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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 327 327
Rank change year-on-year -100 0 +12
Contract jobs citing HTML5 54 50 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.47% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 39 28
10th Percentile £317 £349 £319
25th Percentile £345 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £385
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +11.76% -19.00%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £475
90th Percentile £567 £567 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -9.09%

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 4,793 3,392 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.02% 21.52% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,050 2,237 2,064
10th Percentile £357 £319 £325
25th Percentile £420 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 136 154
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.78 £29.93
25th Percentile £55.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.22 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -68 14 £500 +15.61% 16
South West -26 13 £413 -25.94% 6
Scotland -14 10 £322 -30.38% 12
South East -58 9 £350 -26.32% 19
Midlands -53 8 £425 +9.40% 6
Yorkshire -40 7 £500 +9.29% 6
West Midlands -44 6 £438 +1.86% 3
North West -48 5 £470 +11.57% 10
East Midlands -16 2 £380 +1.33% 3
North East - 2 £375 - 1
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 12 (22.22%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) CMS
3 3 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (5.56%) WordPress
4 2 (3.70%) Apache
5 1 (1.85%) Camunda
5 1 (1.85%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.70%) Sketch
2 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) AWS
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.41%) GCP
3 4 (7.41%) GitHub
4 3 (5.56%) Figma
4 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.70%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.85%) Dialogflow
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) npm
6 1 (1.85%) Serverless
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Broadband
1 2 (3.70%) Multicast
1 2 (3.70%) RTMP
1 2 (3.70%) TETRA
1 2 (3.70%) VLAN
2 1 (1.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Flink
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (59.26%) Git
2 18 (33.33%) JIRA
3 12 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (20.37%) MSI
5 10 (18.52%) Maven
6 5 (9.26%) JUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 3 (5.56%) Gradle
7 3 (5.56%) Mockito
8 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.70%) GoCD
8 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.70%) webpack
9 1 (1.85%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.85%) Selenium
9 1 (1.85%) Storybook
9 1 (1.85%) Subversion
9 1 (1.85%) Vite
General
1 14 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Publishing
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) International Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (70.37%) Developer
2 21 (38.89%) Senior
3 19 (35.19%) Senior Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 9 (16.67%) React Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior PHP Developer
8 3 (5.56%) UI Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.70%) UI/UX Designer
9 2 (3.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (100.00%) HTML
2 49 (90.74%) CSS
3 44 (81.48%) CSS3
4 35 (64.81%) React
5 31 (57.41%) REST
6 26 (48.15%) RESTful
7 18 (33.33%) Node.js
8 17 (31.48%) Redux
9 15 (27.78%) .NET
10 13 (24.07%) Sass
10 13 (24.07%) Terraform
11 12 (22.22%) .NET Core
11 12 (22.22%) .NET Framework
11 12 (22.22%) Spring
11 12 (22.22%) Spring Boot
12 11 (20.37%) ATL
12 11 (20.37%) COM
12 11 (20.37%) GeoJSON
12 11 (20.37%) MFC
12 11 (20.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (24.07%) Onboarding
3 10 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (18.52%) Product Ownership
4 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.70%) NHS
5 2 (3.70%) Social Media
6 1 (1.85%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.07%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Tizen
2 1 (1.85%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (83.33%) Agile
2 39 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 26 (48.15%) Microservices
3 26 (48.15%) Test Automation
4 19 (35.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 17 (31.48%) DevOps
7 15 (27.78%) Design Patterns
7 15 (27.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
8 14 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (25.93%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (25.93%) Scrum
8 14 (25.93%) User Experience
9 13 (24.07%) API Design
9 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (22.22%) API Development
10 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (22.22%) SOLID
11 11 (20.37%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 49 (90.74%) JavaScript
2 27 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 19 (35.19%) Java
4 15 (27.78%) C#
5 12 (22.22%) Python
6 11 (20.37%) Bicep
7 6 (11.11%) SQL
8 3 (5.56%) PHP
9 2 (3.70%) C
9 2 (3.70%) C++
9 2 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) Degree
4 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (55.56%) Accessibility
2 21 (38.89%) WCAG
3 12 (22.22%) QA
4 11 (20.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.26%) Adobe
3 5 (9.26%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Peplink
4 2 (3.70%) Starlink
5 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.85%) Okta
5 1 (1.85%) webMethods