Web Development Contracts in England

Web Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 289 280
Rank change year-on-year -56 -9 -34
Contract jobs citing Web Development 150 284 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.76% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.89% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 212 299
10th Percentile £328 £300 £329
25th Percentile £405 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £773 £778
UK median daily rate £513 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +3.02% -5.24% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile £26.15 £15.38 £16.30
25th Percentile £27.50 £22.75 £18.92
Median hourly rate £40.59 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +93.18% -68.57%
75th Percentile £44.03 £68.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £48.91 £76.00 £45.60
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -28.24% +93.18% -68.57%

All Process and 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 23,546 31,936 42,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 85.56% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,157 20,719 29,767
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,176 2,324 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.14 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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 -50 87 £525 +0.96% 708
South West +52 20 £370 -22.11% 156
South East +53 19 £514 +2.80% 383
Midlands +2 10 £410 +60.00% 276
North West +4 7 £313 -25.25% 220
North of England -12 7 £313 -32.32% 403
East Midlands +5 6 £366 -12.44% 109
West Midlands +4 4 £475 +245.45% 167
East of England +2 3 £613 +53.13% 241
Web Development
UK

Web 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 8 (5.33%) CMS
2 6 (4.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.00%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.33%) Drupal
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.33%) WordPress
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.67%) Kentico
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.67%) Magento
3 3 (2.00%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.00%) Azure
2 23 (15.33%) AWS
3 16 (10.67%) GCP
4 12 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (6.67%) Figma
6 10 (6.67%) npm
6 10 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 9 (6.00%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (5.33%) GitHub
8 8 (5.33%) Yarn
9 7 (4.67%) Serverless
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.67%) Google Analytics
13 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) HTTP
1 4 (2.67%) Intranet
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (2.67%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.67%) DB2
8 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.67%) GIS
8 1 (0.67%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 24 (16.00%) Git
2 9 (6.00%) webpack
3 5 (3.33%) JIRA
3 5 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.67%) Maven
4 4 (2.67%) MSI
4 4 (2.67%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.00%) Selenium
6 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.33%) GitLab
6 2 (1.33%) Gradle
6 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.33%) JUnit
6 2 (1.33%) Mockito
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.67%) Codeception
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.67%) Finance
3 18 (12.00%) Marketing
3 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.33%) Banking
4 17 (11.33%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.67%) Electronics
7 7 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Retail
9 3 (2.00%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 103 (68.67%) Developer
2 26 (17.33%) Senior
3 25 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 13 (8.67%) Web Developer
7 11 (7.33%) Architect
8 10 (6.67%) UI Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) C# Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Python Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Applications Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.33%) Azure Developer
10 8 (5.33%) React Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Senior UI Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.67%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) C# Application Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (53.33%) CSS
2 74 (49.33%) HTML
3 43 (28.67%) React
4 35 (23.33%) .NET
5 21 (14.00%) .NET Framework
6 20 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 18 (12.00%) RESTful
8 16 (10.67%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (10.67%) JSON
8 16 (10.67%) REST
8 16 (10.67%) WCF
9 14 (9.33%) jQuery
9 14 (9.33%) Next.js
10 13 (8.67%) Vue
11 12 (8.00%) Node.js
12 11 (7.33%) Web Services
12 11 (7.33%) XML
13 10 (6.67%) ASP.NET
14 9 (6.00%) .NET Core
14 9 (6.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Derivative
2 9 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.33%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.00%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.67%) PKI
6 4 (2.67%) Wiki
7 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.33%) Equities
8 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.33%) Social Media
8 2 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.67%) AS400
9 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.00%) Linux
2 5 (3.33%) CentOS
2 5 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.33%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.00%) Agile
2 40 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (22.00%) User Experience
5 30 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 24 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 24 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.00%) TDD
7 22 (14.67%) DevOps
7 22 (14.67%) UX Design
8 20 (13.33%) Test Automation
9 19 (12.67%) CRM
9 19 (12.67%) Front End Development
10 18 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (11.33%) Analytics
11 17 (11.33%) MVC
12 15 (10.00%) Scrum
13 13 (8.67%) Microservices
13 13 (8.67%) Service Management
14 12 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (32.67%) SQL
3 40 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 36 (24.00%) C#
5 31 (20.67%) Python
6 18 (12.00%) Java
7 12 (8.00%) PHP
8 6 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.00%) C++
11 3 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.33%) Bash
12 2 (1.33%) Perl
13 1 (0.67%) Go
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.67%) RPG IV
13 1 (0.67%) Rust
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (20.67%) Degree
2 20 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.33%) MCPD
6 5 (3.33%) MCSD
6 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) CISA
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) GCIH
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.67%) QA
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (6.00%) Terraform
2 6 (4.00%) Ansible
3 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.67%) WMI
5 2 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 29 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.67%) Google
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
3 9 (6.00%) SAP
3 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.33%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.67%) Adobe
6 4 (2.67%) VMware
7 2 (1.33%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.33%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.33%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.67%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase
8 1 (0.67%) Veracode
8 1 (0.67%) Zend