HTML Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HTML (including XHTML, DHTML & HTML5)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HTML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -41 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing HTML 39 52 38
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.73% 3.09% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 15.71% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 31
10th Percentile £382 £389 £275
25th Percentile £402 £454 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £562 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.51% +24.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £562 £580 £488
90th Percentile £624 £700 £600
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 452 331 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.01% 19.68% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 194 174
10th Percentile £368 £380 £302
25th Percentile £447 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +20.55% -9.88%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £746 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £77.25 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

HTML
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

HTML job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HTML
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML in the West Midlands

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTML in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Shropshire -24 20 £429 -24.34% 7
Warwickshire -2 8 £700 +21.74% 5
Coventry -19 6 £425 -9.57% 5
Solihull - 3 £600 - 1
Birmingham -31 2 £375 -33.86% 12
HTML
England

HTML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (20.51%) Apache
1 8 (20.51%) JBoss
1 8 (20.51%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.69%) CMS
2 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.69%) SugarCRM
3 2 (5.13%) nginx
4 1 (2.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Adobe XD
1 5 (12.82%) Sketch
2 4 (10.26%) Maya
3 3 (7.69%) NUKE
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (2.56%) Blender
4 1 (2.56%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.56%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Figma
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.69%) Google Workspace
4 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (58.97%) Git
2 13 (33.33%) JUnit
2 13 (33.33%) Selenium
3 8 (20.51%) Eclipse
3 8 (20.51%) IntelliJ
4 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
4 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 5 (12.82%) Maven
4 5 (12.82%) Mockito
5 4 (10.26%) JIRA
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Automotive
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
6 4 (10.26%) Games
6 4 (10.26%) Marketing
7 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Publishing
8 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Lead
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Content Editor
4 3 (7.69%) Designer
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 3 (7.69%) UI Designer
4 3 (7.69%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (7.69%) UX Designer
5 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Designer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead UX Designer
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) CSS
2 16 (41.03%) HTML5
3 15 (38.46%) JSON
4 14 (35.90%) REST
5 13 (33.33%) SOAP
5 13 (33.33%) Spring
6 10 (25.64%) React
6 10 (25.64%) XML
7 8 (20.51%) EJB
7 8 (20.51%) Hibernate
7 8 (20.51%) J2EE
7 8 (20.51%) J2SE
7 8 (20.51%) Play Framework
8 7 (17.95%) CSS3
8 7 (17.95%) OAuth
8 7 (17.95%) OAuth2
9 6 (15.38%) .NET
9 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
9 6 (15.38%) RESTful
10 5 (12.82%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Animation
2 3 (7.69%) IoT
2 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 16 (41.03%) Scrum
5 15 (38.46%) DevOps
5 15 (38.46%) Microservices
6 13 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 11 (28.21%) User Experience
8 10 (25.64%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (25.64%) UX Design
9 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 8 (20.51%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (20.51%) Lean Software Development
10 8 (20.51%) Open Source
11 6 (15.38%) CRM
11 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Java
2 16 (41.03%) JavaScript
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Scala
4 5 (12.82%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) C++
6 3 (7.69%) PHP
6 3 (7.69%) Tcl
7 1 (2.56%) ABAP
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) WCAG
2 9 (23.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (10.26%) QA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Puppet
2 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) webMethods
2 7 (17.95%) Adobe
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) MuleSoft
4 3 (7.69%) Google
4 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Pega
6 1 (2.56%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.56%) SAP