Web Development Contracts in England

Web Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Web Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Development over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 303 240
Rank change year-on-year +9 -63 -10
Contract jobs citing Web Development 266 414 850
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.82% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.91% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 292 655
10th Percentile £263 £325 £350
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £672
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 16
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -57.07% +115.79%
75th Percentile £58.88 £23.00 £65.91
90th Percentile £77.00 £42.20 £71.67
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £22.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +70.45% -56.00% +122.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Web Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 +33 170 £525 -12.50% 102
North of England +20 26 £463 - 123
East of England +10 20 £400 -13.51% 27
South East -5 19 £433 +1.76% 56
Yorkshire +24 14 £463 -1.07% 34
Midlands +6 14 £200 -57.08% 68
North West +12 11 £425 -10.53% 83
West Midlands +24 7 £138 -69.14% 41
South West +13 7 £475 +8.57% 43
East Midlands +6 7 £419 -16.20% 27
North East +19 1 - - 6
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 21 (7.89%) CMS
2 15 (5.64%) nginx
2 15 (5.64%) WordPress
3 6 (2.26%) IIS
3 6 (2.26%) Tornado
4 5 (1.88%) Moodle
5 4 (1.50%) Drupal
5 4 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.13%) Confluence
7 2 (0.75%) Apache
7 2 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.75%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.38%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.38%) Kentico
8 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Sketch
2 3 (1.13%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.75%) InVision
4 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (20.68%) AWS
2 45 (16.92%) Azure
3 16 (6.02%) SaaS
4 15 (5.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 14 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.51%) Figma
7 11 (4.14%) GitHub
8 8 (3.01%) GCP
8 8 (3.01%) Serverless
9 7 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.26%) npm
11 5 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.88%) Yarn
12 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
2 1 (0.38%) SSH
2 1 (0.38%) SSL
2 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.77%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.77%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.64%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.76%) MySQL
7 7 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.50%) GIS
9 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.75%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.75%) Looker
9 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) Big Data
10 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 36 (13.53%) Git
2 17 (6.39%) Mockito
3 12 (4.51%) webpack
4 7 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.88%) JIRA
6 4 (1.50%) git-flow
6 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.13%) Babel
7 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.75%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) gulp
8 2 (0.75%) Maven
9 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.38%) Moq
9 1 (0.38%) MSTest
General
1 60 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.28%) Finance
3 25 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.65%) Marketing
6 15 (5.64%) Games
7 11 (4.14%) Banking
8 6 (2.26%) Front Office
8 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.88%) Advertising
10 4 (1.50%) Automotive
10 4 (1.50%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.75%) French Language
12 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Legal
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 183 (68.80%) Developer
2 48 (18.05%) Senior
3 37 (13.91%) Full Stack Developer
4 36 (13.53%) Senior Developer
5 35 (13.16%) Web Developer
6 28 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 20 (7.52%) Java Developer
8 17 (6.39%) JavaScript Developer
9 14 (5.26%) React Developer
10 13 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 13 (4.89%) UI Developer
11 11 (4.14%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.76%) Architect
12 10 (3.76%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
13 8 (3.01%) E-Commerce Developer
13 8 (3.01%) Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.01%) Lead
13 8 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.63%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 7 (2.63%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (46.24%) CSS
2 122 (45.86%) HTML
3 73 (27.44%) React
4 55 (20.68%) Node.js
5 41 (15.41%) .NET
5 41 (15.41%) REST
6 39 (14.66%) Vue
7 33 (12.41%) AngularJS
8 29 (10.90%) Web Services
9 25 (9.40%) Sass
10 24 (9.02%) Laravel
11 23 (8.65%) ASP.NET
11 23 (8.65%) Kafka
12 19 (7.14%) WebSockets
13 18 (6.77%) JAX-RS
14 17 (6.39%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (6.02%) HTML5
16 15 (5.64%) Flask
17 14 (5.26%) CSS3
17 14 (5.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.01%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.26%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.26%) Derivative
3 6 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (1.88%) Learning Management System
4 5 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.13%) CMDB
6 3 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.13%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.13%) Social Media
7 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.75%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.75%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.29%) Linux
2 33 (12.41%) Unix
3 16 (6.02%) Mac OS X
4 11 (4.14%) Android
5 8 (3.01%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.88%) Windows
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.71%) Agile
2 64 (24.06%) Full Stack Development
3 49 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (17.29%) Microservices
4 46 (17.29%) TDD
5 45 (16.92%) Test Automation
6 42 (15.79%) Front End Development
7 36 (13.53%) DevOps
8 33 (12.41%) Responsive Web Design
8 33 (12.41%) User Experience
9 29 (10.90%) Design Patterns
10 28 (10.53%) MVC
11 25 (9.40%) CI/CD
12 24 (9.02%) OO
13 23 (8.65%) Pair Programming
13 23 (8.65%) Scrum
14 22 (8.27%) BDD
14 22 (8.27%) Computer Science
15 21 (7.89%) E-Commerce
16 20 (7.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 146 (54.89%) JavaScript
2 54 (20.30%) C#
3 45 (16.92%) SQL
4 41 (15.41%) Java
5 35 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 34 (12.78%) Python
7 29 (10.90%) PHP
8 8 (3.01%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.88%) Bash
9 5 (1.88%) C++
10 4 (1.50%) C
10 4 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) R
11 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.75%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) JSX
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.77%) Degree
3 24 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.50%) PMP
8 3 (1.13%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.15%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.02%) QA
3 8 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.26%) WCAG
5 3 (1.13%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.75%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.26%) Terraform
3 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
2 8 (3.01%) ServiceNow
3 7 (2.63%) Oracle
4 6 (2.26%) Databricks
5 5 (1.88%) Confluent
5 5 (1.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.50%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.50%) ESRI
6 4 (1.50%) Google
6 4 (1.50%) Xamarin
7 3 (1.13%) Adobe
7 3 (1.13%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.75%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.38%) Compaq
9 1 (0.38%) Qualys
9 1 (0.38%) SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Sun