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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 271 366
Rank change year-on-year -106 +95 -30
Contract jobs citing HTML5 48 71 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.56% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 2.94% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 43 23
10th Percentile £358 £352 £345
25th Percentile £385 £371 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £438 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% -3.85% -0.55%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £575
90th Percentile £548 £588 £620
UK median daily rate £448 £498 £575
% change year-on-year -10.14% -13.39% +9.52%
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 - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

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 3,798 2,413 3,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.39% 19.02% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 1,638 2,197
10th Percentile £350 £350 £319
25th Percentile £410 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £598
90th Percentile £655 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 70 166
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.48 £21.04
25th Percentile £53.75 £59.94 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -78 17 £450 +12.50% 12
Midlands -61 13 £415 +12.94% 13
North West -43 12 £404 +1.00% 6
West Midlands -59 12 £400 -52.94% 4
South West -33 6 £530 +41.77% 7
South East -56 6 £413 -21.43% 16
Yorkshire -55 5 £475 - 1
Scotland -8 4 £410 -7.98% 4
Wales -8 2 £450 -25.00% 3
East Midlands -38 1 £545 +57.29% 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 5 (10.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Apache
2 4 (8.33%) JBoss
2 4 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (10.42%) Sketch
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Figma
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.33%) GCP
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Apple Pay
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.08%) Google Pay
9 1 (2.08%) npm
9 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.08%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) MySQL
2 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.25%) Power BI
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) GIS
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) JIRA
3 4 (8.33%) Eclipse
3 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
3 4 (8.33%) JUnit
3 4 (8.33%) Selenium
4 3 (6.25%) Jasmine
5 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.17%) GitLab
5 2 (4.17%) Vite
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (54.17%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) React Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (4.17%) Designer
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Designer
8 2 (4.17%) UI Designer
8 2 (4.17%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (4.17%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (100.00%) HTML
2 42 (87.50%) CSS
3 41 (85.42%) CSS3
4 26 (54.17%) React
5 21 (43.75%) RESTful
6 19 (39.58%) AngularJS
7 16 (33.33%) Spring
8 14 (29.17%) Jest
9 12 (25.00%) Spring Boot
10 11 (22.92%) REST
11 10 (20.83%) Redux
11 10 (20.83%) Spring MVC
12 9 (18.75%) JSON
13 7 (14.58%) Playwright
13 7 (14.58%) Sass
14 6 (12.50%) .NET
14 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET
15 5 (10.42%) Lambda Expressions
16 4 (8.33%) Node.js
16 4 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) FMCG
3 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Agile
2 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (45.83%) User Experience
4 19 (39.58%) UX Design
5 17 (35.42%) DevOps
6 14 (29.17%) MVC
6 14 (29.17%) Responsive Web Design
7 11 (22.92%) Clean Code
7 11 (22.92%) Open Source
8 10 (20.83%) Front End Development
9 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (16.67%) Code Quality
10 8 (16.67%) Microservices
10 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.67%) TDD
11 7 (14.58%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) JavaScript
2 19 (39.58%) Java
3 18 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 15 (31.25%) SQL
5 6 (12.50%) C#
6 4 (8.33%) Scala
7 3 (6.25%) Python
8 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) Accessibility
2 7 (14.58%) WCAG
3 5 (10.42%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.33%) Puppet
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Adobe
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) MuleSoft
3 4 (8.33%) webMethods
4 3 (6.25%) Splunk
5 2 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Apple
6 1 (2.08%) ESRI
6 1 (2.08%) GoCardless
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud