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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 90 107
Rank change year-on-year -41 +17 +32
Contract jobs citing HTML5 16 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.78% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 4.18% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £379 - £429
25th Percentile £400 £775 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £850 £463
Median % change year-on-year -49.53% +83.78% +2.78%
75th Percentile £430 £925 £484
90th Percentile £467 - £486
England median daily rate £450 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +2.27%

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 556 263 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.32% 18.69% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 160 177
10th Percentile £374 £381 £310
25th Percentile £446 £432 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +13.51% -14.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £19.64 - £15.63
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £28.71
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -4.21% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £77.28 - £39.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 27 February 2026.

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 27 February 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
Shropshire - 13 £415 -
Warwickshire - 2 - - 2
Coventry - 1 £550 -
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 8 (50.00%) JBoss
1 8 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Adobe XD
1 5 (31.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (31.25%) Figma
4 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Git
2 8 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 8 (50.00%) JUnit
2 8 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead UX Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) UI Designer
4 2 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (12.50%) UX Designer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Open Source Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) HTML
2 10 (62.50%) REST
3 8 (50.00%) CSS
3 8 (50.00%) CSS3
3 8 (50.00%) EJB
3 8 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 8 (50.00%) J2EE
3 8 (50.00%) J2SE
3 8 (50.00%) JSON
3 8 (50.00%) Play Framework
3 8 (50.00%) SOAP
3 8 (50.00%) Spring
3 8 (50.00%) XML
4 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
4 7 (43.75%) React
5 5 (31.25%) RESTful
6 2 (12.50%) .NET
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (6.25%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
5 8 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
5 8 (50.00%) Microservices
5 8 (50.00%) Open Source
5 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (37.50%) User Experience
6 6 (37.50%) UX Design
7 5 (31.25%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (12.50%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (25.00%) WCAG
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) webMethods
2 5 (31.25%) Adobe
2 5 (31.25%) MuleSoft