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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 360 293
Rank change year-on-year -136 -67 -1
Contract jobs citing Web Development 124 146 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.53% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.58% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 109 196
10th Percentile £363 £325 £256
25th Percentile £422 £405 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +2.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £602
90th Percentile £735 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +2.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile - £38.56 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £39.70 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.06 £42.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% +0.74% +93.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £48.10 £55.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £50.53 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £29.06 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.73% -28.24% +93.18%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -85 64 £550 +4.76% 54
North of England -64 17 £469 +49.76% 53
South East -70 15 £406 -20.96% 47
East of England -10 11 £505 -22.31% 27
North West -48 9 £450 +43.77% 26
Midlands -58 9 £425 +3.66% 32
South West -49 8 £505 +36.49% 22
West Midlands -53 8 £388 -44.64% 9
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 20
East Midlands -17 1 £500 +36.61% 23
North East - 1 - - 8
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 (5.65%) CMS
2 4 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (2.42%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.42%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.42%) WordPress
4 2 (1.61%) Drupal
4 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.81%) Liferay
5 1 (0.81%) Mule
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.81%) Azure
2 22 (17.74%) GCP
3 12 (9.68%) AWS
4 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.84%) Figma
7 5 (4.03%) GitHub
8 3 (2.42%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.61%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.81%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.81%) LangSmith
10 1 (0.81%) npm
10 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.81%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) Firewall
1 12 (9.68%) VPN
2 7 (5.65%) DNS
2 7 (5.65%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.03%) HTTP
4 4 (3.23%) VLAN
5 2 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.84%) MySQL
4 6 (4.84%) Power BI
5 5 (4.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.03%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.42%) GIS
7 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.42%) Tableau
8 2 (1.61%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.81%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) Mockito
3 7 (5.65%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.23%) JIRA
5 4 (3.23%) JUnit
6 2 (1.61%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.61%) GitLab
7 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.81%) MLflow
7 1 (0.81%) NUnit
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.81%) Subversion
7 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.81%) Finance
3 27 (21.77%) Banking
4 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.10%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.84%) Marketing
8 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.03%) Local Government
9 2 (1.61%) Automotive
9 2 (1.61%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (64.52%) Developer
2 24 (19.35%) Web Developer
3 22 (17.74%) Java Developer
4 20 (16.13%) Senior
5 15 (12.10%) Software Developer
6 13 (10.48%) Backend Developer
7 12 (9.68%) .NET Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.87%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Angular Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Java Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) C# Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Applications Support
11 8 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Developer
12 7 (5.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (37.10%) HTML
2 36 (29.03%) CSS
3 27 (21.77%) .NET
4 25 (20.16%) AngularJS
5 16 (12.90%) React
6 14 (11.29%) OAuth
6 14 (11.29%) Spring
7 13 (10.48%) REST
8 10 (8.06%) Kafka
9 9 (7.26%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (7.26%) JAX-RS
10 8 (6.45%) RxJava
11 7 (5.65%) jQuery
12 6 (4.84%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.84%) HTML5
12 6 (4.84%) RESTful
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
13 5 (4.03%) JSON
13 5 (4.03%) Node.js
13 5 (4.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.45%) Derivative
2 8 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.42%) Genomics
5 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Unix
2 11 (8.87%) Linux
2 11 (8.87%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) MVS
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.87%) Agile
2 46 (37.10%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.29%) DevOps
4 39 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (21.77%) Microservices
7 20 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 19 (15.32%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (14.52%) Software Engineering
10 16 (12.90%) AI
11 15 (12.10%) User Experience
12 14 (11.29%) API Integration
12 14 (11.29%) TDD
13 12 (9.68%) BDD
14 11 (8.87%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (8.87%) Pair Programming
14 11 (8.87%) Web Design
15 10 (8.06%) Scrum
15 10 (8.06%) UX Design
16 9 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.10%) JavaScript
2 37 (29.84%) Java
3 34 (27.42%) SQL
4 25 (20.16%) C#
5 24 (19.35%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.90%) Python
7 7 (5.65%) Bash
7 7 (5.65%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.23%) PHP
8 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.81%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) JCL
10 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.81%) REXX
10 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) Degree
4 4 (3.23%) CCNA
4 4 (3.23%) CCNP
4 4 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) QA
2 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.84%) WCAG
4 5 (4.03%) SLA
5 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) WAI
6 1 (0.81%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.81%) Control-M
3 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.45%) Google
2 8 (6.45%) Oracle
3 5 (4.03%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (2.42%) Adobe
4 3 (2.42%) ESRI
4 3 (2.42%) Netskope
4 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.42%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.61%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) BMC
6 1 (0.81%) CODA
6 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.81%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.81%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.81%) Pardot
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) Splunk