Web Development Contracts in Edinburgh

Web Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 79 87
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Web Development 8 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.22% 0.11% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.13% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £384 - £325
25th Percentile £425 £274 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £283 £475
Median % change year-on-year +68.14% -40.53% -
75th Percentile £513 £291 £488
90th Percentile £535 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £354 £450
% change year-on-year +41.34% -21.39% -8.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 742 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.12% 84.99% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 418 780
10th Percentile £223 £213 £232
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.47% -0.84%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.21% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £14.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% +49.24% -59.96%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in Edinburgh

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in Edinburgh

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in Edinburgh

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in Edinburgh

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) WordPress
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Google Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Appium
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Storybook
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
4 1 (12.50%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) JMS
2 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) React Native
3 1 (12.50%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) AIX
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (37.50%) API Development
3 3 (37.50%) Case Management
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) OWASP
3 3 (37.50%) SEO
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Diagram
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Development
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) WCAG
2 3 (37.50%) NCSC
2 3 (37.50%) PERC
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) VMware