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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 270 340
Rank change year-on-year -70 +70 -36
Contract jobs citing HTML5 63 70 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 2.75% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 43 34
10th Percentile £356 £350 £305
25th Percentile £385 £356 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £498 £498 £538
90th Percentile £556 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -7.50% -6.98% -0.46%
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 - - £50.80
% change year-on-year - - -21.85%

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 3,316 2,545 3,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.19% 18.07% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 1,584 2,270
10th Percentile £347 £345 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 54 132
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.00 £37.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.36 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.74 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +19.05% -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 6 months to 6 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 6 months to 6 January 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 -40 28 £445 +11.25% 24
Midlands -33 17 £429 -49.53% 9
West Midlands -31 16 £415 -51.24% 3
Yorkshire -38 15 £475 - 12
North West -33 13 £425 +6.25% 9
Scotland -14 6 £463 +10.12% 2
South West -12 5 £650 +74.03% 11
South East -18 4 £394 -30.92% 15
Wales +1 3 £450 -25.00% 4
East Midlands - 1 £545 - 6
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 (12.70%) Apache
1 8 (12.70%) JBoss
1 8 (12.70%) WebLogic
2 5 (7.94%) CMS
3 4 (6.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Confluence
5 2 (3.17%) WordPress
6 1 (1.59%) Drupal
6 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.94%) Sketch
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) AWS
2 13 (20.63%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Figma
3 10 (15.87%) Serverless
4 8 (12.70%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (11.11%) npm
6 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) GCP
8 4 (6.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.59%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.94%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.35%) MySQL
3 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.76%) Power BI
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (47.62%) Git
2 11 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 10 (15.87%) webpack
4 8 (12.70%) Eclipse
4 8 (12.70%) IntelliJ
4 8 (12.70%) JUnit
4 8 (12.70%) Selenium
5 7 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 6 (9.52%) JIRA
7 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
7 4 (6.35%) GitLab
7 4 (6.35%) Jasmine
7 4 (6.35%) Storybook
8 3 (4.76%) Babel
8 3 (4.76%) Grunt
8 3 (4.76%) gulp
8 3 (4.76%) Postman
9 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.70%) Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (53.97%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Lead
3 9 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (11.11%) Senior
5 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Angular Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) React Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.76%) Designer
7 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) UI Designer
7 3 (4.76%) UI Developer
7 3 (4.76%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (4.76%) UX Designer
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (100.00%) HTML
2 52 (82.54%) CSS
3 49 (77.78%) CSS3
4 31 (49.21%) React
5 29 (46.03%) RESTful
6 21 (33.33%) REST
7 20 (31.75%) AngularJS
8 18 (28.57%) Node.js
9 17 (26.98%) Redux
10 15 (23.81%) JSON
10 15 (23.81%) Spring
11 14 (22.22%) Jest
12 12 (19.05%) Sass
13 9 (14.29%) Bootstrap
13 9 (14.29%) SOAP
14 8 (12.70%) EJB
14 8 (12.70%) Hibernate
14 8 (12.70%) J2EE
14 8 (12.70%) J2SE
14 8 (12.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Unix
2 3 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 32 (50.79%) Agile
3 27 (42.86%) User Experience
4 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (34.92%) DevOps
6 20 (31.75%) Microservices
6 20 (31.75%) UX Design
7 18 (28.57%) Front End Development
8 16 (25.40%) Continuous Delivery
8 16 (25.40%) Open Source
9 15 (23.81%) Clean Code
10 13 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (19.05%) Code Quality
11 12 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (17.46%) MVC
12 11 (17.46%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (17.46%) Scrum
12 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
12 11 (17.46%) TDD
13 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) JavaScript
2 21 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 19 (30.16%) Java
4 14 (22.22%) SQL
5 8 (12.70%) Scala
6 5 (7.94%) C#
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
7 3 (4.76%) Python
8 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.59%) ABAP
9 1 (1.59%) Bash
9 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.98%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.11%) WCAG
3 6 (9.52%) QA
4 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Puppet
2 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Terraform
4 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Adobe
2 8 (12.70%) webMethods
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.94%) MuleSoft
4 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) Perforce
5 3 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.59%) Apple
6 1 (1.59%) BMC
6 1 (1.59%) GoCardless
6 1 (1.59%) HP
6 1 (1.59%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.59%) Remedy
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow