HTML5 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HTML5
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HTML5 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 102 111
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing HTML5 10 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.50% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.45% 2.68% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £349 - £440
25th Percentile £401 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £435 - £600
90th Percentile £554 - -
England median daily rate £450 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -23.73% +7.27% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 408 336 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.33% 17.76% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 181 215
10th Percentile £368 £375 £325
25th Percentile £433 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £738 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%

HTML5
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

HTML5 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML5

HTML5
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTML5 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTML5 in the West Midlands

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTML5

HTML5
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 HTML5 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 - 8 £429 -
Birmingham -11 1 £325 -35.00% 3
Warwickshire - 1 £700 - 2
HTML5
England

HTML5
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 (80.00%) Apache
1 8 (80.00%) JBoss
1 8 (80.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (80.00%) IntelliJ
2 8 (80.00%) JUnit
2 8 (80.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) EJB
2 8 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 8 (80.00%) J2EE
2 8 (80.00%) J2SE
2 8 (80.00%) JSON
2 8 (80.00%) Play Framework
2 8 (80.00%) REST
2 8 (80.00%) SOAP
2 8 (80.00%) Spring
2 8 (80.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Blazor
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (10.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Lean Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Open Source
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) AIOps
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
1 8 (80.00%) Scala
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) webMethods
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP