HTML Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 118 90
Rank change year-on-year -61 -28 -15
Contract jobs citing HTML 252 303 496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.38% 2.05% 2.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 11.44% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 192 348
10th Percentile £268 £250 £305
25th Percentile £363 £356 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £448 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -3.24% -6.57%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £564
90th Percentile £585 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £468 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 19
10th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £25.59
25th Percentile £27.50 £55.84 £46.09
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £67.50
90th Percentile - £64.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,331 2,648 3,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.21% 17.93% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 1,648 2,359
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £686 £678
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 64 134
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £40.09
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.57 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +24.53% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.31 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HTML job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the UK excluding London

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTML in the UK excluding London

HTML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
North of England -30 80 £438 -6.91% 289
Midlands -47 49 £494 +3.95% 208
North West -16 46 £405 -11.96% 154
South East -51 44 £350 -26.32% 296
West Midlands -43 37 £430 -23.51% 111
East of England -12 32 £438 +45.83% 158
Yorkshire -29 32 £488 -13.60% 113
Scotland -27 25 £459 +4.26% 53
South West -10 14 £445 +25.71% 119
East Midlands -11 12 £550 +54.49% 87
Wales +4 9 £365 -33.64% 33
North East -18 3 - - 25
HTML
UK

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (9.13%) WebLogic
2 20 (7.94%) CMS
3 15 (5.95%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (3.57%) SharePoint
6 8 (3.17%) Apache
6 8 (3.17%) Confluence
6 8 (3.17%) JBoss
7 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.98%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.98%) nginx
7 5 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.98%) Umbraco
8 3 (1.19%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.79%) Drupal
9 2 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.79%) WordPress
10 1 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Adobe XD
1 7 (2.78%) Sketch
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Maya
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) NUKE
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Blender
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.40%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.40%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.40%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.19%) AWS
2 54 (21.43%) Azure
3 21 (8.33%) Serverless
4 19 (7.54%) Power Platform
5 17 (6.75%) npm
6 16 (6.35%) Figma
7 15 (5.95%) GCP
8 14 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.56%) GitHub
8 14 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.76%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.78%) Kontent
13 6 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.38%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
1 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.40%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) SSL
2 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.92%) Relational Database
2 21 (8.33%) MySQL
3 14 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.97%) Power BI
7 8 (3.17%) MariaDB
7 8 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.17%) Redis
8 6 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.98%) Big Data
9 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.79%) Metadata
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.40%) DB2
12 1 (0.40%) GIS
12 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (29.37%) Git
2 29 (11.51%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.51%) JIRA
3 27 (10.71%) GitLab
4 19 (7.54%) JUnit
4 19 (7.54%) Selenium
5 11 (4.37%) Visual Studio
6 10 (3.97%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.97%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (3.97%) Firebug
6 10 (3.97%) Maven
6 10 (3.97%) webpack
7 9 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.57%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.57%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.17%) Storybook
9 7 (2.78%) Mockito
10 6 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 77 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.10%) Finance
4 18 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.16%) Banking
5 13 (5.16%) Marketing
6 11 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.98%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.98%) Automotive
9 4 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Publishing
9 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.19%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (50.79%) Developer
2 29 (11.51%) Senior
3 28 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (8.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 19 (7.54%) Lead
5 19 (7.54%) Senior Developer
6 17 (6.75%) Consultant
7 14 (5.56%) Designer
7 14 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (4.76%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.37%) Software Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) UX Designer
10 10 (3.97%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Technical Support
10 10 (3.97%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.17%) CMS Developer
11 8 (3.17%) JavaScript Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (72.62%) CSS
2 79 (31.35%) React
3 66 (26.19%) .NET
4 57 (22.62%) HTML5
4 57 (22.62%) Node.js
5 54 (21.43%) RESTful
6 51 (20.24%) AngularJS
7 46 (18.25%) REST
8 45 (17.86%) CSS3
9 31 (12.30%) JSON
9 31 (12.30%) Spring
10 28 (11.11%) XML
11 25 (9.92%) .NET Framework
11 25 (9.92%) SOAP
12 24 (9.52%) Jest
13 21 (8.33%) Vue
14 20 (7.94%) Spring Boot
15 19 (7.54%) Redux
16 18 (7.14%) Middleware
17 16 (6.35%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.75%) Mobile App
2 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.37%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.78%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.59%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.59%) IoT
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.19%) Animation
9 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.19%) CMDB
9 3 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.37%) Unix
2 8 (3.17%) Linux
3 6 (2.38%) Android
4 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.19%) Windows
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (48.41%) Agile
2 91 (36.11%) CI/CD
3 71 (28.17%) DevOps
4 64 (25.40%) User Experience
5 62 (24.60%) Microservices
6 59 (23.41%) Front End Development
7 54 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (13.89%) UX Design
10 34 (13.49%) Computer Science
10 34 (13.49%) MVC
11 33 (13.10%) TDD
12 31 (12.30%) Scrum
13 27 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 26 (10.32%) Open Source
15 25 (9.92%) Containerisation
15 25 (9.92%) Mentoring
16 24 (9.52%) AI
16 24 (9.52%) OO
17 23 (9.13%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 157 (62.30%) JavaScript
2 77 (30.56%) Java
3 59 (23.41%) SQL
4 51 (20.24%) TypeScript
5 49 (19.44%) C#
6 34 (13.49%) Python
7 31 (12.30%) C++
8 27 (10.71%) PHP
9 19 (7.54%) C
10 11 (4.37%) Scala
11 7 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.38%) Ruby
13 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.19%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.19%) Swift
15 2 (0.79%) ABAP
15 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.79%) Tcl
15 2 (0.79%) VB
16 1 (0.40%) Magik
Qualifications
1 42 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.08%) Degree
3 27 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.79%) CCNA
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.79%) MCP
8 2 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (19.44%) Accessibility
2 21 (8.33%) WCAG
3 13 (5.16%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 30 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Grafana
2 8 (3.17%) Puppet
3 5 (1.98%) Kibana
3 5 (1.98%) Terraform
4 3 (1.19%) Argo
5 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.54%) Adobe
3 15 (5.95%) Dynatrace
4 13 (5.16%) Google
4 13 (5.16%) Oracle
5 12 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.17%) GoldenSource
6 8 (3.17%) webMethods
7 6 (2.38%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.98%) Pega
8 5 (1.98%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.19%) Blue Prism
9 3 (1.19%) IBM
9 3 (1.19%) Perforce
9 3 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Splunk
10 2 (0.79%) Cognos