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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 317 346
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 -57
Contract jobs citing HTML5 57 54 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 1.88% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 48
10th Percentile £350 £331 £305
25th Percentile £362 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £385 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -14.50% -5.26%
75th Percentile £495 £468 £519
90th Percentile £562 £500 £583
UK median daily rate £448 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -9.78% -5.52% -4.55%
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 - - £50.80
% change year-on-year - - -21.85%

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 3,322 2,875 3,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.93% 17.40% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 1,757 2,523
10th Percentile £325 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £685 £677
UK median daily rate £502 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.77% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 83 146
10th Percentile £30.85 £22.00 £45.24
25th Percentile £43.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%
75th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £73.95 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -32 26 £440 +24.12% 41
Midlands -17 16 £402 -19.60% 22
Yorkshire -23 15 £475 - 15
North West -22 11 £421 +18.83% 22
West Midlands -30 10 £429 -14.20% 15
South East -2 6 £528 -6.64% 56
East Midlands - 6 £375 - 7
Scotland -11 5 £463 +14.55% 7
South West -7 3 £557 +57.12% 10
Wales - 1 £425 - 8
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 9 (15.79%) Apache
2 8 (14.04%) JBoss
2 8 (14.04%) WebLogic
3 5 (8.77%) CMS
4 2 (3.51%) Confluence
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.75%) Drupal
5 1 (1.75%) nginx
5 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) npm
4 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (10.53%) Serverless
6 5 (8.77%) Figma
7 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) GCP
7 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.51%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) Google Play
10 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (61.40%) Git
2 12 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 12 (21.05%) webpack
3 10 (17.54%) SonarQube
4 8 (14.04%) Eclipse
4 8 (14.04%) Grunt
4 8 (14.04%) gulp
4 8 (14.04%) IntelliJ
4 8 (14.04%) JUnit
4 8 (14.04%) Selenium
5 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.53%) JIRA
7 4 (7.02%) GitLab
7 4 (7.02%) Storybook
8 3 (5.26%) Babel
8 3 (5.26%) Jasmine
8 3 (5.26%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (5.26%) Postman
8 3 (5.26%) Subversion
9 2 (3.51%) Mocha
General
1 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Banking
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Angular Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (12.28%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) UI Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.26%) React Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.51%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (100.00%) HTML
2 48 (84.21%) CSS
3 42 (73.68%) CSS3
4 32 (56.14%) React
5 26 (45.61%) REST
6 21 (36.84%) Node.js
6 21 (36.84%) RESTful
7 20 (35.09%) Redux
8 17 (29.82%) Jest
9 15 (26.32%) AngularJS
9 15 (26.32%) JSON
10 11 (19.30%) Bootstrap
11 10 (17.54%) Sass
11 10 (17.54%) Spring
12 9 (15.79%) SOAP
13 8 (14.04%) EJB
13 8 (14.04%) Hibernate
13 8 (14.04%) J2EE
13 8 (14.04%) J2SE
13 8 (14.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Unix
2 5 (8.77%) Android
3 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 22 (38.60%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) Front End Development
3 21 (36.84%) User Experience
4 19 (33.33%) DevOps
5 17 (29.82%) Microservices
6 15 (26.32%) Clean Code
6 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (22.81%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (22.81%) UX Design
9 12 (21.05%) Code Quality
9 12 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.30%) Open Source
10 11 (19.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (19.30%) Scrum
10 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
11 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (17.54%) Unit Testing
12 9 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (61.40%) JavaScript
2 18 (31.58%) TypeScript
3 17 (29.82%) Java
4 12 (21.05%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) Scala
6 5 (8.77%) Python
7 3 (5.26%) C#
8 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.51%) PHP
9 1 (1.75%) ABAP
9 1 (1.75%) Bash
9 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.02%) QA
3 3 (5.26%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Puppet
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.26%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) webMethods
3 6 (10.53%) Perforce
4 4 (7.02%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.51%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.75%) BMC
6 1 (1.75%) HP
6 1 (1.75%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.75%) Remedy
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow