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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 393 275
Rank change year-on-year -118 -118 +16
Contract jobs citing Web Development 125 117 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.42% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.46% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 84 180
10th Percentile £363 £337 £300
25th Percentile £418 £417 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +4.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £649 £600
90th Percentile £738 £724 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -0.29% +4.05% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - £42.51 £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £43.88 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.13 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +10.89% +145.10%
75th Percentile £43.03 £50.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £51.35 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +145.10%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -91 51 £600 +15.27% 117
North of England -77 21 £470 -27.69% 70
East of England -14 16 £600 +12.94% 23
South East -62 15 £375 -27.26% 31
Midlands -31 14 £438 +6.71% 32
North West -39 14 £513 -10.87% 33
West Midlands -35 13 £431 -38.39% 21
South West -41 8 £505 -22.07% 15
Yorkshire -50 5 £469 -27.88% 31
North East -39 3 £470 - 7
East Midlands -20 1 £500 +36.61% 11
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 8 (6.40%) CMS
2 5 (4.00%) WordPress
3 4 (3.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.20%) Confluence
4 3 (2.40%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.60%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.60%) Drupal
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.80%) Liferay
6 1 (0.80%) SAS
6 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.00%) ContrOCC
3 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.80%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.80%) GCP
2 15 (12.00%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.20%) Figma
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.40%) GitHub
7 3 (2.40%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.60%) AWS
8 2 (1.60%) Cloud Run
8 2 (1.60%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.80%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.80%) LangSmith
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) Firewall
1 11 (8.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.40%) Power BI
4 6 (4.80%) MySQL
5 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.00%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.40%) Looker
7 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.40%) Tableau
8 2 (1.60%) GIS
8 2 (1.60%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 27 (21.60%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
3 4 (3.20%) JUnit
3 4 (3.20%) Mockito
4 3 (2.40%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.60%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.60%) Gradle
6 1 (0.80%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.80%) Maven
6 1 (0.80%) MLflow
6 1 (0.80%) NUnit
6 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.80%) Subversion
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.80%) Vite
General
1 27 (21.60%) Finance
1 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.80%) Banking
3 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Investment Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.40%) Marketing
7 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.00%) Local Government
9 2 (1.60%) Automotive
9 2 (1.60%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.60%) Publishing
10 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Games
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (64.80%) Developer
2 35 (28.00%) Web Developer
3 26 (20.80%) Senior
4 19 (15.20%) Java Developer
5 17 (13.60%) Backend Developer
5 17 (13.60%) Software Engineer
6 16 (12.80%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.40%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Senior Web Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) IAM Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Java Software Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Software Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Architect
11 6 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.00%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.40%) CSS
1 43 (34.40%) HTML
2 21 (16.80%) React
3 19 (15.20%) .NET
4 18 (14.40%) Spring
5 17 (13.60%) REST
6 15 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.80%) Node.js
7 11 (8.80%) RESTful
7 11 (8.80%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.00%) HTML5
8 10 (8.00%) OAuth
9 9 (7.20%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.20%) CSS3
9 9 (7.20%) JSON
10 7 (5.60%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.60%) RxJava
11 6 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.80%) jQuery
12 5 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.60%) Derivative
2 7 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) CMDB
4 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.40%) Genomics
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.80%) Mashup
7 1 (0.80%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Unix
2 5 (4.00%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.80%) MVS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.80%) Agile
2 42 (33.60%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.40%) DevOps
4 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (22.40%) Software Engineering
6 23 (18.40%) Microservices
7 20 (16.00%) User Experience
8 17 (13.60%) API Integration
8 17 (13.60%) Front End Development
9 16 (12.80%) Responsive Web Design
10 15 (12.00%) AI
10 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.20%) Test Automation
11 14 (11.20%) UX Design
12 13 (10.40%) Scrum
13 11 (8.80%) Identity Management
13 11 (8.80%) Load Balancing
13 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.60%) JavaScript
2 35 (28.00%) Java
3 31 (24.80%) TypeScript
4 24 (19.20%) SQL
5 16 (12.80%) C#
6 8 (6.40%) Python
7 6 (4.80%) PHP
8 5 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.40%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) JCL
11 1 (0.80%) REXX
11 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.40%) Degree
3 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) Accessibility
2 14 (11.20%) QA
3 10 (8.00%) WCAG
4 7 (5.60%) SLA
5 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.80%) WAI
6 1 (0.80%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (10.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.80%) Ansible
2 1 (0.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.80%) Google
3 6 (4.80%) Oracle
3 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.00%) Adobe
4 5 (4.00%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.60%) ESRI
5 2 (1.60%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.60%) Remedy
5 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) BMC
6 1 (0.80%) CODA
6 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.80%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.80%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.80%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.80%) Pardot
6 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Splunk