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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 267 371
Rank change year-on-year -119 +104 -42
Contract jobs citing HTML5 52 64 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.50% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 2.69% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 26
10th Percentile £358 £351 £350
25th Percentile £395 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £438 £419
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% +4.48% -9.95%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £569
90th Percentile £516 £588 £613
UK median daily rate £433 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -13.40% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 3,827 2,378 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.38% 18.64% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 1,649 2,160
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £412 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.06% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 76 169
10th Percentile £41.15 £29.75 £20.81
25th Percentile £55.00 £56.03 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £70.75 £69.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.20 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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
North of England -83 14 £450 +12.50% 23
Midlands -64 13 £415 +12.94% 23
West Midlands -56 12 £400 -52.94% 8
South West -26 11 £409 +9.50% 13
North West -53 11 £358 -10.50% 9
Scotland -6 8 £405 -8.22% 8
South East -48 4 £400 -23.81% 27
Yorkshire -54 3 £485 -11.82% 8
Wales -7 2 £450 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -33 1 £545 +57.29% 15
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 (9.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (9.62%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.85%) CMS
3 2 (3.85%) WordPress
4 1 (1.92%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.92%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Adobe XD
1 5 (9.62%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 7 (13.46%) Figma
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (9.62%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.62%) Serverless
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.77%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) Apple Pay
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) Google Pay
8 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.85%) Stripe
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) MySQL
2 5 (9.62%) DynamoDB
2 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) GIS
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) JIRA
3 5 (9.62%) IntelliJ
3 5 (9.62%) JUnit
4 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 4 (7.69%) Selenium
5 3 (5.77%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.85%) Vite
7 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.92%) GitLab
7 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.54%) React Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Lead UX Designer
9 2 (3.85%) Power BI Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Senior WordPress Developer
9 2 (3.85%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (100.00%) HTML
2 45 (86.54%) CSS
2 45 (86.54%) CSS3
3 33 (63.46%) React
4 25 (48.08%) Spring
5 22 (42.31%) Jest
6 21 (40.38%) Spring Boot
7 20 (38.46%) Redux
7 20 (38.46%) Spring MVC
8 19 (36.54%) RESTful
9 17 (32.69%) AngularJS
10 15 (28.85%) REST
11 10 (19.23%) JSON
12 5 (9.62%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (9.62%) Playwright
12 5 (9.62%) Sass
13 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
13 4 (7.69%) MobX
13 4 (7.69%) Play Framework
13 4 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) FMCG
4 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) MVC
2 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 19 (36.54%) Code Quality
4 19 (36.54%) User Experience
5 16 (30.77%) SDLC
5 16 (30.77%) UX Design
6 15 (28.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (26.92%) Data Protection
7 14 (26.92%) DevOps
8 13 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
8 13 (25.00%) Software Testing
9 9 (17.31%) Front End Development
9 9 (17.31%) Open Source
10 8 (15.38%) Clean Code
10 8 (15.38%) Microservices
10 8 (15.38%) TDD
11 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 27 (51.92%) Java
3 24 (46.15%) SQL
4 15 (28.85%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.62%) Python
6 4 (7.69%) C#
6 4 (7.69%) Scala
7 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.54%) WCAG
3 5 (9.62%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Puppet
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Adobe
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) MuleSoft
4 4 (7.69%) webMethods
5 3 (5.77%) Splunk
6 2 (3.85%) Apple
6 2 (3.85%) GoCardless
6 2 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) ESRI
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud