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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 321 339
Rank change year-on-year -98 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing HTML5 53 49 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.75% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 28
10th Percentile £322 £346 £351
25th Percentile £365 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.81% -16.67%
75th Percentile £470 £500 £485
90th Percentile £520 £575 £573
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

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 4,130 2,807 3,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.11% 18.38% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,682 1,873 1,990
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £612
90th Percentile £676 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 126 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.12
25th Percentile £53.13 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.98 £80.51 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -24 19 £413 -25.94% 12
Scotland -7 14 £361 -24.44% 15
North of England -76 11 £470 +16.92% 25
Yorkshire -41 8 £500 +16.55% 9
South East -66 5 £425 -23.08% 25
Midlands -59 4 £438 +17.92% 22
West Midlands -46 3 £450 -12.20% 9
North East - 2 £375 - 5
East Midlands -15 1 £425 +14.56% 13
North West -54 1 £313 -22.14% 12
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 (20.75%) Confluence
2 4 (7.55%) CMS
2 4 (7.55%) WordPress
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Camunda
3 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.77%) Sketch
2 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.43%) Figma
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.89%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.89%) AWS IoT
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.89%) Google Pay
8 1 (1.89%) npm
8 1 (1.89%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Broadband
1 2 (3.77%) Multicast
1 2 (3.77%) RTMP
1 2 (3.77%) TETRA
1 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 1 (1.89%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) MySQL
2 11 (20.75%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) Flink
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (50.94%) Git
2 17 (32.08%) JIRA
3 11 (20.75%) MSI
4 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
5 7 (13.21%) Maven
6 4 (7.55%) JUnit
7 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.77%) GoCD
8 2 (3.77%) Gradle
8 2 (3.77%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.77%) Vite
8 2 (3.77%) webpack
9 1 (1.89%) Babel
9 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.89%) GitLab
9 1 (1.89%) Mockito
9 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Publishing
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) International Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (77.36%) Developer
2 22 (41.51%) Senior
3 20 (37.74%) Senior Developer
4 17 (32.08%) Java Developer
5 9 (16.98%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (9.43%) React Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.66%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Designer
9 2 (3.77%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.77%) UI Designer
9 2 (3.77%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (100.00%) HTML
2 48 (90.57%) CSS
3 45 (84.91%) CSS3
4 34 (64.15%) React
5 31 (58.49%) REST
6 22 (41.51%) Redux
7 20 (37.74%) Spring
7 20 (37.74%) Spring Boot
8 19 (35.85%) RESTful
9 15 (28.30%) Jest
9 15 (28.30%) Spring MVC
10 14 (26.42%) .NET
11 13 (24.53%) .NET Core
12 12 (22.64%) .NET Framework
12 12 (22.64%) Node.js
13 11 (20.75%) ATL
13 11 (20.75%) COM
13 11 (20.75%) GeoJSON
13 11 (20.75%) MFC
13 11 (20.75%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.75%) Onboarding
3 10 (18.87%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (16.98%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.77%) Social Media
7 1 (1.89%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.89%) FMCG
7 1 (1.89%) IoT
7 1 (1.89%) NHS
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Tizen
2 1 (1.89%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) Agile
2 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
3 23 (43.40%) Test Automation
4 22 (41.51%) Microservices
5 21 (39.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (35.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (32.08%) DevOps
8 16 (30.19%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (28.30%) MVC
9 15 (28.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (26.42%) Code Quality
10 14 (26.42%) Design Patterns
11 13 (24.53%) API Design
11 13 (24.53%) API Development
12 12 (22.64%) Containerisation
12 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (22.64%) SDLC
12 12 (22.64%) SOLID
12 12 (22.64%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (22.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (88.68%) JavaScript
2 22 (41.51%) Java
3 19 (35.85%) TypeScript
4 16 (30.19%) Python
5 14 (26.42%) C#
5 14 (26.42%) SQL
6 11 (20.75%) Bicep
7 4 (7.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (52.83%) Accessibility
2 21 (39.62%) WCAG
3 11 (20.75%) NCSC
4 8 (15.09%) QA
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (22.64%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.66%) Adobe
3 3 (5.66%) Google
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) Peplink
4 2 (3.77%) Starlink
5 1 (1.89%) Apple
5 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.89%) GoCardless
5 1 (1.89%) Okta