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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 331 338
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -66
Contract jobs citing HTML5 48 47 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.63% 1.53% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 57
10th Percentile £343 £325 £305
25th Percentile £359 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £375 £480
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -21.88% +1.05%
75th Percentile £500 £447 £550
90th Percentile £567 £500 £603
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.10% -9.09% -

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 2,943 3,063 3,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.02% 17.08% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,944 1,902 2,719
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 161 129
10th Percentile £33.75 £27.00 £45.62
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.81 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.44 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%

HTML5
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HTML5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HTML5 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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -14 22 £425 +19.30% 47
Yorkshire -6 12 £470 - 13
Midlands -10 12 £389 -22.30% 22
North West -5 10 £418 +15.17% 26
Scotland -10 7 £463 +23.33% 2
West Midlands -9 6 £430 -14.10% 15
East Midlands - 6 £375 - 7
South East +17 4 £553 -2.21% 54
South West +16 1 £557 +23.78% 10
East of England -4 1 £500 +33.33% 23
Wales - 1 £425 - 7
HTML5
UK

HTML5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) Apache
2 4 (8.33%) CMS
2 4 (8.33%) JBoss
2 4 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (2.08%) Drupal
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.08%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) npm
3 5 (10.42%) Serverless
4 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.33%) Figma
4 4 (8.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
5 2 (4.17%) Google Play
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.17%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (58.33%) Git
2 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 13 (27.08%) webpack
4 9 (18.75%) SonarQube
5 8 (16.67%) Grunt
5 8 (16.67%) gulp
6 7 (14.58%) JIRA
7 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (8.33%) Eclipse
8 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
8 4 (8.33%) JUnit
8 4 (8.33%) Selenium
8 4 (8.33%) Storybook
9 3 (6.25%) Babel
9 3 (6.25%) GitLab
9 3 (6.25%) Jasmine
9 3 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (6.25%) Postman
9 3 (6.25%) Subversion
10 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (72.92%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (14.58%) Lead
3 7 (14.58%) UI Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.25%) React Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.08%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.08%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (100.00%) HTML
2 43 (89.58%) CSS
3 38 (79.17%) CSS3
4 29 (60.42%) React
5 24 (50.00%) Node.js
6 23 (47.92%) REST
7 22 (45.83%) Redux
8 21 (43.75%) RESTful
9 14 (29.17%) AngularJS
10 13 (27.08%) Jest
11 11 (22.92%) JSON
12 10 (20.83%) Bootstrap
13 9 (18.75%) jQuery
14 8 (16.67%) Express.js
14 8 (16.67%) Sass
15 7 (14.58%) Enzyme
16 6 (12.50%) Ajax
16 6 (12.50%) LESS
16 6 (12.50%) Nightwatchjs
17 5 (10.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Android
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
2 3 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 21 (43.75%) Front End Development
3 17 (35.42%) User Experience
4 16 (33.33%) Agile
4 16 (33.33%) Microservices
5 14 (29.17%) Code Quality
6 13 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (27.08%) DevOps
7 12 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (22.92%) Continuous Delivery
8 11 (22.92%) UX Design
9 10 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (20.83%) SOLID
9 10 (20.83%) Unit Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
10 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (18.75%) Wireframes
11 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (64.58%) JavaScript
2 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 12 (25.00%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) SQL
5 6 (12.50%) Python
6 4 (8.33%) Scala
7 3 (6.25%) C#
8 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.17%) PHP
8 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.08%) ABAP
9 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Puppet
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Perforce
3 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) webMethods
4 3 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Adobe
5 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.08%) BMC
5 1 (2.08%) HP
5 1 (2.08%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Remedy
5 1 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow