Web Application Development Contracts in England

Web Application Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Web Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Application Development 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 467 474 555
Rank change year-on-year +7 +81 +90
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 18 68 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 57 69
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £403 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £497 £850 £688
90th Percentile £546 - £713
UK median daily rate £420 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -32.80% +19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Web Application 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Application Development in England

Web Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Application Development in England

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Application Development in England

Web Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Application Development in England

Web Application Development
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 Web Application Development 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 +6 14 £450 -47.06% 37
Midlands +20 2 £300 -28.23% 20
West Midlands +15 2 £300 +50.00% 11
East of England +30 1 £475 -13.64% 22
Web Application Development
UK

Web Application Development
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 5 (27.78%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Miro
4 1 (5.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) ScalaTest
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) C# Quant Developer
5 1 (5.56%) C# WPF Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
4 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 4 (22.22%) React
5 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (16.67%) REST
6 2 (11.11%) Middleware
6 2 (11.11%) RESTful
6 2 (11.11%) SOAP
6 2 (11.11%) Vue
6 2 (11.11%) Web Services
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (5.56%) JSP
7 1 (5.56%) Redux
7 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) CMDB
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (27.78%) Change Management
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (22.22%) OO
4 4 (22.22%) OOP
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) AOP
6 2 (11.11%) Data Mapping
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Kanban
6 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
6 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
5 3 (16.67%) Kotlin
6 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.56%) Bash
7 1 (5.56%) Scala
7 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow