Web Application Development Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Web Application Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Web Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 120 147
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +47
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.059% 0.24% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.26% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £332 -
25th Percentile £513 £513 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £825
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -33.33% +32.00%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £838
90th Percentile - £683 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £825
% change year-on-year -4.55% -33.33% +32.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Web Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,599 1,948 2,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.45% 91.93% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,204 1,777
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £767 £783 £811
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Application Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Web Application Development job vacancy trend in the City of London

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Application Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Application Development

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Application Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Application Development

Web Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript