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 3 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 180 258
Rank change year-on-year -78 +78 +5
Contract jobs citing HTML5 26 40 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.72% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 3.83% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 7
10th Percentile £370 £353 £333
25th Percentile £390 £386 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -1.47% -9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £532 £600
90th Percentile £571 £594 £640
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £585
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.46% +12.40%
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 - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -23.53%

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 1,626 1,044 1,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.16% 18.87% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 699 950
10th Percentile £350 £358 £319
25th Percentile £413 £417 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.49% -8.86%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -4.77% +1.90% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 37 41
10th Percentile £46.25 £42.00 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £77.70 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -19.23%

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 3 months to 19 January 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 3 months to 19 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -34 11 £400 -52.94% 13
West Midlands -25 10 £400 -52.94% 4
North of England -55 8 £450 +12.50% 29
North West -35 7 £450 +12.50% 12
Wales -2 2 £450 -25.00% 5
South West -29 2 £650 +74.03% 15
South East -38 2 £400 -30.43% 34
Scotland +3 1 £475 +8.57% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 14
East Midlands - 1 £545 - 9
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 8 (14.04%) Apache
1 8 (14.04%) JBoss
1 8 (14.04%) WebLogic
2 5 (8.77%) CMS
3 4 (7.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (5.26%) Confluence
5 2 (3.51%) WordPress
6 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.77%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) Figma
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (12.28%) npm
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.51%) GCP
10 2 (3.51%) GitHub
11 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.75%) Apple Pay
11 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.75%) Google Pay
11 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
2 5 (8.77%) MySQL
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.26%) Power BI
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (50.88%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) Eclipse
2 8 (14.04%) IntelliJ
2 8 (14.04%) JUnit
2 8 (14.04%) Selenium
3 7 (12.28%) SonarQube
3 7 (12.28%) webpack
4 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.53%) JIRA
5 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.02%) Jasmine
5 4 (7.02%) Storybook
6 3 (5.26%) Babel
6 3 (5.26%) Grunt
6 3 (5.26%) gulp
6 3 (5.26%) Postman
7 2 (3.51%) GitLab
8 1 (1.75%) Bundler
8 1 (1.75%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
2 8 (14.04%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.53%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Marketing
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Military
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (8.77%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) React Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.26%) Designer
7 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.26%) UI Designer
7 3 (5.26%) UI Developer
7 3 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (5.26%) UX Designer
8 2 (3.51%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (100.00%) HTML
2 46 (80.70%) CSS
3 44 (77.19%) CSS3
4 29 (50.88%) React
5 24 (42.11%) RESTful
6 19 (33.33%) REST
7 18 (31.58%) AngularJS
8 16 (28.07%) Spring
9 15 (26.32%) Jest
9 15 (26.32%) JSON
9 15 (26.32%) Redux
10 13 (22.81%) Node.js
11 10 (17.54%) Sass
12 9 (15.79%) Bootstrap
12 9 (15.79%) SOAP
13 8 (14.04%) J2EE
13 8 (14.04%) J2SE
13 8 (14.04%) Play Framework
13 8 (14.04%) Spring Boot
13 8 (14.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Unix
2 3 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) Agile
2 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
3 22 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (38.60%) User Experience
4 20 (35.09%) DevOps
5 16 (28.07%) Open Source
5 16 (28.07%) UX Design
6 15 (26.32%) Front End Development
6 15 (26.32%) Microservices
7 13 (22.81%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (21.05%) Clean Code
8 12 (21.05%) MVC
9 11 (19.30%) Responsive Web Design
9 11 (19.30%) Scrum
9 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
9 11 (19.30%) TDD
10 10 (17.54%) Code Quality
10 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) JavaScript
2 20 (35.09%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) TypeScript
4 13 (22.81%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) Scala
6 5 (8.77%) C#
7 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Python
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
3 5 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.82%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.28%) WCAG
3 4 (7.02%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Puppet
2 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Adobe
2 8 (14.04%) webMethods
3 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.77%) MuleSoft
4 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) Perforce
5 3 (5.26%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.75%) Apple
6 1 (1.75%) BMC
6 1 (1.75%) GoCardless
6 1 (1.75%) HP
6 1 (1.75%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.75%) Remedy
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow