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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 312 339
Rank change year-on-year -38 +27 -32
Contract jobs citing HTML5 59 56 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 1.94% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 48
10th Percentile £351 £334 £305
25th Percentile £363 £356 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -13.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £489 £456 £519
90th Percentile £553 £498 £583
UK median daily rate £450 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -9.18% -5.62% -4.55%
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 3,334 2,888 3,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.79% 17.53% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 1,747 2,491
10th Percentile £325 £340 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £657 £686 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 91 145
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £40.69
25th Percentile £44.75 £44.34 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -13.05%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -20 28 £450 +26.94% 23
Midlands -18 16 £402 -19.60% 13
Yorkshire -24 15 £475 - 5
North West -19 13 £438 +23.41% 13
West Midlands -27 10 £429 -14.20% 8
South East -6 6 £528 +41.61% 50
East Midlands - 6 £375 - 5
Scotland -14 5 £463 +14.55% 3
South West -8 3 £557 +49.13% 8
Wales - 1 £425 - 3
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 9 (15.25%) Apache
2 8 (13.56%) JBoss
2 8 (13.56%) WebLogic
3 5 (8.47%) CMS
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (3.39%) Confluence
5 1 (1.69%) Drupal
5 1 (1.69%) nginx
5 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) Azure
3 10 (16.95%) npm
4 8 (13.56%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.56%) Serverless
5 5 (8.47%) Figma
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) Google Play
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (59.32%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.34%) webpack
3 10 (16.95%) SonarQube
4 8 (13.56%) Eclipse
4 8 (13.56%) Grunt
4 8 (13.56%) gulp
4 8 (13.56%) IntelliJ
4 8 (13.56%) JUnit
4 8 (13.56%) Selenium
5 7 (11.86%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.17%) JIRA
7 4 (6.78%) GitLab
7 4 (6.78%) Jasmine
7 4 (6.78%) Storybook
8 3 (5.08%) Babel
8 3 (5.08%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (5.08%) Postman
8 3 (5.08%) Subversion
9 2 (3.39%) Protractor
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.17%) Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Retail
7 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (62.71%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Angular Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (11.86%) Lead
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
3 7 (11.86%) UI Developer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) React Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.39%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (100.00%) HTML
2 50 (84.75%) CSS
3 44 (74.58%) CSS3
4 32 (54.24%) React
5 26 (44.07%) REST
6 23 (38.98%) RESTful
7 22 (37.29%) Node.js
8 20 (33.90%) Redux
9 18 (30.51%) Jest
10 17 (28.81%) AngularJS
11 15 (25.42%) JSON
12 12 (20.34%) Sass
12 12 (20.34%) Spring
13 11 (18.64%) Bootstrap
14 9 (15.25%) SOAP
15 8 (13.56%) EJB
15 8 (13.56%) Hibernate
15 8 (13.56%) J2EE
15 8 (13.56%) J2SE
15 8 (13.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Unix
2 5 (8.47%) Android
3 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) CI/CD
2 24 (40.68%) Agile
3 21 (35.59%) DevOps
3 21 (35.59%) Front End Development
3 21 (35.59%) User Experience
4 18 (30.51%) Microservices
5 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (25.42%) Clean Code
7 14 (23.73%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (22.03%) Open Source
8 13 (22.03%) UX Design
9 12 (20.34%) Code Quality
9 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
10 11 (18.64%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (18.64%) Scrum
10 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
11 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (16.95%) TDD
11 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (59.32%) JavaScript
2 20 (33.90%) TypeScript
3 19 (32.20%) Java
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 8 (13.56%) Scala
6 5 (8.47%) Python
7 3 (5.08%) C#
8 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.39%) PHP
9 1 (1.69%) ABAP
9 1 (1.69%) Bash
9 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Puppet
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) webMethods
3 6 (10.17%) Perforce
4 4 (6.78%) Google
4 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.08%) Adobe
6 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.69%) BMC
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.69%) Remedy
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk