HTML5 Contract Job Trends

HTML5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HTML5 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 339 432
Rank change year-on-year -97 +93 -160
Contract jobs citing HTML5 152 224 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.99% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 121 118
10th Percentile £357 £341 £310
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £650 £634
90th Percentile £638 £800 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £398 £425
% change year-on-year +10.69% -6.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.58
25th Percentile - - £39.58
Median hourly rate - - £50.80
75th Percentile - - £63.68
90th Percentile - - £69.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,187 7,496 9,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.46% 21.86% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 4,761 6,980
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 101 176
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.15% +25.26% -20.17%

HTML5
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTML5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HTML5 job vacancy trend in the UK

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML5

HTML5
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML5 over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML5 in the UK

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTML5

HTML5
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -82 136 £460 -20.09% 99
London -84 81 £525 -14.63% 28
UK excluding London -42 61 £440 +10.69% 89
Work from Home -7 50 £430 +4.76% 40
North of England -25 29 £450 +24.14% 26
Midlands -28 17 £404 - 11
West Midlands -21 15 £415 - 8
Yorkshire -27 15 £475 - 8
North West -20 14 £450 +24.14% 15
Scotland -16 6 £463 +10.12% 4
South East -6 5 £425 -25.44% 29
South West -14 3 £557 +49.13% 8
East Midlands - 2 £404 - 3
Wales -1 1 £425 -29.17% 3

HTML5
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 14 (9.21%) Confluence
2 9 (5.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (5.92%) Apache
2 9 (5.92%) JBoss
2 9 (5.92%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.95%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Drupal
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.66%) CICS
5 1 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Adobe XD
1 7 (4.61%) Sketch
2 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.66%) InVision
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 13 (8.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (3.95%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.32%) Shopify
4 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.68%) AWS
2 31 (20.39%) Azure
3 17 (11.18%) Figma
4 15 (9.87%) GitHub
5 11 (7.24%) npm
6 10 (6.58%) Serverless
7 9 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.26%) GCP
9 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.97%) Firebase
12 3 (1.97%) Google Analytics
13 2 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (1.32%) Cloud Run
13 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) SSL
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) HTTP
3 1 (0.66%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.66%) POP3
3 1 (0.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) MongoDB
2 17 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.55%) Redis
5 10 (6.58%) MySQL
5 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 7 (4.61%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.32%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.32%) Tableau
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.66%) DB2
10 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.66%) GIS
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (41.45%) Git
2 25 (16.45%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.45%) webpack
3 24 (15.79%) JIRA
4 16 (10.53%) JUnit
4 16 (10.53%) SonarQube
5 14 (9.21%) Cypress.io
6 11 (7.24%) gulp
7 9 (5.92%) Eclipse
7 9 (5.92%) Grunt
7 9 (5.92%) IntelliJ
7 9 (5.92%) Maven
7 9 (5.92%) Postman
7 9 (5.92%) Selenium
8 7 (4.61%) Jasmine
8 7 (4.61%) Storybook
9 6 (3.95%) GitLab
10 5 (3.29%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.29%) SoapUI
10 5 (3.29%) XCTest
General
1 59 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 40 (26.32%) Finance
3 21 (13.82%) Banking
4 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Retail
8 4 (2.63%) Front Office
8 4 (2.63%) Marketing
9 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Publishing
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (50.00%) Developer
2 25 (16.45%) Senior
3 16 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 15 (9.87%) Lead
5 14 (9.21%) Architect
6 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow Architect
8 9 (5.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.92%) UI Developer
9 8 (5.26%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.61%) React Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Angular Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Java Engineer
13 4 (2.63%) Designer
13 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow Developer
13 4 (2.63%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (100.00%) HTML
2 121 (79.61%) CSS
3 88 (57.89%) CSS3
4 82 (53.95%) React
5 59 (38.82%) AngularJS
6 55 (36.18%) REST
7 44 (28.95%) RESTful
8 35 (23.03%) JSON
9 32 (21.05%) Bootstrap
9 32 (21.05%) Node.js
10 31 (20.39%) jQuery
11 30 (19.74%) Jest
11 30 (19.74%) Redux
12 28 (18.42%) SOAP
12 28 (18.42%) Spring
13 25 (16.45%) Sass
14 24 (15.79%) Web Services
15 17 (11.18%) Hibernate
15 17 (11.18%) Spring Boot
16 16 (10.53%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.61%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.95%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.32%) FMCG
8 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) IoT
9 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.87%) Unix
2 6 (3.95%) Android
3 4 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.32%) Windows
5 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (61.84%) Agile
2 59 (38.82%) CI/CD
3 58 (38.16%) User Experience
4 49 (32.24%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (31.58%) Front End Development
6 47 (30.92%) Microservices
7 44 (28.95%) DevOps
8 31 (20.39%) Scrum
8 31 (20.39%) UX Design
9 26 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
11 22 (14.47%) Clean Code
11 22 (14.47%) Code Quality
11 22 (14.47%) Mentoring
11 22 (14.47%) TDD
11 22 (14.47%) Test Automation
12 19 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 18 (11.84%) Continuous Delivery
13 18 (11.84%) Open Source
13 18 (11.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (71.05%) JavaScript
2 45 (29.61%) Java
3 40 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 35 (23.03%) SQL
5 11 (7.24%) C#
6 10 (6.58%) Python
7 9 (5.92%) Scala
8 7 (4.61%) PHP
8 7 (4.61%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.95%) Groovy
10 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.97%) ABAP
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.66%) COBOL
13 1 (0.66%) JCL
13 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (26.97%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.18%) QA
2 17 (11.18%) WCAG
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (19.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.92%) Puppet
4 4 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (0.66%) Control-M
5 1 (0.66%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Adobe
1 18 (11.84%) Oracle
2 15 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.21%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.55%) BMC
4 13 (8.55%) HP
4 13 (8.55%) Ivanti
4 13 (8.55%) Remedy
5 10 (6.58%) Google
6 9 (5.92%) webMethods
7 8 (5.26%) Splunk
8 6 (3.95%) Perforce
8 6 (3.95%) SAP
9 5 (3.29%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.29%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.29%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.29%) OutSystems
9 5 (3.29%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.97%) Amplitude
11 2 (1.32%) OpenAI