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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing Web Development 4 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.65% 0.38% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.44% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £455 - £320
25th Percentile £463 £274 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £283 £450
Median % change year-on-year +68.14% -37.22% -
75th Percentile £488 £291 £475
90th Percentile £495 - £485
Scotland median daily rate £513 £254 £425
% change year-on-year +101.97% -40.29% -10.53%

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 583 685 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.64% 86.06% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 364 553
10th Percentile £287 £215 £209
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.24 £12.56
25th Percentile - £15.75 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% -48.13% +125.76%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £51.92 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.93
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.16% +0.56%

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Storybook
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) JMS
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) React Native
1 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Ethnography
2 2 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 2 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 2 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Journey Map
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) VMware