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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 319 336
Rank change year-on-year -83 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing HTML5 53 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.58% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 29
10th Percentile £322 £351 £352
25th Percentile £363 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £439 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +9.69% -18.37%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £480
90th Percentile £512 £575 £573
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £539
% change year-on-year - -16.51% -2.00%

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 4,813 3,161 3,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.42% 20.65% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,133 2,132 2,209
10th Percentile £355 £317 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £637 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 132 179
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £55.38 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.16 £78.33 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 26 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 26 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 -26 19 £413 -25.94% 1
Scotland -17 14 £361 -24.44% 3
North of England -81 11 £470 +16.92% 5
Yorkshire -40 8 £500 +13.64% 1
Midlands -56 5 £400 +6.67% 8
South East -71 4 £425 -23.08% 5
West Midlands -58 3 £413 -19.51% 4
East Midlands -19 2 £380 +1.33% 4
North East - 2 £375 -
North West -58 1 £313 -17.85% 4
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%) WordPress
3 3 (5.66%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Camunda
4 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 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.43%) Figma
5 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.89%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.89%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.89%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.89%) Google Pay
7 1 (1.89%) npm
7 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%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) Flink
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (54.72%) Git
2 17 (32.08%) JIRA
3 11 (20.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (20.75%) MSI
4 8 (15.09%) Maven
5 4 (7.55%) JUnit
6 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.66%) Gradle
7 2 (3.77%) GitLab
7 2 (3.77%) GoCD
7 2 (3.77%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.77%) Vite
7 2 (3.77%) webpack
8 1 (1.89%) Babel
8 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.89%) Mockito
8 1 (1.89%) Selenium
8 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 14 (26.42%) 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%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) International Banking
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%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (9.43%) React Developer
7 4 (7.55%) .NET 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%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 21 (39.62%) Spring
7 21 (39.62%) Spring Boot
8 19 (35.85%) RESTful
9 15 (28.30%) Jest
9 15 (28.30%) Spring MVC
10 13 (24.53%) .NET
11 12 (22.64%) .NET Core
11 12 (22.64%) .NET Framework
11 12 (22.64%) Node.js
11 12 (22.64%) Terraform
12 11 (20.75%) ATL
12 11 (20.75%) GeoJSON
12 11 (20.75%) MFC
12 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 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
3 24 (45.28%) Test Automation
4 23 (43.40%) Microservices
5 22 (41.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (35.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (30.19%) Deployment Automation
7 16 (30.19%) DevOps
8 15 (28.30%) Code Quality
8 15 (28.30%) Design Patterns
8 15 (28.30%) MVC
8 15 (28.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 13 (24.53%) API Design
9 13 (24.53%) API Development
9 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
9 13 (24.53%) User Experience
10 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (22.64%) SDLC
10 12 (22.64%) SOLID
10 12 (22.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (88.68%) JavaScript
2 22 (41.51%) Java
3 19 (35.85%) TypeScript
4 16 (30.19%) Python
5 15 (28.30%) SQL
6 13 (24.53%) C#
7 11 (20.75%) Bicep
8 4 (7.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 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 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) MuleSoft
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) Adobe
5 2 (3.77%) Peplink
5 2 (3.77%) Starlink
6 1 (1.89%) Apple
6 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.89%) GoCardless
6 1 (1.89%) Okta