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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 314 350
Rank change year-on-year -106 +36 -19
Contract jobs citing HTML5 48 47 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 1.72% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 29
10th Percentile £350 £358 £358
25th Percentile £402 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +8.12% -11.23%
75th Percentile £479 £500 £500
90th Percentile £525 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £461 £550
% change year-on-year -7.86% -16.14% -2.65%

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 4,270 2,730 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.49% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 1,857 2,203
10th Percentile £350 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 117 240
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.25 £25.44
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%
75th Percentile £73.81 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.23 £80.41 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -17 18 £410 - 14
Scotland -9 12 £405 -15.90% 26
North of England -77 10 £470 +1.24% 41
Yorkshire -52 5 £500 - 18
North West -51 4 £350 -16.17% 18
Midlands -63 4 £450 +20.00% 23
South East -64 4 £425 -23.08% 38
West Midlands -64 3 £500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -20 1 £425 +14.56% 16
North East - 1 £375 - 5
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 (22.92%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) WordPress
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.08%) Camunda
3 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) Figma
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.17%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.08%) Apple Pay
7 1 (2.08%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.08%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.08%) Google Pay
7 1 (2.08%) npm
7 1 (2.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) MySQL
2 8 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) Flink
6 1 (2.08%) GIS
6 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Git
2 13 (27.08%) JIRA
3 8 (16.67%) MSI
4 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.33%) JUnit
6 3 (6.25%) Maven
7 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.17%) GoCD
7 2 (4.17%) Gradle
7 2 (4.17%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.17%) Vite
7 2 (4.17%) webpack
8 1 (2.08%) Babel
8 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.08%) GitLab
8 1 (2.08%) Mockito
8 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) International Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (79.17%) Developer
2 18 (37.50%) Senior
3 17 (35.42%) Java Developer
3 17 (35.42%) Senior Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (12.50%) React Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
10 1 (2.08%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (100.00%) HTML
2 45 (93.75%) CSS
3 42 (87.50%) CSS3
4 34 (70.83%) React
5 23 (47.92%) Redux
5 23 (47.92%) REST
6 20 (41.67%) Spring
6 20 (41.67%) Spring Boot
7 19 (39.58%) Jest
7 19 (39.58%) RESTful
8 15 (31.25%) Spring MVC
9 12 (25.00%) .NET
10 10 (20.83%) .NET Core
10 10 (20.83%) .NET Framework
11 8 (16.67%) ATL
11 8 (16.67%) COM
11 8 (16.67%) GeoJSON
11 8 (16.67%) MFC
11 8 (16.67%) WPF
12 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 7 (14.58%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Signage
7 1 (2.08%) FMCG
7 1 (2.08%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) NHS
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Tizen
2 1 (2.08%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Agile
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) Code Quality
3 20 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (33.33%) DevOps
4 16 (33.33%) SDLC
5 15 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (31.25%) Microservices
5 15 (31.25%) MVC
5 15 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 14 (29.17%) Data Protection
7 13 (27.08%) Deployment Automation
7 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (25.00%) Software Testing
9 11 (22.92%) Design Patterns
9 11 (22.92%) User Experience
10 10 (20.83%) API Design
10 10 (20.83%) API Development
10 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
10 10 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 44 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 22 (45.83%) Java
3 20 (41.67%) SQL
4 17 (35.42%) TypeScript
5 14 (29.17%) Python
6 12 (25.00%) C#
7 8 (16.67%) Bicep
8 2 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 14 (29.17%) WCAG
3 8 (16.67%) NCSC
4 7 (14.58%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Adobe
3 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) Apple
4 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.08%) ESRI
4 1 (2.08%) GoCardless
4 1 (2.08%) Okta