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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 98 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -19
Contract jobs citing HTML 64 86 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.83% 1.86% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.76% 11.99% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 70
10th Percentile £163 £203 £301
25th Percentile £331 £255 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £463 £411
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +12.67% -12.43%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £500
90th Percentile £542 £588 £618
England median daily rate £430 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -14.10% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile - - £35.92
25th Percentile £13.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -4.84%

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 595 717 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.06% 15.51% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 479 572
10th Percentile £289 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £667 £700
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 43
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing HTML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for HTML 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 18 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTML in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTML in the South East

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 18 September 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 +23 39 £438 -19.72% 72
Berkshire +10 26 £425 -24.78% 45
Buckinghamshire +18 13 £450 -14.29% 23
Hampshire -10 10 £475 -9.52% 28
Surrey -3 8 £175 -18.60% 25
Kent - 4 £553 - 31
East Sussex -1 3 £300 -21.05% 20
HTML
England

HTML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) CMS
2 4 (6.25%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) nginx
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.38%) Figma
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) npm
5 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Serverless
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.13%) Google Play
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) HTTP
2 3 (4.69%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) SNMP
2 3 (4.69%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Relational Database
2 9 (14.06%) MySQL
3 6 (9.38%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.13%) Metadata
4 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) DB2
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (14.06%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (10.94%) Firebug
4 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.25%) JIRA
6 3 (4.69%) GoogleTest
6 3 (4.69%) Robot Framework
6 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (4.69%) Vite
7 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.13%) Gradle
7 2 (3.13%) JMeter
7 2 (3.13%) JUnit
7 2 (3.13%) Maven
7 2 (3.13%) Mockito
7 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
7 2 (3.13%) UI Automator
8 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Marketing
2 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Finance
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Publishing
5 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Technical Support
2 8 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (9.38%) JavaScript Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) React Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (7.81%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Content Editor
6 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Web Content Editor
6 4 (6.25%) Web Editor
7 3 (4.69%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (79.69%) CSS
2 16 (25.00%) XML
3 14 (21.88%) React
4 10 (15.63%) .NET
5 9 (14.06%) JSON
6 8 (12.50%) Node.js
7 7 (10.94%) jQuery
7 7 (10.94%) REST
8 6 (9.38%) RESTful
8 6 (9.38%) Web Services
9 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
9 5 (7.81%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (6.25%) Ajax
10 4 (6.25%) CSS3
10 4 (6.25%) HTML5
10 4 (6.25%) SOAP
11 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.69%) Blazor
11 3 (4.69%) Material-UI
11 3 (4.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.56%) AS400
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) CMDB
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.56%) NHS
3 1 (1.56%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Android
2 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.88%) OO
4 10 (15.63%) DevOps
4 10 (15.63%) Front End Development
4 10 (15.63%) User Experience
5 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 7 (10.94%) Scrum
8 6 (9.38%) Microservices
8 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.38%) Web Development
9 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.81%) Design Patterns
9 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.81%) OOP
10 4 (6.25%) Analytics
10 4 (6.25%) ERP
10 4 (6.25%) Performance Engineering
10 4 (6.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 44 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 14 (21.88%) C#
3 12 (18.75%) Python
4 10 (15.63%) SQL
5 9 (14.06%) Java
6 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.25%) Apex Code
8 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.69%) SOQL
9 2 (3.13%) C++
9 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.56%) C
10 1 (1.56%) PHP
10 1 (1.56%) RPG
10 1 (1.56%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CCNA
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.69%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.69%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Oracle
2 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.81%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) Adobe
4 4 (6.25%) Virgin Media
5 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.13%) Hotjar
5 2 (3.13%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.13%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.56%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) Pega
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow