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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 88 115
Rank change year-on-year -69 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing HTML 32 68 100
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.65% 2.21% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.91% 13.23% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 71
10th Percentile £204 £250 £250
25th Percentile £314 £422 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +25.81% -10.39%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £501
90th Percentile £593 £600 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% -7.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile - £58.26 £51.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £60.81 £58.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £32.50 - -
90th Percentile - £62.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.88% +5.00% -16.98%

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 819 514 820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.67% 16.70% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 326 452
10th Percentile £320 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £503
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +7.96% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £625
90th Percentile £678 £666 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 42
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.38 £51.58
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £56.43
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.13 £76.15
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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
Thames Valley -42 17 £475 -3.80% 45
Berkshire -33 10 £329 -34.25% 26
Buckinghamshire -7 7 £575 +13.58% 12
Surrey -8 5 £293 -10.00% 17
Hampshire -46 5 £475 -5.47% 21
Kent -4 3 £338 -28.95% 14
Sussex -4 1 £400 -
West Sussex -15 1 £650 +36.84% 11
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 4 (12.50%) CMS
2 2 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Smallworld
3 1 (3.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.13%) FrameMaker
1 1 (3.13%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) GCP
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
3 1 (3.13%) Figma
3 1 (3.13%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) GIS
4 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Browser DevTools
1 4 (12.50%) Firebug
1 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 4 (12.50%) JUnit
1 4 (12.50%) Storybook
2 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Gradle
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Maven
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Marketing
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Electronics
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Informatica Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.13%) GIS Architect
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.13%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (3.13%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (90.63%) CSS
2 15 (46.88%) React
3 9 (28.13%) AngularJS
4 6 (18.75%) CSS3
4 6 (18.75%) HTML5
4 6 (18.75%) Spring
4 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
5 5 (15.63%) REST
5 5 (15.63%) RESTful
6 4 (12.50%) Vitest
6 4 (12.50%) XML
7 3 (9.38%) .NET
7 3 (9.38%) SOAP
7 3 (9.38%) Vue
8 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 2 (6.25%) Jest
8 2 (6.25%) jQuery
8 2 (6.25%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile
1 10 (31.25%) Front End Development
1 10 (31.25%) User Experience
2 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) AI
3 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
4 4 (12.50%) Analytics
4 4 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 4 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Microservices
4 4 (12.50%) MVC
4 4 (12.50%) OO
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Web Development
5 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 14 (43.75%) Java
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.50%) Python
6 3 (9.38%) C#
7 2 (6.25%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) Magik
8 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) Adobe
2 2 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) ESRI
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow