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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 102 101
Rank change year-on-year -74 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing HTML 52 64 84
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.79% 1.85% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 9.77% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 48
10th Percentile £296 £163 £203
25th Percentile £345 £331 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £413
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -0.85% +0.49%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £538
90th Percentile - £525 £588
England median daily rate £475 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +10.72% -14.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.88 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.09% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £14.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +16.67%

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 984 655 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.86% 18.96% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 440 534
10th Percentile £320 £292 £327
25th Percentile £431 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £558 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £674
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 17 29
10th Percentile £29.99 £24.69 £27.00
25th Percentile £55.00 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £67.75 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +35.50% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.23 £58.75 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -27 16 £625 +31.58% 16
Surrey -18 11 £450 +157.14% 8
West Sussex - 11 £438 - 13
Thames Valley -80 8 £375 -11.76% 39
Buckinghamshire -40 5 £375 -16.67% 8
Berkshire -48 3 £250 -40.05% 17
Kent -6 2 - - 8
Middlesex - 2 - - 6
Sussex - 2 £488 - 2
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 (7.69%) CMS
2 2 (3.85%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.92%) Kentico
3 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.77%) Cloudflare
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (5.77%) Supabase
5 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.92%) Dialogflow
6 1 (1.92%) Figma
6 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Broadband
1 2 (3.85%) Multicast
1 2 (3.85%) RTMP
1 2 (3.85%) TETRA
1 2 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.15%) Relational Database
3 7 (13.46%) MySQL
4 5 (9.62%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (9.62%) Couchbase
5 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.69%) Power BI
5 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.85%) Redis
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.92%) Db2
7 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.62%) JUnit
3 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (3.85%) Firebug
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.92%) Gradle
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) JMeter
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) Mockito
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Back Office
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) Lead
2 9 (17.31%) Senior
2 9 (17.31%) Technical Leader
3 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) React Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Java Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Web Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Broadcast Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) IP Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Support
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) UI Developer
6 1 (1.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (84.62%) CSS
2 20 (38.46%) React
3 19 (36.54%) REST
4 16 (30.77%) RESTful
5 12 (23.08%) Ajax
6 11 (21.15%) .NET
7 9 (17.31%) JSON
8 8 (15.38%) .NET Core
8 8 (15.38%) HTML5
9 7 (13.46%) Django
9 7 (13.46%) OAuth
9 7 (13.46%) OAuth2
9 7 (13.46%) OpenID
9 7 (13.46%) Spring
10 6 (11.54%) CSS3
10 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
11 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET
11 5 (9.62%) Next.js
11 5 (9.62%) Redux
11 5 (9.62%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.77%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.77%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Social Media
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Agile
2 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 14 (26.92%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Microservices
5 13 (25.00%) Change Management
5 13 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 13 (25.00%) ITIL
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Analytics
6 12 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 12 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
6 12 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 10 (19.23%) CRM
7 10 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (19.23%) MVC
7 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (19.23%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (86.54%) JavaScript
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 11 (21.15%) Java
5 9 (17.31%) C#
5 9 (17.31%) Python
6 6 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 6 (11.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CCNA
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (38.46%) QA
2 9 (17.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) WCAG
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (9.62%) Google
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Peplink
4 2 (3.85%) Starlink
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) Cramer
5 1 (1.92%) NetCracker
5 1 (1.92%) Nokia
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Solace