XHTML Contract Job Trends

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring XHTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 551 561
Rank change year-on-year -128 +10 +55
Contract jobs citing XHTML 7 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.018% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.059% 0.070% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £418 -
25th Percentile - £425 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £450 £595
Median % change year-on-year -28.44% -24.37% -3.05%
75th Percentile - £475 £598
90th Percentile £400 £483 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £322 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XHTML 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 11,775 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,736 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

XHTML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

XHTML job vacancy trend in the UK

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

XHTML
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Work from Home - 4 £322 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £322 - 2
Scotland - 4 £322 - 1
England -108 2 £435 -3.33% 1
London -79 1 - -

XHTML
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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Drupal Designer
4 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) REST
3 5 (71.43%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) HTML5
3 5 (71.43%) Sass
4 4 (57.14%) FreeMarker
4 4 (57.14%) JDBC
4 4 (57.14%) JPA
4 4 (57.14%) JSF
4 4 (57.14%) JSP
4 4 (57.14%) Node.js
4 4 (57.14%) React
4 4 (57.14%) Redux
4 4 (57.14%) Servlets
4 4 (57.14%) Spring
4 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
4 4 (57.14%) Spring MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Ajax
5 2 (28.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 2 (28.57%) CAD
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) WAI
3 1 (14.29%) WAI-ARIA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) MuleSoft
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) CODA
3 1 (14.29%) Pardot