Web Development Contract Job Trends in England

Web Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 378 266
Rank change year-on-year -120 -112 +31
Contract jobs citing Web Development 118 134 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.49% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.54% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 98 215
10th Percentile £363 £325 £299
25th Percentile £419 £390 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +2.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £637
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.65% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile - £38.56 £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £39.70 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +0.74% +116.07%
75th Percentile £43.03 £48.10 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £50.53 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +116.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in England

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web 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 Development within the England region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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 -104 57 £569 +10.17% 137
South East -65 15 £375 -27.04% 63
Midlands -42 14 £438 +6.71% 44
East of England -9 13 £593 -8.70% 39
West Midlands -43 13 £431 -38.39% 22
North of England -71 11 £463 -24.49% 67
South West -34 8 £505 +36.49% 23
Yorkshire -48 6 £475 -26.92% 24
North West -47 5 £345 -22.30% 34
East Midlands -22 1 £500 +36.61% 22
North East -40 1 - - 10
Web Development
UK

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.93%) CMS
2 4 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.39%) Confluence
3 3 (2.54%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.54%) WordPress
4 2 (1.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.69%) Drupal
4 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.85%) Liferay
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) ContrOCC
1 5 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 23 (19.49%) GCP
3 12 (10.17%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.78%) AWS
5 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.24%) Figma
6 5 (4.24%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.39%) GitHub
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.69%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.69%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.85%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.85%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.02%) Firewall
1 13 (11.02%) VPN
2 6 (5.08%) DNS
2 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.39%) HTTP
4 3 (2.54%) VLAN
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.08%) MySQL
3 6 (5.08%) Power BI
4 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.24%) Couchbase
5 4 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.54%) Tableau
7 2 (1.69%) GIS
7 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.69%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.85%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 27 (22.88%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (4.24%) Mockito
5 4 (3.39%) JIRA
5 4 (3.39%) JUnit
6 2 (1.69%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.69%) GitLab
7 1 (0.85%) Gradle
7 1 (0.85%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.85%) MLflow
7 1 (0.85%) NUnit
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) Subversion
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.12%) Finance
3 26 (22.03%) Banking
4 16 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.02%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.63%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.78%) Marketing
8 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.24%) Local Government
11 2 (1.69%) Automotive
11 2 (1.69%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.69%) Publishing
12 1 (0.85%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.85%) Games
12 1 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (62.71%) Developer
2 28 (23.73%) Web Developer
3 19 (16.10%) Senior
4 18 (15.25%) Java Developer
5 16 (13.56%) Backend Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Java Engineer
6 12 (10.17%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 10 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) IAM Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Java Software Developer
10 7 (5.93%) Angular Developer
11 6 (5.08%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.08%) Architect
11 6 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (37.29%) HTML
2 42 (35.59%) CSS
3 22 (18.64%) .NET
4 21 (17.80%) React
5 18 (15.25%) AngularJS
6 13 (11.02%) OAuth
6 13 (11.02%) Spring
7 12 (10.17%) REST
8 10 (8.47%) HTML5
9 8 (6.78%) .NET Framework
9 8 (6.78%) CSS3
9 8 (6.78%) JSON
10 7 (5.93%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.93%) jQuery
10 7 (5.93%) Node.js
10 7 (5.93%) RESTful
10 7 (5.93%) RxJava
11 6 (5.08%) Kafka
11 6 (5.08%) Spring Boot
12 5 (4.24%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.93%) Derivative
2 7 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.54%) Genomics
5 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.69%) Life Science
6 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.85%) CMDB
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.85%) Mashup
6 1 (0.85%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Unix
2 5 (4.24%) Linux
2 5 (4.24%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) MVS
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.63%) Agile
2 37 (31.36%) CI/CD
3 36 (30.51%) DevOps
4 35 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (16.95%) Microservices
6 20 (16.95%) Software Engineering
6 20 (16.95%) User Experience
7 17 (14.41%) Responsive Web Design
8 16 (13.56%) API Integration
9 15 (12.71%) AI
9 15 (12.71%) Front End Development
10 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.86%) UX Design
11 12 (10.17%) Scrum
12 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.47%) Identity Management
12 10 (8.47%) Load Balancing
13 9 (7.63%) Identity Access Management
14 8 (6.78%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
2 30 (25.42%) Java
3 26 (22.03%) TypeScript
4 24 (20.34%) SQL
5 19 (16.10%) C#
6 13 (11.02%) Python
7 6 (5.08%) Bash
7 6 (5.08%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.39%) PHP
8 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) JCL
10 1 (0.85%) REXX
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
1 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) CCNA
3 3 (2.54%) CCNP
3 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) Accessibility
2 13 (11.02%) QA
3 12 (10.17%) WCAG
4 5 (4.24%) SLA
5 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.85%) WAI
6 1 (0.85%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (11.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) Google
3 7 (5.93%) Oracle
4 5 (4.24%) Adobe
4 5 (4.24%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.54%) Netskope
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.69%) ESRI
6 2 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) BMC
7 1 (0.85%) CODA
7 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.85%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.85%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Pardot
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk