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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 311 366
Rank change year-on-year -103 +55 -32
Contract jobs citing HTML5 46 43 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.61% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 28
10th Percentile £350 £358 £355
25th Percentile £402 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £449 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +2.51% -8.85%
75th Percentile £470 £500 £509
90th Percentile £511 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £465 £550
% change year-on-year -8.50% -15.55% -3.51%

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 4,224 2,672 3,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.49% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 1,819 2,215
10th Percentile £350 £318 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £550 £607
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 105 246
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%
75th Percentile £73.81 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.48 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 8 July 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 July 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 -21 17 £410 - 9
Scotland -10 11 £405 -22.95% 11
North of England -85 9 £485 +5.55% 28
Yorkshire -39 5 £500 - 10
South East -63 5 £413 -25.34% 21
North West -56 4 £350 -14.58% 11
Midlands -66 4 £450 +21.29% 18
West Midlands -57 3 £500 - 8
East Midlands -21 1 £425 +14.56% 10
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 (21.74%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.17%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.17%) Camunda
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.17%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) AWS
2 16 (34.78%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Figma
4 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) Apple Pay
6 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Dialogflow
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Google Pay
6 1 (2.17%) npm
6 1 (2.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) MySQL
2 7 (15.22%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.17%) GIS
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Git
2 12 (26.09%) JIRA
3 7 (15.22%) MSI
4 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.70%) JUnit
6 3 (6.52%) Maven
7 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.35%) GoCD
7 2 (4.35%) Gradle
7 2 (4.35%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.35%) Vite
7 2 (4.35%) webpack
8 1 (2.17%) Babel
8 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.17%) GitLab
8 1 (2.17%) Mockito
8 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (80.43%) Developer
2 18 (39.13%) Java Developer
3 17 (36.96%) Senior
4 16 (34.78%) Senior Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.04%) React Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.35%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Technical Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
10 1 (2.17%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (100.00%) HTML
2 43 (93.48%) CSS
3 40 (86.96%) CSS3
4 35 (76.09%) React
5 24 (52.17%) Redux
6 22 (47.83%) REST
7 20 (43.48%) Jest
7 20 (43.48%) Spring
7 20 (43.48%) Spring Boot
8 17 (36.96%) RESTful
9 16 (34.78%) Spring MVC
10 11 (23.91%) .NET
11 9 (19.57%) .NET Core
11 9 (19.57%) .NET Framework
12 7 (15.22%) ATL
12 7 (15.22%) COM
12 7 (15.22%) GeoJSON
12 7 (15.22%) MFC
12 7 (15.22%) WPF
13 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 9 (19.57%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (15.22%) Onboarding
4 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
5 5 (10.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.17%) Digital Signage
7 1 (2.17%) FMCG
7 1 (2.17%) IoT
7 1 (2.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Tizen
2 1 (2.17%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 19 (41.30%) Code Quality
4 18 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (34.78%) MVC
6 15 (32.61%) SDLC
7 14 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (30.43%) Data Protection
7 14 (30.43%) DevOps
7 14 (30.43%) Test Automation
8 13 (28.26%) Microservices
9 12 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (26.09%) Software Testing
10 10 (21.74%) User Experience
11 9 (19.57%) API Development
11 9 (19.57%) Design Patterns
11 9 (19.57%) Front End Development
11 9 (19.57%) UX Design
12 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) JavaScript
2 22 (47.83%) Java
3 21 (45.65%) SQL
4 15 (32.61%) TypeScript
5 13 (28.26%) Python
6 11 (23.91%) C#
7 7 (15.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) Accessibility
2 12 (26.09%) WCAG
3 7 (15.22%) NCSC
3 7 (15.22%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Adobe
3 2 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Apple
4 1 (2.17%) ESRI
4 1 (2.17%) GoCardless