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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 83 81
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -24
Contract jobs citing HTML 723 1,098 1,722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.52% 2.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.83% 12.29% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 681 1,236
10th Percentile £323 £313 £313
25th Percentile £384 £413 £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 25 32
10th Percentile £26.25 £24.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.63 £24.48
Median hourly rate £37.80 £50.00 £56.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% -12.03% +2.41%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £70.63
90th Percentile £62.20 £70.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £60.00 £50.75
% change year-on-year -8.54% +18.23% -7.73%

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 6,673 8,935 13,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 20.54% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,575 6,199 10,102
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 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 234 153
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £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 £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.83 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -22 598 £475 -5.00% 1,571
London -28 319 £525 -2.78% 624
UK excluding London -25 289 £425 -5.56% 1,113
Work from Home -43 249 £458 -8.50% 1,029
North of England -26 73 £400 -1.84% 316
South East +16 72 £475 +12.09% 315
Midlands +8 55 £402 -5.41% 210
North West -6 46 £400 -4.76% 200
South West +37 40 £375 -31.82% 94
West Midlands +20 39 £466 -6.75% 111
Scotland -27 37 £480 - 40
North East -3 17 £380 -13.83% 34
East Midlands -2 15 £318 +41.11% 90
East of England +7 14 £463 -2.63% 140
Yorkshire -28 13 £448 +18.15% 84
Wales +3 5 £322 -28.54% 32
Northern Ireland -10 1 £600 - 9

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 37 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.43%) Confluence
3 28 (3.87%) CMS
4 20 (2.77%) Apache
5 10 (1.38%) nginx
6 9 (1.24%) Camunda
7 8 (1.11%) IIS
7 8 (1.11%) Umbraco
7 8 (1.11%) WordPress
8 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.83%) Alfresco
9 6 (0.83%) Drupal
10 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.41%) JBoss
12 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (2.21%) Sketch
2 15 (2.07%) Adobe XD
3 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.83%) InfoPath
6 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.41%) InDesign
8 3 (0.41%) InVision
8 3 (0.41%) Maya
8 3 (0.41%) NUKE
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.28%) Trello
9 2 (0.28%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.14%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 22 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.55%) Magento
2 4 (0.55%) Shopify
3 3 (0.41%) iTrent
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) FastStats
5 1 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 164 (22.68%) Azure
2 136 (18.81%) AWS
3 67 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 51 (7.05%) Power Automate
5 45 (6.22%) PowerApps
6 42 (5.81%) GCP
7 41 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (5.26%) Figma
9 36 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (4.70%) SaaS
11 30 (4.15%) GitHub
12 28 (3.87%) Serverless
13 27 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (2.77%) PaaS
15 18 (2.49%) Amazon S3
16 16 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (1.80%) Azure Functions
18 13 (1.80%) npm
19 12 (1.66%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.53%) HTTP
2 10 (1.38%) SNMP
3 9 (1.24%) Internet
3 9 (1.24%) POP3
3 9 (1.24%) SMTP
3 9 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (0.69%) DNS
4 5 (0.69%) SSL
5 4 (0.55%) SMS
6 2 (0.28%) Firewall
6 2 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) BGP
7 1 (0.14%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.14%) DWDM
7 1 (0.14%) GLBP
7 1 (0.14%) IPsec
7 1 (0.14%) MPLS
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 58 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (6.50%) MySQL
4 43 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 38 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.32%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.21%) Redis
8 14 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.94%) Power BI
9 12 (1.66%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.38%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.97%) GIS
12 6 (0.83%) Tableau
13 5 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.55%) Big Data
15 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.28%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 164 (22.68%) Git
2 54 (7.47%) JIRA
3 52 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.70%) Bitbucket
5 25 (3.46%) JUnit
5 25 (3.46%) webpack
6 20 (2.77%) Selenium
7 19 (2.63%) TeamCity
8 17 (2.35%) Maven
8 17 (2.35%) Subversion
9 14 (1.94%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.80%) GitLab
10 13 (1.80%) Mocha
11 12 (1.66%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.66%) Gradle
11 12 (1.66%) Postman
11 12 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
12 11 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.38%) Babel
13 10 (1.38%) Mockito
General
1 193 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 103 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 88 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.37%) Finance
5 58 (8.02%) Banking
6 45 (6.22%) Marketing
7 22 (3.04%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.04%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.77%) Front Office
8 20 (2.77%) Legal
9 15 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.94%) Retail
11 11 (1.52%) Electronics
12 9 (1.24%) Military
13 8 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Back Office
14 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 478 (66.11%) Developer
2 90 (12.45%) Full-Stack Developer
2 90 (12.45%) Senior
3 65 (8.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 59 (8.16%) Senior Developer
5 47 (6.50%) Lead
6 45 (6.22%) Architect
7 39 (5.39%) Software Developer
8 38 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
9 37 (5.12%) Angular Developer
10 35 (4.84%) Java Developer
10 35 (4.84%) React Developer
11 34 (4.70%) Software Engineer
12 29 (4.01%) .NET Developer
13 28 (3.87%) Designer
14 27 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (3.32%) C# Developer
15 24 (3.32%) JavaScript Developer
16 21 (2.90%) ServiceNow Architect
17 20 (2.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 604 (83.54%) CSS
2 186 (25.73%) AngularJS
2 186 (25.73%) React
3 154 (21.30%) .NET
4 144 (19.92%) HTML5
5 120 (16.60%) Node.js
6 97 (13.42%) RESTful
7 90 (12.45%) REST
8 87 (12.03%) Web Services
9 83 (11.48%) jQuery
10 66 (9.13%) CSS3
11 63 (8.71%) XML
12 58 (8.02%) JSON
13 49 (6.78%) Spring Boot
14 47 (6.50%) Sass
14 47 (6.50%) Spring
15 46 (6.36%) Vue
16 43 (5.95%) ASP.NET
17 40 (5.53%) .NET Framework
17 40 (5.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.73%) Low-Code
2 26 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 19 (2.63%) CMDB
3 19 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 14 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 13 (1.80%) PKI
7 11 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.97%) NHS
9 7 (0.97%) N-Tier
9 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.83%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.78%) Linux
2 18 (2.49%) Unix
2 18 (2.49%) Windows
3 6 (0.83%) Android
4 5 (0.69%) AIX
4 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.69%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (39.42%) Agile
2 159 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (21.44%) CI/CD
4 154 (21.30%) User Experience
5 135 (18.67%) Front End Development
6 133 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (15.63%) DevOps
8 108 (14.94%) Web Development
9 85 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 84 (11.62%) Scrum
11 82 (11.34%) Microservices
12 80 (11.07%) TDD
13 79 (10.93%) UX Design
14 77 (10.65%) Test Automation
15 68 (9.41%) Computer Science
16 60 (8.30%) OO
17 49 (6.78%) Mentoring
18 48 (6.64%) Code Quality
18 48 (6.64%) Unit Testing
19 46 (6.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 571 (78.98%) JavaScript
2 161 (22.27%) SQL
3 150 (20.75%) C#
4 145 (20.06%) TypeScript
5 140 (19.36%) Java
6 113 (15.63%) Python
7 32 (4.43%) PHP
8 27 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.46%) C++
10 19 (2.63%) Ruby
11 11 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.24%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.24%) Bash
13 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.83%) COBOL
14 6 (0.83%) Scala
15 5 (0.69%) ABAP
16 4 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 97 (13.42%) Degree
4 42 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.69%) CCSAS
10 5 (0.69%) CEH
10 5 (0.69%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.69%) GIAC
10 5 (0.69%) GPEN
10 5 (0.69%) GWAPT
10 5 (0.69%) OSCP
11 4 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.07%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.70%) WCAG
3 29 (4.01%) QA
4 8 (1.11%) GRC
5 7 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.28%) GDPR
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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 66 (9.13%) Docker
2 22 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (0.69%) Firmware
4 5 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.41%) vCloud
5 3 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.41%) vSphere
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.63%) Terraform
3 13 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (1.38%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) Grafana
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.41%) Ansible
6 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.41%) 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
1 118 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.53%) Adobe
4 39 (5.39%) Google
5 38 (5.26%) Oracle
6 32 (4.43%) OutSystems
7 31 (4.29%) Salesforce
7 31 (4.29%) SAP
8 11 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.52%) Splunk
9 8 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (1.11%) Virgin Media
9 8 (1.11%) VMware
10 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.83%) PayPal
11 6 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.83%) Snow
12 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.55%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.55%) Zend