HTML Contract Job Trends

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 117 81
Rank change year-on-year -134 -36 -4
Contract jobs citing HTML 560 781 997
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 2.37% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 10.58% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 516 683
10th Percentile £317 £290 £300
25th Percentile £393 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +3.66% -8.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 41 18
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.25 £35.88
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.91 £56.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £42.50 £52.16 -
90th Percentile £63.47 £66.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% -28.57% +105.88%

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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HTML job vacancy trend in the UK

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTML over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HTML in the UK

HTML
Top 17 Contract Job 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 15 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
England -136 458 £480 +10.34% 798
London -84 269 £500 +5.26% 416
UK excluding London -138 231 £425 +3.66% 483
Work from Home -108 167 £475 +11.76% 333
North of England -84 65 £485 +26.30% 115
Scotland 0 52 £322 -35.08% 40
South East -89 48 £575 +38.55% 124
Yorkshire -31 39 £503 +11.67% 37
South West -53 33 £413 +10.00% 61
Midlands -90 23 £445 +20.92% 77
North West -81 20 £447 +17.63% 68
West Midlands -62 16 £450 +5.88% 33
East of England -46 8 £425 -10.53% 47
East Midlands -42 7 £435 +35.09% 44
North East -43 6 £375 -21.88% 14
Wales -19 2 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £190 - 16

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 46 (8.21%) CMS
2 42 (7.50%) SharePoint
3 29 (5.18%) Confluence
4 17 (3.04%) WordPress
5 15 (2.68%) SharePoint Server
6 12 (2.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 11 (1.96%) IIS
8 8 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (1.43%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.89%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.71%) Camunda
10 4 (0.71%) Kentico
10 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.54%) Apache
11 3 (0.54%) Drupal
11 3 (0.54%) LiveCycle
11 3 (0.54%) Moodle
12 2 (0.36%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 13 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.89%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.89%) Sketch
4 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 154 (27.50%) Azure
2 126 (22.50%) AWS
3 55 (9.82%) Power Platform
4 48 (8.57%) GitHub
5 46 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (6.96%) GCP
7 37 (6.61%) Power Automate
7 37 (6.61%) Serverless
8 35 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 33 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (5.71%) Figma
11 20 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.57%) Entra ID
12 16 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.50%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (1.96%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.68%) HTTP
2 5 (0.89%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.89%) VPN
3 4 (0.71%) Firewall
4 3 (0.54%) 5G
4 3 (0.54%) DNS
4 3 (0.54%) Network Security
4 3 (0.54%) SMS
4 3 (0.54%) SSH
5 2 (0.36%) 4G
5 2 (0.36%) Broadband
5 2 (0.36%) Multicast
5 2 (0.36%) RTMP
5 2 (0.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.36%) TETRA
5 2 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.18%) Intranet
6 1 (0.18%) MQTT
6 1 (0.18%) SAN
6 1 (0.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 50 (8.93%) MySQL
4 36 (6.43%) Power BI
5 35 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 28 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 27 (4.82%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
9 11 (1.96%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.96%) Tableau
10 10 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.61%) Big Data
11 9 (1.61%) Redis
12 8 (1.43%) MS Access
13 7 (1.25%) Couchbase
13 7 (1.25%) GIS
13 7 (1.25%) Presto
Development Applications
1 136 (24.29%) Git
2 79 (14.11%) Jenkins
3 56 (10.00%) JIRA
4 30 (5.36%) GitLab
5 29 (5.18%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.11%) Maven
7 20 (3.57%) JUnit
8 15 (2.68%) Storybook
9 14 (2.50%) Selenium
10 13 (2.32%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.14%) Gradle
12 11 (1.96%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.96%) MSI
12 11 (1.96%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.61%) Postman
14 8 (1.43%) Ant
14 8 (1.43%) Mockito
14 8 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (1.25%) MSTest
15 7 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.54%) Public Sector
3 73 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.89%) Finance
5 48 (8.57%) Banking
6 39 (6.96%) Marketing
7 23 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.39%) Publishing
11 15 (2.68%) Retail
12 10 (1.79%) Legal
12 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.25%) Games
15 6 (1.07%) Front Office
15 6 (1.07%) Local Government
16 5 (0.89%) Japanese Language
17 3 (0.54%) Automotive
18 2 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 320 (57.14%) Developer
2 89 (15.89%) Senior
3 58 (10.36%) Senior Developer
4 57 (10.18%) Java Developer
5 53 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 52 (9.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 50 (8.93%) Lead
8 38 (6.79%) React Developer
9 31 (5.54%) Designer
10 26 (4.64%) Architect
11 25 (4.46%) .NET Developer
11 25 (4.46%) Python Developer
11 25 (4.46%) Software Developer
12 23 (4.11%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.93%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) Angular Developer
14 21 (3.75%) SharePoint Developer
15 20 (3.57%) Consultant
16 19 (3.39%) Technical Leader
17 17 (3.04%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (77.86%) CSS
2 197 (35.18%) React
3 169 (30.18%) REST
4 136 (24.29%) HTML5
5 106 (18.93%) RESTful
6 104 (18.57%) CSS3
7 97 (17.32%) AngularJS
8 95 (16.96%) .NET
9 70 (12.50%) Spring Boot
10 68 (12.14%) Spring
11 62 (11.07%) Node.js
12 53 (9.46%) Redux
13 44 (7.86%) Jest
14 37 (6.61%) OAuth
14 37 (6.61%) Web Services
14 37 (6.61%) XML
15 34 (6.07%) JSON
15 34 (6.07%) Kafka
16 33 (5.89%) Sass
17 32 (5.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.21%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.07%) CMDB
9 6 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.07%) Replication
10 5 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.89%) NHS
10 5 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (0.71%) Derivative
11 4 (0.71%) Graphic Design
11 4 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.00%) Windows
2 25 (4.46%) Linux
3 17 (3.04%) Unix
4 3 (0.54%) Android
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Tizen
6 1 (0.18%) webOS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (49.29%) Agile
2 231 (41.25%) CI/CD
3 133 (23.75%) DevOps
4 116 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (20.18%) Microservices
6 112 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 108 (19.29%) Test Automation
8 100 (17.86%) Front End Development
9 97 (17.32%) User Experience
10 81 (14.46%) Scrum
11 80 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (11.25%) Code Quality
13 60 (10.71%) Containerisation
14 54 (9.64%) AI
14 54 (9.64%) Software Engineering
15 53 (9.46%) Analytics
16 52 (9.29%) UX Design
17 48 (8.57%) Design Patterns
17 48 (8.57%) MVC
17 48 (8.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 404 (72.14%) JavaScript
2 187 (33.39%) SQL
3 126 (22.50%) Java
3 126 (22.50%) TypeScript
4 104 (18.57%) Python
5 86 (15.36%) C#
6 25 (4.46%) PL/SQL
7 20 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.04%) PHP
9 16 (2.86%) VB.NET
10 12 (2.14%) Bicep
11 11 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.61%) VBA
13 8 (1.43%) Scala
13 8 (1.43%) XPath
14 7 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.07%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.07%) SOQL
15 6 (1.07%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 126 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 102 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (8.21%) Degree
5 20 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.36%) CCA
9 2 (0.36%) ISEB
9 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CCNA
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.18%) PhD
10 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (22.14%) Accessibility
2 79 (14.11%) QA
3 68 (12.14%) WCAG
4 18 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.50%) GDPR
6 11 (1.96%) NCSC
7 6 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) DICOM
10 1 (0.18%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) WAI
10 1 (0.18%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 95 (16.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.36%) KVM
2 2 (0.36%) Varnish
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 51 (9.11%) Terraform
3 25 (4.46%) Grafana
4 14 (2.50%) Kibana
5 9 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (0.71%) Argo
7 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.54%) Ansible
8 3 (0.54%) Control-M
8 3 (0.54%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 70 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.82%) Oracle
3 47 (8.39%) ServiceNow
4 36 (6.43%) Adobe
5 29 (5.18%) Google
6 19 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.43%) Braze
7 8 (1.43%) IBM
7 8 (1.43%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.43%) Optimizely
8 7 (1.25%) SAP
8 7 (1.25%) Splunk
9 4 (0.71%) Amplitude
9 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.71%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.71%) Tealium
9 4 (0.71%) Workday
10 3 (0.54%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.54%) Solace