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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 88 98
Rank change year-on-year -83 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing HTML 39 65 104
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.64% 2.16% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.39% 12.33% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 68
10th Percentile £265 £338 £250
25th Percentile £403 £373 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £394
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% +20.63% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £504 £538
90th Percentile - £575 £588
England median daily rate £500 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 13
10th Percentile - £13.25 £63.00
25th Percentile - £25.55 -
Median hourly rate - £54.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.61% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £60.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £41.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year -10.08% -33.28% +19.05%

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 888 527 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.53% 17.47% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 350 494
10th Percentile £334 £325 £325
25th Percentile £419 £409 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £622
90th Percentile £720 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 45
10th Percentile £38.25 £22.10 £35.00
25th Percentile £50.31 £35.05 £56.65
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -18.83% -8.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £62.03 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -35 14 £625 +31.58% 21
Thames Valley -66 9 £425 -10.53% 28
West Sussex - 8 £544 - 10
Buckinghamshire -36 5 £425 -10.53% 10
Surrey -15 4 £316 -23.80% 12
Berkshire -47 4 £363 -20.15% 11
Kent +2 2 - - 10
Sussex - 2 £525 - 4
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 6 (15.38%) CMS
2 3 (7.69%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.56%) Kentico
3 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Dialogflow
6 1 (2.56%) Figma
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MySQL
2 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.82%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (12.82%) Couchbase
3 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.26%) Power BI
5 3 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.56%) Db2
6 1 (2.56%) GIS
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) JUnit
3 2 (5.13%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (5.13%) Firebug
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Storybook
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Informatica Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (92.31%) CSS
2 18 (46.15%) REST
3 12 (30.77%) React
4 11 (28.21%) Ajax
5 9 (23.08%) .NET
6 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
6 8 (20.51%) Spring
7 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
8 6 (15.38%) .NET Core
8 6 (15.38%) jQuery
8 6 (15.38%) Spring MVC
9 5 (12.82%) .NET Framework
9 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET
9 5 (12.82%) RESTful
10 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (10.26%) CSS3
10 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
10 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
10 4 (10.26%) HTML5
10 4 (10.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 11 (28.21%) Change Management
4 11 (28.21%) ITIL
4 11 (28.21%) Knowledge Transfer
4 11 (28.21%) MVC
5 10 (25.64%) CRM
5 10 (25.64%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Web Development
6 9 (23.08%) Analytics
6 9 (23.08%) ERP
6 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (20.51%) User Experience
8 7 (17.95%) AI
8 7 (17.95%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.38%) UX Design
10 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 35 (89.74%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.64%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) C#
4 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Adobe
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.56%) Braze
5 1 (2.56%) ESRI
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.56%) Solace