Semantic HTML Contract Job Trends

Semantic HTML, XHTML (Semantic Markup)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Semantic HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 517 574
Rank change year-on-year -94 +57 +142
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.020% 0.016%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.074% 0.090% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £482 £224 £333
25th Percentile £500 £241 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £288 £350
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £341 £381
90th Percentile - £361 £393
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Semantic 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 9,519 6,643 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.72% 22.69% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,337 4,556 6,233
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 102 185
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.28 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

Semantic HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Semantic HTML job vacancy trend in the UK

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Semantic HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Semantic HTML
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic HTML within the UK over the 6 months to 13 April 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 -104 7 £525 +82.61% 1
Work from Home -28 4 £513 +127.78% 1
North of England -66 4 £525 - 1
UK excluding London -96 4 £525 - 1
London -57 3 £500 +73.91%
North East - 3 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £470 -

Semantic 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Publishing
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Content Designer
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) React
3 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) Playwright
3 3 (42.86%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) Next.js
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (28.57%) OpenID
4 2 (28.57%) Redux
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) A/B Testing
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Progressive Web App
4 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
4 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (100.00%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA