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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 115 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +42
Contract jobs citing Web Development 10 8 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.38% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.41% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £471 £211 £222
25th Percentile £475 £272 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £504 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -12.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £691 £752 £675
90th Percentile £856 £831 £775
Central London median daily rate £568 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +12.70% -8.41% -18.52%

All Process and 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 1,649 1,928 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.50% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 1,180 1,725
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 13 November 2025.

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 (10.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Mixpanel
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Conversion Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) MiFID Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) CSS
1 9 (90.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) Vue
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) Sass
3 1 (10.00%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Genomics
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) A/B Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cohort Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (20.00%) Funnel Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Product Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Amplitude
2 2 (20.00%) Hotjar
2 2 (20.00%) Optimizely
3 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow