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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 283 357
Rank change year-on-year -108 +74 -17
Contract jobs citing HTML5 47 56 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.44% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 2.35% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 27
10th Percentile £358 £353 £353
25th Percentile £400 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £556 £563
90th Percentile £526 £588 £610
UK median daily rate £437 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -12.60% -13.04% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

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 3,860 2,381 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.65% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,595 1,646 2,153
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £575 £606
90th Percentile £664 £658 £694
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 85 199
10th Percentile £41.10 £31.71 £21.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 3 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 3 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 -69 13 £450 +12.50% 8
South West -25 11 £409 +9.50% 3
North West -46 11 £358 -10.50% 4
Midlands -71 9 £400 +8.99% 6
Scotland -9 8 £405 -19.84% 2
West Midlands -58 8 £400 -52.94% 3
South East -58 4 £400 -23.81% 16
Wales -11 2 £450 -25.00% 2
Yorkshire -49 2 £485 -11.82% 2
East Midlands -35 1 £545 +57.29% 3
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%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) WordPress
3 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Adobe XD
1 5 (10.64%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) AWS
2 8 (17.02%) Azure
3 7 (14.89%) Figma
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.64%) 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%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) MySQL
2 5 (10.64%) 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 12 (25.53%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Vite
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (68.09%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.77%) React Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead UX Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Power BI Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Senior WordPress Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (100.00%) HTML
2 44 (93.62%) CSS
2 44 (93.62%) CSS3
3 32 (68.09%) React
4 21 (44.68%) Jest
4 21 (44.68%) Spring
4 21 (44.68%) Spring Boot
5 20 (42.55%) Redux
5 20 (42.55%) Spring MVC
6 18 (38.30%) RESTful
7 16 (34.04%) AngularJS
8 11 (23.40%) REST
9 6 (12.77%) JSON
10 5 (10.64%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (10.64%) Playwright
10 5 (10.64%) Sass
11 4 (8.51%) .NET
11 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
11 4 (8.51%) MobX
12 3 (6.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) FMCG
4 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Agile
2 22 (46.81%) MVC
3 19 (40.43%) Code Quality
4 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (38.30%) User Experience
5 16 (34.04%) SDLC
5 16 (34.04%) UX Design
6 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
7 14 (29.79%) Data Protection
8 13 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (27.66%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (25.53%) Software Testing
10 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (21.28%) DevOps
12 9 (19.15%) Front End Development
13 8 (17.02%) TDD
14 7 (14.89%) Clean Code
14 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
15 6 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
15 6 (12.77%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) JavaScript
2 23 (48.94%) Java
3 20 (42.55%) SQL
4 14 (29.79%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) Python
6 4 (8.51%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.77%) WCAG
3 5 (10.64%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Adobe
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.38%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Apple
5 2 (4.26%) GoCardless
5 2 (4.26%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) ESRI
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud