Web Development Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Web Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 73 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing Web Development 3 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.28% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.32% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile - - £470
90th Percentile - - £488
Scotland median daily rate £450 £225 £419
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.27% -6.94%

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 581 623 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.17% 87.01% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 316 568
10th Percentile £250 £227 £200
25th Percentile £408 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £532 £543
90th Percentile £600 £619 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.40% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 9
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.32 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.81 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -33.44% +76.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £72.50 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.57% +18.28% +3.15%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Web Development

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Web Development

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) User Researcher
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Ethnography
1 2 (66.67%) Focus Group
1 2 (66.67%) Journey Map
1 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Usability Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) User Journey Map
1 2 (66.67%) User Research
1 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Diagram
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) VMware