Web Development Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Web Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 71 99
Rank change year-on-year -32 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Web Development 3 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% 1.24% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.47% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £287 £221
25th Percentile £406 £298 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £375 £388
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% -24.39%
75th Percentile £419 £388 £538
90th Percentile - £395 -
England median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -18.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,353 954 1,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.30% 84.20% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 408 788
10th Percentile £198 £242 £226
25th Percentile £363 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £689 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 187 353
10th Percentile £14.05 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% +64.24% -3.14%
75th Percentile £64.00 £67.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in the East of England

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Web Development

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Web Development

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire -4 1 - - 19
Suffolk -4 1 - - 5
Hertfordshire - 1 £413 - 10
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Portal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Celery
3 1 (33.33%) D3.js
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
3 1 (33.33%) Next.js
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) pytest
3 1 (33.33%) Sass
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Consul
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes