W3C Contracts in England

Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited W3C over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 538 633
Rank change year-on-year +56 +95 +88
Contract jobs citing W3C 3 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.011% 0.040%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.035% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £211 £410 £446
25th Percentile £244 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -21.74% +13.30%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £750
90th Percentile £580 £490 -
UK median daily rate £300 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -33.33% -18.18% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
England

W3C falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

W3C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing W3C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for W3C in England

W3C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing W3C in England.

Daily rate trend for W3C in England

W3C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing W3C in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for W3C in England

W3C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing W3C in England.

Hourly rate trend for W3C in England

W3C
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +38 2 £475 +18.75% 1
South East +46 1 £193 -61.50% 1
W3C
UK

W3C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Line Management
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Design
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft