Web Development Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Web 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 Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 106 118
Rank change year-on-year -32 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Web Development 4 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.87% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.92% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £513 £463 £308
25th Percentile £514 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £521 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -0.38% -12.92%
75th Percentile £552 £630 £825
90th Percentile £554 £720 £833
Central London median daily rate £531 £520 £523
% change year-on-year +2.11% -0.43% -9.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Web 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 1,949 1,633 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.50% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,096 1,210
10th Percentile £367 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in the City of London

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Web 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Genomics
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Proteomics
2 1 (25.00%) Transcriptomics
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google