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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 350 293
Rank change year-on-year -145 -57 -7
Contract jobs citing Web Development 120 148 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.63% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 212
10th Percentile £363 £327 £300
25th Percentile £416 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +2.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £615 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £773
UK median daily rate £504 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile - £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £27.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -4.49% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.75 £44.03 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £48.91 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -92 63 £583 +8.37% 63
South East -64 19 £375 -27.04% 53
North of England -67 15 £500 +59.74% 57
South West -42 8 £505 +36.49% 23
Midlands -60 8 £425 +3.66% 30
Yorkshire - 8 £481 - 23
East of England -17 7 £505 -17.55% 33
North West -39 7 £700 +123.64% 28
West Midlands -49 7 £388 -18.42% 12
East Midlands -17 1 £500 +36.61% 18
North East - 1 - - 7
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 (5.83%) CMS
2 3 (2.50%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) Umbraco
2 3 (2.50%) WordPress
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Drupal
4 1 (0.83%) Kentico
4 1 (0.83%) Liferay
4 1 (0.83%) Mule
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.83%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.83%) Azure
2 17 (14.17%) GCP
3 11 (9.17%) AWS
4 9 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.83%) Figma
5 7 (5.83%) GitHub
6 4 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Run
8 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.83%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.83%) npm
9 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.83%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) Firewall
1 8 (6.67%) VPN
2 7 (5.83%) DNS
2 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.17%) HTTP
4 4 (3.33%) VLAN
5 2 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.83%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.00%) Power BI
5 5 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.17%) MySQL
5 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.33%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.50%) GIS
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.50%) Tableau
8 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.67%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.83%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.17%) Git
2 9 (7.50%) Mockito
3 7 (5.83%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.33%) JUnit
6 3 (2.50%) JIRA
7 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.67%) GitLab
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.83%) MLflow
8 1 (0.83%) NUnit
8 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.83%) Subversion
8 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.83%) Finance
3 25 (20.83%) Banking
4 19 (15.83%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.00%) Marketing
8 4 (3.33%) Local Government
9 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.50%) Publishing
10 2 (1.67%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.83%) Automotive
11 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (66.67%) Developer
2 24 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 20 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.67%) Senior
4 13 (10.83%) Software Developer
5 12 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.17%) Angular Developer
6 11 (9.17%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.33%) C# Developer
8 9 (7.50%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.67%) Backend Developer
9 8 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.83%) Azure Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (39.17%) HTML
2 38 (31.67%) CSS
3 29 (24.17%) AngularJS
4 27 (22.50%) .NET
5 18 (15.00%) React
6 15 (12.50%) Spring
7 14 (11.67%) OAuth
8 13 (10.83%) REST
9 10 (8.33%) Kafka
10 9 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (7.50%) JAX-RS
11 8 (6.67%) RxJava
12 7 (5.83%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.83%) jQuery
13 6 (5.00%) .NET Framework
13 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET
13 6 (5.00%) Node.js
13 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
14 5 (4.17%) Entity Framework
14 5 (4.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.67%) Derivative
4 4 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.50%) Genomics
6 2 (1.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.83%) CMDB
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.50%) Unix
2 11 (9.17%) Linux
2 11 (9.17%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.67%) Android
3 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) MVS
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (59.17%) Agile
2 44 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 42 (35.00%) DevOps
4 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (21.67%) Microservices
7 20 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
7 20 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 15 (12.50%) AI
8 15 (12.50%) TDD
9 14 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.67%) User Experience
10 12 (10.00%) API Integration
10 12 (10.00%) BDD
10 12 (10.00%) Pair Programming
10 12 (10.00%) Scrum
11 11 (9.17%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (9.17%) UX Design
11 11 (9.17%) Web Design
12 9 (7.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.50%) JavaScript
2 35 (29.17%) SQL
3 34 (28.33%) Java
4 30 (25.00%) C#
5 29 (24.17%) TypeScript
6 19 (15.83%) Python
7 7 (5.83%) Bash
7 7 (5.83%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.67%) PHP
10 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.83%) Bicep
11 1 (0.83%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.83%) Groovy
11 1 (0.83%) JCL
11 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.83%) REXX
11 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) CCNA
4 4 (3.33%) CCNP
4 4 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.00%) WCAG
3 4 (3.33%) SLA
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) WAI
5 1 (0.83%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.83%) Control-M
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) Oracle
3 7 (5.83%) Google
4 4 (3.33%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.50%) ESRI
5 3 (2.50%) Netskope
5 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.50%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.67%) Adobe
6 2 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.83%) BMC
7 1 (0.83%) CODA
7 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.83%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.83%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Pardot
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk