Semantic HTML Contracts

Semantic HTML, XHTML (Semantic Markup)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Semantic HTML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic HTML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 575 711
Rank change year-on-year +61 +136 +116
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 6 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.016% 0.012%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.090% 0.078% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £224 £333 £297
25th Percentile £241 £344 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £341 £381 £513
90th Percentile £361 £393 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
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 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
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 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Semantic HTML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Semantic HTML in the UK

Semantic HTML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Semantic HTML in the UK

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic HTML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic HTML in the UK

Semantic HTML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Semantic HTML in the UK

Semantic HTML
Top 6 Contract 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 1 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 +59 6 £288 -17.86% 6
London +40 5 £288 -23.33% 5
UK excluding London +63 1 - - 2
Work from Home +38 1 £225 -35.71% 5
North of England +19 1 - -
North West +17 1 - -

Semantic 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) BigCommerce
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Grunt
2 2 (33.33%) webpack
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (16.67%) ESLint
3 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 1 (16.67%) Mocha
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) HTML Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) Jest
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) Sass
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) LESS
3 2 (33.33%) VML
4 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) Nunjucks
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Blog
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) B2B
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 2 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (33.33%) Story Points
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) Sitecore