HTML Contracts

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HTML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTML over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 84 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -24
Contract jobs citing HTML 715 1,104 1,735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 2.53% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.79% 12.32% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 686 1,244
10th Percentile £322 £313 £313
25th Percentile £384 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 33
10th Percentile £26.25 £24.68 £21.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.63 £25.25
Median hourly rate £37.80 £48.09 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year -21.41% -21.39% +10.23%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.20 £70.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £53.09 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.36% +1.12% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

HTML 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTML in the UK

HTML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTML.

Daily rate trend for HTML in the UK

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTML.

Hourly rate trend for HTML in the UK

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTML over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -20 595 £475 -5.00% 1,141
London -27 318 £525 -3.23% 399
UK excluding London -23 288 £425 -5.56% 789
Work from Home -45 248 £458 -8.50% 841
North of England -26 70 £400 -1.54% 253
South East +10 69 £475 +12.09% 172
Midlands +12 56 £402 -5.41% 172
North West -10 44 £400 -8.05% 153
South West +39 40 £375 -31.82% 63
West Midlands +22 40 £463 -7.50% 92
Scotland -28 38 £478 -0.52% 28
North East -1 17 £380 -13.83% 27
East of England +12 15 £463 -2.63% 84
East Midlands -7 15 £318 +5.83% 77
Yorkshire -24 12 £448 +31.62% 74
Wales +3 5 £322 -26.49% 29
Northern Ireland -10 1 £600 - 7

HTML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.48%) Confluence
3 27 (3.78%) CMS
4 18 (2.52%) Apache
5 10 (1.40%) nginx
6 8 (1.12%) IIS
6 8 (1.12%) WordPress
7 7 (0.98%) Camunda
7 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.98%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.84%) Drupal
9 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.56%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
11 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.14%) Appian
12 1 (0.14%) Magnolia
Applications
1 16 (2.24%) Sketch
2 15 (2.10%) Adobe XD
3 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.84%) InfoPath
5 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.70%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.42%) InDesign
7 3 (0.42%) InVision
7 3 (0.42%) Maya
7 3 (0.42%) NUKE
8 2 (0.28%) Trello
8 2 (0.28%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.14%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 22 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Magento
2 4 (0.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) iTrent
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) FastStats
5 1 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 160 (22.38%) Azure
2 134 (18.74%) AWS
3 67 (9.37%) Power Platform
4 50 (6.99%) Power Automate
5 44 (6.15%) PowerApps
6 41 (5.73%) GCP
7 40 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (5.03%) Figma
9 35 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (4.34%) GitHub
10 31 (4.34%) SaaS
11 29 (4.06%) Serverless
12 26 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.66%) PaaS
14 18 (2.52%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (1.82%) Azure Functions
18 12 (1.68%) Google Analytics
19 11 (1.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.03%) HTTP
2 10 (1.40%) SNMP
3 9 (1.26%) POP3
3 9 (1.26%) SMTP
3 9 (1.26%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.12%) Internet
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.70%) SSL
6 3 (0.42%) SMS
7 2 (0.28%) Firewall
8 1 (0.14%) BGP
8 1 (0.14%) DHCP
8 1 (0.14%) DWDM
8 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.14%) IPsec
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) MPLS
8 1 (0.14%) OSPF
8 1 (0.14%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 58 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (6.29%) MySQL
4 41 (5.73%) MongoDB
5 37 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.10%) Power BI
7 15 (2.10%) Redis
8 14 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.68%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.12%) Tableau
12 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.70%) GIS
13 4 (0.56%) Big Data
14 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 162 (22.66%) Git
2 53 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 52 (7.27%) JIRA
4 34 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 24 (3.36%) webpack
6 23 (3.22%) JUnit
7 21 (2.94%) Selenium
8 19 (2.66%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.38%) Maven
9 17 (2.38%) Subversion
10 14 (1.96%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.82%) Mocha
12 12 (1.68%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.68%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.68%) Postman
12 12 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (1.54%) GitLab
13 11 (1.54%) Gradle
14 10 (1.40%) Babel
15 9 (1.26%) GoogleTest
General
1 187 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 100 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 89 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.49%) Finance
5 57 (7.97%) Banking
6 46 (6.43%) Marketing
7 22 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.80%) Front Office
8 20 (2.80%) Legal
9 15 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.96%) Retail
11 11 (1.54%) Electronics
12 9 (1.26%) Military
13 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.98%) Back Office
14 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 470 (65.73%) Developer
2 90 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 88 (12.31%) Senior
4 66 (9.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 57 (7.97%) Senior Developer
6 46 (6.43%) Lead
7 45 (6.29%) Architect
8 40 (5.59%) Software Developer
9 38 (5.31%) ServiceNow Developer
10 36 (5.03%) Angular Developer
11 35 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 35 (4.90%) React Developer
11 35 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 28 (3.92%) .NET Developer
12 28 (3.92%) Designer
13 27 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (3.36%) JavaScript Developer
15 23 (3.22%) C# Developer
16 21 (2.94%) ServiceNow Architect
17 20 (2.80%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (84.06%) CSS
2 182 (25.45%) React
3 181 (25.31%) AngularJS
4 155 (21.68%) .NET
5 146 (20.42%) HTML5
6 121 (16.92%) Node.js
7 97 (13.57%) RESTful
8 86 (12.03%) REST
9 85 (11.89%) Web Services
10 82 (11.47%) jQuery
11 68 (9.51%) CSS3
12 58 (8.11%) XML
13 55 (7.69%) JSON
14 47 (6.57%) Sass
15 46 (6.43%) Spring Boot
16 44 (6.15%) Spring
17 43 (6.01%) Vue
18 42 (5.87%) ASP.NET
19 41 (5.73%) .NET Framework
20 38 (5.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.78%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.08%) Low-Code
3 19 (2.66%) CMDB
3 19 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.10%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (1.82%) PKI
8 11 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.98%) NHS
11 7 (0.98%) N-Tier
11 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.84%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.15%) Linux
2 18 (2.52%) Windows
3 17 (2.38%) Unix
4 6 (0.84%) Android
5 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.70%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (39.30%) Agile
2 160 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (21.40%) CI/CD
3 153 (21.40%) User Experience
4 133 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 131 (18.32%) Front End Development
6 111 (15.52%) DevOps
7 107 (14.97%) Web Development
8 84 (11.75%) Software Engineering
9 83 (11.61%) Scrum
10 80 (11.19%) TDD
11 79 (11.05%) UX Design
12 78 (10.91%) Microservices
13 76 (10.63%) Test Automation
14 67 (9.37%) Computer Science
15 60 (8.39%) OO
16 49 (6.85%) Code Quality
17 48 (6.71%) Continuous Integration
17 48 (6.71%) Mentoring
17 48 (6.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 565 (79.02%) JavaScript
2 160 (22.38%) SQL
3 151 (21.12%) C#
4 146 (20.42%) TypeScript
5 138 (19.30%) Java
6 112 (15.66%) Python
7 32 (4.48%) PHP
8 26 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.36%) C++
10 19 (2.66%) Ruby
11 12 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.26%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.98%) Bash
15 6 (0.84%) COBOL
15 6 (0.84%) Scala
15 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.70%) ABAP
17 4 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 131 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 97 (13.57%) Degree
4 41 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.70%) CCSAS
10 5 (0.70%) CEH
10 5 (0.70%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.70%) GIAC
10 5 (0.70%) GPEN
10 5 (0.70%) GWAPT
10 5 (0.70%) OSCP
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.48%) WCAG
3 30 (4.20%) QA
4 8 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (1.12%) GRC
5 4 (0.56%) GDPR
6 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.28%) NCSC
7 2 (0.28%) WAI
8 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) PERC
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (8.67%) Docker
2 21 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) Firmware
3 5 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.42%) vCloud
5 3 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.42%) vSphere
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.66%) Terraform
3 13 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (1.40%) Kibana
5 4 (0.56%) Grafana
5 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Ansible
6 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.42%) Puppet
7 2 (0.28%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.14%) MIIS
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 114 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.87%) Adobe
4 39 (5.45%) Google
5 37 (5.17%) Oracle
6 30 (4.20%) SAP
7 29 (4.06%) Salesforce
8 27 (3.78%) OutSystems
9 11 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.40%) Splunk
11 8 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
11 8 (1.12%) VMware
12 7 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.98%) Virgin Media
13 6 (0.84%) PayPal
13 6 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.84%) Snow
14 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.56%) Zend
15 3 (0.42%) Pega