% -7.69%

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 681 571 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.45% 15.89% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 366 442
10th Percentile £289 £328 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £617
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 32
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.25 £51.58
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.97 £78.00
England median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -5.60% +20.45% -20.17%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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
Thames Valley -27 24 £438 -16.67% 23
Buckinghamshire +15 13 £450 -11.11% 9
Berkshire -31 11 £425 -25.44% 11
Surrey -12 10 £175 -14.63% 17
Kent - 3 £338 - 13
Hampshire -33 2 - - 17
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 2 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Smallworld
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) FrameMaker
1 1 (2.56%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.56%) Figma
5 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) npm
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MySQL
2 7 (17.95%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.82%) MariaDB
4 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) GIS
5 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Browser DevTools
1 8 (20.51%) Firebug
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) JUnit
2 3 (7.69%) Storybook
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Gradle
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.56%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Marketing
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Electronics
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Support Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Technical Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Technical Support
2 8 (20.51%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (12.82%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Author
6 1 (2.56%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (87.18%) CSS
2 11 (28.21%) React
3 9 (23.08%) XML
4 7 (17.95%) RESTful
5 5 (12.82%) .NET
5 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.82%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) Spring
6 4 (10.26%) CSS3
6 4 (10.26%) HTML5
6 4 (10.26%) SOAP
6 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 3 (7.69%) Vitest
8 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.13%) Blazor
8 2 (5.13%) SPFx
8 2 (5.13%) Vue
9 1 (2.56%) JSON
9 1 (2.56%) JSR 170
9 1 (2.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.08%) Front End Development
3 8 (20.51%) Customer Service
3 8 (20.51%) OO
3 8 (20.51%) User Experience
4 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 6 (15.38%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (12.82%) Microservices
6 4 (10.26%) AI
6 4 (10.26%) API Development
6 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Testing
7 3 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (87.18%) JavaScript
2 13 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) C#
4 6 (15.38%) Python
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) C++
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) C
7 1 (2.56%) Magik
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow