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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 89 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Web Development 11 3 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.25% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.28% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 18
10th Percentile £475 - £105
25th Percentile - £600 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.31% +62.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £488
90th Percentile - - £527
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%

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 1,726 1,078 1,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.70% 88.14% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 513 584
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £399 £365 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £551
90th Percentile £679 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 247 538
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.51 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the East of England

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 24 July 2026. 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
Essex - 10 £549 - 10
Hertfordshire - 1 £375 - 3
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 8 (72.73%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Agriculture
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) Backend Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) IAM Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Java Software Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Designer
5 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Identity Management
2 8 (72.73%) Load Balancing
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Creative Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Empathy Maps
5 1 (9.09%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (9.09%) Interaction Design
5 1 (9.09%) Journey Map
5 1 (9.09%) User Journey Map
5 1 (9.09%) User Research
5 1 (9.09%) UX Research
5 1 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java