Web Application Development Contracts

Web Application Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Web Application Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Application Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 614 674
Rank change year-on-year +84 +60 -186
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 68 105 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 134
10th Percentile £385 £363 £415
25th Percentile £402 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% - -10.49%
75th Percentile £850 £678 £650
90th Percentile - £713 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +8.57% -14.63% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Application Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Application Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Application Development.

Daily rate trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Application Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Application Development.

Hourly rate trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +97 67 £628 +19.52% 46
London +92 46 £850 +54.55% 15
Work from Home +114 23 £630 +17.54% 31
UK excluding London +64 22 £475 +8.57% 37
South West +22 8 £748 +45.94% 9
South East +29 7 £475 +15.15% 6
Midlands - 4 £418 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 2
North of England +27 1 £500 -11.19% 9
Yorkshire +20 1 £500 - 4
East of England +15 1 £550 +62.96% 3
Scotland - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £200 - 3

Web Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.94%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.94%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.94%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.82%) npm
2 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.94%) Figma
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Network Security
1 2 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) MySQL
2 7 (10.29%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.41%) MariaDB
5 3 (4.41%) Redis
6 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.47%) DB2
7 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (33.82%) JIRA
2 22 (32.35%) webpack
3 3 (4.41%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) Axure RP
4 2 (2.94%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.94%) Travis CI
4 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.47%) Darcs
5 1 (1.47%) Gradle
5 1 (1.47%) gulp
5 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (33.82%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (32.35%) Front Office
4 10 (14.71%) Finance
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.94%) Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Games
6 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (66.18%) Developer
2 22 (32.35%) Angular Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Applications Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Web Applications Developer
4 17 (25.00%) Real Time Developer
5 13 (19.12%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (17.65%) C# Developer
7 11 (16.18%) UI Developer
8 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
9 8 (11.76%) .NET Developer
10 6 (8.82%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (8.82%) C# Web Application Developer
10 6 (8.82%) Designer
10 6 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 6 (8.82%) Web UI Developer
11 5 (7.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (7.35%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 5 (7.35%) Senior
12 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (44.12%) REST
2 28 (41.18%) AngularJS
2 28 (41.18%) React
3 22 (32.35%) RxJS
3 22 (32.35%) WebSockets
4 20 (29.41%) HTML
5 19 (27.94%) .NET
6 16 (23.53%) CSS
7 12 (17.65%) .NET Framework
8 8 (11.76%) Flask
9 5 (7.35%) XML
10 4 (5.88%) Web Services
11 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
11 3 (4.41%) Blazor
11 3 (4.41%) RESTful
12 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
12 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
12 2 (2.94%) Next.js
12 2 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Fixed Income
1 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (7.35%) Wiki
2 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.47%) CBDC
3 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.47%) Digital Currency
3 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Life Science
3 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.47%) PKI
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) OS/390
4 1 (1.47%) Solaris
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Agile
2 29 (42.65%) Software Engineering
3 25 (36.76%) Design Patterns
4 24 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (32.35%) Electronic Trading
6 21 (30.88%) Front End Development
7 20 (29.41%) DevOps
8 16 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (16.18%) Economics
10 9 (13.24%) User Stories
11 8 (11.76%) API Development
11 8 (11.76%) Web Development
12 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
12 7 (10.29%) OO
12 7 (10.29%) Prototyping
13 6 (8.82%) CI/CD
13 6 (8.82%) OOP
13 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
14 5 (7.35%) Scrum
14 5 (7.35%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 29 (42.65%) C#
3 27 (39.71%) TypeScript
4 14 (20.59%) Python
5 13 (19.12%) SQL
6 10 (14.71%) Java
7 7 (10.29%) PHP
8 5 (7.35%) VB
9 4 (5.88%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.88%) VB.NET
9 4 (5.88%) VBA
10 3 (4.41%) C++
10 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.41%) Ruby
11 2 (2.94%) Go
12 1 (1.47%) Bash
12 1 (1.47%) C
12 1 (1.47%) Groovy
12 1 (1.47%) R
12 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Degree
2 10 (14.71%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
2 3 (4.41%) Grafana
2 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.47%) Kibana
4 1 (1.47%) logstash
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Oracle
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Adobe
3 2 (2.94%) VMware
3 2 (2.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.47%) Citrix
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) Informatica
4 1 (1.47%) Mapbox
4 1 (1.47%) New Relic
4 1 (1.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) Splunk