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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 98 100
Rank change year-on-year -27 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Development 4 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 1.11% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 1.19% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 18
10th Percentile £490 £449 £385
25th Percentile £531 £514 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £491
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +14.50% -34.50%
75th Percentile £681 £634 £659
90th Percentile £730 £748 £750
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £491
% change year-on-year +14.29% +6.87% -34.50%

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 2,034 1,598 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.64% 93.72% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,008 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -20.54%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Kentico
1 1 (25.00%) Sitefinity
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Genomics
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Proteomics
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Transcriptomics
2 1 (25.00%) Typography
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google