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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 94 105
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -28
Contract jobs citing HTML 53 88 108
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.44% 2.09% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.55% 12.77% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 46 66
10th Percentile £163 £203 £182
25th Percentile £287 £275 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £444 £423
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.78% -10.89%
75th Percentile £488 £565 £502
90th Percentile £536 £645 £588
England median daily rate £445 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -11.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 8
10th Percentile - £62.50 £40.93
25th Percentile £13.25 £66.25 £54.06
Median hourly rate £13.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £13.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -28.57% +19.15% -9.62%

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 620 689 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.90% 16.35% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 448 558
10th Percentile £280 £325 £313
25th Percentile £378 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £625 £671 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 40
10th Percentile £17.06 £35.81 £50.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.58 £54.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.55
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +13.16% -9.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.63
90th Percentile £73.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

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 October 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 26 October 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 +6 30 £438 -16.67% 94
Berkshire -7 17 £463 -18.14% 56
Buckinghamshire +12 13 £438 -16.67% 26
Surrey -3 10 £175 -14.63% 26
Hampshire -17 5 £475 +0.42% 33
Kent - 5 £484 - 29
East Sussex -3 3 £300 -21.05% 12
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 3 (5.66%) CMS
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.89%) nginx
3 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.89%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.89%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.77%) Figma
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.77%) Google Play
6 2 (3.77%) npm
6 2 (3.77%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) HTTP
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Relational Database
2 8 (15.09%) MySQL
3 6 (11.32%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.77%) Metadata
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) DB2
5 1 (1.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (18.87%) Git
3 9 (16.98%) Firebug
4 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 2 (3.77%) Gradle
5 2 (3.77%) Maven
5 2 (3.77%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.77%) UI Automator
6 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.89%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Marketing
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (52.83%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Support Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Technical Support
2 10 (18.87%) Technical Support Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (11.32%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Salesforce Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Web Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Web Developer
8 2 (3.77%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.77%) UI Developer
8 2 (3.77%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (83.02%) CSS
2 15 (28.30%) React
2 15 (28.30%) XML
3 9 (16.98%) .NET
4 7 (13.21%) JSON
5 6 (11.32%) .NET Framework
5 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.43%) CSS3
6 5 (9.43%) HTML5
6 5 (9.43%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (9.43%) Node.js
6 5 (9.43%) REST
6 5 (9.43%) RESTful
7 4 (7.55%) Jest
7 4 (7.55%) jQuery
7 4 (7.55%) SOAP
8 3 (5.66%) Ajax
8 3 (5.66%) Playwright
8 3 (5.66%) Vue
9 2 (3.77%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.89%) AS400
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Android
2 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) CI/CD
2 15 (28.30%) OO
3 12 (22.64%) Agile
4 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.87%) Customer Service
5 10 (18.87%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Front End Development
5 10 (18.87%) User Experience
6 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
6 5 (9.43%) OOP
6 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
7 4 (7.55%) Design Patterns
7 4 (7.55%) ERP
7 4 (7.55%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (7.55%) SOLID
7 4 (7.55%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.66%) Code Quality
8 3 (5.66%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (84.91%) JavaScript
2 13 (24.53%) C#
3 9 (16.98%) Java
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.66%) Apex Code
6 3 (5.66%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.66%) SOQL
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.89%) C
8 1 (1.89%) C++
8 1 (1.89%) Magik
8 1 (1.89%) PHP
8 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.89%) RPG
8 1 (1.89%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) CCNA
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.66%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PhD
5 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) WCAG
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Grafana
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Oracle
2 5 (9.43%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.55%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Adobe
4 2 (3.77%) Hotjar
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) Pega
5 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.89%) Virgin Media