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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 321 323
Rank change year-on-year -92 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing HTML5 58 47 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.43% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 30
10th Percentile £313 £343 £354
25th Percentile £363 £359 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £385
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +11.76% -19.84%
75th Percentile £444 £500 £466
90th Percentile £510 £567 £500
UK median daily rate £453 £460 £514
% change year-on-year -1.41% -10.60% -6.55%

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 4,796 3,296 3,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.12% 21.31% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 2,196 2,162
10th Percentile £355 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.53%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £608
90th Percentile £675 £644 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 128 161
10th Percentile £29.91 £31.99 £27.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -27 20 £413 -25.94% 15
Scotland -16 13 £361 -21.95% 12
North of England -85 12 £448 +5.29% 31
Yorkshire -48 8 £500 +6.38% 9
Midlands -48 7 £425 +9.40% 22
South East -66 6 £325 -41.18% 26
West Midlands -52 5 £431 +0.41% 9
East Midlands -14 2 £380 +1.33% 13
North West -52 2 £367 -12.22% 14
North East - 2 £375 - 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 11 (18.97%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) WordPress
3 3 (5.17%) CMS
4 2 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (3.45%) Apache
5 1 (1.72%) Camunda
5 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.45%) Sketch
2 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.62%) Figma
5 3 (5.17%) GitHub
5 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) GCP
6 2 (3.45%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.72%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.72%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.72%) Google Pay
7 1 (1.72%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Broadband
1 2 (3.45%) Multicast
1 2 (3.45%) RTMP
1 2 (3.45%) TETRA
1 2 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (1.72%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.41%) MySQL
2 11 (18.97%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) Flink
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (53.45%) Git
2 18 (31.03%) JIRA
3 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 11 (18.97%) MSI
5 9 (15.52%) Maven
6 4 (6.90%) JUnit
7 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (5.17%) Gradle
8 2 (3.45%) GitLab
8 2 (3.45%) GoCD
8 2 (3.45%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.45%) Vite
8 2 (3.45%) webpack
9 1 (1.72%) Babel
9 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.72%) Mockito
9 1 (1.72%) Selenium
9 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Publishing
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) International Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (77.59%) Developer
2 22 (37.93%) Senior
3 20 (34.48%) Senior Developer
4 18 (31.03%) Java Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.34%) React Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Lead
8 4 (6.90%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.17%) PHP Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior PHP Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Web Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) HTML
2 53 (91.38%) CSS
3 49 (84.48%) CSS3
4 39 (67.24%) React
5 32 (55.17%) REST
6 23 (39.66%) Redux
7 22 (37.93%) Spring
7 22 (37.93%) Spring Boot
8 21 (36.21%) RESTful
9 16 (27.59%) Spring MVC
10 15 (25.86%) Node.js
11 14 (24.14%) .NET
11 14 (24.14%) Jest
12 12 (20.69%) .NET Core
12 12 (20.69%) .NET Framework
12 12 (20.69%) Sass
12 12 (20.69%) Terraform
13 11 (18.97%) GeoJSON
13 11 (18.97%) MFC
13 11 (18.97%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.97%) Onboarding
3 10 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.45%) Social Media
6 1 (1.72%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.72%) FMCG
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Tizen
2 1 (1.72%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Agile
2 33 (56.90%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) Test Automation
4 24 (41.38%) Microservices
5 23 (39.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (36.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (29.31%) Code Quality
7 17 (29.31%) DevOps
8 16 (27.59%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (27.59%) MVC
9 15 (25.86%) Design Patterns
9 15 (25.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (24.14%) User Experience
11 13 (22.41%) API Development
11 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
11 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (22.41%) Scrum
12 12 (20.69%) API Design
12 12 (20.69%) SDLC
12 12 (20.69%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 52 (89.66%) JavaScript
2 25 (43.10%) Java
3 22 (37.93%) TypeScript
4 15 (25.86%) Python
4 15 (25.86%) SQL
5 14 (24.14%) C#
6 11 (18.97%) Bicep
7 4 (6.90%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) C
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 23 (39.66%) WCAG
3 11 (18.97%) NCSC
4 8 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) MuleSoft
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle
4 4 (6.90%) Adobe
5 3 (5.17%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) Peplink
6 2 (3.45%) Starlink
7 1 (1.72%) Apple
7 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.72%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.72%) Okta
7 1 (1.72%) webMethods