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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 315 344
Rank change year-on-year -100 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing HTML5 52 51 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.84% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 41 28
10th Percentile £328 £350 £351
25th Percentile £383 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% -16.01%
75th Percentile £479 £500 £476
90th Percentile £523 £575 £573
UK median daily rate £438 £460 £550
% change year-on-year -4.84% -16.41% -

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 4,164 2,768 3,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.51% 18.35% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,718 1,865 2,056
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £680 £625 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 120 215
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.25 £25.86
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%
75th Percentile £73.53 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.10 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -24 18 £411 -26.17% 9
Scotland -18 13 £405 -15.33% 6
North of England -75 12 £470 +14.70% 24
Yorkshire -42 7 £500 - 12
South East -65 5 £425 -23.08% 20
Midlands -68 4 £438 +17.92% 16
North West -55 3 £332 -17.54% 8
West Midlands -60 3 £450 -12.20% 5
North East - 2 £375 - 4
East Midlands -20 1 £425 +14.56% 11
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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) CMS
2 3 (5.77%) WordPress
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.92%) Camunda
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.85%) Sketch
2 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.62%) Figma
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) GitHub
7 2 (3.85%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.92%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.92%) AWS IoT
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.92%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.92%) Google Pay
8 1 (1.92%) npm
8 1 (1.92%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
1 1 (1.92%) MQTT
1 1 (1.92%) Multicast
1 1 (1.92%) RTMP
1 1 (1.92%) TETRA
1 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) MySQL
2 9 (17.31%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) Flink
6 1 (1.92%) GIS
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Git
2 14 (26.92%) JIRA
3 9 (17.31%) MSI
4 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.62%) Maven
6 4 (7.69%) JUnit
7 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.85%) GoCD
8 2 (3.85%) Gradle
8 2 (3.85%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.85%) Vite
8 2 (3.85%) webpack
9 1 (1.92%) Babel
9 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.92%) GitLab
9 1 (1.92%) Mockito
9 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.62%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Finance
6 2 (3.85%) Publishing
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) International Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (75.00%) Developer
2 20 (38.46%) Senior
3 18 (34.62%) Senior Developer
4 17 (32.69%) Java Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (11.54%) React Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Designer
10 2 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Senior PHP Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.85%) UI Designer
10 2 (3.85%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (100.00%) HTML
2 48 (92.31%) CSS
3 45 (86.54%) CSS3
4 35 (67.31%) React
5 28 (53.85%) REST
6 23 (44.23%) Redux
7 20 (38.46%) Spring
7 20 (38.46%) Spring Boot
8 19 (36.54%) RESTful
9 17 (32.69%) Jest
10 15 (28.85%) Spring MVC
11 12 (23.08%) .NET
12 11 (21.15%) .NET Core
13 10 (19.23%) .NET Framework
14 9 (17.31%) ATL
14 9 (17.31%) COM
14 9 (17.31%) GeoJSON
14 9 (17.31%) MFC
14 9 (17.31%) Node.js
14 9 (17.31%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.31%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (17.31%) Onboarding
3 8 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.92%) FMCG
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) Social Media
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Tizen
2 1 (1.92%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Agile
2 28 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 20 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (36.54%) Test Automation
5 18 (34.62%) Microservices
6 17 (32.69%) Code Quality
6 17 (32.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (30.77%) DevOps
8 15 (28.85%) MVC
8 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (26.92%) SDLC
10 13 (25.00%) User Experience
11 12 (23.08%) Data Protection
11 12 (23.08%) Design Patterns
11 12 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 12 (23.08%) UX Design
12 11 (21.15%) API Design
12 11 (21.15%) API Development
12 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (90.38%) JavaScript
2 22 (42.31%) Java
3 19 (36.54%) TypeScript
4 17 (32.69%) SQL
5 15 (28.85%) Python
6 12 (23.08%) C#
7 9 (17.31%) Bicep
8 3 (5.77%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (44.23%) Accessibility
2 18 (34.62%) WCAG
3 9 (17.31%) NCSC
4 8 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.23%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.77%) Adobe
3 3 (5.77%) Google
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Apple
4 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.92%) ESRI
4 1 (1.92%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.92%) Okta
4 1 (1.92%) Peplink
4 1 (1.92%) Starlink