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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 116 108
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Web Development 3 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.75% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.80% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 14
10th Percentile - £436 £454
25th Percentile £463 £520 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £536
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% -2.94% -26.03%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £750
90th Percentile - £654 £825
Central London median daily rate £475 £521 £511
% change year-on-year -8.74% +1.81% -24.26%

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 2,093 1,760 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.35% 94.22% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,155 1,286
10th Percentile £374 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
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 £764 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Genomics
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Proteomics
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Transcriptomics
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google