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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 84 109
Rank change year-on-year -51 +25 -25
Contract jobs citing HTML 48 97 104
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.16% 2.41% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.11% 14.97% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 67
10th Percentile £163 £203 £266
25th Percentile £204 £250 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.43% -14.65%
75th Percentile £450 £588 £509
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
England median daily rate £461 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -7.80% +0.25% -7.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 10
10th Percentile - £60.10 £29.81
25th Percentile £27.50 £62.50 £52.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 675 648 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.25% 16.09% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 415 503
10th Percentile £288 £313 £325
25th Percentile £398 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £625
90th Percentile £640 £675 £680
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 39
10th Percentile £33.75 £43.88 £48.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £52.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -6.00%
75th Percentile £78.38 £70.00 £73.27
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -19.23%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -14 26 £425 -24.78% 72
Buckinghamshire +12 13 £450 -11.11% 29
Berkshire -23 13 £316 -45.00% 25
Surrey -5 11 £175 -14.63% 24
Kent - 5 £484 - 22
East Sussex +2 3 £300 -21.05% 19
Hampshire -30 3 £350 -26.00% 27
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 (4.17%) CMS
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (2.08%) Smallworld
2 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) GCP
3 5 (10.42%) GitHub
4 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.17%) Google Play
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.08%) npm
6 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) MySQL
2 7 (14.58%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.50%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.08%) DB2
6 1 (2.08%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Browser DevTools
1 9 (18.75%) Firebug
2 5 (10.42%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.25%) JUnit
3 3 (6.25%) Storybook
4 2 (4.17%) Gradle
4 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Maven
5 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.08%) GitLab
5 1 (2.08%) Postman
5 1 (2.08%) Selenium
5 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.08%) Subversion
5 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Marketing
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Electronics
5 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Technical Support
2 10 (20.83%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Web Developer
7 2 (4.17%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (89.58%) CSS
2 15 (31.25%) React
3 11 (22.92%) XML
4 8 (16.67%) RESTful
5 6 (12.50%) .NET
5 6 (12.50%) CSS3
5 6 (12.50%) HTML5
6 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.42%) REST
7 4 (8.33%) Node.js
7 4 (8.33%) SOAP
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
8 3 (6.25%) Jest
8 3 (6.25%) JSON
8 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.25%) Vitest
9 2 (4.17%) Blazor
9 2 (4.17%) Redux
9 2 (4.17%) SPFx
9 2 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) AS400
3 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Android
2 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Agile
1 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
2 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
2 10 (20.83%) DevOps
2 10 (20.83%) User Experience
3 9 (18.75%) Front End Development
3 9 (18.75%) OO
4 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
5 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.42%) Microservices
6 5 (10.42%) Web Development
7 4 (8.33%) AI
7 4 (8.33%) API Development
7 4 (8.33%) Software Testing
7 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
8 3 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 16 (33.33%) Java
3 9 (18.75%) Python
4 8 (16.67%) C#
5 7 (14.58%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.25%) C++
6 3 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) Magik
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.08%) RPG
8 1 (2.08%) RPG IV
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) CCNA
5 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.25%) DBS Check
5 3 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe
3 1 (2.08%) IBM
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) Pega
3 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow