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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 617 666
Rank change year-on-year +97 +49 -161
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 71 101 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 144
10th Percentile £385 £363 £415
25th Percentile £401 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £850 £688 £650
90th Percentile - £713 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%
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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +85 70 £550 +4.76% 44
London +92 47 £749 +37.74% 17
UK excluding London +68 24 £475 +11.76% 31
Work from Home +113 23 £630 +17.54% 39
South West +24 9 £599 +16.87% 10
South East +26 8 £475 +15.15% 5
Midlands - 4 £418 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £500 - 3
North of England +20 1 £500 -11.19% 8
East of England +8 1 £550 +62.96% 2
West Midlands - 1 £200 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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 (4.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.82%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.82%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) npm
2 12 (16.90%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.63%) SaaS
5 3 (4.23%) Azure API Management
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) IaaS
5 3 (4.23%) PaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Figma
7 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.41%) GCP
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Network Security
1 3 (4.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) DHCP
2 1 (1.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle Database
1 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.45%) MySQL
3 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.82%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.82%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.41%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.41%) DB2
7 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (30.99%) JIRA
2 21 (29.58%) webpack
3 4 (5.63%) Git
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.82%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.82%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.82%) Maven
5 2 (2.82%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.41%) Darcs
6 1 (1.41%) Gradle
6 1 (1.41%) gulp
6 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.41%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.41%) Postman
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
6 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (29.58%) Front Office
4 11 (15.49%) Finance
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Games
6 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (66.20%) Developer
2 22 (30.99%) Angular Developer
3 17 (23.94%) Applications Developer
3 17 (23.94%) Web Applications Developer
4 16 (22.54%) Real Time Developer
5 13 (18.31%) C# Developer
5 13 (18.31%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (16.90%) UI Developer
7 9 (12.68%) .NET Developer
7 9 (12.68%) Software Developer
8 6 (8.45%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (8.45%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (8.45%) C# Web Application Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Designer
8 6 (8.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Senior
9 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (45.07%) REST
2 30 (42.25%) AngularJS
3 27 (38.03%) React
4 21 (29.58%) .NET
4 21 (29.58%) RxJS
4 21 (29.58%) WebSockets
5 20 (28.17%) HTML
6 17 (23.94%) CSS
7 13 (18.31%) .NET Framework
8 8 (11.27%) Flask
9 7 (9.86%) Web Services
10 5 (7.04%) XML
11 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET
11 3 (4.23%) Blazor
11 3 (4.23%) RESTful
12 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.82%) Entity Framework
12 2 (2.82%) Laravel
12 2 (2.82%) Next.js
12 2 (2.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
2 5 (7.04%) Wiki
3 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.41%) CBDC
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Life Science
4 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) OS/390
4 1 (1.41%) Solaris
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) Software Engineering
3 25 (35.21%) Design Patterns
4 24 (33.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (29.58%) DevOps
5 21 (29.58%) Electronic Trading
6 20 (28.17%) Front End Development
7 16 (22.54%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (14.08%) Economics
9 9 (12.68%) User Stories
10 8 (11.27%) API Development
10 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
10 8 (11.27%) OO
10 8 (11.27%) Web Development
11 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.86%) OOP
11 7 (9.86%) Prototyping
12 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
13 5 (7.04%) Clean Code
13 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (61.97%) JavaScript
2 31 (43.66%) C#
3 27 (38.03%) TypeScript
4 15 (21.13%) Python
5 13 (18.31%) SQL
6 12 (16.90%) Java
7 8 (11.27%) PHP
8 6 (8.45%) VB
9 5 (7.04%) PL/SQL
9 5 (7.04%) VB.NET
9 5 (7.04%) VBA
10 4 (5.63%) Ruby
11 3 (4.23%) C++
12 2 (2.82%) Go
12 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.41%) Bash
13 1 (1.41%) C
13 1 (1.41%) Groovy
13 1 (1.41%) R
13 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Degree
2 10 (14.08%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) logstash
4 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) VMware
4 2 (2.82%) Adobe
4 2 (2.82%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.41%) Citrix
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) Informatica
5 1 (1.41%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk