Web Engineer Contracts

Web Engineer
UK

The median Web Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 660 825
Rank change year-on-year +97 +165 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Web Engineer 27 43 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.073% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.077% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 30
10th Percentile £419 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +17.07% +5.13%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £572
90th Percentile £503 - £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £445
% change year-on-year +2.56% +9.55% -13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.50 - -
75th Percentile £42.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Web Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +109 25 £450 -25.00% 7
London +82 14 £450 -30.77% 3
UK excluding London +50 12 £500 +2.56% 4
East of England +21 7 £500 -
South East +19 4 - - 1
Work from Home +92 3 £500 -16.67% 5
Scotland +37 1 - - 1

Web Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Web Engineer 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 featuring Web Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (55.56%) Load Balancing
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) F5
2 12 (44.44%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) IIS
3 11 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) SCCM
4 9 (33.33%) SCOM
4 9 (33.33%) .NET
5 7 (25.93%) SMTP
5 7 (25.93%) DNS
5 7 (25.93%) Linux
5 7 (25.93%) Apache
5 7 (25.93%) Tomcat
5 7 (25.93%) Cloudflare
6 6 (22.22%) Puppet
6 6 (22.22%) SQL
7 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (18.52%) Windows
7 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
7 5 (18.52%) AWS
7 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
7 5 (18.52%) React
7 5 (18.52%) Terraform
7 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
8 4 (14.81%) React Native
8 4 (14.81%) Node.js
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Billing

Web Engineer Skill Set
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 11 (40.74%) IIS
2 7 (25.93%) Apache
2 7 (25.93%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Cloudflare
4 5 (18.52%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Akamai
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
1 7 (25.93%) SMTP
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) BIG-IP
3 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
General
1 4 (14.81%) Billing
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) React
3 4 (14.81%) Node.js
3 4 (14.81%) React Native
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 12 (44.44%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) CRM
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
5 1 (3.70%) Application Security
5 1 (3.70%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.70%) Clean Code
5 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps
5 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (3.70%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (3.70%) Microservices
5 1 (3.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) PHP
4 2 (7.41%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) SCCM
1 9 (33.33%) SCOM
2 6 (22.22%) Puppet
3 5 (18.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) F5