Web Developer Contracts in England

Web Developer
UK > England

The median Web Developer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 629 642
Rank change year-on-year +120 +13 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 39 39 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.077% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.081% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 96
10th Percentile £318 £263 £289
25th Percentile £368 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £600
90th Percentile £558 £566 £722
UK median daily rate £450 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £41.42
25th Percentile - - £41.67
Median hourly rate - - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £81.90
UK median hourly rate - - £53.48
% change year-on-year - - +39.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Web Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
London +108 22 £455 -9.10% 16
South East +9 6 £428 +6.88% 15
South West +24 4 £510 +45.71% 8
North of England +33 3 £388 +3.33% 18
East of England - 3 £375 - 9
North West +17 2 £388 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 11
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Web Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 35 (89.74%) Web Development
2 23 (58.97%) JavaScript
3 19 (48.72%) CSS
4 18 (46.15%) HTML
5 13 (33.33%) React
6 9 (23.08%) E-Commerce
6 9 (23.08%) Agile
7 8 (20.51%) Node.js
7 8 (20.51%) Front End Development
8 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
8 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
8 7 (17.95%) AWS
8 7 (17.95%) CMS
8 7 (17.95%) Finance
8 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (15.38%) C#
9 6 (15.38%) Marketing
9 6 (15.38%) SaaS
9 6 (15.38%) HTML5
10 5 (12.82%) Azure
10 5 (12.82%) CSS3
10 5 (12.82%) User Experience
10 5 (12.82%) Microservices
10 5 (12.82%) API Development
10 5 (12.82%) MVC
10 5 (12.82%) Python
10 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (12.82%) Scrum
11 4 (10.26%) GIS
11 4 (10.26%) Java

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.95%) CMS
2 3 (7.69%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.13%) GeoServer
3 2 (5.13%) Gunicorn
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) nginx
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) InVision
1 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Shopify
2 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) SaaS
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
4 3 (7.69%) Figma
5 2 (5.13%) Stripe
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Contentstack
6 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) GIS
3 2 (5.13%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) webpack
3 2 (5.13%) git-flow
3 2 (5.13%) gulp
4 1 (2.56%) Grunt
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Marketing
3 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Automotive
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) CSS
2 18 (46.15%) HTML
3 13 (33.33%) React
4 8 (20.51%) Node.js
5 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
6 6 (15.38%) HTML5
7 5 (12.82%) CSS3
8 4 (10.26%) Flask
8 4 (10.26%) Sass
9 3 (7.69%) .NET
9 3 (7.69%) Jest
9 3 (7.69%) jQuery
9 3 (7.69%) Redux
9 3 (7.69%) REST
9 3 (7.69%) Vue
10 2 (5.13%) Next.js
10 2 (5.13%) Nunjucks
10 2 (5.13%) PostGIS
10 2 (5.13%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.56%) Animation
2 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.56%) Life Science
2 1 (2.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) Web Development
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) E-Commerce
3 8 (20.51%) Front End Development
4 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (12.82%) API Development
5 5 (12.82%) Microservices
5 5 (12.82%) MVC
5 5 (12.82%) Scrum
5 5 (12.82%) User Experience
6 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (7.69%) UX Design
8 2 (5.13%) Computer Science
8 2 (5.13%) Content Management
8 2 (5.13%) Open Source
8 2 (5.13%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.13%) TDD
8 2 (5.13%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) JavaScript
2 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.38%) C#
4 5 (12.82%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) Java
6 3 (7.69%) PHP
6 3 (7.69%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.56%) Google