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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 306 344
Rank change year-on-year -99 +38 -14
Contract jobs citing HTML5 47 47 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.35% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.90% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 30
10th Percentile £358 £358 £360
25th Percentile £402 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £547
90th Percentile £575 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £437 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -13.64% -4.35%

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 4,060 2,480 3,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 18.52% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,688 1,708 2,183
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile £677 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 92 234
10th Percentile £36.00 £33.91 £23.13
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -14 16 £410 - 11
North of England -73 11 £414 +3.50% 39
Scotland -11 9 £405 -22.90% 9
North West -48 6 £350 -12.50% 15
Yorkshire -52 5 £500 -9.09% 17
Midlands -66 5 £498 +35.56% 16
South East -56 4 £413 -13.16% 18
West Midlands -58 3 £500 -41.18% 4
East Midlands -25 2 £485 +33.79% 12
Wales - 2 £450 - 4
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 (21.28%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.13%) Camunda
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.13%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) Figma
4 3 (6.38%) GCP
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Apple Pay
6 1 (2.13%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Dialogflow
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Google Pay
6 1 (2.13%) npm
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) MySQL
2 5 (10.64%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) GIS
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
1 12 (25.53%) JIRA
2 5 (10.64%) MSI
3 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.26%) IntelliJ
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.13%) Vite
4 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.64%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (76.60%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Java Developer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior
4 12 (25.53%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.02%) React Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 2 (4.26%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Power BI Specialist
9 2 (4.26%) Technical Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
10 1 (2.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (100.00%) HTML
2 44 (93.62%) CSS
3 41 (87.23%) CSS3
4 33 (70.21%) React
5 23 (48.94%) Redux
6 19 (40.43%) Jest
7 18 (38.30%) REST
8 17 (36.17%) Spring
8 17 (36.17%) Spring Boot
9 16 (34.04%) RESTful
9 16 (34.04%) Spring MVC
10 11 (23.40%) .NET
11 7 (14.89%) .NET Core
11 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
12 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
13 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET
13 5 (10.64%) ATL
13 5 (10.64%) JSON
13 5 (10.64%) MFC
13 5 (10.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.13%) FMCG
6 1 (2.13%) IoT
6 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Tizen
2 1 (2.13%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Agile
2 21 (44.68%) Code Quality
3 18 (38.30%) MVC
4 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
5 16 (34.04%) SDLC
6 15 (31.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (29.79%) Data Protection
7 14 (29.79%) User Experience
8 13 (27.66%) UX Design
9 12 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (25.53%) Software Testing
10 11 (23.40%) DevOps
10 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (21.28%) Front End Development
12 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
13 8 (17.02%) Clean Code
13 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (17.02%) Microservices
13 8 (17.02%) Responsive Web Design
14 7 (14.89%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 42 (89.36%) JavaScript
2 20 (42.55%) SQL
3 19 (40.43%) Java
4 15 (31.91%) TypeScript
5 11 (23.40%) C#
5 11 (23.40%) Python
6 5 (10.64%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) Accessibility
2 10 (21.28%) WCAG
3 8 (17.02%) QA
4 5 (10.64%) NCSC
5 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.13%) ESRI
4 1 (2.13%) GoCardless
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud