HTML5 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HTML5
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HTML5 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 304 362
Rank change year-on-year -100 +58 -19
Contract jobs citing HTML5 45 45 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.35% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 1.87% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 27
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £395 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £574
90th Percentile £560 £575 £610
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -3.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

HTML5 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 3,934 2,404 3,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 18.66% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 1,669 2,187
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £572 £608
90th Percentile £675 £638 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 89 219
10th Percentile £37.25 £33.59 £22.70
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.01 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

HTML5
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HTML5 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML5

HTML5
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML5 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTML5 in the UK excluding London

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTML5

HTML5
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 HTML5 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West -19 11 £409 - 6
Midlands -56 11 £425 +18.72% 3
North of England -84 10 £358 -10.50% 10
West Midlands -55 9 £400 -52.94%
Scotland -2 8 £405 -22.86% 3
North West -45 7 £350 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire -57 3 £500 -9.09% 1
South East -60 3 £400 -15.79% 5
East Midlands -30 2 £485 +35.47% 3
Wales - 2 £450 - 4
HTML5
UK

HTML5
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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.22%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.22%) Camunda
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Adobe XD
1 6 (13.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Figma
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) Apple Pay
5 1 (2.22%) AWS IoT
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) Google Pay
5 1 (2.22%) npm
5 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) GIS
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.22%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Vite
4 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (68.89%) Developer
2 15 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.56%) React Developer
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Designer
6 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) UI Designer
6 3 (6.67%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (6.67%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (100.00%) HTML
2 42 (93.33%) CSS
3 40 (88.89%) CSS3
4 34 (75.56%) React
5 22 (48.89%) Redux
6 20 (44.44%) Jest
7 17 (37.78%) Spring
7 17 (37.78%) Spring Boot
8 16 (35.56%) Spring MVC
9 15 (33.33%) RESTful
10 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
11 11 (24.44%) REST
12 5 (11.11%) JSON
13 4 (8.89%) .NET
13 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
13 4 (8.89%) MobX
14 3 (6.67%) Node.js
14 3 (6.67%) Playwright
15 2 (4.44%) OAuth
15 2 (4.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.22%) FMCG
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Tizen
1 1 (2.22%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Agile
1 20 (44.44%) User Experience
2 19 (42.22%) Code Quality
3 18 (40.00%) MVC
3 18 (40.00%) UX Design
4 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (35.56%) SDLC
5 14 (31.11%) Data Protection
6 13 (28.89%) Responsive Web Design
7 12 (26.67%) Software Testing
8 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (24.44%) Front End Development
9 9 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (17.78%) Clean Code
10 8 (17.78%) Wireframes
11 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 5 (11.11%) DevOps
13 4 (8.89%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 40 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 18 (40.00%) Java
4 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) C#
5 5 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (24.44%) Accessibility
2 8 (17.78%) WCAG
3 5 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Adobe
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.44%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Apple
5 1 (2.22%) ESRI
5 1 (2.22%) GoCardless
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk