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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 284 347
Rank change year-on-year -116 +63 -10
Contract jobs citing HTML5 47 51 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.15% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 26
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £574
90th Percentile £554 £588 £613
UK median daily rate £437 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -12.60% -10.31% -1.33%

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 3,951 2,374 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.89% 18.70% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 1,651 2,149
10th Percentile £350 £325 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £606
90th Percentile £666 £638 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 80 214
10th Percentile £36.55 £33.54 £22.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.05 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -77 12 £404 +1.00% 16
South West -23 11 £409 -28.87% 7
Midlands -70 10 £425 +15.80% 11
Scotland -4 9 £407 -18.55% 6
North West -48 9 £358 -10.50% 7
West Midlands -59 9 £400 -52.94% 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £500 -9.09% 5
South East -59 3 £400 -23.81% 16
Wales -15 2 £450 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -33 1 £545 +57.29% 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 5 (10.64%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (4.26%) WordPress
4 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.13%) Camunda
4 1 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Adobe XD
1 6 (12.77%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) Figma
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Apple Pay
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) Google Pay
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.26%) Stripe
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.13%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.13%) npm
7 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) MySQL
2 3 (6.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) GIS
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.26%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Vite
4 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Marketing
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (70.21%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.89%) React Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Designer
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.38%) UI Designer
7 3 (6.38%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (6.38%) UX Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (100.00%) HTML
2 44 (93.62%) CSS
3 43 (91.49%) CSS3
4 34 (72.34%) React
5 22 (46.81%) Redux
6 21 (44.68%) Jest
7 19 (40.43%) Spring
7 19 (40.43%) Spring Boot
8 18 (38.30%) Spring MVC
9 17 (36.17%) RESTful
10 14 (29.79%) AngularJS
11 12 (25.53%) REST
12 6 (12.77%) JSON
13 4 (8.51%) .NET
13 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
13 4 (8.51%) MobX
13 4 (8.51%) Playwright
13 4 (8.51%) Sass
14 3 (6.38%) Lambda Expressions
14 3 (6.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) FMCG
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) MVC
2 20 (42.55%) User Experience
3 19 (40.43%) Code Quality
4 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (38.30%) UX Design
5 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
6 16 (34.04%) SDLC
7 14 (29.79%) Data Protection
8 13 (27.66%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (25.53%) Software Testing
10 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (23.40%) Front End Development
10 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (17.02%) Clean Code
11 8 (17.02%) Wireframes
12 7 (14.89%) DevOps
12 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
13 6 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (12.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (85.11%) JavaScript
2 20 (42.55%) Java
2 20 (42.55%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.64%) Python
5 4 (8.51%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) Accessibility
2 8 (17.02%) WCAG
3 5 (10.64%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Adobe
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Apple
5 2 (4.26%) GoCardless
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) ESRI
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud